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Jessica Gibb

Pete Doherty rushed to hospital after 'biting through Christmas lights wire'

Pete Doherty has lived a wild life, and now the rocker has revealed that his madcap antics started from a very young age.

The Libertines frontman, 43, has told how he bit through a string of fairy lights as a child - and the electric shock left him with a distinctive streak of white hair.

"When I was a toddler I remembered I chewed through a wire from Christmas lights," he says on Never Mind the Christmas Buzzcocks.

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