Musician Jamie, who was to join Kate but didn’t go after a tiff, texted her asking: “Who’s the hunk on the yacht you’re gazing at?”

Says our girl on the poop deck: “Kate deliberately, and in full view of the photographers, chatted to a range of good-looking male guests, friends of her chums Davinia Taylor and her husband Dave Gardner, who hosted the trip.”

Hince, guitarist with The Kills, wants a romantic holiday in Thailand and Kate will probably agree to it at the last moment, says the chum.

“Kate spent a lot of time on the yacht texting Jamie but refused to pick up the phone to him. That was her way of letting him sweat and making sure he really appreciates her,” says the friend.

“Having said that, everyone was winding up Kate about the fact that she kept looking at her phone.”