Troubled Amy back in UK

Amy Winehouse arrived back in the UK today as concern continues to mount about the troubled singer.

Winehouse, 23, and husband Blake Fielder-Civil were photographed at Gatwick on their return from a five-star resort on St Lucia in the Caribbean.

The singer, who has cancelled a string of performances, is nominated for a Mercury Award, and is due at the London ceremony tomorrow.

Brit-award winner Winehouse was admitted to hospital last month after a reported overdose of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine and alcohol.





The couple went on holiday after Winehouse quit rehab for a second time.

But pictures of the talented singer on holiday have sparked concern that she is still using hard drugs.

Before she went away, Winehouse was seen bloodstained and covered in scratches after quitting rehab with her husband.

The Back to Black singer shocked her fans with her blood-soaked ballet shoes, bruises to her neck, bandages on her arms and make-up smeared down her face.

Fielder-Civil had scratches covering his face and neck.

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.

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.

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