Kate MossAlex Turner, frontman with the Artic Monkeys, was so shocked when Kate Moss asked him out that he had to ask his mum for advice.

The pair met at an Arctic Monkeys gig in February. A source close to the band has told the Sun: “Alex was amazed when Kate came backstage and said she loved the band. When someone like Kate Moss asks for your number you give it to her. He never thought she’d actually call.”

“He was home in Sheffield when the phone rang and this girl said ‘Hi, it’s Kate’. He thought it was one of the girls he used to go to school with asking for free tickets. When he asked ‘Kate who?’ he freaked out when she said it was Kate Moss.”

“She asked him if he wanted to meet up and he mumbled something about being busy with the band and he’d have to see.”

“Then she followed it up with a few texts and he panicked and told his mum Penny. She is a straight-laced teacher and had already warned him about getting mixed up with drugs while in the band. There was no way she wanted her son involved with Kate after all her cocaine carry on.”

“He was going out with someone else from school at the time so he ignored the texts.”

“I think Kate got bored of asking in the end.”