Few things in life piss me off more than really bad Italian food. And apparently that’s the one thing Amy Winehouse and I have in common… well that and unnecessarily big hair. Before her disastrous performance at the MTV Europe Awards last week, Snoop Dogg, the show’s host, decided to pay a visit to Amy. Snoop is nothing if not polite that way. When he got there, he witnessed a scene so bizarre that it freaked even him out – and you know Snoop has seen some crazy shiznit in his day. Amy was throwing spaghetti bolognese all over the walls of her dressing room, cutting up the rug, and hurling whatever she could get her hands on. Which leaves me to wonder: diva, or drugs? Or a diva on drugs?

Amy Winehouse went on the warpath before the MTV Europe Music Awards in Munich last week and caused thousands of pounds’ worth of damage to her dressing room. The Camden caner was armed and dangerous - with a plate of spaghetti bolognese that she picked up and threw over the walls. Angry Amy lobbed anything she could get her hands on - fruit, tables and chairs. And then she turned on the rug in her dressing room at the Olympiahalle, and cut it to shreds.

Legendary party king Snoop Dogg, who had dropped in to visit the beehive-haired diva before the show, was shell-shocked at the carnage. A member of his entourage told me: “An hour and a half before the show, Snoop said he wanted to see Amy. When we got there, she was in a right state. Everyone, including her management, just stood there as she lobbed spaghetti up the walls. It went on for about five minutes - with her kicking the walls and throwing whatever she could get her hands on - even the tables and the chairs. Then she started cutting up the rug. Snoop was just standing there open-mouthed. He was pretty freaked out by it and didn’t want to hang out with her after that.”

[From the Mirror]

When you’re too crazy for Snoop Dogg, you’re too crazy to live. I had a lot of evidence prior to this that Amy Winehouse was likely going to end up dead by the end of the year. I mean she’s got to be the most self-destructive celebrity of the last twenty years, and often makes Britney Spears look like a kitten. Britney has yet to go running through the streets in bloody ballet shoes with cuts on her face… that I know of. Even after overdosing and walking out of rehab, Amy is still having drug dealers bring packages to the windows of her apartment – with paparazzi around. All those things made me worry for her. But Snoop Dogg thinking you’re crazy messed up? Thinking you’re so mental he doesn’t even want to hang out with you and snort a little blow? That’s practically like a psychiatrist saying you’re as good as dead.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Wino accepting her award at the MTV Europe Awards on November 1st. Header is Snoop Dogg hosting the event. Images thanks to WENN.

When I read that Amy Winehouse actually showed up to the MTV Europe Awards, I was pretty surprised. She actually got on stage and sang. She didn’t cancel at the last minute like she has with about 3 out of 4 of her concerts recently. Several reviews called her performance “uninspired” but that’s pretty charitable. I’d call it a whole lot of something crap. She either forgot the words to her song or was slurring and/or drunk. It’s not uninspired, it’s unprofessional. Amy performed “Back to Black” and when you listen to the video, you can discern a single word she said. I listed to the song on Amazon to make sure that’s not how it’s supposed to sound. Several sites posting this clip are joking that she had a seizure right before the show, and I’m going to have to agree.

Amy Winehouse stumbled through her performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Thursday (November 1) shortly after giving a very brief acceptance speech when she won the Artists’ Choice honor. The singer — who was announced as a last-minute addition to the show when she canceled her planned performance at the mtvU Woodie Awards on November 8 — gave a brief “thanks” when she accepted the award, and later appeared to have difficulty remembering the words to her own song and danced unsteadily as she performed.

[From MTV.com]

That’s putting it mildly. I’ve counted 14 words that I could make out. How many can you find?

Well it seemed like a pretty safe bet that the combination of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty in the same room would either cause spontaneous combustion (probably due to all the flammable alcohol) or make the universe implode. The odds that everything would go off without a hitch seemed pretty slim, given their penchant for drama. But that’s exactly what happened. They were both reported to be well-behaved, though Winehouse seemed a little uninspired. But that’s probably attributable to a wide variety of drugs… and/or withdrawal from a wide variety of drugs. Really, the most troubling part of the evening was that Avril Lavigne won two awards. Not just because her music sucks, but because she’s such an egocentric brat that no one should give her a trophy to encourage her behavior.

Avril Lavigne rocked the MTV Europe Music Awards in Munich Thursday night, winning two of the show’s top prizes – while troubled singer Amy Winehouse surfaced for the event and offered a quiet “thanks.” Lavigne picked up the Most Addictive Track trophy for “Girlfriend,” as well as the Solo Artist of 2007 award – to which the 23-year-old screamed with delight to the packed auditorium: “I am so happy, this is an honor!”

Winehouse won the Artists’ Choice award, the only honor decided by fellow musicians. The singer, who’s appealing her recent pot charge, sheepishly accepted her award with a quiet “thanks” before walking off stage. Later in the evening Winehouse sang her classic “Back to Black,” but audience members noted the soul diva’s lack of energy.

Rapper Snoop Dogg hosted the event, appearing on stage in a selection of outfits including traditional German lederhosen and a kilt. Performers included Mika (despite suffering from strep throat), Lavigne, My Chemical Romance, Babyshambles and the Foo Fighters.

Pete Doherty happily signed autographs for the fans before the show, despite telling reporters he felt “lethargic.” But his performance later in the evening was anything but dreary. The rehabbing singer performed a crowd-pleasing rendition of “Delivery,” reuniting with his band Babyshambles. Earlier in the evening, Doherty denied any pre-show nerves, telling reporters: “It’s second nature, it’s what keeps me going really.”

[From People]

What the hell! How am I supposed to say anything snotty and/or amusing about celebrities when they all behave? Someone, for the love of God, throw a beer bottle at someone else, or just pour it over their head. This is way too tame and grown up for me. Where are Kid Rock and Tommy Lee fighting over Pamela Anderson’s boobs when you need them? I would always expect Europe to outdo America in terms of interesting awards show drama. You have the (aforementioned) two biggest unrepentant drama-loving musical druggies in the UK! Do something with it!

Picture note by Jaybird: I scoured the photo agencies for half an hour trying to find pictures of Snoop in the aforementioned lederhosen, but no luck. Something tells me they’re going to keep those pics tightly under wraps. So here’s Pete Doherty performing with his band Babyshambles at the MTV Europe Music Awards last night. Images thanks to WENN. Header image of Amy Winehouse performing last night at the awards show as well. Images thanks to Splash Photos.

There are bad ideas and then there are terrible ideas. A bad idea is something along the lines of “Hey, let’s pack this bathtub with hot dogs and then fill it up with really hot water and see if we can cook them.” A really bad idea (though equally stupid) is something along the lines of “Let’s get the two most drugged up and unreliable musicians on the scene today, and put them on a stage together.” After sitting around asking themselves, “What’s the stupidest thing we could do?” MTV execs have decided to go with the later, and have decided to have not just Pete Doherty but also Amy Winehouse perform at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Though to be fair, it’s likely that Pete Doherty has filled his bathtub to the brim with hot dogs at least once.

Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty are being lined up to duet at the MTV Europe Music Awards tonight. The pair are already booked to perform solo performances at the bash in Munich, but Pete, 28, wants to share the stage with his North London neighbour. First Babyshambles are expected to sing single Delivery, while Amy - who is nominated for 3 gongs - is keeping her choice of solo number under wraps. Can’t wait to see what they choose to belt out together

‘It’s been a closely-guarded secret and may still fall apart at the last minute,’ a source tells the Daily Mirror. ‘This duet could be a blinding success or an unmitigated disaster if they’ve been on the booze or any dodgy substances.’

Pete, who says he’s been clean since leaving rehab, is now dating a blonde stylist called Becky, 28, after splitting with fiancée Irina Lazareanu. Amy, 24, of course, is still loved up with husband Blake Fielder-Civil. At a gig in Amersterdam last week, she kept leaving the stage to snog her spouse.

[From Now Magazine]

I’m guessing the stage will somehow end up on fire – and not in the cool, planned pyrotechnics kind of way. Somehow, Amy will end up running around in bloody ballet shoes while Pete feeds crack to a kitten. That’d be funny if those weren’t both things the two have actually done lately. Though if nothing else, I’m sure they can trade recipes. You know, how to make the best pot brownies, where’s the best place to inject a needle that even a doctor won’t suspect. That sort of thing. I’m sure we’ll have a wonderful story to report tomorrow… hopefully with video.

Boy Amy Winehouse’s issues really are just right on the surface. I’m sure there’s a lot of crazy going on below that too, but there’s so much crazy that she can’t hide it, even in her saner moments. She says that most often, she can’t remember any of the crazy things she does in her drug-fueled rampages, like running through the streets of London crying and bleeding, being photographed buying drugs, having huge fights with her do-nothing husband Blake Fielder-Civil, and getting arrested for pot possession.

Interviewed in Hamburg prior to a concert there last week, Winehouse found the German reporter staring at the scars on her arms. “Those are wounds, old wounds. You know. I wasn’t well in August,” she said. But when the reporter asked if she was now clean of drugs, she snapped: “That’s none of your business.” Just days later, the couple were arrested in Norway on Oct. 18 for alleged marijuana possession.

Winehouse also admitted the haze that life has become for her. “Lots of times I have no idea what I’m doing. Not until the next day do I have any memory,” she said. “Blake tells me later what happened. And then I’m infinitely ashamed.”

Winehouse said she she’s sometimes shocked at the situations she gets into. “I recently saw a picture of me when I got out of the hospital. I didn’t even recognize myself,” she said. But, she added, she feels she needs the excesses. “I believe that the pain makes me feel alive. Being willing to suffer for something means that I’m not just apathetic about them.”

[From People]

Well that sounds all around unhealthy to me, in about 10 different ways. Amy Winehouse is so far beyond messed up that I do really feel badly for her. She’s completely lost touch with reality and sanity. We haven’t heard from her parents in a while, though her husband’s parents are always more than willing to talk to the press about how messed up Amy is – though not how their son is just as messed up, and often supplies and encourages Amy in her drug habit.

Within the month [of Amy’s overdose], Winehouse’s in-laws opened up about the hospital dash, and their daughter’s [in-law’s] problems with substance abuse. “We are in hell,” Georgette Fielder-Civil told PEOPLE. He added “People who take drugs don’t care about other people [but only care about their next fix].”

[From People]

Amy, always Blake’s unconditional champion, said that Blake saved her life that night. Well he might have, in that he took her to the hospital and didn’t just leave her dying in the gutter. But he also tagged along with her to rehab afterwards, then encouraged her to leave because he didn’t enjoy it. Since Amy’s overdose, Blake has frequently been reported using drugs with her. So he saved her life that night, but it seems likely he’ll probably play at least an enabling role in ending it one night too.

Oooohhhh, Maxim is mean! The writers there actually had enough time (and malice) to come up with a list of the top five unsexiest women. Topping the list was Sarah Jessica Parker… not exactly a big surprise. I don’t find her totally gross, but she is rather… equine. I was watching an old episode of “Family Guy” the other day that had to do with censorship on television, and one of the characters said, “”What the hell! They let Sarah Jessica Parker’s face on TV and she looks like a foot!” So there you go. How much can I say about someone not being very attractive? She still looks better than I probably do. So with that crushing blow to my ego, here’s the list:

Sex & the City star Sarah Jessica Parker has been named the world’s unsexiest woman by Maxim magazine. ”How the hell did this Barbaro-faced broad manage to be the least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women and still star on a show with ’sex’ in the title?” the magazine said. In the runner-up position is the beehived singer Amy Winehouse, because of her ”openly haemorrhaging translucent skin, rat’s nest mane and lashes that look more like surgically attached bats.”

On the small screen, Grey’s Anatomy star Sandra Oh came third and Madonna, ”with a mug that looks Euro-sealed to her skull”, was fourth, Britney Spears, took last place in the Unsexy 5. ”Less than five years ago, Britney had a python wrapped around her well-toned torso onstage at the VMAs. “Since then, she’s lost the ability to perform, but gained two kids, two useless ex-husbands, and about 23 pounds of … pudge.”

[From The Age]

I think working at Maxim must be one of the most indulgent jobs out there. You sit around looking at beautiful women, and talk smack about any of them that are physically less than perfect. But it’s not exactly hard to make fun of Sarah Jessica. My ex-boyfriend and I had an entire two and a half year relationship built on a mutual hatred of Prince, Smashmouth, and the agreement that neither of us would ever want to sleep with Sarah Jessica Parker. Granted that as much of a stretch for me as it was for him, but I respected his taste, nonetheless. Really, I don’t think she’s actually that unattractive, just a bit less of a conventional beauty, in Hollywood terms.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s the unsexiest, in unsexiest order. Because I’m sure you wanted to see more grimy Whitney Bears pics, huh?

Yesterday Celebitchy reported that Amy Winehouse was arrested for pot possession in Norway. Turns out, the Scandinavian countries have absolutely no tolerance for the drug… and I have to say that – given that fact – it’d probably be a good idea for someone like Amy Winehouse to stay 100 miles away from all of them at all times. Just a thought. Amy was so out of it that the cops refused to interview her for several hours after the arrest. She was finally interviewed around 11pm, and then forced to stay in her jail cell overnight until she sobered up.

A source said: “They are very strict about drug taking in Norway. With her past record they thought there was more than just a couple of spliffs [I think this is British lingo for a joint]. When she opened the hotel room door it was obvious she was wasted. She was mumbling and no one could understand her. “Amy and Blake were put in separate cells but Amy couldn’t be interviewed straight away because she was totally incoherent.

“She was co-operative and even let an officer in training look in her eyes so he could recognize how a person high on drugs looks.” After a sleepless night Amy was released at 7am on paying a £240 fine. Blake and his mate were also fined and let out. The source said: “Amy asked the police to call her a cab. But they told her she should walk because the hotel was only around the corner so she made the walk of shame back. I don’t think she realized it was actually the hotel that shopped her.”

Amy recovered from her ordeal by ordering champagne in the hotel spa ahead of her gig in the city last night. She is due to return home next week to kick off her first UK tour since her overdose. Last night cops said she was free to leave Norway. Prosecutor Lars Lohte said: “That is the end of the matter.”

[From the Sun]

No one can really be surprised that when Amy Winehouse does even “soft” drugs she goes all out. I could joke that I’m impressed she was so wasted that she actually became a teaching device, but I’m not really shocked enough to care. Really, considering it was Amy Winehouse, the cops should have given her a medal for just doing pot. Something like the “Thanks for not shooting crack in your eyeball” award. Do they have those? They should have one commissioned just for Amy, and keep in on hand in case it happens again. At least she sobered up and then drank some champagne to calm her nerves.

Amy Winehouse, her husband Black Fielder Civil, and an unnamed British man were arrested in Norway for smoking pot in their hotel room. She was in Norway on day off from her tour, and hotel staff tipped off police. They were arrested at about 7pm and charged with possession of seven grams of marijuana, or a quarter of an ounce. Amy and Blake were released on 500 Euro ($715 USD) bail at 7am after spending the night in jail. Both were said to be cooperative with police.

The 24-year-old was arrested with her husband Blake Fielder-Civil in a hotel bedroom for possessing and using marijuana - after police received a tip off.

According to a lawyer working with police in Bergen, the couple were detained overnight with a third person.

They were released around 7am after paying a fine of 500 euros (£350).

Prosecutor Lars Morten Lothe said: “She spent a few hours in custody from Thursday evening to early Friday, she got a fine and then she was released.”

“She’s paid the fine, so this thing is over for us now,” he said.

Police arrested Winehouse shortly after 6pm on Thursday, in possession of seven grams of the drug (a quarter of an ounce) Mr Lothe said.

[From Telegraph.co.uk]

When I first saw this story I thought she must have been smoking crack or doing heroin. Marijuana is decriminalized in many countries in the EU, and in Switzerland where I live. Occasionally you see people smoking it on the street or at an event and they’re not going to get busted for it. I was surprised to hear that she was arrested for just smoking pot and possessing a quarter of an ounce, but it turns out that marijuana is highly illegal in Scandinavian countries, (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) and they do prosecute for it.

Amy is set to play Bergen today and Oslo on Saturday. Her Bergen date may be canceled, and the status is unknown for now. After that she will be touring in the Netherlands, where she can smoke as much pot as she wants and get plenty of baked goods chock full of the strain of her choice. She has well publicized issues with drugs including an overdose and brief stays in rehab, but if all that was found on her was a small amount of pot that’s progress as far as I’m concerned. Maybe the night was just getting started for her.

Amy is shown in the header image on 7/26/07 bringing potato chips to the paparazzi waiting for her to leave her local pub. Thanks to WENN.

The British press lambasted Amy Winehouse for her performance at the Mobo awards Wednesday night in London, in which she seemed to forget the words to the song she was performing and looked a bit tipsy on stage. She soldiered on with her performance, mumbling the words to cover up what she couldn’t remember and still maintaining her composure. She also was said to have spit before accepting the award for best female.

I didn’t see the spitting incident in the video available, but her performance is on You Tube and it wasn’t awful, she just mumbled a lot. The crowd seemed to like her and really went crazy. You can tell that she couldn’t remember the words to the first song, “Tears Dry on Their Own,” but she did better with “Me and Mr. Jones,” her next performance.

Here’s the video, thanks to The Blemish for linking it. This was also in yesterday’s link post, I just didn’t get to cover this until today:

And here’s The Sun’s description of Amy’s performance shown above, which is generally accurate but seems a bit harsh. She is also said to have flipped out screaming backstage, but if that was true you think The Sun would have gone on about it forever. Two lines without much detail just make them seem guilty for making it up. Amy certainly seems capable of it, but wouldn’t they have more dirt on this incident if it really happened?

Then she took the microphone and appeared to spit before saying a brief thank-you.

She followed that with a shoddy rendition of Tears Dry On Their Own – forgetting half the words.

During the performance Amy twitched, pulled at her black-and-white dress and gripped the mic stand as she swayed precariously.

Her version of Me And Mr Jones was slightly better – at least she remembered the words. Trouble started before the show.

A source said: “In her dressing room she was really on edge, then flipped. She was screaming and chucking anything she could get her hands on at the people around her. She wasn’t in a good way.”

[From The Sun]

And she was said to have ordered a lot of booze backstage before her performance, along with some much-needed food to absorb some of it:

On the “essential” list handed to the O2 Arena were one large bottle of vodka, two bottles of Jack Daniels and two more bottles of Veuve Cliquot, not to mention two bottles of red Rioja wine and 48 of Heineken beer.

Amy gave a lacklustre performance of Tears Dry On Their Own and Me and Mrs Jones at the awards show at the O2 dome in London

Among her requests backstage were some signs that Winehouse is trying to bring a little health into her diet.

Along with the packs of Haribo sweets, chicken drumsticks, chocolate bars, chips and dips, she also requested fresh fruit - though that might have been for slices of lemon to pop in the vodka.

[From the Daily Mail]

And because she was at the Mobos, Amy couldn’t attend the Vodafone Live Awards on the same night - so she sent the owner of her local pub to go for her. She won the award for best female there too, and her representative said “We’re putting it behind the bar.”

Amy and her new husband/enabler, Blake Fielder Civil, had a huge argument before her performance, and Amy was said to be asking how much it would end up costing her if she divorced the creep.

There’s a recent picture of Amy sans makeup and beehive accepting a package through her window. She looks awful and is clearly being delivered drugs.

She might have ODed and hasn’t dumped her husband yet or cleaned up, but she’s still holding on by the thin thread of her talent. I care a lot more what happens to her than Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, or Lindsay Lohan. Winehouse is more talented than all three of them combined, but if she dies young or ruins her health even a little bit more the world will have to make due with what she’s already recorded.

Amy Winehouse sure isn’t good about keeping things hidden from the press. Other celebrities get into fights with their spouses, maybe do some drugs, or God forbid cut themselves – they do it in private. X17 isn’t generally there to grab photos. Amy Winehouse and her husband have a fight? The whole thing’s documented, because they chase each other through the street. Amy cuts herself, and then walks through London holding a blood-soaked rag. Totally normal, right?

“There are fresh concerns for troubled singer Amy Winehouse after she was spotted in the streets with blood dripping from her hand. The 23-year-old boozer was seen clutching a blood covered cloth to stop bleeding from a wound to her hand. She was photographed as she climbed out of a taxi in Chelsea, London. Winehouse, who has been open about her self-harming in the past, tried to conceal the injury in a blood-soaked hankerchief, which was dripping onto her shoes. An onlooker said: ‘Her hand looked to be in a right state, she tightly gripped it with a piece of material but you could still see the wound.’

The Rehab singer shocked fans last month after fleeing London’s Sanderson hotel in the early hours of the morning, covered in blood and scratches after a scrap with her husband. Winehouse opted out of rehab following the last bloodied encounter, fleeing Britain for a holiday with Blake in St. Lucia. The couple’s troubles looked to be behind them after she and Blake, 25, arrived hand-in-hand at her comeback performance at the Mercury Music Awards earlier in the month.

[From Metro UK]

Cutting is one of those psychological disorders I’ve never been able to fathom in the slightest. But it’s really sad and upsetting that Amy has done this for so long, and still hasn’t had help for it. Though to be fair, she’s done a lot of bad things for a long time without getting treatment. The cutting thing was always kind of weird to me, because she was so vocal about it. Part of me wonders how much of this is shown in an effort to get attention. I’m not saying she’s necessarily doing it for attention, but that she might be showing it for that reason. She’s just acting out so much in public that I have a hard time believing it’s all totally legitimate. I’m sure her issues and her pain are, but her way of handling her issues is bordering on exploiting it. Amy was recently dropped as the singer for the new “007” theme song. Producers cited her issues as the reason they didn’t want to work with her. In a short time, all that attention is going to lead to tiny apartment and a dead-end job… at best.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Amy out with husband Blake Fielder-Civil at the Century Club in London for her birthday this past Friday. Images thanks to PR Photos.