This whole Amy Winehouse thing just gets curiouser and curiouser.  On the heels of yesterday’s story where her mother said Amy had a new boyfriend and is fixing to kick hubby Blake Incarcerated-Druggie to the curb, now today we have Amy categorically denying it all and saying she and Blakey are tight:

It was reported at the weekend that the singer was romantically involved with her manager’s assistant, Alex Haines, 22, and planned to divorce Blake Fielder-Civil.

But at her home in North London, Miss Winehouse has insisted: “I am not divorcing Blake. I am totally in love with him.

“You’ve seen us together and you know how much we’re in love with each other. We’re going to be together for ever.” [...]

She added: “We’re not splitting up. I don’t have a new boyfriend.

“I’m totally in love with Blake and I’ll be going to court with him every single day to support him throughout his case.”

Shortly after she spoke yesterday, Mr Haines arrived at the house. A source at Miss Winehouse’s management company denied any relationship between the pair.

Well well well.  So which is it…Amy’s denials that there is any new relationship and she and Blake are still together, or Janis Winehouse’s claims that Amy has a new man?  After all, Janis has her claims…but if you read carefully, you’ll see that she never actually comes out and says Amy has a new fella, just that she hopes Amy does:

“Blake has sent her down the wrong path - drugs and self-harm. She needs a man she can depend on, who can look after her.

“I’m praying Alex is that man.”

And y’know…right there is one of the keys to this whole thing.  Janis hopes Amy is changing while at the same time refusing to blame Amy for this whole mess that her life has turned into.  Of course, it could happen, but I seriously doubt that Blake forcibly held his wife down and made her take drugs against her will.  And from what I know of self-harming, that is something that is already inside a person…somebody else can’t plant that idea in your head and you just one day decide cutting yourself is a fabulous idea.

So what about this going to court every day and supporting Blake thing?  I wonder what Amy will do when she gets to court and sees her man making googly eyes at a blonde?  Don’t forget, it was just a few days ago that he was caught mouthing sweet nothings to a woman named Sophie, who was in the public gallery and who describes herself as Blake’s “best friend.”  Oh man…Amy will tear Sophie’s head off and snort her blood like a line of coke if she sees that happening.

But wait, one more thing…it seems Amy’s dad Mitch has finally resurfaced and he’s none too happy about the direction his daughter’s life has taken lately:

Miss Winehouse, who received a police caution for assault last week , was also visited by her father, Mitch.

An onlooker said: “You could hear screaming and shouting inside.

“He was telling her, ‘You’ve got to pull yourself together’.”

If there’s anyone who has been able to get through to Amy lately, it’s Mitch Winehouse, so I hope he continues with whatever it is that will get through to her, whether that be talking or yelling or tough love or gentleness or whatever it takes to break through to her.  Because, I’m telling you, she won’t last the year if she keeps this up.  I truly hope it doesn’t happen, and I’ll be thrilled to be wrong, but at the rate she’s declining I don’t see how she will be around if she doesn’t get serious help, soon.

I’m starting to think that if I ever wanted to do something like hoover up a line of coke or go all crazazy on somebody, I’d need to move to London to do it, because they seem to be pretty lenient on stuff like that over there.  Witness Amy Winehouse, fresh off a night in jail, who was let go after the face-punching/headbutting incident with a frowny look and a stern finger-waggle:

Winehouse was questioned about a street brawl in which she allegedly attacked two men in the early hours of Wednesday.

But when she originally arrived at the station, such was her state that a doctor deemed her “unfit to be interviewed”.

Her spokeswoman said today: “Amy Winehouse was questioned this morning at a London police station in connection to an incident in Camden in the early hours of April 23, 2008.

“She admitted to a common assault by slapping a man with an open hand and accepted a caution.

“Amy was fully co-operative with inquiries and apologised for the incident.

“She thanked the police for their professional handling of the matter. There will be no further action taken.

“Amy is looking forward to continuing her work on new music in the studio.”

“Unfit to be interviewed”?  What they probably meant was she was stoned off her face and had to have some time to detox that stuff out of her system a bit.

But on the news that husband Blake Incarcerated-Druggie has a new blonde woman in his life, Amy herself has picked up a new man:

Janis Winehouse told the Sunday Mirror: “I’d spoken to Alex [Haynes] a couple of times over the phone, but this was the first time I’d actually met him.

“He’s a lovely boy - gentle and sweet. He really looked after Amy popping out to buy cigarettes, papers, anything she wanted.

“He works for her manager so their relationship was professional to begin with but if they’ve made something of it, I’m thrilled.

“Blake has sent her down the wrong path - drugs and self-harm. She needs a man she can depend on, who can look after her.

“I’m praying Alex is that man.”

Oh…one of her family members finally emerges from the shadows to speak?

Look, I like Amy as much as the next person, but I also realize that no man is going to help Amy.  If Amy wants to be drug-free and clean, then Amy has to make that decision for herself.  Yes, having supportive people around you does help (isn’t that what one’s family is supposed to do?), but ultimately you have to make the decision to be clean because you want to be clean…just like you made the decision to take drugs in the first place.  I’ve no doubt Blake was a negative influence on Amy, but she’s the one who made the decision.

Oh well.  It’s always been Amy’s dad who has had to step forward and take charge.  He may have made mistakes in his life, but at least he has made attempts to help her (and I hope he is doing so now behind the scenes).  Her mom has usually sat in the background, wringing her hands and making pithy statements while Mitch has stepped in and done something:

Little wonder her father, Mitch, who remains devoted to his daughter but increasingly frustrated, is said to be “at the end of his tether”.

Together with some of her older, loyal friends, and Amy’s record company, Island Records, he is even considering mounting another drastic intervention and forcing Amy to rehab - or more pertinently back to rehab, as she has already been there on a number of occasions.

And what about, oh, I don’t know…this little thing called a marriage?  Couldn’t these two knuckleheads at least make an attempt at a divorce before they start picking up replacements?  And when’s she getting that “Blake’s” tattoo removed from her chest?  One more thing…you gotta wonder what it is about this guy.  Why take up with Amy now, if he’s so clean-cut?  Maybe he’s been assigned as her minder.

It’s pretty sad when the voice of reason in all this turns out to come from none other than Keith Richards, himself no stranger to the vices of drugs and alcohol:

Perhaps the best advice comes from a hell-raiser of a much older vintage, Rolling Stone Keith Richards, who has expressed concern for her future. 

“She isn’t going to be around long unless she sorts herself out pretty quick,” he has remarked. “She needs to get smart.”

UPDATE:  Amy has been arrested and is currently in custody.

Maybe, if what I’m reading on the internets is true.  She’s in big trouble for headbutting one man and punching another in the face while on a drug and booze-fueled frenzy, and word is the police are gonna come after her:

The troubled singer, 24, is expected to be arrested this afternoon after a 38-year-old man told police in Kentish Town she had allegedly assaulted him in Chalk Farm Road, Camden.

Winehouse, dressed in a Lacoste t-shirt and mini skirt, was driven from her Camden in a state of distress, with her make-up smeared across her face. [..]

The Met inquiry began after it was reported that Winehouse assaulted two people outside a bar early on Wednesday.

She faces up to six months in jail if convicted of assault.

But wait, there’s more…

Maybe they will let Amy and husband Blake Incarcerated-Druggie share a cell.

Yes, Amy Winehouse has really put her foot in it this time. She’s facing arrest after a booze-fueled attack on two men:

The junkie singer, 24, is to be quizzed by police after claims she HEADBUTTED a Good Samaritan who hailed her a cab outside a bar.

Rehab star Amy, said to have PUNCHED a second victim in the face, sank to a horrific new low while high on Class A drugs.

Onlookers told how the married singer also SNOGGED a mystery fella at a nightspot and shocked punters by overturning tables and drinks.

She was later seen smoking drugs in the street, walked into a lamppost, and riled a cabbie by paying only HALF her promised fare home.

It all started earlier in the night, when Amy and friends started drinking at home before heading out to a pub. While there, she punched a musician in the face who refused to give up his spot at a pool table for her. She played her game and returned home, only to come back out later and visit another pub:

But wait, there’s more…

 

When will these people learn?  (Probably never, because if they did we’d all be out of business.)  Richie Sambora, lead guitarist for Bon Jovi and two-time rehabber, was busted for DUI:

Law enforcement sources tell us the Bon Jovi guitarist was pulled over by the Laguna Beach PD just before 11:00 PM last night. Cops say they observed him driving erratically in a black Hummer and pulled him over. He failed numerous field sobriety tests and was detained for DUI.

At the station, a cooperative Sambora opted to take a blood test rather than blow into a breathalyzer. Laguna Beach PD tells TMZ there’s no indication of drugs.

But the hits just keep coming…there was a mysterious woman and not one, but two juveniles in the vehicle, one of which was Richie’s daughter with Heather Locklear, Ava:

Richie Sambora was busted for DUI with his 10-year-old daughter Ava in the car, along with another juvenile and another adult — a woman. If Sambora was driving drunk, he could be charged with endangering the two kids.

Police sources tell us Sambora has not been charged with endangerment but the Laguna Beach P.D. is “actively investigating.”

And, police sources say, after Sambora was busted, the cops called Heather Locklear, Ava’s mom. We’re told Heather authorized the woman in the car to drive her daughter home.

It never ceases to amaze me how the rich and famous can continuously, repeatedly, and so thoroughly screw up their lives.  Why do we have all these celebs being popped for DUI, when they can, oh, I don’t know…AFFORD A DRIVER???  If nothing else, the woman in the vehicle should have refused to get in with those two girls as long as Richie was behind the wheel.  It’s called “being a responsible adult,” and these people might try it sometime.  I hope they bust her too, for just being stupid enough to get in the vehicle.

It sounds like he needs some more time in rehab.  Richie, dude, get help.  Drinking and driving is no joke.  Maybe the third time will be a charm, but keep trying until it works.

If he needs help, I sincerely hope he gets it, because we definitely do not need any more stories like this.

Oh, in case you’d forgotten, Richie left Heather Locklear, Ava’s mommy, for her then-BFF, Denise “Someone’s tampered wit da bawwwwwwmb” Richards.  That woman sullies everything she gets her hands on!  She’s poison, I tell you, poison!  (don’t forget the boycott!)

Dad Mitch says that he believes his affair while he was still married to Amy’s mother is part of the reason why she’s so screwed up today:

Mitch Winehouse, 57, reveals in a new interview with the BBC that soon after Amy’s birth in 1983, he began cheating on wife Janis with a co-worker, Jane, who became his second wife in 1996. Amy and her brother Alex (born in 1980) knew about the long-running affair.

“The children used to call Jane ‘Daddy’s work wife,’ ” Winehouse says on the program One Life: Rock Star Parents, to be aired next week.

He said he should have left the marriage sooner, and when he finally did Amy “definitely became a lot more independent. … I thought Amy was over [the affair] pretty quickly – in fact it felt at the time Amy felt no effect at all. Maybe she could not articulate it in words, but she certainly did it with music.”

He says her angry song, “What It Is About Men,” refers to his behavior.

“It is easy for me to say it is my fault, and that had I been a better parent this would not have happened. But who knows whether it would or not?” he says.

Well, yeah…you never quite know if something like this is going to negatively affect your children, but it’s a pretty safe bet to say that the behavior of the parents does affect the emotional makeup of the children.  It sounds to me like Mitch is still trying to excuse his behavior.  So, let’s recap…he carried on an affair for quite a long time, let’s assume a decade, and when he finally divorced his wife he didn’t expect that to have an impact on an obviously artistic girl poised on the brink of adolescence?

But then again…it does seem that he is attempting to make things right with Amy.  He has tried again and again to get her into rehab programs (although he, and the rest of the family, have been conspicuously absent from the public eye, at least, since the Grammys), and he and Amy do seem to have a better relationship than they have in the past.  I do understand that things happen which we don’t always plan on and I’m all for not allowing the mistakes of the past cloud the future, as long as the person involved can admit to their behavior without excuses and sugar-coating.

It does seem Amy is not out of the woods yet, though, concerning her health:

Winehouse also says his daughter’s alcohol and drug abuse caused a seizure in August. Further attacks could be life-threatening. “She could die horribly. That is not going to happen – that cannot happen,” he says.

Then he’d better get back to working on her, because she’s been seen snorting vodka and stoned out of her gourd.  Ultimately, though, it is up to Amy, and let’s face it…if she does not want help, she will refuse it at every turn.  And her parents had better prepare for a different sort of ceremony.

In the weeks heading up to the Grammys, you couldn’t swing a beehive without hitting a photo, video, or article about Amy Winehouse and her beloved family, doing what beloved families do…helping her get into rehab, standing by her as she battled her drug demons, celebrating with her as she won five Grammy awards, and…uhm…disappearing?  Family was nowhere to be found as rehabbed Amy inhaled vodka to get her buzz on:

While DJ Seb Chew manned the decks, the Rehab star played the rather unpleasantly named “Gas Chamber” game. Medics say it’s dangerous because it gets alcohol absorbed directly into the bloodstream.

Our insider tells us: “Amy was the life and soul - but even we were shocked by this party trick.

“She was sat next to Kelly and Miquita when she covered one nostril, tilted her head back and sucked the vodka shot down her open nostril through a straw.

“She threw back her head and reeled in shock and everyone around her looked stunned.”

Wino performed the stunt after a round of 20 shots were brought to the table. Says the source: “She necked the top of the shot and lit the rest with a lighter. Then she grabbed a straw and sucked what was left up her nose.”

And her outlandish antics didn’t end there. The five-times Grammy winner - who only came out of rehab last month - knocked back cocktails before begging a pal to teach her the dangerous “duttywine” dance, which can cause serious neck injury and pain.

A spy said: “Amy was on top form and begged a pal to teach her the dance where you spin your head around really fast while you wind into the ground. Amy was so into it at one point her beehive nearly fell off.”

A far cry from just a few weeks ago, when Amy had her family around her, rallying her to get clean.  The singer’s father Mitch was an almost constant companion leading up to the prestigious Grammy awards ceremony, and he was instrumental in getting his famously rebellious daughter to check into rehab shortly before the Grammys.  For a while, everything seemed to be clicking.  After spending a mere two weeks in rehab, Amy emerged looking better than she has in ages, with clear eyes and bright skin, and after putting on a little bit of needed weight she looked curvy and healthy again.  She gave a performance that knocked me out.  You could see that she was overjoyed to be there, and overwhelmed at the awards given to her.

Yet, even in what was arguably a stellar performance, there was a hint of defiance and the old Amy in her shout-outs to her “Blake Incarcerated”, with a look in her eye that dared anyone to say anything bad about her jailed druggie husband.  I had hoped that seeing the sort of benefits living a drug-free life can bring would change Amy for the better, and make her realize that she needs Blake Incarcerated-Druggie like she needs a millstone around her neck, but the cracks were starting to show almost as soon as the last notes of “Rehab” died out.  Ever since the Grammys, Amy has started a slow but steady downward slide back into her drug-fueled, chaotic lifestyle, as evidenced by a shaky and sub-par performance at the Brits and continuing documented bad behavior chronicled in the newspapers and tabloids.

And so I do have to ask…just where is Amy’s family, now that there is no awards ceremony to prepare for and get her cleaned up to attend?  They rallied around her in the weeks before the Grammys, cheering her on and giving interviews about how hard Amy was trying to get clean.  Her mother even stated that she believed Amy was on the road to recovery:

Meanwhile, Janis Winehouse says her daughter is well on the road to recovery.

She said: “I think she had a back against the wall situation like if you don’t get cleaned up you can’t get the visa and you can’t tour. I was like ‘wake up Amy’.

“I was helpless There was nothing I could do because Amy had to do it for Amy. Addiction is something that once it’s got hold of the person it’s very hard to get them off.”

Janis told GMTV today: “We all felt that was the best she’s performed.

“I think it would have been too much for her because all of the travelling. If Amy were there she would be lost in it. She would be a little girl lost in it all.”

Janis praised the medical staff caring for Amy but says her daughter will continue to receive support.

She said: “She will see a therapist and she will still be getting help because she wants the help.

“She’s on the road to recovery and that’s what it’s about.”

 

However, Amy’s actions are speaking so loudly that we can’t hear anything her mother is saying.  Now, I have no doubt whatsoever that Amy was in a place at that time where she realized she couldn’t do anything if she didn’t get cleaned up.  Her visa to the United States was in serious doubt, she was being investigated into her possible role in her husband’s illegal activities, she was up for five Grammys in an awards ceremony she couldn’t attend…I do think she saw the light for a moment.

It seems that it was only for a moment, though.  You see, it’s the same trap so many of us fall into when we try to achieve a goal for a certain event…once the event has come and gone, we no longer have any “reason” to try and clean ourselves up.  It’s like when someone tries to lose weight for an upcoming social event, or cleans their house in preparation for an upcoming family holiday…once the big day has come and gone, we go right back to gaining weight again and leaving our dirty dishes in the living room, because there is no longer an impetus.  We don’t realize that we lose weight for ourselves, we keep our house clean for ourselves…and Amy, in my opinion, doesn’t quite yet understand that she has to get clean not so she can get a visa, or tour, or receive awards, but for herself.

It’s easy to blame her family, however, because isn’t that what people do as soon as someone goes off the rails?  “Where’s the family?”  But in situations like this, where drugs are involved, often there is nothing someone’s family can do until the person themselves gets to the point where they realize they need help.  Amy did get almost to that point when she realized her trip to the Grammys was at stake, but it doesn’t seem to have been enough.  Until she truly reaches that point (and by all indications, that isn’t going to happen any time soon), there isn’t much her family can do other than be there for her and let her know that help is just a “yes” away.  It does seem odd, however, that for a while there, all we saw was Amy’s family, and now it seems they have disappeared from the face of the earth.  For a while, Mitch was in every pap photo, but it’s as if he were sucked into some back hole.  Once she won her awards, where did they go?

I certainly do hope they are still working behind the scenes to get her back into rehab and back into cleaning up her life.  A scant two weeks inhouse is not going to clean her up…she needs intensive, inpatient therapy.  I argued at the time, when Natalie Cole said what she did about Amy not deserving her awards because of her drug lifestyle, that we don’t give awards only to people who have successfully cleaned themselves up.  I said that those who are trying (and trying again) should not be exempt from accolades from their peers, and that if we only gave awards to people who lived exlemplary lives and who did everything perfectly there would be no awards given (even to Ms. Cole, recovering drug addict).  I stand by those words today…but Amy needs to get back to trying, instead of spitting in the face of her fans, her family, her peers, and even herself (metaphorically speaking).

I sincerely hope she can get herself together before it is too late.  Otherwise, the family of Amy Winehouse will have another ceremony to prepare for, but it won’t be one Amy will be singing at.

I’ve not seen any hard evidence, and mind you, I’m just speculating.  So now that we’ve gotten that out of the way…

I’d heard that Amy Winehouse’s performance at the Brits left a lot to be desired, but when I finally got to watch footage I realized just how much she has slid backwards since the Grammys.  In the style of music that Amy sings (I call it a sort of jazz/blues/rock fusion), you can play around a lot with the lyrics and main beat…syncopation and improvisation are the names of the game.  Her performance at the Grammys was a great example of it.

But at the Brits…what a difference.

The problems started long before the performance.  It seems that in the midst of a two-day alcohol bender, Amy tripped and fell on her face while rehearsing, and the shaky rehearsal left programmers wondering if she’d even show up at all…indeed, they were thinking of scrapping her performance altogether.  She eventually arrived at the awards 45 minutes late and did her set with Mark Ronson, apparently attempting to hide behind him during their song Valerie.  (I have yet to see this performance, as all the video I’ve found of it has been pulled.)

Later that night, as she performed her song Love Is A Losing Game (oddly apropos), she was visibly nervous, shaky, and out of time with the music.  She managed to pull it together enough to finish the song, but ended it with a shout-out to Blake Incarcerated-Druggie, which the crowd ignored.

But wait, there’s more…

 

Apparently Paris Hilton did not teach her little brother Barron anything when she spent some time in the pokey last year, because Barron was just popped for DUI:

TMZ has learned 18-year-old Barron Hilton, Paris’ little brother, was arrested for DUI in Malibu at 8:30 AM this morning!

Cops tell TMZ he was driving a black Mercedes on Pacific Coast Highway with a passenger — not one of his sisters– when he was pulled over at a 76 gas station.

He’s been booked and is being held on $5000 bail…or, as it is known to the Hiltons, walking-around money.

Apparently, Barron snuck out last night and didn’t tell anyone.  His family didn’t know who he was with or where he was.  It seems wherever he was, he ended up at a 76 station, where he bumped one of the workers at the pumps.  No word on any injuries, but I have a feeling a gas station worker just hit the injury lottery.

Police say he blew a .14, nearly twice the legal limit in California for those under 21.  If you’re under 21, any BAC is considered legally drunk.  Way to overachieve!

According to Page Six, it took six cops to take him away.

Srsly.  His parents must be so proud of their children.  But what do you expect, when you grow up like this:

Hilton observers all have their favorite story about Kathy’s curious lack of appropriateness. For former Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove, it was this: “When Paris went on Saturday Night Live after the release of her sex tape, in 2003, she did this bit with Jimmy Fallon where he wasn’t allowed to discuss the sex scandal, but he asked her all these double-entendre questions about ‘the Paris Hilton [Hotel],’ like ‘Is it hard to get into the Paris Hilton?,’ ‘I may need to go in the back entrance,’ ‘I’d love to have my balls held by the Paris Hilton,’ etc., etc. And wouldn’t you know, Kathy and Rick were there with their two young boys. Afterwards, Kathy was saying, ‘Wasn’t your sister great? Wasn’t she funny?’—and these two boys, who were barely teenagers, had to listen to this whole thing about their sister being in a porn tape.… It was just so awful.”

UPDATE:  According to TMZ, Barron was driving erratically at the time he pulled into the 76 station, and two guys in a Nissan took away his keys:

Fernando (he did not want to give his last name), who works at the 76 station on Pacific Coast Highway and Corral Canyon, tells TMZ he was working as the cashier, taking inventory of the pumps when he saw Barron’s car driving the wrong way on PCH. Fernando and Paul, a mechanic at the station, say they saw a grey Nissan pickup with two guys inside following Barron’s Mercedes. Fernando and Paul say Barron pulled into their station and began driving wildly in circles.

Fernando says he was standing at one of the pumps when Barron’s car struck his leg. Fernando says the impact threw him over the pump and caused bruises.

Fernando adds when Barron came to a stop, the two guys in a Nissan jumped out and grabbed the keys in Barron’s car, so he couldn’t continue driving. Fernando says the two guys told him that Barron hit their car earlier, and Fernando saw a dent on the left side of the Nissan.

According to a Sheriff’s Department press release, a female in Barron’s car may have been driving at the time of the collision, and then Barron took the wheel.

Apparently the mysterious female went with the Mercedes when it was towed.

Hopefully somebody will teach this kid a lesson so he doesn’t turn into another Nick Hogan.

UPDATE #2:  WOAH…could Paris actually have acquired some maturity over the past year or so?  Little brother Barron called her to bail him out of jail and she REFUSED:

Sources tell TMZ Barron Hilton called his sister Paris right after he got busted for DUI this morning, pleading with her to bail him out. Paris said no.

We’re told Paris rejected her brother’s request, telling her 18-year-old brother, “You’re going to learn your lesson.” TMZ also knows Paris was “very upset and very disappointed in him.” For the record, Paris was 25 when she was busted for DUI.

In other news, my feet just got incredibly cold.  I need to check, I think something just froze.

UPDATE #3:  Page Six is saying that Barron was busted with a fake driver’s license, which quadrupled his bail to $20,000.  After mom and dad refused to bail him out (where was this tough love for Paris…she got tears and protestations of unfair play), some of his buddies got together and did it.

 

Metropolitan Police are reported to be searching for any evidence that soulful singer Amy Winehouse takes drugs.  In particular, they are looking for anything that would show that she is involved with drugs such as ecstasy and cocaine:

Amy Winehouse is facing a police probe following the emergence of a shocking video that showed the star apparently smoking crack cocaine.

Police are examining the tape, after the tearful singer resurfaced yesterday to visit a rehab clinic.

The visit comes as the Metropolitan Police confirmed it would investigate the claims that she was smoking crack cocaine, taking other drugs such as Ecstasy and cocaine, and admitting downing six Valium on video.

A copy of the film was handed over at the request of the Metropolitan Police. The film was passed to Tower Hamlets detectives who are now analysing it.

Despite previous reports, it now seems that Amy is not in an inpatient rehab, but rather some sort of outpatient doctor treatment sort of thing.

In the meantime, Amy’s father Mitch was quoted in what may be the understatement of the year:

“Amy has some of the best doctors in the world looking after her. I know they’d be pleased with her progress. But in light of this, we may have to ramp up that support. Amy is very sick.”

Police continue to search for hard, irrefutable evidence that Amy is involved with drugs.  But given the history of prominent drug users in the UK to receive slaps on the wrist in lieu of actual punishment (reference Pete Doherty, who has been given more chances at reform than Parliament, and Kate Moss, who simply refused to admit that she was doing drugs on that famous videotape), it is unlikely that any actual charges will be filed, even if definitive proof is found.

It is worth noting here the irony of Blake Whatever-Whatever, who sits and rots in jail after being accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice and causing grievous bodily harm, is facing a lengthy jail term, while it is entirely possible his wife could walk free if she just refuses to say anything incriminating against herself.

We at GlossLip will keep you updated if any new developments occur or if the police find any shred of irrefutable proof of Amy’s drugtaking.

The case continues.