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1:11PM Jess McGuire | As far as excuses to cancel a festival go, I think the reason behind Gold Coast City Council scrapping the Secret Session “three day techno rave” would have to be the best I’ve ever heard. More »
Techno Festival (Possibly) Cancelled Due To ‘Prisoner Issues’
1:11PM Jess McGuire | As far as excuses to cancel a festival go, I think the reason behind Gold Coast City Council scrapping the Secret Session “three day techno rave” would have to be the best I’ve ever heard. More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: No Glove, No Love
11:47AM Clem Bastow | Amy Winehouse might be writing “suicidal” choons and scratching her face to bits like some Dickensian flophouse resident, but at least she can pull it together when it’s time to have tea with hubby (in jail).
Yes, Winegums actually scrubbed up quite nicely for her access visit with Blake Fielder-Civil, even thoughtfully donning gloves so that, presumably, a) she wouldn’t spread impetigo germs all over her own face and b) so she could lovingly give Blake a full cavity search. Er, sorry, so she wouldn’t infect him, either.
Amy has been battling the infection impetigo, and it looks as if she’s taken to wearing rubber gloves to prevent the condition worsening.
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Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Amy Is Either Really Sad About Blake, Or She Killed A Man In Prison
1:14PM Clem Bastow | Amy Winehouse found a novel way to react to the news that her No Good™ husband Blake Fielder-Civil had overdosed in prison – instead of, you know, visiting him in the prison hospital, or sending flowers, she did what all good wives would do in a similar situation: she went to get a bucket of KFC to drown her sorrows. Cheers!
However, what has the UK tabs aflutter is the fact that Winegums chose to mark the sorry occasion by sporting a drawn-on teardrop under her eye:
The singer who is battling her own recovery from crack and heroin addiction was seen in Camden with a black teardrop painted on her left cheek, and looked tired and subdued.
Amy appeared to have used the eyeliner she draws her trademark thick black eye make-up on with, to add the mournful facial decoration.
Naturally we are certain that dear old Winegums is doing this to signify her sorrow at Blake’s misfortune, but we couldn’t also help recalling that – in prison – a teardrop tatt quite often implies that you have committed a murder whilst incarcerated.
Either that or you’re a kiddy fiddler. More »
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: No, Please, Blake, Not An Overdose… Oh Well, If You Insist
12:01PM Clem Bastow | We know it’s the lowest variety of schadenfreude to clap our evil little hands whenever misfortune strikes Amy Winehouse’s No Good™ husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, but he’s just no good for her!
So, we had a guilty little tingle when we read this morning that Pentonville Prison’s resident member of the living dead is in dire straights after getting himself into a spot of bother with some ersatz heroin.
Read on while we try to mask our utter dismay.
Guards are said to have found the 35-year-old writhing in pain and vomiting violently in a cell.
They instantly set off alarms and activated emergency procedures to save his life.
A probe was launched and prison officers found he had taken a drug believed to be heroin, mixed with a toxic substance.
A jail source said: “This was a close call, but he might not be so lucky next time.
“If he carries on taking so many drugs, he’ll end up dead before long.”
You know, despite what our opening paragraphs may have indicated, we’re almost beginning to feel sorry for Blake.
He reminds us a bit of Steve Zahn’s character in the otherwise forgettable Drew Barrymore vehicle, Driving In Cars With Boys: just a no-hope junkie with a heart of 2k gold. We’re sure he loves Amy’s money, but we’re also fairly certain that now that Winegums is out of her own personal drug haze, she’ll see there are probably better choices of husband out there. More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Beehive Yourself
10:33AM Clem Bastow | We’d wondered for some time whether Ms Winegums might be sneaking things into Pentonville Prison in her beehive (a file, small children, a Holden Barina) and it looks like our suspicions were correct.
As if we even needed to announce such further misadventures in the world of Winegums, Amy’s prison visits to locked up hubby Blake have been “restricted” after he tested positive for drugs, presumably smuggled in by wifey.
According to British newspaper The Sun, the 24-year-old ‘Rehab’ singer is allowed to visit Blake, 25, from behind a glass screen with no physical contact.
The move by London’s Pentonville prison comes after he tested positive last week for a Class A drug, thought to be heroin.
Visits to prisoners on remand usually take place in an open hall with officers patrolling. But an insider said: “As a precaution, the governor has banned Amy from having any more open visits with Blake. They now have to meet in a room separated by a bullet-proof glass screen.”
Amy, 24, is known to hide drugs in her infamous beehive hairdo when she’s on stage.
Good move, Amy!
Now we just have to resume praying to the gods of soap-dropping that, through all this Blake-related publicity, the crims in Pentonville are reminded how much disdain they have for inmates what don’t treat their missus proper. More » 
Amy Winehouse Round-Up: Looking Forward, Looking Back
12:30PM Clem Bastow | We woke this morning after a particularly festive evening to find that it’s possible our Christmas wishes may well be coming true – Blake Fielder-Civil is reportedly making sure not to drop the soap after it emerged that the Pentonville inmates don’t think much of his treatment of his talented wife!
Amy was quizzed by police on Tuesday over an alleged plot to nobble Blake’s GBH trial.
A prison source said: “If Blake’s got Amy involved in this, he’s in a lot of trouble.
“Prisoners are very protective of their women.” Blake is awaiting trial over assault and trial-fixing allegations.
We think this calls for a celebratory airing of Paul Kelly’s How To Make Gravy and a few cheers around a bottle of cheap vodka.
However, not to subject you to the Defamer Australia family Christmas, we’d like to instead take you out with some fond memories of Winegums’ talent, performing He Can Only Hold Her live in Europe, in the hope that the New Year brings her back from the black.
DID YOU SEE WHAT WE ATTEMPTED TO DO THERE?
Fin.
More » Glenn Wheatley To Serve Time In Prison For Tax Evasion
12:03PM Jess McGuire | Farnsey’s beloved chum (and Lea Goodrem’s mortal enemy) Glenn Wheatley has just been sentenced to time in the clink by a Victorian County Court judge this morning.
At the Victorian County Court, Judge Tim Wood today sentenced him to two-and-a-half years jail and said he had to serve at least 15 months before being released on a recognisance of $5000.
The entertainer pleaded guilty to three Commonwealth charges earlier this month.
Wheatley was the first scalp of Operation Wickenby, which targeted offshore tax havens.
Wheatley, 59, of South Yarra, has repaid the dodged tax amount of $318,092 and earlier indicated his intention to help authorities with the continuing investigation.
The one time Masters Apprentices bassist, who moved to a successful career in the entertainment industry managing the likes of John Farnham and Delta Goodrem, admitted to not paying tax on income earned from Farnham’s Talk of the Town tour.
He also dishonestly gained a financial advantage after his promotion of the boxing fight between Kostya Tszyu and Jesse James Leija in 2003.
More » Paris Hilton Barely Survives Brutal Larry King Interrogation
2:21PM Defamer Hollywood | In the end, CNN Grand Inquisitor Larry King did not, as we’d briefly dared to dream, douse himself in lantern oil and set his body aflame during his much-anticipated post-incarceration exclusive with Paris Hilton, as tantalising as the prospect must have seemed after about thirty seconds of lobbing his softballs in the heiress’s direction and watching them disappear into a dead-eyed abyss. More »
Paris Is Lacking: A Media Analysis
11:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Reaction to Paris Hilton’s first post-Lynwood TV interview came swiftly, with the majority of critics finding the model/singer/social person’s Larry King Live performance somewhat lacking in the sincerity department. A round-up from around the web: · Hilton’s life is described as a “virtual pop opera,” but the interview is found to be sorely lacking on “crucial points” such as her claustrophobia, her reported $US1 million interview asking price, and the fact that all her writings looked suspiciously to be scrawled in the penmanship of Elliot Mintz – suggesting her P.R. manservant had pulled an all-nighter forging 23 days worth of inspirational, jail cell scribblings. [LAT] More »
