It seems like Amy Winehouse doesn’t believe in hiring a bunch of people to do all her errands for her. Which could be a good or bad thing, depending on your view. The woman has never had a driver, instead preferring to be photographed hailing cabs in bloody ballet shoes. We’ve seen her carting furniture home from stores with the help of friends, and moving her belongings from one home to the next with the assistance of family and a U-haul. On the one hand it’s nice to see a celebrity who doesn’t have a team of hired hands. On the other, it might prevent so many of Amy’s bizarre antics from reaching the front page of The Sun.

Kelly Osbourne, one of Amy’s good friends, has publicly said that she’s there to help Amy whenever she’s ready for rehab, and apparently she meant it. Kelly was seen carting Amy’s belongings into the Marylebone treatment facility with the help of Amy’s ever-present father Mitch.

Along with Amy’s father Mitch, Kelly arrived laden down with Amy’s belongings, which she’d collected for her from her flat in Bow, east London.

She brought two suitcases and two large holdalls, suggesting that Winehouse, 24, might be staying at the centre for quite some time.

[From the Daily Mail]

The article goes on to say that one of the reasons Amy finally agreed to go into rehab was that Mitch Winehouse told her he’d looked into getting her sectioned under the Mental Health Act. However Amy didn’t qualify – but apparently hearing that her parents were willing to go to such lengths was part of her impetus to finally go to rehab.

He said psychiatric help was “something we have looked at, and Amy is no way near in a position to be sectioned”. He added: “But unless she wants to do it of her own accord, it’s pointless. You can’t lock the key and say ‘you can’t come out before you’re better’. That’s called abduction.”

Mr Winehouse described the pictures from the drugs video as “horrible”, adding: “Her intake had been much reduced, but there are people around her which I have no control of. I can’t physically remove them. She doesn’t think she’s got a problem. She thinks she can do what she does recreationally and get on with her life.”

Mr Winehouse called a family meeting last night to discuss keeping a close eye on Amy to try to save her from self destruction.

[From the Daily Mail]

Well at least she’s in rehab. It is worrisome that she appears to have gone mostly at the urging of her family and the perhaps threatening of her record label. Unless Amy really admits that she’s got a problem, rehab won’t do much. But you never know if at some point in the process, she may realize it. It seems like things certainly can’t get worse by going to rehab. She’ll be away for her loser husband and hopefully the group of ne’re-do-well friends her father rightfully despises.

I wonder if she’ll ever sing her hit “Rehab” in concert again?

Picture note by Jaybird: Amy Winehouse will do her rehab stint at Cappio Nightingale Hospital in London’s Marylebone according to WENN. Photos of Amy and her father Mitch Winehouse leaving the Universal Records office after attending a 2 1/2 hour meeting with Amy’s record company yesterday. Images thanks to WENN.

The Daily Mail cracks me up. Whenever they can’t find something decent to write about, they just pick apart people’s bodies. Which is probably better than making up stories. It’s definitely funnier, though more at the Daily Mail’s expense than the celebrities’. Earlier this week they picked apart Kelly Osbourne – showing her one day with blemished skin and the next day looking perfectly airbrushed – under the title “Kelly Osbourne transforms from spotty to spectacular in just 24 hours.” Today they attacked Paul McCartney’s bedraggled look in an article with the confusing title, “Macca’s hard day’s night as he wears the same outfit the morning after the night before.” Not content to just criticize one celeb a day, they moved on to Eva Longoria, who apparently has “rather unsightly knees.”

The Desperate Housewives star has clocked up an impressive six outfits in just two days since arriving from LA to promote her new film Over Her Dead Body.

But despite her array of frocks, it was her often her unsightly knobbly knees that really caught the attention of onlookers.

[From the Daily Mail]

The article goes on to pick Eva apart. While I am by no means her biggest fan – come on! They’re knees! Does anyone have a good looking pair of knees? I’m a firm believer that God was not paying attention to aesthetics when he came up with knees. Same goes for elbows. Aside from airbrushed models, have you ever seen a knee that made you say, “I must have him/her right now! Look at that sexy patella!” The Daily Mail also has a hysterical photo collection at the bottom of the article where they zoom in on Eva’s knees and outline them in red circles. Because otherwise we couldn’t find them and truly appreciate how disgusting they are.

Picture note by Jaybird: Eva Longoria doing publicity in London on Thursday and Friday. The last photo is Eva at the Mandarin Hotel in Miami on 1/18/08. Images thanks to Splash Photos.

The Osbourne family seems to have a real problem with thinking they’re better than everyone else. Considering patriarch Ozzy Osbourne once bit the head off a live bat, the whole clan should show a bit more humility. Or at least keep their respective mouths shut. In the last month alone, Kelly Osbourne has bragged that “Paris gave me my first alcohol poisoning!” and said that she’s going to save Amy Winehouse from herself. Brother Jack Osbourne has claimed that DUIs are “no big deal” and Ozzy has admitted he can’t remember the bulk of his own life.

Kelly Osbourne is supposedly good friends with Paris Hilton (enough to be given alcohol poisoning by her) and Jack has supposedly slept with Paris (though that’s nothing noteworthy, a recent Reuters poll showed that 78% of the population has slept with Paris Hilton). But apparently that’s not enough to keep Kelly from badmouthing her to the San Francisco Gate.

She says, “I think for a lot of famous people press attention is an addiction. Those girls — Britney, Lindsay (Lohan), Paris and so on — are competing for the attention. It’s like, ‘Who’s going to get arrested next, get pregnant, go out without knickers and get on this week’s cover of Us Weekly?’

“It’s like a contest of self-loathing and I just don’t understand it. How has this turned into the fashionable thing to do? I would be absolutely mortified if I got arrested — I would be terrified of phoning my parents and telling them, and it would completely change me for the rest of my life.”

[From the San Francisco Gate]

I’m not sure if Kelly could possibly open her big mouth any wider. Hopefully she has relatively small feet to shove in there. Kelly is most famous for her family being famous. Kinda like Paris. She did garner a bit of her own fame during the family’s reality TV run, but only because she was so loud and whiney. Nothing to be proud of. Given all that, it shames me to say that what Kelly says actually makes sense. I just think it’s classless to say it about your own friend, especially to the press. And it kind of negates her point, since it makes it look like she’s trying to get press attention. Nonetheless, considering how all those girls – Britney especially – behave, one could easily make the argument that they’re almost trying to embarrass themselves. I never thought I’d say this, but maybe you three should listen to that nice little Osbourne girl.

Picture note by Jaybird: Kelly Osbourne at the Fiat 500 Launch Party at the London Eye on January 21st. Images thanks to PR Photos.

People are always saying how someone needs to save Britney Spears. When she first dumped K-Fed and it was looking like she was starting to go crazy (but we didn’t have any concrete evidence yet) everyone kept saying Justin Timberlake needed to save her. And eventually it got to Justin, and he made some response about how they’d been broken up for years and she wasn’t his problem. Totally fair. Well Amy Winehouse – Britian’s Britney Spears – has been on the receiving end of a lot of those comments for the past six months or so. A lot of talk about how someone needs to save her, who that someone should be, how they should save her, and what they should save her from. Well it appears that all the discussion is over, because someone has finally stepped up to the plate. That’s right, Kelly Osbourne says SHE will save Amy Winehouse. In related news, a group of blind men just walked down my street, leading another group of blind men. And I think there were some mice mixed up in there too, but who the hell knows.

Kelly Osbourne believes she can help friend Amy Winehouse get her life back on track – just as soon as Amy wants to do that.

Kelly is quoted in the Mirror as saying: “I am the one people come to with their problems.”

“I talk straight. I don’t say: ‘Look Amy, you’re just fantastic.’ I say: ‘Amy you have a problem. I’m here when you are ready to deal with it.’”

“I’m not going to tell her to go to rehab. She’s not an idiot, she knows what her problem is.”

[From Fametastic]

I feel so much better now. Thank goodness Kelly Osbourne is here to save Amy from herself. But not tell her to go to rehab, because we all know that’s the last thing she needs. She wrote a famous song about it for heaven’s sake. I’m really not sure why the Osbournes have such a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease. And why they they’re all constantly giving advice to everyone. I really hate people who give unsolicited advice. So now I really hate the Osbournes. Just like pretty much everyone else.

While I don’t think Kelly’s in any position to offer advice to Amy Winehouse – and certainly not to offer it to the Mirror ABOUT Amy Winehouse – maybe someone who’s got a lot of addiction issues could at least relate and say things in a way that would get through to Amy. Though I still think Amy’s starting to make some small improvements on her own, and every little bit helps.

Picture note by Jaybird: Kelly Osbourne at the CatHouse Grand Opening in Las Vegas on December 29th . Images thanks to PR Photos.

Like Garfield the cat before her, Kelly Osbourne is coming out in support of the fuller-figured amongst us.

Kelly – famed for her curvy figure – told Britain’s Star magazine: “I just get depressed in Los Angeles. Because I’m not a size zero and tanned and blonde I get scrutinised.

“But I wouldn’t want to be so skinny. I feel sorry for the girls who aspire to be size zero. It’s OK to be different. I don’t understand why everyone is so obsessed with making themselves a clone.

“Everyone has become a sheep. These girls don’t eat, stick their fingers down their throats and do loads of speed – they’re killing themselves and for what? Their own vanity! It’s sad. I don’t think there’s anything trendy about looking like you’ve just come out of Auschwitz.”

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Comparing skinny people to concentration camp victims? Kelly must really need to boost her ticket sales for Chicago.

Well Kelly, I’m coming out in the skinnies defence. While many Hollywood stars may struggle to maintain their 90 pound frames, some people are naturally skinny! I’m one of those genetically blessed, but while the media may say be skinny, everyone I pass on the street feels they have a right to call me a ‘scrawny bitch’ or a Auschwitz victim! Meanwhile, if I walked up to heavy people and said ‘hey tubby’ that would be completely unacceptable.

I seem to have gotten carried away here.

Kelly also added this about celebrities and their lack of knickers.

“It baffles me. I can’t even wear a thong. I always have to have my granny knickers on. I don’t understand the whole no knicker-wearing trend.

“It’s a bit sickening, but that’s how desperate people are for attention. Instead of going out and doing something good, they’d rather show their vaginas to the world.”

News24

Memo to everyone talking about vagina flashes – in polite company it’s not actually the done thing to tell people about your undies. It’s not actually that far from showing them to people. And then that isn’t far from flashing your lady-bits. Maybe it’s just me getting old, but it doesn’t seem very ‘nice’ to talk about your knickers. Even if they are granny pants.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Kelly Osbourne is shown on 8/23/07 out in London. Photo thanks to Splash.

Kelly Osbourne will join the cast of the London product of “Chicago” starting September 10th. She’ll be in the show for a seven week run, and play the role of Mama Morton. Queen Latifah played the role in the film version of the play. As I remember it, that particular character requires a lot of bravado – something I’m not sure that Kelly has. On her family’s reality show, she came across more as the whiny, complaining type. Kelly also seems a bit young for the role – Mama Morton is, by definition, an older mother type.

“’It’s been a dream of mine to be in the West End, I can’t wait to work with such an amazing cast.’” And Chicago producer Barry Weissley adds, ‘We’re very excited that Kelly is joining the production. She’s internationally recognised, she’s unique – it’s the perfect match.’”

[From PR Inside]

Kelly is a master at changing her look. Every time a new picture of her comes out, you have no clue whether she’ll be chubby or thin. I remember everyone making a big deal out of her weight loss a while ago, and she told a reporter she wanted to pose nude in Playboy, to which Hugh Hefner cattily replied “’I can’t see it happening somehow – we don’t airbrush to that extent.’” Kelly’s mother Sharon Osbourne famously struggled with her weight until she had a gastric lap band put in several years ago. Recent pictures of Kelly seem to show that she’s put weight back on, but that could be for her role, which generally is played by a larger (and older) woman. It’ll be interesting to see her reviews, and if she actually has any singing or acting talent. Her album was pretty much panned and didn’t produce a hit single, but her acting was decent, if a little stilted, on the short-lived ABC drama “Life As We Know It.” Maybe she’ll prove herself and get some credibility.

Update by Celebitchy: Can I just say how much I loved that “Live as We Know It” show? It was a shame that it was canceled. Kelly wasn’t that great on it, but the guy who played her boyfriend, Chris Lowell, was just awesome. Plus it was an excellent show all-around. Anyway, Kelly does look like she’s lost weight again, and I don’t think JayBird has seen these recent pictures. Thanks to I’m Not Obsessed and The Daily Mail.

Perez Hilton claims to have an exclusive that Kelly Osbourne pissed off her entire family by marrying a guy she’s only known for one week. What’s worse is that the two were married at an Irish rock festival in a blow-up castle!

If this is actually true, how long will it take until they get it annulled? I give it a full 4-6 weeks, because Kelly seems a lot more mature now.

Update Thanks to pinklumpysugar on Lime-Light.org for alerting me to the fact that fake weddings are part of the Electric Picnic music ceremony in Ireland, and that Kelly’s wedding was just for laughs:

Update And thanks to Sky.co.uk for these photos post-ceremony, and confirmation that it was indeed a gag. Kelly’s boyfriend is Matt Derham of The Field. I’ve never heard of him, either:

Here are some pictures from X17 online of Kelly kicking a ball on the beach in early August. She looks like she’s so ready to be a wife and mother. In fact she looks like she’s had a couple kids already. You go Kelly!

Us Weekly’s Hot Hollywood Awards were held Wednesday night. Jessica Alba had a near nip-slip that resulted in some cute picture of her pulling her dress strap up. (Wireimage did not capture this, so you’ll have to see it everywhere else.)

Despite Us Weekly’s content, stars were pleased to show up for the party.

We have over 50 pictures of the party arrivals, including Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jessica Alba, Alessandra Ambrosio, Brittany Murphy, Cindy Margolis, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Ludacris, Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, Haylie Duff, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Paris Hilton, Victoria Silvstedt, Avril Lavigne, Carmen Electra, Dave Navarro, Michelle Trachtenberg, Rachael Leigh Cook, Nicky Hilton, Gabrielle Union, Kelly Osbourne, Kimberly Stewart, Stacy Keibler, Ryan Seacrest, Sofia Vergara, Taryn Manning, Maria Sharapova, Melinda Clarke, Tom Green with a fanny pack, and Tori Spelling.

Update: Images removed on request.

Kelly Osbourne has been to rehab twice: in the spring of 2004 when her parents confronted her for abusing painkillers and again in the summer of last year after she was said to have fallen back into old habits.

That’s why it’s a little disconcerting to see the newly slender and on-her-own reality star looking really wasted. Kelly, you should know better!

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Kelly Osbourne attended the Denis Simachev fashion show in London yesterday. She hit a sour note with a chunky asymmetrical hairpiece and a fussy white cap sleeve blouse with a silly black neck tie.

Kelly has been lauded for her recent weight loss, which she says is getting her more attention from boys:

Osbourne was pictured with a “guest” at the fashion show, the man in a striped shirt shown below, but he may be just a guest at the show and not a guest of hers. They don’t seem to be looking at each other and it’s possible they were just sitting near each other.

Here is Osbourne at the fashion show. She is pictured with Julien MacDonald above.