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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Caspar Llewellyn Smith

Slow news day: Pete and Paul misbehavin'

It was only a few weeks ago that we brought Paul McCartney and Pete Doherty together for a cosy chat. They both sipped water. Didn't touch the fruit basket, but then Pete had earlier eaten a chicken sandwich, and perhaps Paul had pigged out on some alfalfa sprouts. Or something. Both were highly polite: the one-who-used-to-be-a-Beatle didn't try to hump a chair leg and the Babyshambles fellah talked briefly how proud he was to be 26 days clean (he'd been let out specially from rehab for the day). Anyway, look at them now!

Paul's been caught having it away with an apparently married woman (ok, she's legally separated) , and Pete's been filmed shooting smack again. Well, well done the Sun. With Pete, they're 'well aware of the sickening nature of the images -- and print them only to show Doherty is not cured and is a terrible role model.' Does the same sort of justification apply to the Macca shots? Or are we just boring prudes, preferring the rock'n'roll side of things to the sex and drugs?

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