While Winegums suffers her own health and emotional worries, her tour manager has quit amid allegations travelling and working with Winegums is hazardous to your wellbeing.

We always thought Flake Fielder-Civil was unhealthy for children and other living things, but now we know it's the truth!

Evidently just being around Winegums is enough to leave you registering on a drug test - whoda thunk it?

Mr Stone confirmed he had quit after it was said that he found working with Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil who is currently behind bars, was harming his health.

The last straw was when Amy, 24, and Blake were arrested with cannabis in Norway last month.

The Sun reported today that doctors found heroin in Mr Stone's system after he inhaled it passively on Amy's tour bus.

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Everyone likes to make the funnies about Shannon Noll and his Condobolin farm, but the truth is that - until very recently - the Noll family (despite the efforts of world-beating Idol loser Shannon and country "stars" The Noll Brothers) were still very much a farming family.

However, it seems the ongoing drought has found itself another victim and the Noll farm is going under the hammer, ending 100 years of Nollage in Condo farming country.

...The drought crisis has forced Noll and his brothers, Damian and Adam, to sell the family farm at Condobolin, NSW.

"I was trying to hold on to show that we were still in it," Damian Noll says. "But in hindsight, it's what might have tipped the scales on me.

"We're spending money to keep going, but not making it back. I'm not walking from the land, I'm jumping."

In all seriousness, maybe Nollsy can stop gallivanting with Richie Sambora for a few days and lend his star power to raising awareness about the drought?

Drought-related suicides and depression are skyrocketing and there seems to be precious little airtime being given to a problem that is very real and happening right under our noses.

Now if you'll excuse us, we're off to share a bath in yesterday's grey water.

ED: Blame a combination of tiredness and seasonal weather blues, but we'd like to update this entry to acknowledge that dear old Shannon Noll has indeed donated his time to drought related charities, and we applaud him for it. LOVE YOU NOLLSY! BOO TO WIL ANDERSON!.

We told you last week how Isabel Lucas, formerly Home & Away's free-spirited Tasha, tried to stop a dolphin cull in Japan by swimming into the path of local fishermen in protest (and then forming the shape of a whale on Bondi Beach).

Well, now it seems that - like Hayden Panettiere before her - there is a Japanese warrant out for Lucas' arrest.

Just don't expect it to furrow her pretty little free-spirited brow - this crazy bitch is a whale-loving hard ass!

But a defiant Lucas, who led anti-whaling protests on Bondi Beach last Friday, said the warrants would only "embolden those risking their lives to halt the killings".

"I'm not scared in the least about going back there (to Japan)," she said yesterday. "In fact, now I think it would draw even more attention to the barbaric act."

And just to clarify there, "the barbaric act" is not the act of travelling to Japan, but rather the killing of whales and dolphins.

Really, Isabel, this is how PR nightmares begin; didn't Alf teach you anything?

Just days after Ian "Dicko" Dickson "accidentally" let slip that he thought this year's Australian Idol final two were "beautiful but boring", the pair have used their Sunday night spotlight to get their own back.

Matt Corby has had a go at the judge and mentor, while Natalie Gauci chose to employ The Power Of Music™ to get her point across (which incidentally left her looking loopy and over-emotional instead of focused and intense; the latter was presumably the effect she was going for, but we could be wrong).

When presenters showed concern for the singer after a subdued performance of his second song, Jamie Cullum's hit Dry, the 17-year-old turned the tables with a snappy aside of his own, with the quip: "I feel sorry for Dicko. He must be bored out of his mind."

Melbourne finalist, Natalie Gauci got a dig in of her own, perhaps, belting out current top 10 hit, Apologise by One Republic, and the Kate Bush classic Running Up That Hill with its key lyrics "So much hate for the ones we love. Tell me we both matter don't we?" taking on special meaning.

All this doesn't really matter, of course, because as we've learned every Idol year before this, it doesn't actually matter how good the Final Two are - because the winner's single is always, without fail, total and utter pants.

Maybe Dicko was talking about the song?