Noel Fielding has reflected on his “partying” days with Courtney Love in the noughties.
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The comedian and actor, who returns to The Great British Bake Off on Channel 4, later this month was talking about his hedonistic younger days in a new interview with The Guardian.
“I took partying to its logical conclusion,” he said. “When you’ve been partying with Kate Moss and Courtney Love, you’ve gone as far as you can go. A few friends ended up in rehab. I was sick of partying anyway and lucky enough to have my family at the right time [he has two daughters with wife Lliana Bird]. It was like: ‘This is what I was looking for!’”
It comes after he previously said Pete Doherty once left a top hat filled with kittens outside his hotel door during his partying days.
“Before I ever met Pete, I was a big fan and I think ‘Up The Bracket’ had come out and I loved that album, and I was in a hotel room with a bunch of people partying and the door went,” Fielding said. “Someone went, ‘It’s Pete Doherty,’ and I was like, ‘Let me answer it,’ because I was a bit starstruck.
“And I opened the door and there was no one there. There was a top hat on the floor with 12 kittens in it. That’s a true story.”
Meanwhile, it was recently confirmed that Fielding will be teaming up with Love again next month in a new series of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Gossip singer Beth Ditto, Spice Girl Mel B and Little Mix’s Perrie will also be making an appearance on the show.
The series originally aired on BBC Two and ran from 1996 up until 2015. The hosts were Simon Amstell, Mark Lamarr and Rhod Gilbert. It was rebooted by Sky in 2021, with Greg Davies taking on hosting duties.