Amy Winehouse 'sorry' for racist chant, sex and drugs video

Amy Winehouse. Photo / AP

Jazz joke Amy Winehouse has apologised after being captured on video making racist rants and allegedly indulging in sex acts in a 'crack den'.

The bombshell video, filmed by Winehouse's incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civic, was exposed by British tabloid the News of The World on Sunday, and could signal the end of the songbird's career.

The damning footage, believed to have been shot before the drug duo's quickie wedding in May of last year, shows the vulnerable singer chanting racist lyrics with a pal, known only as Sarah.

Winehouse and her mate giggle their way through a rendition of popular kiddies' song 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes', but utter a series of sickening racist words instead of referring to body parts.

Fielder-Civil, who is currently in jail facing trial for GBH and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, pretends he isn't filming the pair as he eggs them on, saying: "Can we have a singsong of it?"

The Rehab star then sings: "Blacks, Pakis, Gooks and Nips, Gooks and Nips!

"And deaf and dumb and blind and gay!"

Watch the video here.

Winehouse then repeats the rant over again and on the word "Nips", appears to pull her eyes into slits and fondles her bosom.

Crack is whack

The camera then pans to a coffee table littered with what appears to be drug paraphernalia: six cigarette lighters, and a conspicuous white substance on a piece of foil - a prop used by druggies for heating crack cocaine.

The video footage, along with over 100 unsavory photographs of Winehouse indulging in less than favourable activities, was handed to the tabloid by a former friend determined to expose Fielder-Civil's manipulative grip on troubled Wino.

Click here for shocking photos of Blake 'n' Wino in action in their 'drug den'.

Winehouse appeared on the steps of her north London home yesterday and apologised to photographers for her debauched behaviour, according to the Daily Mail.

And as if by magic, Winehouse's former manager has piped up and says he's "concerned for her wellbeing".

Pop mogul Nick Godwyn, who signed Wino to 19 Management when she was just 16, thinks the chanteuse should stall her career and focus on her health.

Godwyn says: "What is happening now is not very pleasant for anybody to watch. I feel she seems to be sad.

"People talk about wasted talent, but I don't look at it like that. If Amy never made another record again it would be sad, but it's less about the music for me and more about, 'this is a human being that maybe isn't very happy'."

I think this is it for Wino's spiraling career. The drugs we could more-or-less handle, but the racist rants are another matter entirely. She's gone too far.

It's time to man the lifeboats, folks, this ship is sinking faster than the Titanic.

Brit for Brit Brit

Britney Spears is about to head off to old Blighty to shoot the video for her single Radar, according to her manager.

Larry Rudolph says the former pop star is heading off to London this week.

Brit Brit will supposedly co-direct the video, as well as star in it.

"She will be behind the camera as much as possible; she wants to make sure it's exactly right," Larry said.

Get together

Just put those 'Lindsay Lohan's a lesbian' rumours to one side for a second.

Bobby Brown's spawn has declared that he had a secret liaison with the Mean Girls star in a nightclub bathroom not so long ago.

Reality TV star Landon claims the toilet tryst took place two years ago at a private Hollywood party.

He reveals: "Me and Lindsay got really, really close. She followed me to the bathroom during a private party, and, well, we basically got together. I think she knew who I was when she first saw me. We were just staring at each other and she waked by. I walked into the bathroom and she followed me in."

And now he's hoping for an encore.

"It didn't end badly, but it did end weird. I'm actually trying to get back in touch with her-- really soon," he adds.

You'll have to get past Samantha Ronson first, mate.

Source: starpulse.com

Top of the flops

Janet Jackson was recently quizzed about the next single to be lifted from her new album Discipline.

Lady Jackson replied with some rather sorry news:

"That's pretty difficult to say, only because of the record label at this point. We started off with Feedback and the label and myself haven't quite seen eye to eye since the Feedback single so they've kind of basically stopped all promotion. I'm trying to figure out a way to say this, but just to say it and to be quite honest, they just stopped all promotion whatsoever on the album so I don't think you're going to hear another single off this album."

Not obliging

Mary J. Blige has reportedly canceled her upcoming Australasian tour, citing exhaustion.

The R&B hottie was due to hit the Southern hemisphere tomorrow, with a show scheduled for Perth, Australia, along with a string of dates in New Zealand.

The shows have been re-scheduled for November.

Pay day

Britney Spears' father is so desperate to see his daughter hook up with ex Kevin Federline, he's reportedly offered him $4.5 million to remarry her.

A source tells Star magazine:

"Jamie's been after Kevin to get back with Britney for months. He knows he may have to pay to get it done-and the money would come out of Britney's assets, which he now controls....He keeps raising the stakes....The key is not letting Britney find out. When he isn't in Brit's life, she completely falls apart. It sounds corny, but he completes her-and Jamie knows it."

The snitch adds:

"His latest offer is $4.5 million in cash and a trust account set up with another $5 million if Kevin moves back in with Britney within a year. If they actually remarry, Jamie will add another $5 million to Kevin's account."

Word has it that Federline will settle for no less than $20 million, and won't sign a prenup either.

Utter cobblers, obviously.

Death on a stick

Druggie Pete Doherty is dead.

Well, he is in a macabre new exhibition by Scottish artist Peter Howson, anyway.

Howson has depicted the troubled singer in a series of oddball poses that make him look like he's snuffed it.

Let's hope life doesn't imitate art, eh Doherty.

Random snippet

Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter found a dead body floating in a river last week.

Grim.

Handbags at dawn

A bitter war of words has erupted between old geezer director Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee.

Eastwood has told Lee to "shut his face" after the notoriously-grumpy filmmaker moaned about the lack of black actors in Eastwood's films.

Now play nicely, boys.

Quote of the day

"I've been in prison. In and out of court. Convicted of rape. I already expect the worst to happen. I expect people to treat me bad. I expect on day somebody will blow my brains out over some BS (bullshit). No one gives a shit about Mike Tyson. Someone accuses me of a horrible crime, others say, 'Yeah, he's capable of that. Mike probably did it.' Nobody's fighting any crusade for my black ass."

Funnily enough, that's a no, Mike Tyson.

Eating pavement

Poor Mary-Kate Olsen fell flat on her face and ate pavement over the weekend.

Olsen was spotted emerging from an LA nightspot and was besieged by a swarm of paparazzi.

The excitement was clearly too much for her, and she went bum over boob as she made her way to her getaway vehicle.

Fast gossip
Ooh, drink it in...

* Liv Tyler wants to get back with her estranged husband: DS

* Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel moved in together: YH

* Which Spice Girl forgot to shave? SOMG

* 50 Cent gave Val Kilmer a $100k car: Celebitchy

* Hollywood marriages explode! PB

* Why is Rupert Everett so bitter? CK

* Sharon Osbourne quits The X-Factor. Whatever. Holy Moly!

* Ashlee Simpson isn't too pregnant to party: Pink is the New Blog

* Gwyneth Paltrow has a cooking show? A Socialite's Life

* Lindsay Lohan's got a job. Yes, way: Defamer

* Anne Hathaway to marry: ICYDK

* New X-Files 2 trailer: SOMG

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