IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE

We're starting to lose count of the number of times we've been told that Kate Moss (now "coke-snorting Kate Moss" or, "shamed supermodel Kate Moss") has told Pete Doherty ("junkie lover Pete Doherty") that it's over, but it's over is happening all over again as Kate "sacrifices" her boyfriend for the sake of her career.

(Actually, we're not quite sure why she's bothering - the most exposed of her contracts would have been with Rimmel, which is aimed at a younger market, but last night they were quite happily still showing her ads.)

But is she bothering anyway?

The Mirror, which spent the weekend applauding her decision to kick the drugs and slapping itself heartily on the back for, you know, all the good it did, is fuming this morning. Apparently, Kate isn't really committed to rehab at all:

Her vow to get help to kick drugs for the sake of two-year-old daughter Lila Grace, her family and her own health is nothing more than a sham.

She has told brother Nick, 29: "I don't need to go into rehab but I'll have to or it won't look good."

Blimey, her brother went straight to the Mirror and told them? No, of course not: this is "a family friend" reporting back:

The source said: "Nick said she knows she's got to go into rehab. She doesn't want to but who would? The last time she went in she told Nick it wasn't a nice place.

"Nick said he tried to talk to Kate about her problem when he was with her and Pete in Ibiza earlier in the summer but it was never the right time.

"He loves her so much and just wants to be there for her at the moment. Nick has told his sister she must enter rehab - even if it is only for a few days."

After all the Daily Mirror's done for her - sneaking a camera into a recording studio, splashing pictures of her doing a couple of lines over the front page, writing it up in blood-curdling prose and expressing faux-concern for her family - this is how she repays them. At least the paper can take some comfort from ruining her weekend:

The friend also revealed Kate, currently alone in New York, had been reduced to placing tea bags over her eyes, swollen by days of uncontrollable sobbing.

The march of people willing to swap "the druggie Kate I knew, vaguely" story for cash isn't drying up, either - we're picturing the Mirror offices as being beseiged at the moment, rather like the Daily Mail that time they screwed up the bingo numbers and everyone thought they'd won. The difference being, of course, with the Mail it was a bunch of the desperately greedy seeking cash in return for nothing; with the Mirror... no, we've lost our thought:

Yesterday, it emerged Kate was nicknamed The Conjurer by her druggie mates - because she is so quick-handed at chopping, lining and snorting Class-A cocaine.

James Mullord, Doherty's ex-manager, said: "She once showed us how to make a joint out of a tampon cover which was pretty impressive."

He added: "The trouble is that to Pete's circle a line of coke is just like smoking a cigarette. She's in trouble being around Pete. It could wreck her career."

Yes, yes, we know that the Mirror seems to have got cocaine and weed confused - doubtless the clean-living sorts at the newspaper have no idea about any of these matters, and are as lost writing about drugs as they would be if they were asked to write about politics or the environment. But if Pete Doherty's ex-manager thinks there's a possibility that "this could wreck her career", that'll probably be enough for the Mirror to try again for the next couple of days.

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