By NICOLE LAMPERT

Last updated at 10:30 14 August 2006

When she was pictured snorting cocaine and her career appeared to be over, Kate Moss did what was demanded of her and finally ended her relationship with her junkie rocker lover Pete Doherty.

But now, as more modelling work than ever piles in for her, Miss Moss is officially back with the Babyshambles frontman.

The pair were pictured out together for the first time in months after openly kissing and touching each other during a recording of a music television show.

And a flashy bauble on her wedding finger led to speculation that the pair may have even got engaged, with rumours that Jade Jagger is throwing a party for them in Ibiza this week.

Their renewed relationship has devastated Miss Moss's mother, said sources last night, as she believes the troubled rocker is nothing but bad news for her model daughter who has a two-year-old daughter from a previous relationship

'When Kate said she was going to give the relationship with Pete a proper try, she and her mum Linda had a furious row,' said one. 'Linda thinks Pete has only been a disaster for Kate she tried to tell her not to be so stupid.

'But Kate's response was that she loves Pete and knows she can't be happy without him.'

Miss Moss, 32, first got together with heroin addict Doherty, 27, at her 31st birthday party in January last year. Just a few months later the supermodel was pictured snorting cocaine while in a recording studio with him and a group of other friends.

As her fashion contracts began dropping off, Miss Moss was forced to take drastic action. She announced she was going into rehab and when Doherty walked out of a rehab clinic that she was paying for, she publicly dropped him.

But while she has dated other men since then, friends yesterday said that her heart had always been with Doherty.

'Even when she was supposed to be with the comedian Russell Brand she was still secretly seeing Pete,' said one. 'She may be off the cocaine but Pete is like a drug for her - he's an addiction that she can't cure herself of.'

However it is only now that she feels confident enough to make public their relationship.

Career wise she has gone from strength to strength - and she has so many modelling deals that it is estimated she is earning three times as much as she was before the cocaine scandal.

While Doherty is at least trying to make attempts to clean himself up after being warned he faced jail if he did not come off the drugs. Last week he had new implants which make him vomit when he has taken heroin and he has talked of his hopes to get clean.

Not surprisingly, Miss Moss's aides are desperate to play down news of the pair's reconciliation.

One said yesterday: 'They are seeing each other as friends as she has promised to do as part of supporting him and helping him try to beat drugs. There is nothing more than that going on.'

And their fears are hardly unwarranted:

eyewitnesses at the Friday night recording of new Channel 4 music show Transmission said he was behaving erratically and at one point threw up in the ladies bathroom.

Pictured after the recording on Friday night, the pair went on to party at Miss Moss's heiress friend Davinia Taylor's house in North West London. After spending the night there, they left her house together on Saturday afternoon.