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Carl - not the junkie - Libertine yesterday finally admitted that he is “getting a bit chubby on it” and that on his recent tour with new band, Dirty Pretty Things, he had in fact been “eating all the pies”.

We can exclusively reveal that, the still quite shaggable, Mr Barat regrets his constant pigging out; he recently mumbled to us, “we were in Italy and then France and all that pasta, and those breadsticks, it were just too much for me”.

This news will not help sales of the bands new material, but Carl, dressed in slimming black, has reassured fans that he has every intention of getting “quite buff” in time for the UK tour and album launch. He is currently in consultation with Rosemary Conley and Iggy Pop, working on a fitness program that will get him back into the skinny-long-hair mould favoured by most indie boy bands, but scotched rumours of a possible asymmetric hair cut, saying “it would be a bit too wanky art school”.

We *think* he went on to say “I never actually finished university, choosing instead to rent my young arse out to dirty old men while waiting for the Libertines big break”. But who can really understand a word that comes out of his mouth?