He has been sporting a new healthier appearance in recent months since moving to Normandy, France, with his girlfriend Katia de Vidas.
And Pete Doherty continued to drastically transform his image, as he sported a thick grey beard and a dishevelled head of hair while on a Zoom call.
The Libertines frontman, 42, was chatting to Trampolene singer Jack Jones in a video which he posted to his Instagram page on Tuesday evening.
New look: Pete Doherty continued to drastically transform his image, as he sported a thick grey beard and a dishevelled head of hair while on a Zoom call
Pete has been sporting a fuller physique in recent times, following his drug-fuelled hey-day as the former frontman for rock band Babyshambles.
However the rocker has now added a beard and moustache to his look, and debuted the new style during the video call.
During the video Pete appeared the picture of relaxation as he happily chatted to Jack and sipped on a pint of beer which was beside him.
He shared the clip with his 121,000 followers and captioned it: ‘Peter tramping through the lines of Gotta Do More Gotta Be More with @trampolene_band out now on @straporiginals.’
Healthy living: He has been sporting a new healthier appearance in recent months since moving to Normandy, France, with his girlfriend Katia de Vidas (pictured with ex-girlfriend Kate Moss in 2005)
Zoom: Pete has been sporting a fuller physique in recent times, following his drug-fuelled hey-day as the former frontman for rock band Babyshambles
Former rocker Pete is generally enjoying a much slower pace of life these days and has reportedly taken to the bowls-style sport, pétanque.
The Libertines frontman, 42, recently credited his new healthy appearance to sleeping, eating French cheese and drinking water following his move to Normandy.
Pete is believed to join the locals at their club for a game of the French sport, which consists of throwing metal balls as close as possible to a target.
The once troubled star, who lives with his girlfriend Katia de Vidas, has quit heroine and ketamine but revealed he still enjoying whipping up a cocktail.
Video call: The Libertines frontman, 42, was chatting to Trampolene singer Jack Jones (pictured) in a video which he posted to his Instagram page on Tuesday evening
One local told the Sun: ‘Peter is no longer a bad boy. He’s relaxing, settling down and loving the goods things in life.
‘We introduced him to pétanque and he’s fallen in love with the game. He often joins our club nights when we play.’
Mikael Grondin, who runs the bakery, said: ‘He is always popping in for a bag of Bout de Choux (creamy little cabbage), which is a pastry filled with cream. Maybe that’s why he’s put on weight but, don’t worry, these will be good for him.’
Fame: Babyshambles, pictured here at a gig in Leicester in 2004, won an army of Indie fans
It comes after Pete revealed his new healthy look is down to his love of cheese on toast and that his ‘guilty pleasure’ is sleeping after he used to stay up for ‘six days’.
The Babyshambles frontman was recently seen looking relaxed and happy during a walk with his girlfriend Katia De Vidas in Étretat in Normandy, where they live.
Talking in a recent interview, Pete admitted that he is now ‘quite clean’ and that he enjoys a ‘nice glass of water’.
The previously gaunt rocker famously painted a portrait of then-girlfriend Kate Moss in his blood and was thrown out of rehab for ‘not trying hard enough’ to kick his heroin habit.
Way back when: Talking in a recent interview, the Babyshambles frontman, 42, admitted he is now ‘quite clean’ and that he enjoys a ‘nice glass of water’ (pictured outside Thames Magistrates’ Court in Bow, east London in 2004)
He told The Sun about his new lifestyle: ‘I like Comté [a type of French cheese], Comté on toast. My guilty pleasure is sleeping.
‘For years and years, I would stay up for five or six days and then I would sleep for 24 hours, so now I love sleep. At the moment I’m quite clean. I stopped taking heroin and ketamine.’
He added: ‘I like experimenting, making cocktails with champagne, a bit of rum, orange juice, I’m coming across like a bit of an alcoholic, but I’m not — I like a nice glass of water.’
Pete’s bad boy rock and roll image earned him an army of fans including the world’s most famous supermodel, who hung off his arm as they made their way from party to party.
But these days, Pete enjoys nothing more than a genteel stroll through the French countryside with his dog.
Indie bad boy: The once troubled and gaunt rocker famously painted a portrait of then-girlfriend Kate Moss in his blood and was thrown out of rehab for ‘not trying hard enough’ to kick his heroin habit (pictured in 2003)
Peter has a teenage son, Astile, from his relationship with Lisa Moorish and a daughter, Aisling, from his romance with model Lindi Hingston.
While his most famous relationship was with Kate, he also had a fling with friend Amy Winehouse and a reported tryst with the late Big Brother Seven housemate Nikki Grahame.
While on a promo trail in 2019 with his latest musical offering, he was forced to pull out of a radio appearance after his finger got infected from an hedgehog spike.
He’d attempted to rescue the animal from his Siberian Huskies during a dog walk.
The Libertines bought a hotel in Margate which Pete admitted was the ‘saving of him’ because he had a roof over his head and didn’t have to worry about rent.
Last year, the frontman was charged with driving while disqualified after he was stopped by police in the early hours while riding an electric motorbike in Margate, Kent.
Pete had already been been given a six-month disqualification in October 2019 after he was caught speeding four times in three weeks.
On that occasion, at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court, he was ordered to pay £9,228 and he was heard to have muttered ‘ouch’ at the fine.
And in November 2019, Doherty was fined £8,500 and given a three-month suspended jail sentence for ‘violence while intoxicated’ after being arrested in Paris twice in a week.
He had been detained in the Pigalle district for buying cocaine before getting into an argument with two passers-by that led to his eventual re-arrest.
Doherty is a frequent visitor to Paris, and often spends long periods living and performing in the French capital.
He shot to fame in the mid-2000s and has been arrested numerous times for drug offences.
Pete’s turbulent relationship with Kate came to an end in 2007, months after he revealed he’d proposed to her.
In the past, he has pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine.
In 2012, he was thrown out of a luxury rehab clinic in Thailand after claims he was a bad influence on other patients and did not try hard enough to kick his heroin habit.
Exploits: The previously gaunt rocker famously painted a portrait of then-girlfriend Kate Moss in his blood and was thrown out of rehab for ‘not trying hard enough’ to kick his heroin habit (pictured together in 2007)