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Amy Winehouse has been pictured smoking barely hours after she was discharged from a London hospital after a serious health scare.
The jazz chanteuse was snapped by paparazzi lighting up on Monday, while on her way to rehearsals for her scheduled performance at a Nelson Mandela birthday celebration on Friday.
The big faint
Winehouse checked into a London clinic last week after she fainted while "doing admin" at her North London home. Reports soon surfaced that the Rehab singer was suffering from emphysema.
The singer's father confirmed the diagnosis to reporters last week.
"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her," Mitch told UK newspaper the Daily Mail.
"With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up," he said.
"There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70 per cent lung capacity."
"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs, it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her."
But now Wino's rep has downplayed the emphysema scare, and says Mitch exaggerated the diagnosis "out of his concern for her".
A publicist for Winehouse says: "She is not diagnosed with full-blown emphysema, but instead has early signs of what could lead to emphysema."
Dear Amy,
Babe, those cancer sticks will kill you.
Please remove your head from your bony butt and get with the programme. I don't know what colour the sky is in your world, but you're not in Kansas anymore ... you're in denial.
Ditch the drugs. We'd like you to stay alive, love - not burn out like some tortured genius and end up with a tag on your toe.
I take it back
Loose-lipped matriarch Joan Rivers has taken back her apology for swearing live on British TV.
Rivers let rip with an expletive or two on a TV show called Loose Women last week, and was subsequently booted off the set after calling Russell Crowe a "f****** s***".
The comic didn't realise the programme was live and that her effing was being broadcast un-edited to the masses.
Rivers initially told the Daily Mail that she was "so f**king sorry" for swearing, but she now appears to have changed her mind.
She says: "Lemme get this straight. Bin Laden's top man has been released. The price of petrol is through the roof. There's inflation, depression. And people are hysterical because I said f***? I was having a great time and everybody was laughing. Then these people - these idiots - came running onto the set and ripped me off my seat and dragged me off. They were saying 'Let's go, let's go, let's go'. I thought I was being arrested."
Hogan stuff
Is it just me, or does everything the Hogan clan touches turn to poo?
Beefcake Hulk Hogan's soon-to-be ex wife Linda is the latest member of the Hollywood hillbillies to be in strife.
Loveable Linda dialed 911 last month and ended up getting in trouble with the operator. Why? Because she's stewpid, that's why.
The low-watt bulb reportedly rang the emergency services on May 22, claiming that her hubby Hulk was loitering outside her home - despite a court order preventing him from doing so. Whether such an order exists is another matter entirely.
TMZ.com has released a police report that claims Linda was about to leave her house when she spotted the Hulkster, and she decided to follow him.
Dum-dum then dials 911, and explains that she's chasing a man that was "harassing" her.
To which the operator replies: "Ma'am, ma'am - stop following him!"
And then it all goes South...
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Not the gloved one
Eighties heartthrobs Corey Haim and Corey Feldman have made some serious allegations that they were both molested.
During the most recent episode of the pair's US TV show The Two Coreys, Haim admitted that he was raped at the age of 14, while Feldman also confessed that he was interfered with by someone.
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