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After partying it up at the Soho House in London this past weekend, Amy Winehouse was a little worse for wear. It’s been reported that the singer spent the next day at The London Clinic on doctor’s orders due to ingesting a mixture of incompatible substances. Apparently, Wino took cold medicine that did not mix with another medicine that she’s already taking. I guess Nyquil, Methadone and alcohol don’t exactly go well together. A friend said “Amy took over-the-counter stuff for a cold but it didn’t agree with medication she takes for her on-going recovery. A doctor came to the house and advised her to go the hospital to make sure she was all right.”

While performing at the V Festival at Hylands Park in the UK last weekend, second wave ska legends The Specials introduced a very special surprise guest to the crowd – Amy Winehouse. The singer’s performance with the group was less than impressive but it’s still great to see Wino back on the stage while staying steady on her own two feet. Wino wiggled along to ‘Ghost Town’ and ‘You’re Wondering Now’ before bidding the crowd goodbye and shouting “Give it up for the fucking Specials!” Here’s to hoping that once she’s back with her own music, she’ll be as great as when she first debuted.

Amy Winehouse has once again cancelled a concert. Wino was slated for a gig in London to celebrate 50 years of Island Records but her management issued a statement saying that she and her band would be missing the performance. However, no actual reason was given as to why. No one would say why she wouldn’t make the trip, just that she wouldn’t. All the spokesperson for the venue would say was “Amy would like to apologize to her fans who bought tickets for the show.” A bit of advice, I don’t think that Wino is going to be performing anytime soon so I suggest you all just save your time, money and effort.

Maybe “again” is missing from that title. Whether it is a repeated experience or not, Amy Winehouse seems to have wound up in the hospital after partying with a bunch of her friends in St. Lucia. A source said the following about the singer’s new lap through a medical facility and the impact it will have on her upcoming concerts: “Amy’s concert might as well be canceled now. She’s not going to make it. It’s not worth her while even if she does make it, it will be a shambles. She is not ready for it.” Amy Winehouse is not ready for a whole number of things… her liver probably feels the same way. But then again, what would a concert of hers be if she didn’t show up hammered and tried to perform? There just wouldn’t be any justification for it.

The celebrated producer has offered to save Amy Winehouse’s career after she apparently failed to impress her record label with her new material. A source close to Mark Ronson said this about the producer’s decision: “Mark does not have fond memories of collaborating with Amy last year. He said he wouldn’t work with her again until she had her drug problems under control. He thinks she’s better now so has agreed to come on board and do a little work with her on the songs. Mark’s happy to give Amy the help she requires. They gelled while recording ‘Back To Black’ and he’s hopeful some of that magic could return.” Since when did Amy Winehouse’s career need saving? And moreover, how can Mark Ronson succeed where the artist failed. It can’t be the fact that the producer’s name supposedly just zaps up value out of thin air, now can it?

It is being reported that Amy Winehouse will not be performing at this year’s Coachella music festival. Don’t go hating on her though as Wino cancelled not because she bailed on concertgoers but because the singer has been denied a work visa due to her legal troubles. Wino is due to appear in court next week to settle charges brought against her by a fan who the singer assaulted back in September of last year. A friend of Wino said “Amy is absolutely gutted. She was looking forward to getting back on stage and this was going to be one of the biggest shows of her life… As well as 75,000 fans, there would have been top record execs there too so she might have even tried out some new material.”

Sporting a freshly dry cleaned Peg Bundy weave, a new coat of face paint, a fitted 80s Cosby sweater mini-dress and bruise-free limbs, tropically reassembled train wreck Amy Winehouse was seen standing upright, purchasing some treats at a shop in London last Wednesday. Amazingly, the 25-year old hospital junkie appears to have healed her wounds without the aid of a gurney, 5150 hold or a conservatorship. Let’s hope she stays this way. If an extended vacation in a Caribbean island is what it takes for her to stay like this, I wish she would have just stayed there. Let’s hope she doesn’t have any contact with her estranged husband, recently released felon Blake Fielder Civil.

In a move eerily similar to Britney Spears’, Amy Winehouse has put her parents in charge of her $21 million fortune. The money is still hers but she cannot spend it without the consent of either her dad Mitch or her mom Janis. Sources say that the move is a sign that Wino is finally turning her life around after a major descent into drugs. She may have been annoying guests at a St. Lucia resort that she’s been holed up in since the holidays but the singer claims to be drug-free. With her incarcerated hubby filing for divorce, new material in the works and a headlining spot on the Coachella lineup, this just may be the year of Wino’s comeback.

Amy Winehouse is slowly going back to her old ways. Her huge beehive is back and she is once again dealing with the drama of her hubby Blake Fielder-Civil. Blake was sent to rehab after being released from jail a couple of weeks ago but Wino has yet to visit. She was supposed to do so last week but she didn’t show even though she found time to go out. Wino and her beehive were spotted at newly open The Hawley Arms in Camden last week where she partied hard until 5 in the morning. I wonder what she’s celebrating, the fact that Blake is out of jail or that her beehive is back.

The concert organizers that recently got stood up by Amy Winehouse are threatening to take legal action because of her no show. The show was scheduled on a Friday night. Organizers say that at 8PM that night, they got word that Wino was sick in England and was unable to make the trip to a city outside Paris for her set. Who’s going to side with the organizers? They were the ones who hired Wino and relied on her to show up. They were the ones to fall for the sick excuse. Everyone pretty much knows to get a refund when they see Wino on the bill because every concertgoer is aware that there’s a bigger chance of her not showing up.