Amy Winehouse caught smoking after emphysema scare

11:35AM Wednesday June 25, 2008

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.

Or click here to watch the video.

But despite swirling internet rumours to the contrary, Feldman insists that a certain 80s pop star had nothing to do with these shocking allegations.

Feldman blabs in an interview with GQ: "People can say whatever they want, but it wasn't Michael. He and I have our own issues, but that wasn't one of them. The bottom line is, I know who it was. I didn't know how to cut him off. Not only did I continue being friends with the guy, but he was working for me. The guy that did this to me was my assistant. He would come in when I was sleeping. I would wake up and I would know what was going on, but I would just try to ignore it and hope that he would go away, which is how kids who aren't ready to deal with something deal with it. I was still a virgin at the time. I hadn't even had sex with a girl. So for me it was just kind of bewildering. Despite what people think, I was actually very innocent and very naïve at the time. I was your typical American kid."

Talking of the gloved one...

Darling music producer Mark Ronson says he showed Michael Jackson pornography when he was younger.

Ronson, who has produced for wayward Amy Winehouse and a legion of other luminaries, grew up in America and met Jacko through John Lennon's spawn, Sean.

Entertainmentwise.com reports: "It's a weird story, but I didn't touch him. We just went and stayed at his (Sean's) house and it seemed okay at the time," he said.

"I think it's still okay. Unless I'm going to be in therapy in four years' time."

The music impresario said he and Lennon were watching porn on the Porn Channel when, "we were like ten and, 'Oh my God, t***!'

"Me and Sean said 'Michael do you want to see something cool?' We turned the dial to the porn channel and there were strippers shaking their tits around. We were like, 'Michael, Michael how cool is this?'" he adds.

"We turned around and he was cringing saying, 'Ooh stop it, stop it, ooh it's so silly.' He was not down with the program whatsoever.

"I think he just had really strong feminist views on porn and the use of it."

You can take a horse to water...

Blind item

Guess the celebidiot....

Which divorced comic superstar is exploring a groovy new real-life persona: that of an openly gay man? Source

Bad karma

Culture Club singer Boy George has been refused entry into the US, according to news reports.

George has been turned away from the golden land of opportunity because of his 2006 conviction for telling porkies about a burglary at his New York apartment.

George - real name George O'Dowd - was hoping to return to the big apple to perform a few concerts, but now his visa application has been declined.

A grumpy George says, "I'm pretty devastated because I am so excited about this forthcoming tour and having my visa application denied seems unfair after I swept the streets of New York spotless."

"There are a number of public figures who are openly using drugs and they have no problem with immigration... I have seriously turned my life around and I feel great right now, and this is just another reminder of how bad things were. I committed a crime and I happily paid the consequences, and I should be allowed to move on and get on with what I do best and that is performing and making people dance and cry!"

I wouldn't worry too much about George. You can't keep a good bitch down for long...

Spice on wheels

What gives with former Spice Girl Melanie Brown and this picture of her slumped in a wheelchair as she arrived at Los Angeles International airport last weekend?

Brown had just trotted off a flight from the UK and was tossed into a wheelchair quicker than you can say zigazig ha!

Dodgy hips? Broken stiletto? Or just bone idle?

Rumour has it that Brown was also spotted clutching her stomach as she made her way to a waiting limousine...

Oh, the intrigue, the drama.

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The witch is back

What do they say about leopards? Oh yes, they don't change their spots.

Jennifer Lopez has more money than common sense, this much we all know. Which goes a long way towards explaining her recent devilishly divalicious behaviour in a New York boutique.

La diva Lopez, according to the NY Post, waltzed into a store in Long Island and demanded a 50 per cent discount off any clothes she fancied.

The ego on legs also tried to get the store owners to shut the doors so she could peruse the aisles at her leisure.

Mercifully, the store owners replied with a big, fat "no!", and so Lopez left all of the clothes she'd fitted on the dressing room floor. She then left without buying a sausage.

NY Post reports: "She demanded the store be shut down for her to shop alone, but they said, 'Absolutely not,' " said our spy.

"Then one of her eight-person entourage, including two bodyguards with their guns showing, was yelling at the clerk that Jennifer gets a 50 per cent discount. Jennifer also tried on about a million outfits, then just threw it all in a pile in the dressing room and didn't buy one thing.

"J.Lo's rep did not return a call."

Fashion faux pas

Heidi Montag's new single Fashion is about to abuse all our eardrums.

This is what I'm talking about...

Listen at your own risk here.

It's rather poo.

Sex is dull

Oddball fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has branded the fabulous fashion in the new Sex and the City movie as "quite dull".

The lippy designer, who is name-checked in the film, and created a dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker's alter ego Carrie, says she was not impressed with the on-screen fashion.

This coming from a woman who thinks it's okay to be seen in public looking like this.

The she devil. 

She says, "I thought Sex and the City was supposed to be about cutting-edge fashion and there was nothing remotely memorable or interesting about what I saw.

"I went to the premiere and left after 10 minutes."

Ad nonsense

This Heinz Deli Mayo advert has been withdrawn from broadcast - because viewers have complained about the fact it shows two men kissing.

Or click here to watch the video.

The British Advertising Standards Authority reportedly received more than 200 complaints about the ad.

Viewers complained it was "offensive, "inappropriate" and "unsuitable to be seen by children" and, this is the best bit, it somehow raised the "difficulty" of parents having to discuss same-sex relationships with their kids.

And just like that, it all goes from cute to downright crazy. Welcome to 2008.

Fast gossip

Get it while it's hot...

If Justin Timberlake and David Beckham were lovers... Cityrag

David Beckham makes children cry: BB

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson 4ever: SL

Hugh Hefner had family foursome: GB

Seal is loving his new ride: CDL

Hayden PantyLiner wigs out: TRR

Carmen Electra loves legal blackjack: Hollywood Rag

Sharon Stone has been airbrushed to hell. Popbytes

We'll have a slice of that, please: BGO

Jude Law is loving his purple pants: JustJared

Kelly Osbourne: Bespectacled, beaming: Jezebel

Get a life on eBay! BWE

Someone chuck Colin Farrell a burger: Derober

Rod Stewart is horny, apparently. Eugh! (NSFW) TB

Is this legal, Angelina Jolie? You beast: CR

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