NZ Herald
  • Home
  • Latest news
  • Herald NOW
  • Video
  • New Zealand
  • Sport
  • World
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Podcasts
  • Quizzes
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Viva
  • Weather

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • New Zealand
    • All New Zealand
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Open Justice
    • Scam Update
  • Herald NOW
  • On The Up
  • World
    • All World
    • Australia
    • Asia
    • UK
    • United States
    • Middle East
    • Europe
    • Pacific
  • Business
    • All Business
    • MarketsSharesCurrencyCommoditiesStock TakesCrypto
    • Markets with Madison
    • Media Insider
    • Business analysis
    • Personal financeKiwiSaverInterest ratesTaxInvestment
    • EconomyInflationGDPOfficial cash rateEmployment
    • Small business
    • Business reportsMood of the BoardroomProject AucklandSustainable business and financeCapital markets reportAgribusiness reportInfrastructure reportDynamic business
    • Deloitte Top 200 Awards
    • CompaniesAged CareAgribusinessAirlinesBanking and financeConstructionEnergyFreight and logisticsHealthcareManufacturingMedia and MarketingRetailTelecommunicationsTourism
  • Opinion
    • All Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Editorials
    • Business analysis
    • Premium opinion
    • Letters to the editor
  • Politics
  • Sport
    • All Sport
    • OlympicsParalympics
    • RugbySuper RugbyNPCAll BlacksBlack FernsRugby sevensSchool rugby
    • CricketBlack CapsWhite Ferns
    • Racing
    • NetballSilver Ferns
    • LeagueWarriorsNRL
    • FootballWellington PhoenixAuckland FCAll WhitesFootball FernsEnglish Premier League
    • GolfNZ Open
    • MotorsportFormula 1
    • Boxing
    • UFC
    • BasketballNBABreakersTall BlacksTall Ferns
    • Tennis
    • Cycling
    • Athletics
    • SailingAmerica's CupSailGP
    • Rowing
  • Lifestyle
    • All Lifestyle
    • Viva - Food, fashion & beauty
    • Society Insider
    • Royals
    • Sex & relationships
    • Food & drinkRecipesRecipe collectionsRestaurant reviewsRestaurant bookings
    • Health & wellbeing
    • Fashion & beauty
    • Pets & animals
    • The Selection - Shop the trendsShop fashionShop beautyShop entertainmentShop giftsShop home & living
    • Milford's Investing Place
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • TV
    • MoviesMovie reviews
    • MusicMusic reviews
    • BooksBook reviews
    • Culture
    • ReviewsBook reviewsMovie reviewsMusic reviewsRestaurant reviews
  • Travel
    • All Travel
    • News
    • New ZealandNorthlandAucklandWellingtonCanterburyOtago / QueenstownNelson-TasmanBest NZ beaches
    • International travelAustraliaPacific IslandsEuropeUKUSAAfricaAsia
    • Rail holidays
    • Cruise holidays
    • Ski holidays
    • Luxury travel
    • Adventure travel
  • Kāhu Māori news
  • Environment
    • All Environment
    • Our Green Future
  • Talanoa Pacific news
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Property Insider
    • Interest rates tracker
    • Residential property listings
    • Commercial property listings
  • Health
  • Technology
    • All Technology
    • AI
    • Social media
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
    • Opinion
    • Audio & podcasts
  • Weather forecasts
    • All Weather forecasts
    • Kaitaia
    • Whangārei
    • Dargaville
    • Auckland
    • Thames
    • Tauranga
    • Hamilton
    • Whakatāne
    • Rotorua
    • Tokoroa
    • Te Kuiti
    • Taumaranui
    • Taupō
    • Gisborne
    • New Plymouth
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Dannevirke
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Levin
    • Paraparaumu
    • Masterton
    • Wellington
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Blenheim
    • Westport
    • Reefton
    • Kaikōura
    • Greymouth
    • Hokitika
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
    • Wānaka
    • Oamaru
    • Queenstown
    • Dunedin
    • Gore
    • Invercargill
  • Meet the journalists
  • Promotions & competitions
  • OneRoof property listings
  • Driven car news

Puzzles & Quizzes

  • Puzzles
    • All Puzzles
    • Sudoku
    • Code Cracker
    • Crosswords
    • Cryptic crossword
    • Wordsearch
  • Quizzes
    • All Quizzes
    • Morning quiz
    • Afternoon quiz
    • Sports quiz

Regions

  • Northland
    • All Northland
    • Far North
    • Kaitaia
    • Kerikeri
    • Kaikohe
    • Bay of Islands
    • Whangarei
    • Dargaville
    • Kaipara
    • Mangawhai
  • Auckland
  • Waikato
    • All Waikato
    • Hamilton
    • Coromandel & Hauraki
    • Matamata & Piako
    • Cambridge
    • Te Awamutu
    • Tokoroa & South Waikato
    • Taupō & Tūrangi
  • Bay of Plenty
    • All Bay of Plenty
    • Katikati
    • Tauranga
    • Mount Maunganui
    • Pāpāmoa
    • Te Puke
    • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua
  • Hawke's Bay
    • All Hawke's Bay
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Havelock North
    • Central Hawke's Bay
    • Wairoa
  • Taranaki
    • All Taranaki
    • Stratford
    • New Plymouth
    • Hāwera
  • Manawatū - Whanganui
    • All Manawatū - Whanganui
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Manawatū
    • Tararua
    • Horowhenua
  • Wellington
    • All Wellington
    • Kapiti
    • Wairarapa
    • Upper Hutt
    • Lower Hutt
  • Nelson & Tasman
    • All Nelson & Tasman
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Tasman
  • Marlborough
  • West Coast
  • Canterbury
    • All Canterbury
    • Kaikōura
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
  • Otago
    • All Otago
    • Oamaru
    • Dunedin
    • Balclutha
    • Alexandra
    • Queenstown
    • Wanaka
  • Southland
    • All Southland
    • Invercargill
    • Gore
    • Stewart Island
  • Gisborne

Media

  • Video
    • All Video
    • NZ news video
    • Herald NOW
    • Business news video
    • Politics news video
    • Sport video
    • World news video
    • Lifestyle video
    • Entertainment video
    • Travel video
    • Markets with Madison
    • Kea Kids news
  • Podcasts
    • All Podcasts
    • The Front Page
    • On the Tiles
    • Ask me Anything
    • The Little Things
  • Cartoons
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Entertainment

Pete Doherty in drink-driving, drugs arrest, Paris scores with Ronaldo

Herald online
11 Jun, 2009 10:51 PM6 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Troubled British rocker Pete Doherty has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and drug possession after a concert in the UK.

The Babyshambles singer, 30, was reportedly spotted driving erratically by Gloucester police yesterday morning, according to Britain's

The Sun

newspaper.

Doherty - who has battled crack cocaine and heroin addiction, but claims he has been "clean as a whistle" since he left rehab earlier this year - allegedly failed to stop when ordered by the pursuing cops, and led them on a scenic chase through Gloucester in the wee hours of the morning.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Dreamboat was later arrested on suspicion of drink driving, possession of drugs, and failing to stop.

A police spokesperson says Doherty remains in custody. He said, "At approximately 12.30am officers on patrol in Eastgate Street saw a car being driven erratically, it continued down Barton Street and was stopped in Derby Road."

"A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drink driving, possession of drugs and failure to stop for police.

"He remains in custody at this time."

This is Doherty's second arrest this month. He was arrested and fined last week amid allegations that he

injected drugs

on a British Airways flight.

Cabin crew reportedly spent 25 minutes trying to get Pete to leave the loo on the plane. When he finally emerged, onlookers say he appeared to be "intoxicated".

Pete was arrested on arrival in Switzerland, where he was charged with an unspecified offence and ordered to pay a fine.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Meanwhile, cops also raided the singer's country home yesterday. The boys in blue reportedly swooped on his pad in Wiltshire, England, but refused to reveal why, or what they were looking for, and if anything was found.

A cop rep says: "We did ask Wiltshire Police to search an address in the Marlborough area in connection with a drugs arrest which took place in Gloucestershire."

Menace to society or little boy lost in a chemical storm? Either way, his finger's wavering over that self-destruct button again. Sort it out, Pete.

Quote of the day

Eccentric French designer Karl Lagerfield has hit out again at model Heidi Klum and her hubby Seal.

In a bizarre rant in February, the sartorial saint launched a bitter attack on pregnant Klum, saying she "is no runway model. Heidi Klum is simply too heavy and has too big a bust. And she always grins so stupidly. That is not avant-garde - that is commercial".

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

But now the leather gloves are off it gets bitchier.

"I don't know her. Claudia Schiffer doesn't know her. She was never in Paris, we don't know her."

He then goes on to lash out at her hubby Seal and his skin.

"I am no dermatologist but I wouldn't want his [Seal] skin. Mine looks better than his. He is covered in craters," he added.

What a nasty little turnip. Ironic really, coming from a man who looks like

Helen Daniels from Neighbours

in a bad suit.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Everyone's talking about...

Danny De Vito's 'drunken' rant on American breakfast TV.

He now claims he was simply 'acting' and tells Radaronline.com: "I was only trying to make a TV interview fun. In the scene the TV people were covering, my character was drinking (pretend beer). When you see the scene on the show... you will understand. It's called acting."

Becks on the pull

Panty man and sometimes footballer David Beckham has stripped to his budgie smugglers again in the name of Armani.

The underwear God brought London to a standstill this week when he unveiled a giant undies advert outside Selfridges.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

See the baby-oiled spectacle

here

.

You can breathe now.

Of the latest disrobing, Becks 'body by Michelangelo, brain by Mattel' said he found it all "a little embarrassing".

Don't be so modest. If you've got it, brand it Beckham.

Paris Scores

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Paris Hilton clearly doesn't believe in procrastination when it comes to manly matters.

Only hours after news emerged that the heirhead had

dumped her boyfriend

of six months, Doug Reinhardt, the lady of perpetual self-promotion has now been linked to soccer hunk Cristiano Ronaldo.

T'Internet is buzzing with the rumour that hot property Hilton has struck again and scored herself a new companion.

According to X17.com, the pair were spotted getting

up close and personal

at a LA nightspot - less that 24hrs after Hilton dumped Reinhardt.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

A snitch tells the website: "Cristiano and Paris were all over each other

(Ed note: hold your stomachs)

swapping spit the entire night!

"His table needed every waitress in the building to bring all the alcohol he was getting through to him. He spent in excess of $20,000 on champagne and drinks. He was having a great time."

The pair apparently started off the night separately, with Ronaldo dining at the Brazilian restaurant Fogo De Chao and Hilton and her sister Nicky noshing it up at Nobu.

A snitch said: "The Hilton sisters showed up at about 10.20pm and sat on the outside patio. Paris wasn't her usual chipper, chatty self - she looked absolutely miserable.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

"She was clearly flying under the radar with her sister. She had a couple of cocktails and she was fiddling with her phone throughout the entire meal."

They all later made a B-line for LA hotspot MyHouse, and that's when the action kicked in.

And just as we were about to file this bawdy fairytale under 'Yet another fantasy union', along comes some photographic 'evidence' (courtesy of TMZ) that Hilton and Ronaldo might just be hooking up.

See Hilton and Ronaldo in action

here

.

She's a fast worker, we'll give her that.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Blogger's briefs

*

Shia LaBeouf says he's scared his life is meaningless. Cheer up, mate, it might never happen. Woe is me

here

.

*

No rendezvous. Jennifer Aniston denies

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

secret hotel hook-up

with her ex Brad Pitt.

*

Wo(man). Cher's daughter Chastity Bono is about to make the transition from woman to man. Snip snip

here

.

*

Not a suicide. A forensic expert believes that

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

David Carradine's death

was not a suicide.

*

Bust-up. Recently reconciled lovers Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson in y

et another slanging match

.

*

New beau. Rihanna spotted

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

out on the tiles

with her rumoured new man. Looks like a potential keeper.

La fin.

Enjoy your weekends, folks. We'll leave you with this golden oldie...

Blogger Bites Back

We want you

Well, your vote.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Coming soon...the 2009 Web Awards. You voted for us last year, please vote for this blog again in the Best Blog category. Voting closes Monday, 29 June.

Click

here

to vote.

Thank you!

*

New - follow Blogger Bites Back on

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Twitter

.

Pictured above: Socialite Paris Hilton and footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. Photos / AP

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Entertainment

New Zealand

Theatre stalwart's triumphant return after PTSD recovery

11 Jul 02:00 AM
EntertainmentUpdated

Hamish McKay opens up about his dramatic 50kg weight loss

11 Jul 01:29 AM
Entertainment

Brad Pitt demands release of Angelina Jolie's private texts

10 Jul 11:28 PM

Get your kids involved in your reno

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Entertainment

Theatre stalwart's triumphant return after PTSD recovery

Theatre stalwart's triumphant return after PTSD recovery

11 Jul 02:00 AM

Di Leach is returning to theatre seven years after she became unwell.

Hamish McKay opens up about his dramatic 50kg weight loss

Hamish McKay opens up about his dramatic 50kg weight loss

11 Jul 01:29 AM
Brad Pitt demands release of Angelina Jolie's private texts

Brad Pitt demands release of Angelina Jolie's private texts

10 Jul 11:28 PM
Delta Goodrem shares first look at 'fairytale' wedding in Malta

Delta Goodrem shares first look at 'fairytale' wedding in Malta

10 Jul 10:03 PM
Sponsored: Why heat pumps make winter cheaper
sponsored

Sponsored: Why heat pumps make winter cheaper

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • NZ Herald e-editions
  • Daily puzzles & quizzes
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Subscribe to the NZ Herald newspaper
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP