You won’t believe this, no seriously, you’ll think I’m winding you up or something. But it’s true, no joke, no hoodwinking - Amy Winehouse is in hospital again, this time on the island of St. Lucia. Well, I suppose it makes a change from spending time in London hospitals.

Amy Winehouse has been in St. Lucia for what seems like months after deciding to give up performing live for a while. But even a six-month holiday doesn’t look to have been enough to solve her many problems.

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What’s the first thing that springs to your mind when you think about Amy Winehouse? Drugs probably, then Blake Fielder-Civil, and then possibly music? But it seems all three of those things have now gone out of her life and been replaced by just one: love.

Love can conquer all, this is true, but I’m dubious as to whether it can make someone well known to be hooked on drink and drugs to give turn their back on substance abuse. But that is exactly what Amy Winehouse is claiming.

In a new interview with the News Of The World, Winehouse claims to have turned her back on drugs. The newspaper claims to have had exclusive contact with Winehouse while she’s on holiday in St. Lucia. She is pictured above with a News Of The World reporter.

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Lily Allen has never been backwards at coming forwards. A certain amount of it is definitely for show, with her sometimes controversial comments clearly getting her press coverage she otherwise wouldn’t get. But most of it is what she actually believes, and actually has a ring of truth about it.

Allen has recently invoked controversy and a certain amount of vitriol aimed in her direction due to comments she recently made concerning drugs and people who use drugs.

In an interview with The Word magazine, she said:

“The only [newspaper] story is that drugs are bad and they will kill you - I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.”

Now personally I don’t find that comment very offensive. She isn’t defending drug use, or promoting it in any way, but merely pointing out that there’s another side to the story than the one blithely reported by the national newspapers.

But as The NME reports, that didn’t stop groups such as the National Drugs Prevention Alliance and Addaction getting on her case and arguing that the comments are unhelpful and misguided.

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We all know Amy Winehouse hasn’t exactly been healthy for the last couple of years, with the continued drink and drugs abuse really taking a toll on her body. But there are new fears over the state of her health after her latest public appearance where she looked almost on the verge of death.

Winehouse’s year started off surprisingly well, with her winning five Grammy Awards stateside. This made her the most successful artist at the annual backslapping event, and although she couldn’t attend in person, she performed via satellite without messing up one little bit. She actually looked quite healthy and there was optimism surrounding her addiction problems.

But it’s been downhill since then. Her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, has been jailed, although he’s expected to be released in to his mum’s care soon. And Winehouse has also been hospitalised twice, the second time being when she was diagnosed with emphysema.

And then there are the numerous incidents of fighting in the street with paparazzi, reporters, and innocent bystanders. While all of this has been going on in her (supposedly) private life, her professional career has bombed, with the James Bond theme slipping away, and her new album nowhere near being finished.

Phew. And that’s only the half of it.

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George Michael’s latest arrest in a public toilet on suspicion of drug possession is just the latest in a long line of embarrassing and quite openly illegal acts committed by the British singer. But he always seems to comes back from them. Could this finally be the incident that kills his career?

I’ve never really been a fan of George Michael. I can see the appeal, and some of his big hits are definitely up there with the best of British. But from his days in Wham through to his burgeoning solo career, he’s never really been my favourite artist in the world, or even come close to the top 50.

While his private life should really remain separate from his public life, the two have become inextricably intertwined over the past few years as Michael has found that he does in his spare time can sometimes become important to his career.

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Back To Black was a massive hit, propelling Amy Winehouse from perennial struggler known by a few people and their dogs in the UK to an international superstar whose name is known by almost everyone in the world. And now it’s time for her to produce a follow-up.

The problem is, this doesn’t exactly seem to be going very smoothly. In fact, friends of Winehouse are said to fear her third studio album may never actually happen, or at least not until she manages to kick her drink and drug habits completely.

The follow-up to Back To Black has seemed to be in question all year. At the end of March, it was claimed that friends who had heard some of Winehouse’s new tracks described them as “suicidal music”.

Then in April, the singer cancelled a booked recording session in the Bahamas to concentrate on writing and recording the new Bond theme. Hmm, well that worked then, as Jack White and Alicia Keys got the gig instead.

It was then reported that Winehouse’s record company had issued her with an ultimatum - get clean or lose your record deal. She still isn’t clean but still has her record deal, probably because Universal Music realise what a guaranteed payday Winehouse is when she’s on form (which is rare these days).

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Amy Winehouse has finally got her own computer game! Sort of. She’s the star of a new Flash-based Internet game called Escape From Rehab that has been made to promote new spoof Disaster Movie. It’s a brilliant idea because it’s working - I now know about the film.

It may not be as graphically brilliant as your average PS3 or Xbox 360 game, and it may not be as innovative as something the Wii could come up with, but it is funny, and that has to count for something right?

The game sees you cast as Winehouse, resident in a rehab clinic (not based on real life then) which gets destroyed along with the rest of the city. You have to help Winehouse escape even though she’s drunk, drugged up to the eyeballs, and on heat without her Blakey there to satisfy her needs.

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It must be Sunday today, and the reason I know that is because there’s another round of Amy Winehouse stories in the press. It’s like a weekly habit now for the newspapers to report the latest rumours, talk to her friends and family, and generally report on the state of her health and well-being. What’s worse is that Sunday is a complete non-day for music news, so I always feel compelled to also write about Winehouse.

This weekend has seen a report in the Daily Star Sunday claiming Winehouse has been offered £1 million to perform one gig for playboy prince Azim of Brunei. While that is an absolute fortune to us, Azim is worth an absolute fortune, being as he is, the son of the Sultan Of Brunei, who has a personal fortune of £25 billion.

The newspaper claims Amy will agree to do the gig, even though it would break her vow to stop touring in September to have a well-deserved break, and to concentrate on finishing up her next album.

A friend suggests that Winehouse would hand the fee straight to husband Blake Fielder-Civil, currently imprisoned on a 27-month prison sentence, to give him a fresh start upon release.

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Amy Winehouse is the latest celebrity to be immortalised in wax at Madame Tussauds in London. While she wasn’t present to see herself uncovered in public for the first time, her parents Mitch and Janis were.

They were so taken with the model, they expressed an interest in taking it home to replace the real Amy, beset by drink, drugs, relationship, and health problems in recent months.

The model is an incredible likeness, and it was all done without Winehouse modelling live for the recreation even once. Instead, the artists worked from pictures of her, complete with heavy make-up, and beehive hairdo. Let’s be honest, the modellers would have had a wealth of photos to work from, as not a day goes by when Amy isn’t in the newspapers.

However, from the pictures of the waxwork in The Mirror, there seems to be a distinct lack of scabs, scars, spots, and blemishes… and there’s not a trace of white stuff coming from her nose.

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Amy Winehouse is always talking about her husband Blake Fielder-Civil. Whether it’s during a live show and she dedicates a song to him, or whether it’s in an interview, and she tells the reported he’ll be out soon, the two go hand in hand. But they won’t be hand in hand for the next 18 months, after he was today given a 27 month jail sentence.

Winehouse wasn’t at London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court to see the sentence handed down, but she’s probably crying in to her crackpipe about it now. Fielder-Civil has been on remand for 9 months already after being charged with not only assaulting a pub landlord but then attempting to pervert the course of justice after the initial incident.

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