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Soul chanteuse Amy Winehouse has vowed to check into rehab if she doesn't manage to kick drugs over Christmas.
In a spectacular about-face, the troubled singer seems to have had an epiphany and is set on cleaning up her act for 2008.
Odd-coiffed Winehouse will pack her bags and head straight for the Priory clinic.
A pal said: "Amy has always been against rehab, but her family and friends are working on getting her to do it. She has promised to consider going to The Priory if she doesn't get clean over Christmas."
For once, I hope this celebrity tidbit is true, for Winehouse isn't out of the woods yet...
She thinks she's been subtle with her bizarre onstage antics, but the diminutive diva has yet again been photographed sporting a suspicious-looking red hooter. Look here.
But the oddest thing of all has to be the UFO dangling in-between her legs.... Judge for yourselves here.
Winehouse stumbled her way through another shambolic show at London's Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday.
Wino arrived 45 minutes late on stage, by which time some fans were already demanding refunds for their tickets. Several fans were already booing by the time she took to the stage.
As is the norm these days, Winehouse appeared to be completely bored and distracted. Curiously, she also waddled off stage mid-song and left a poor backing singer to complete her vocals.
The highlight of the night was a moment when Wino's multi-storey beehive nearly toppled over and threatened to suffocate a section of the heckling crowd.
Source: Daily Mail
Update:
The show's over. Wino's axed the rest of her UK tour and all promotional appearances for 2007.
Wino broke the tragic news yesterday, claiming she simply couldn't continue without her jailbird husband.
In a statement Amy, 24, said: "I can't give it my all onstage without my Blake. I'm so sorry but I don't want to do the shows half-heartedly; I love singing. My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same."
This announcement has been in the pipeline for months.
Crappy performances, audience walk-outs, verbally abusing her fans, drug dependence - they've all been weighing heavily on her skeletal shoulders.
As for quitting because hubby's not there to hold your hand? Pull the udder one, you silly moo.
Trot trot to rehab, darling.
I love a love rat
Pop pixie Kylie Minogue has admitted that she still loves love rat Olivier Martinez.
But before we all slack our jaws with incredulity, the singer adds that she has no intention of re-kindling their romance - insisting she's very happy to be single.
Kylie, 39, said: "We have a love for each other that will always be there. Getting back with him is not something I think about. I don't want to think about finding someone else."
Martinez was history after he was allegedly caught canoodling with not one, not two, but three ladies earlier this year.
Source: Mirror.co.uk
Crazy for ewe
Pop's great aunt, Madonna, has angered animal rights activists by dyeing her sheep in garish colours for a photoshoot.
Madge, 49, agreed to dye the wool of sheep she keeps on her country estate blue, pink, yellow and green for Vogue magazine.
But the RSPCA is up in arms over the superstar's Picasso antics and has branded it an "irresponsible publicity stunt" which could spark copycat incidents.
The Material Girl insists that she was merely paying homage to the estate's former owner, the very flamboyant photographer Cecil Beaton.
An RSPCA spokesman said: "Why is it necessary and what are they trying to prove?
"It sends out the wrong message about how to use animals. Even if the dye is safe for the animals, others might copy it with an unsafe dye."
Source: The Sun
Talking of all things ovine...
Madge caused quite a stir when she first performed her Like a Virgin hit on UK chart show Top of the Pops way back in 1984.
Decked in a wedding dress and kinky fishnets, the lady of perpetual self promotion writhed on stage and caught the eye of several salivating male audience members.
However, the singer managed to make the show's host, Steve Right, all hot and bothered for very different reasons.
Contactmusic.com reports Wright as saying: "Madonna kept doing take after take and I wanted to get home because my mum was making a shepherd's pie.
"I went over to Madonna and said: 'Look love, my mum's doing me a shepherd's pie, could you please hurry up?'
"She looked at me as if I was insane and has never spoken to me since," he added.
I collect dead people
Bug-eyed rocker Marilyn Manson is being sued by his former keyboard player - over allegations the pale-faced one frittered away millions of the band's moolah on crazy shopping expeditions.
Stephen Gregory Bier Jr. who worked with Manson for years claims the money should have been shared equally between the band members as stipulated in their contracts.
Legal proceedings started earlier this year when the keyboard player said Manson spent their cash on "sick and disturbing" Nazi memorabilia.
The New York Post reports Bier had originally accused the eccentric singer of using the band's funds to purchase "disturbing" items, and now has added more objects to the list.
Manson allegedly bought another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair, as well as swastika wall tiles with matching rugs, and African masks made out of human skin.
Bier's lawyer, Keith Fink, said Mason "arranged" his girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood to star in his Heart Shaped Glasses video.
She was reportedly given the "highest salary ever paid to any actress in any music video in history".
Manson told MTV News in August that Bier's claims were ridiculous.
"And I would never spend my money on a Chinese girl skeleton. That would be crossing the line. It's a Chinese boy, for the record," he said.
"It just seems like another ex-band member suing me and trying to assassinate my personality as a means to financial gain," Manson said.
Manson's peculiar obsession with death rages on as he aims to break the record for sharing a bath with snakes.
The rocker wants to beat the 'Texas Snakeman' Jackie Bibby, who currently holds the world record by bathing with 87 rattlesnakes for 45 minutes.
A source close to the singer said: "Marilyn is desperate to get into the famous book, and wants to do it for something people will associate him with.
"He thought about all the wacky records he could try and break, and came across Jackie Bibby's record. That's when he decided he wanted to try and break it."
Tom Who?
Tiny Tom Cruise can't keep his slimy mitts off anything these days.
The scientology fanatic has been asked to appear in a special episode of British TV show Doctor Who.
Cruise is among a host of stars, including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Madonna, who the BBC are in negotiations with to sign on for three installments of the sci-fi series to be filmed in 2008.
The Daily Star reports: "BBC producers know they can't pay these stars what they are used to, but what they can offer is an exciting role in a real cutting-edge show. And the big stars love that kind of kudos."
Nip/Tuck's lady love
Cosmetic surgery drama Nip/Tuck is about to get even steamier.
Portia de Rossi and Joely Richardson will be appearing as a lesbian couple in the show's new series.
The actresses have already filmed their racy scenes, despite Portia's initial reluctance to accept the role, fearing she'll be typecast as a lesbian forever.
However, Portia's openly gay partner, Ellen DeGeneres, encouraged her to say yes.
Richardson reportedly leapt at the chance to lock lips with Portia, saying she's a dab hand at lady love and thinks the lesbian scenes "might turn men on".
Well, it certainly turned Ellen on....and off.
DeGeneres visit the Nip/Tuck set to watch the scenes and flinched when her girlfriend was kissed passionately by Joely.
Ghoulish voicemail
Kanye West's mother, Donde West, left a voice message on her hairdresser's phone the day before she died.
And what does the callous cutter do? She makes it public.
Click here to listen to what might have been Donda's final phone call.
Miss-behaviour
Ingrid Marie Rivera was recently crowned Miss Puerto Rico 2008.
And like all true champions, Rivera suffered dearly for her art... at the hand of a devious prankster who sprayed her make-up and dress with pepper spray.
But despite the fact her body was badly swollen and her skin covered in hives, the consummate pageant pro maintained her composure before the judge, and only dashed off backstage when her segment was over.
Ingrid said, "It was a lot of sacrifice, and my tears were genuine. At one point, I asked, 'Am I a masochist?' But I said regardless of the results, this is my goal. The more rocks there are in my path, the more thanks I will give to God for sustaining me."
Show organisers are investigating, and suspect one of her competitors could be the culprit.
No shit!?
Apparently some mean biatch also five-fingered her handbag and a bunch of credit cards.
I hope they get everything they deserve.
Fast gossip:
* Jonathan Rhys Meyers wants everyone naked: Starpulse
* Demi Moore had the surgeries and is whining now: Agent Bedhead
Paris Hilton looking tanorexic: Hollywood Backwash
* Kylie Minogue's ass gets bronzed: News.com.au
* Oprah accused of discrimination: GH
* Keira Knightley upset about lesbian rumors: Ninja Dude
* Dolly Parton's Plastic Surgery: CityRag
* Nicole Kidman's face bears a lonely wrinkle: Socialitelife
* Reese Witherspoon rejected Jake? Hollywood Backwash
