You're too rock 'n' roll, Kate

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They spent much of their time in passionate embraces instead of taking up their seats at the Hammersmith Palais.

Moss and Doherty were guests of Primal Scream, who were there to receive an award, but rather than sitting to enjoy the live performances from The Killers, Beth Ditto, Jarvis Cocker and The View, the couple spent the first part of the evening drinking, smoking and kissing on a sofa behind the bar.

Even the Chinese buffet and free champagne was not enough to keep them at their table.

Instead, after a brief return to see Doherty's band Babyshambles lose out to Kasabian as best live band, they retreated to the catering stand backstage to engage in increasingly passionate clinches.

Eventually, their behaviour became so blatant and persistent that security was called to eject them.

One source said: "They were caught trying to get into the toilets together and bouncers told them to get back to their table.

"Next they were caught in an alleyway out the back. So the bouncers got Kate and Pete's own security to put them in a car and take them home." Moss was supposed to present Primal Scream with their award but Clash guitarist Mick Jones took her place.

Frontman Bobby Gillespie thanked friends and fans before adding sarcastically: "Yeah, and thanks to Kate Moss, who was supposed to be here tonight."

One onlooker said: "It's hard to see why Kate and Pete bothered to turn up. When they were at their table they just seemed to have no interest in what was going on.

"They kept popping up out the back or in corners snogging like teenagers at a school disco. They obviously took it that step too far. The NME is hardly the most wellbehaved event so they must have really pushed it for the bouncers to react like that."

Moss also managed to annoy The Gossip's singer Beth Ditto, who lost out to her for the sexiest female award.

Ditto said: "People have no common sense. She's not even a musician."

Other winners included Muse, named best British band, and Klaxons as best new band.