The knife incident occurred following an article in the Daily Mail called 'Peter Hook: serial love cheat', which accused Hook of being unfaithful.

At first Ms Aherne stayed "strangely silent", the book says, but then after a night out some time later they had a major argument.

The book reads: "We were sat having a drink afterwards with the landlord and landlady and I noticed the landlady's trousers has split at the seam halfway down her thigh, and I put my finger in, laughing.