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Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Clutching At Straws Edition

10:39AM Clem Bastow | Evidently Winegums has stayed out of the public eye for today’s session of facial cigarette-stubbing and pustulation, as the Mail have resorted to their age-old filler technique – drawing questionable ’separated at birth’-style conclusions about celebrities’ personal appearance! This round, after Scooter from work experience was sentenced to spend five hours in the photo archive, they’ve decided that maybe, it’s possible, in some way, perhaps, Amy Winehouse might be, possibly, taking style tips from none other than the original diva, Maria Callas! She’s been hailed as a style icon and is reportedly launching her own range of clothes and make-up, but has Amy Winehouse been taking tips from another singer? For Winehouse has been looking increasingly similar to Opera singer Maria Callas who died in 1977. Her retro look of thick brows, heavy black liquid eyeliner and rouge lips appear to be inspired by the soprano’s iconic style which is almost identical. Well, we can’t argue with that – that’s cold, hard facts, that is. The Daily Mail photo department should be assigned all of history’s greatest unsolved mysteries; we feel confident they could work them out. More »