Amy Winehouse's wax figure unveiled

Taken from The Press Association

A waxwork of Amy Winehouse was unveiled by her parents, the petite figure towering almost 6ft tall in killer heels and sporting a huge beehive.

Mitch and Janis Winehouse launched the Madame Tussauds work in the Music Zone of the venue popular with tourists.

The model of the Grammy Award-winning Back to Black singer wore the same outfit that her real-life inspiration wore to the Brits - a thigh-skimming mini dress teamed with black high heels and huge red hooped earrings.

Madame Tussauds said it was the first time the London attraction had immortalised the vocalist.

The 3ins beehive and 5ins heels made the figure, complete with signature black eyeliner, just under 6ft tall.

The singer's parents, who were at the venue with other family members, were full of praise for the waxwork, which joins other A-list names such as Madonna and Justin Timberlake.

Mitch said he was "stunned" at the "incredible" likeness to his daughter. He said his daughter was in the middle of working at the moment but would go to see the waxwork in the next week or two, when she would be "as blown away as we are".

He thanked Madame Tussauds for "rising above the general hype, the bad publicity about Amy.

"This is the reward for her musical achievements and her talent."

The figure captures Winehouse frozen in full song, complete with her tattoos - from the winged ankh on her back to lightning bolt, horseshoe, song bird, pin-up girls and "Blake's pocket" above her left breast.

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Amy Winehouse to stay at 'healing sanctuary

Taken from the Welt Online

According to reports Amy Winehouse is going to stay at comedian Frankie Howerd's 'healing sanctuary'.
The diva's mother, Janis, hopes the move to the quiet house in Somerset, South West England, will help her overcome her drug and drink problems after hearing it assisted Chris Byrne – a friend of the comic star – in beating alcoholism. The £800,000 property is currently on the market but Chris is considering turning it into a drug rehabilitation centre after Janis contacted him about the possibility of sending 24-year-old Amy there. Chris, 41 – who lives in the dwelling with ‘Carry On’ star Frankie’s former manager and partner, 80-year-old Dennis Heymer – said: “Janis said she wanted to come down and bring Amy as it might help her.
Janis seems to think there may be something in the atmosphere of the place that has healing. “I told her if the house does not sell I would turn it into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre.” The house is currently a tourist attraction, and also hosts concerts. It is open to the public as a museum of Frankie's collection of memorabilia to raise fund for charities. Frankie died at the age of 75 in 1992.

Amy Winehouse: Headed Back to Rehab?

Taken from the Gossip Girls

She’s never been a big fan of rehab, but it seems that Amy Winehouse may be abandoning her preferences for the sake of finally getting healthy.

The Back to Black songstress was spotted arriving at the Stapleford Centre in South West London earlier today with a vacant expression on her face. Without delay, she proceeded to the Drugs and Alcohol specialist clinic.

Amy recently detailed to press her own prognosis for why she has such a penchant for trouble- she says that she’s young and bored. “To be honest, my husband’s away, I’m bored, I’m young. I felt like there was nothing to live for. It’s just been a low ebb.”

As for her past tries at getting clean, Winehouse claims she’s never gone all out. “I’ve never been to rehab, I mean, done it properly. I’m young, and I’m in love, and I get my nuts off sometimes. But it’s never been like: ’Amy, get your life together’.”

Amy Winehouse performs at the Rock in Rio festival

Taken from Cayman Mama

Amy Winehouse, Great Britain’s troubled soul diva, sipped red wine at the Rock in Rio music festival held on Friday in the south east of Madrid. It seemed that she was not steady on her feet as she performed in front of the large audience at the festival. As her fans started cheering, she threw a pair of stiletto heels and wore white moccasins after which she took an electric guitar and performed some of her best songs on the stage including the ‘Rehab’. She gave a fantastic vocal performance on the stage accompanied by two backing vocalists and her octet.

There was no hint of the naughty behavior which had created a controversy when the singer scuffled with one of her fans at the Glastonbury Festival last week in Britain and or when she showed up an hour late looking worn out in Portugal in May.

The singer has won five Grammy awards including those for best song, best new artist and best record in February 2008. In spite of her great talent and fame, her success has always been shadowed by her public struggle with alcohol and drugs and her confused private life. In June 2008, her father declared that she had developed emphysema due to excessive cigarette smoking and cocaine cracking, but later her spokeswoman announced that she only has symptoms of pre-emphysema.

Once she finished her performance at the Rock in Rio festival, she left the venue on a helicopter without staying for an encore. Winehouse’s manager, Michael Jobson, told the RTVE, a national broadcaster, that Amy had been looking forward to performing in Madrid after making appearances in Hyde Park and Portugal.

After Winehouse, Jamiroquai performed on the stage with Shakira was on the top of the bill. Bob Dylan, the Police, Lenny Kravitz, Franz Ferdinand and Alejandro Sanz were all scheduled to perform during the weekend. The organizers said that around 350000 audiences were expected to come to the concert site by the festival’s end.

Amy Winehouse leaves London clinic after chaotic Glastonbury performance

Taken from the Telegraph

Amy Winehouse has left a clinic after her Glastonbury performance, it has been claimed.

The 24-year-old was admitted to The London Clinic two weeks ago suffering from the lung disease emphysema.

She was given leave to perform at Nelson Mandela's Hyde Park birthday concert and her Glastonbury slot - her first full show in Britain for seven months.

Winehouse sang to 80,000 fans wearing a blue sequinned dress and umbrella cocktail sticks in her trademark beehive hairdo.

During the end of her performance, in what was supposed to be the comeback show for the troubled star, she lunged into the audience and clashed with an unseen reveller as she sang her most famous hit, Rehab.

James Gostelow, 25, from London, said he was elbowed in the head by the singer after someone in the crowd threw a hat at her.

After the set, she was whisked back to The London Clinic by helicopter, and 24 hours later she had left the clinic.

"Amy did return to hospital after her Glastonbury performance but her doctors recommended that she continue as an outpatient," her spokesman said.

"She was allowed to leave for the performances and it was felt that this went really well. As her treatment is coming to a close, it was decided she should return home," he added.

Friends have said she wanted to leave the clinic.

One said, "She told Mitch [her father], 'I'm climbing the walls in here. I need to get out'. She said if he didn't help her get out she'd walk out."

Amy Winehouse gets immortalised!

Taken from Rediff News

English singer songwriter Amy Winehouse is being immortalised in wax at the world famous Madame Tussauds museum.

The wax model, which was created by a team of 20 sculptors for some months, costs 100,000 pounds.

Winehouse is said to have insisted that her towering trademark beehive be perfectly recreated, and she even asked for her saucy 'sailor' tattoos to be engraved on the figure.

Her wax figure has been considered by the staff at the London attraction as worthy of being protected, especially after her Glaston-bury performance in which a fan lunged at her.

Bosses fear pranksters will try to topple the beehive from the figure, which will be unveiled later this month.

'We are really pleased to be creating Amy,' Daily Star quoted Tussauds general manager Edward Fuller as saying.

'Feedback for her inclusion just keeps on growing,' he added.