His latest video (below) ends with Pete indulging in a full-on man snog lasting a good half a minute (or a terrible half a minute to be more accurate), but this isn't the first time Pete has suggested that he might take a stroll down Manly Boulevard. God, he's such a tease!

Doherty has previously boasted in a 2004 biography by Pete Walsh that he worked as a rent boy in order to pay the rent.

"I was working in a bar, selling drugs, working on a building site, writing poetry in the graveyard shift at The King's Head - and I was wanking off old queens for like £20. I remember once being taken back to this mews house in Chelsea, right old fucking badger he was. It was a bit daft actually. As he slept, I locked him in his room, tied a pair of trousers over his head and nicked all these American dollar bills out of his drawer. He's probably still there, with an erection, listening to CLASSIC FM radio."

Ah, a horrible little bastard even back then. Or maybe just a grubby little posh liar trying to make his misshapen life a little more interesting. Towelroad.com have recalled a certain set of pictures of Pete with his fellow musician Peter Wolfe in which the pair gayed it up for the camera (operated by the remarkably patient Andrew Kendall)

Is this attempt at controversy perhaps a way of promoting the new single? Or maybe highlighting the gay angle to disguise the fact that the sound wanders around for a few minutes without getting within grasping distance of a decent tune? Either way, one thing is sure. Animal, vegetable or mineral, Pete is repellent to all of them.