Junk couture

We worry about Victoria Newton's health - such a young person, and yet so often frothing with indignation her blood pressure must make her like an over-filled aerosol. Please, whatever you do with Newton, do not discard her in a fire.

Today, she's boiling and bubbling over the news that Vogue is going to put Pete Doherty on the cover. Apparently oblivious to the hundreds of newspapers and magazines which have already done this - we seem to remember Newton herself was happy to run interviews with the man - Victoria has, through breaths gulped into a brown paper bag, spotted what might be a horseman of the apocalypse in our very own Mews flats:

I personally think its disgusting that he is held up as an icon of beauty and cool — no matter how talented he is.

Should the UK’s fashion bible really get away with being so irresponsible? Doherty persistently breaks the law, treats rehab like a holiday camp and carries on getting wasted on hard drugs.

Well, yes... it's true that Doherty does seem to treat the law as something to be adhered to with a degree of flexibility, but since when did Vogue have to run background checks on its cover stars?

And more to the point, if promoting Doherty and his work is tantamount to forcing kids to eat heroin instead of sherbert, and calling for crack cocaine to be on sale in every school vending machine from here to Arbroath, then why does the Sun's own Bizarre Jukebox feature so many Babyshambles songs?

Oozing over Pete in July, the Sun says And you can get a sneak peek right here with our WORLD EXCLUSIVE VIDEO for the band's new single Fuck Forever.

The song is one of Pete's best and the vid even features a momentary cameo from his girlfriend - supermodel Kate Moss."

And, in a caption to a video the paper only posted earlier this week, The Sun chuckles indulgently Pete Doherty needs little introduction. As well known for his outrageous stunts and on/off relationship with supermodel Kate Moss as his music, the ex-Libertine is proving he can still make great music with his new band.

Doesn't Victoria think it disgusting that the newspaper section she's purportedly in charge of is holding up Pete Doherty as an icon of cool?

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