Britney hires private investigators

Detectives from Javoric’s agency have been watching Federline’s every move as he parties in Las Vegas, and are especially keeping a close watch on who comes and goes from his suite.


As they get set to battle over the custody of their sons, Britney Spears is trying to get an upper hand on her Kevin Federline by reportedly hiring a top California private detective to monitor her ex hubby.

Britney is said to be reacting to Federline serving her friends and her aides with subpoenas to testify in the custody trial.

And she’s now turned to Lisa Javoric to dig up dirt on her ex husband.

Detectives from Javoric’s agency have been watching Federline’s every move as he parties in Las Vegas, and are especially keeping a close watch on who comes and goes from his suite, a source tells In Touch Weekly.

"The detective watched him intently as Kevin partied in public areas of the hotel. He made a note of everyone who went into his suite," Contactmusic quoted the source, as telling the publication.

Britney is said to be hoping that the information the PI gathers will be enough to ensure that she gets custody of the couples two young sons - Sean Preston and Jayden James.

Federline, in the meantime, has managed to serve Britney’s former manager Larry Rudolph with papers to testify in court.

Amy Winehouse's no to MTV

Amy Winehouse will not perform at the MTV Video Music Awards.

The troubled singer - who is currently on holiday with husband Blake Fielder-Civil on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia - was due to sing at the event but her record label, Universal, announced yesterday (29.08.07) she will definitely not be taking to the stage.

Amy, 23, has also cancelled all her US tour dates, after initially postponing them. Her label said this decision was made "in a continued effort to support Amy's wellbeing."

The announcement comes just weeks after the 'Back to Black' singer cancelled her entire 25-date European tour and remaining British festival appearances after overdosing on a cocktail of drugs.

The 'Back to Black' singer is up for three MTV awards, including Best New Artist, at the glitzy ceremony which takes place at Las Vegas' Palm Springs Casino Resort on September 9.

Amy and Blake, 26, have shocked the world in recent weeks as details of their excessive drug use and turbulent private life have emerged.

Last week, disturbing photos of the couple arguing on the streets of London which showed Blake with deep scratches to his face and neck, and a clearly distressed Amy with bandages covering cuts on her arms and blood-soaked feet, thought to be caused by injecting drugs.

She later sent a text message to online gossip columnist Perez Hilton claiming she was responsible for the injuries and that Blake had stopped her from self-harming and taking heroin with a prostitute.

Owen Wilson drops out of comedy after suicide bid: reports

Actor Owen Wilson has withdrawn from his next movie project after being hospitalized following his attempted suicide, entertainment industry press reported Wednesday.

The 38-year-old comedian, who is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after being found at his home by family members on Sunday, had been due to take part in "Tropic Thunder," directed by friend and long-time collaborator Ben Stiller.

However trade journals Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter said Wilson had now dropped out of the film, which began shooting in Hawaii recently.

"Ben and Owen have made eight movies together," a source close to the project was quoted by Variety as saying. "And (Ben) can't wait to work with Owen again. It's just not going to be on this film."

Both DreamWorks and Wilson's personal publicist declined to comment.

Stiller and Wilson starred together in several comedies, most notably "Starsky & Hutch," "Zoolander" and "The Royal Tenenbaums."

Wilson has appealed for privacy since being admitted to hospital. A Santa Monica Police Department log released on Tuesday showed officers had responded to a report of a suicide attempt at Wilson's home.

Winehouse In-Law Urges Boycott

Amy Winehouse's in-laws are apparently firm believers in tough love. Her own parents, not so much.

The father of Blake Fielder-Civil, Winehouse's hubby of three months, has spoken out about the much-chronicled downward spiral of the musically-inclined couple, and is calling for a fan boycott of the "Rehab" singer's music as a last-ditch effort to send a message to what he deems a drug addicted duo.

"At the moment, they don't admit there's a problem, so we do urge other people to help them recognize their own problems," Giles Fielder-Civil told BBC Radio Five Live Tuesday.

"They are seen as a couple who display sorts of behavior that can be seen as almost entertaining, especially for the tabloid newspapers, and I think it's about time that their friends and professional colleagues say, 'enough is enough.'"

"Perhaps it's come to the point where—and I wouldn't want any harm to come to Amy or Blake, obviously—but perhaps it's time to stop buying records."

The in-law spoke out about the couple's increasingly destructive behavior in recent weeks, claiming their take on their own addictions is one of "abject denial," saying the duo not only "don't see themselves as having a problem," but are "quite aggressive in their defense of themselves."

"I think they believe that they are recreational users of drugs and that they are in control."

Fielder-Civil, however, doesn't.

Citing cocaine, crack and heroin as the likeliest drugs the duo has been taking in increasing doses over the past few months, the concerned father told BBC Radio that as a parent, he was concerned "that if one of them dies, the other will die."

"They're a very close couple. If one dies through substance abuse, the other may commit suicide...and if they died within the next 12 to 24 months, it would be such a tragic waste."

The problem, according to Fielder-Civil, is that the couple cannot recognize their problem. Even the couple's very brief stint at the Causeway rehab center earlier this month, which they checked into in the wake of Winehouse's hospitalization for "severe exhaustion," the in-law claims was never meant to be a fix.

"Those visits to the Causeway were really in a sense to get them out of the way," he said. "It was hoped that they would recognize their own problems, that they would then take on a course of action that would help them kick this habit, but they haven't and it hasn't been successful. And I think looking back in hindsight, it wasn't the best option."

Not only that, but he believes the duo even "took a supply" with them to get them through the three days in the center.

Winehouse's father seconded the contraband notion when he phoned into the same BBC Radio show Tuesday to answer Fielder-Civil's call for a boycott.

"They were indulging in other things during the stay," he said of their time at the facility, adding he hoped they would make their way back there.

As for Fielder-Civil's grave warnings about the duo, Winehouse doesn't deny that a problem exists, but doesn't quite paint as bleak a portrait of the couple as his fellow parent.

"We're not talking about people who are in imminent danger of death," he said, adding that his Back to Black daughter and her hubby had "taken a different route" in terms of drug taking in the last three or four months.

"We have two families pulling in different directions," he said of their approach to helping the famous couple. "Basically, we both want the same things, we want our children to be safe. But we've got different ideas of how to do that."

Like the proposed boycott.

"Will it do any good? No. It won't send any message to Amy at all, unfortunately. If I thought it would, it would be a great idea. I'm clutching at straws. It's all clutching at straws."

It's a feeling Winehouse said he felt even more acutely in the wake of bloodied, scratched up photos surfacing of the duo on a London street last week.

"I thought that here are two people that are completely out of control," he said, adding that "my understanding is that they didn't do it to each other. As a parent, it was sickening. Worse than sickening. I wanted to die."

Still, Winehouse thinks the key to the couple's recovery is getting them to sober up is to first let them hit rock bottom—if they haven't already.

"They are a married couple, they love each other—although obviously there are issues in the relationship if they feel they've got to cut themselves to demonstrate their love for each other—and if it means that they get cured together, I hope they get cured together. If it means they get cured by being separated, then so be it."

"The only way out of this is, at some point, they are gonna reach rock bottom. And at that point, they will say, listen, I don't want to do this anymore. That's their decision to make. When the decision is right, they'll make it. Or they won't make it."

The couple is currently vacationing together in a secluded, undisclosed location.

Britney can't give up life in the fast lane

Amy Winehouse: Now Covered In Blood

They tried to make Amy Winehouse go to rehab, she said "no no no" - but they tried to make Amy Winehouse do drugs with a hooker until she got in a fight with her husband and they left their hotel covered in blood, and she said "OK."

You literally can't open a newspaper today without seeing pictures of Amy Winehouse and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil staggering around outside a hotel looking like they've both gone 12 rounds with a particularly vicious tiger. And you'll have read the claims saying that Amy Winehouse got in that state because Blake Fielder-Civil had been beating her up. But it appears that these claims couldn't be further from the truth - Amy Winehouse herself has come forward to say that the reason she was pictured covered with blood is because she was trying to cut herself and do drugs with a prostitute and her husband told her not to. Which, we're sure you can all agree, is much better.

We've decided that making jokes at Amy Winehouse's expense is a bit of a pointless exercise - not because she's obviously in a very fragile mental and physical state at the moment but because the amount of successive rock bottoms that Amy Winehouse keeps crashing through instantly renders all jokes about her redundant.

Last time we heard from her, Amy Winehouse had cancelled her American tour because she recently took all the drugs in the universe and needed to get her stomach pumped before realising that drug overdoses weren't fun and going off to a special rehab on a private island. Then leaving rehab to go down the pub. Then going back to rehab. Sounded like Amy Winehouse had reached rock bottom, hadn't it? Hadn't it?

Wrong! Because in every single one of today's papers we can see pictures of Amy Winehouse covered in blood because she'd apparently been in a vicious hotel room fight with her husband. The Daily Mail reports:

An eyewitness said: "Just after 3am, Amy came sprinting out and down the road. She was in a real state of panic. Blake was running after her, but couldn't catch up. Amy was so hell-bent on getting away from him that she ran into the middle of the street and flagged down a random car that happened to be full of girls. She was saying, 'Quickly, I have to get in, I have to get away, please help me'. Her voice was breaking, you could tell she was scared. The car drove off at speed and ended up about a mile away at Charing Cross station… Blake ran after the car for a while. He spent the next half hour or so wandering around in a daze with blood over his face, looking in doorways for her."

Wow, so Amy Winehouse was beaten up by her husband? That has to be rock bottom, surely. Well, yes, until you read Amy Winehouse's account of what happened, which makes a little bit of wife-beating seem like the least tawdry pursuit on the face of the earth. Blake only got angry at Amy Winehouse because he caught her cutting herself and doing drugs with a prostitute. This is what Amy Winehouse told Perez Hilton in his one of his rare breaks from scrawling the word 'skank' on a picture of Britney Spears like some sort of cake-addled toddler:

"Blake is the best man in the world. We would never ever harm each other… I was cutting myself after he found me in our room about to do drugs with a call girl and rightly said I wasn't good enough for him. I lost it and he saved my life… He did not and never has hurt me. He has such a hard time and he so supportive… He is an amazing man who saved my life again and got cut badly for his troubles. All he get's is horrible stories printed about him and he just keeps quiet, but this is too much."

OK, so Amy Winehouse attacked her husband because he saw her self-mutilating just before she was about to take some drugs with a prostitute in a hotel just over a week since she had a near-fatal drug overdose. That has to be rock bottom, right?

Well, yes. For now. But join us next week when Amy Winehouse has unprotected sex with an HIV monkey, stars in a harrowing bukkake video then empties the contents of her stomach, bladder and bowels into a barrel of dirty heroin syringes before jumping in and dancing the Macarena to No Surprises by Radiohead in slow motion.

Amy Winehouse Postpones U.S. Tour on Health

Amy Winehouse postponed her tour of the U.S. and Canada, citing poor health and exhaustion.

The singer is still scheduled to go ahead with U.K. concerts in October and November, her record company Island said today in an e-mailed statement. The missed shows will be rescheduled in early 2008.

``Due to the rigors involved in touring, Amy Winehouse, who is taking time out to address her health issues, has been advised to postpone,'' Shane O'Neill, head of press for Island, said in the statement.

Winehouse, 23, was treated in hospital earlier this month for ``severe exhaustion,'' the BBC reported on its Web Site. She has denied newspaper reports of drug abuse, though her husband Blake Fielder-Civil said the couple had been in a rehabilitation clinic, the BBC said.

Winehouse had already canceled concerts including the V Festival in Chelmsford and Staffordshire, England, support gigs with the Rolling Stones in Germany, and the Rock en Seine event near Paris.

Her second album ``Back to Black'' has gone platinum in both the U.S. and the U.K. and is the favorite to win Britain's Nationwide Mercury Prize. Its singles include ``Rehab'' and ``You Know I'm No Good,'' both mixing R&B with jazz.

Winehouse swiftly followed the album with sell-out concerts, a BRIT award, marriage, and headlines about drink and tattoos.

Winehouse is also nominated for three prizes at next month's MTV Video Music Awards in the U.S.: best female artist of the year, best new artist and video of the year (for ``Rehab''). Island Records made no further comment, so it is not known if she will now perform at the Las Vegas MTV event on Sept. 9.

To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Beech in London at

Paris set for ‘Big Brother’

A Big Brother source said that the show’s bosses are in talks to rope in ‘The Simple Life’ star.


Paris Hilton is reportedly set to star in reality TV series Big Brother.

The former jailbird has been offered 300,000 pounds to appear in the Channel 4 programme scheduled for January 2008.

The offer makes the hotel heiress the highest paid celebrity on the show so far.

A Big Brother source said that the show’s bosses are in talks to rope in ‘The Simple Life’ star.

“We told Paris, ‘Name your price’. We’re in firm talks, and it would be a fantastic coup to get her,” the Sun quoted an insider, as saying.

Another source said that Hilton wants to disprove her ‘bimbo’ and ‘wild child reputation’.

“She wants people to see that she’s not a bimbo or a wild child,” the source said.

"She would easily be the star of the show - but obviously she won’t do it unless the money is right,” the source added.

However, there is no news on other inmates on the show.

Spears rehab clinic given court order

Britney Spears's rehab clinic has become the latest target to be issued a court order by the singer's ex-husband Kevin Federline to give evidence in their custody battle.

The administrator at the Promises rehab centre will have to give evidence about Britney's parenting after she stayed there in March.

It comes after Federline's lawyer also issued subpoenas to Spears' cousin Alli Sims, her former PA Shannon Funk and ex-bodyguard Jonathan Rotem over the pair's boys Sean Preston and Jayden James.

The 'Toxic' singer is hoping that patient/doctor confidentiality will mean that they can't give too much away about her stay at the clinic, but a top lawyer has warned they could be allowed to tell all.

He said: "Because there is an issue of substance abuse and her mental state in this custody battle, the judge is probably going to allow it."

Britney's pal asked to testify about her parenting skills

Washington, Aug 13 (ANI): Britney Spears' friend has reportedly been served legal papers by the pop star's ex-hubby, Kevin Federline, to testify about Spears' parenting skills.

The 'Toxic' star's close friend, Alli Sims, who was handed over a deposition subpoena, or court orders, has been asked to appear for the trial in which Federline is seeking primary custody of his two kids.

A source said that Sims was shocked upon receiving the papers from a private security agency, as she left a party, reports Contactmusic.

"Alli was really shocked and covered her face. [She was] really distraught and said 'Oh my God,'" a source told People magazine.

On August 8, Federline filed a show cause order for the primary physical custody of his two kids.

It is said that Federline made his latest move after pictures of the topless pop star in a hotel pool surfaced.

Potter box office at 345 mln pounds

Global box office sales for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the latest film about the boy wizard, have reached $700 million (345 million pound), media company Time Warner said on Wednesday.

"We're looking for a very big year for Warner and New Line," Time Warner Chief Executive Richard Parsons said of the company's two film studios. The Harry Potter film was released by Warner Bros.

Parsons also said he expects film division results in the second half will rise "strongly" from a year before.