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Amy Winehouse quit hospital in a rage after her decision to return to the stage backfired.

She threw a tantrum hours after her chaotic Glastonbury set and told dad Mitch to get her out. Friends now fear she may return to drugs — if she hasn’t already.

A pal said: “We feared a taste of the outside would remind her what she’s missing and it would be hard to get her back into life at the clinic. That’s exactly what’s happened.”

Rehab singer Amy, 24, was admitted to The London Clinic two weeks ago suffering from emphysema. She got clean and was “like an excited little girl” in the build-up to her comeback shows at Glastonbury on Saturday and Nelson Mandela’s Hyde Park birthday concert last Friday.

The pal added: “Doctors said we should let her do the shows because performing is what she lives for. We can’t take that away. It seemed the right thing to do because she was so excited. She looked and sounded better than she has in ages at the gigs.”

But Amy ranted on stage and elbowed a fan at Glastonbury. After her set she was whisked back to The London Clinic by helicopter — and 24 hours later she’d had enough.

The pal said: “Sunday was like she was on a terrible comedown from the whole thing. She kicked off and threw all her toys out the pram. She told Mitch, ‘I’m climbing the walls in here. I need to get out’. She said if he didn’t help her get out she’d walk out. He realized he had to let her leave, otherwise he’d have no control over where she goes and what she gets up to.”

The pal added: “He’s with her and keeping and eye on her, but he’s beside himself. Everyone is gutted as she’d been doing so well and hasn’t touched any drugs for two weeks. But now she’s out we fear it will all go downhill.”

A spokesman for Amy confirmed she had left the clinic and would be treated as an outpatient. She spent last night with pals at a local pub and kebab shop.

Amy Winehouse was rushed to hospital yesterday after collapsing at home. Friends called an ambulance for the troubled singer after she fainted and fell down a flight of stairs. However, 24-year-old Amy sent the emergency services away, insisting her dad Mitch drove her to hospital instead.

A source said: “Amy is really stressed at the moment and is struggling with her husband Blake in prison. This collapse was a real shock for her. Thankfully she came round shortly after she blacked out. When the paramedics came and checked her over she was shaking and accepted she needed to go to hospital.”

Amy’s spokesperson confirmed she had been hospitalised overnight, but insisted the incident was not serious or drugs related. The representative said: “Amy was at home when she briefly fainted. Fortunately her manager’s assistant was there. She quickly recovered and her father Mitch took her to hospital as a precaution. Doctors are unsure of the cause of the incident and Amy is undergoing tests.”

Amy reportedly suffered a sprained ankle when she fell.

The body of 31-year old saxophonist Jason Rae, the husband of soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae, was found on Saturday. The Daily Mail is reporting that Corinne was not in the apartment when her husband’s body was found. Reports also say that Jason was found dead from a suspected drug overdose. A man was also arrested under suspicion of supplying the drugs to Jason but that man has since been released on bail. Jason was the saxophonist for the Haggis Horns, an eight-piece live funk extravaganza who combine funk, soul, hip hop and afrobeat with jazz virtuosity. My condolences go out to the family.

It is being reported that rapper Lil’ Wayne is facing some big time charges after his most recent arrest. He’s now facing possession of cocaine, possession of ecstasy and possession of drug paraphernalia. The rapper, real name Dwayne Carter, was arrested with two others who have been charged with possession of marijuana. Cops found 105 grams of marijuana, 29 grams of cocaine and 41 grams of ecstasy pills when the rapper’s tour bus got stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint. Police also found over $20,000 in cash and a 40-caliber pistol but Wayne says that he has a permit to carry it in Florida. They’re checking if it carries over to Arizona. If not, that’s another charge on him.

Mary J. Blige is on the new issue of Interview magazine and in her, pardon the pun, interview, she talks about none other than fellow singer Amy Winehouse. She says that “Someone like Amy Winehouse is so important to the music business right now. It’s very painful (to see her battle drugs). I hope she makes it. I think it (the music industry) kind of got lost and we ended up in a drought for a while, but I see it making a turn, so instead of music being just synthetic, we’ll see it going back to actual instruments. That’s what I’m hoping for anyway.” We’re all hoping for it.

Bobby Brown could wind up slapped with possession charges next month. While the piece of news isn’t exactly shocking for the R&B singer, I’m just wondering how this flew under the radar. Whitney’s ex-husband is due in a Boston area court on February 19th for a closed-door clerk’s hearing on whether he should get charged or not. The hearing stems from an incident in Brockton, Mass., on December 1st.

Authorities were called to a hotel for a report of a disturbance. When they arrived, troopers found Brown outside of a vehicle. Sources say that troopers found some drugs and Brown asked if he could “use discretion” and not charge him. That was when state police filed paperwork for the clerk’s hearing.

Loopy Pete Doherty has reportedly shelled out over £1000 on an arsenal that includes a Samurai sword and antique guns.

Don’t panic; he is not expected to be planning a hold-up. The Babyshambles singer seems to be simply indulging his passion for anything old. He will probably hang the weapons up on the wall of his Wiltshire home; next to the tasteful “art” pieces done in his own blood.

Junkie Pete has become quite a home boy of late – even stopping halfway through the creation of another one of his “art” pieces to call the local radio station and request Beatles song ‘I’ll be back’

He told the DJ, “I am trying to do some painting and that.”

Let’s hope the “and that” doesn’t involve his usual pharmacy of drugs…

Apparently rapper T.I. likes to play with guns - even though he’s been told not to many times.T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, is currently facing federal charges in relation to his October 13 arrest. He was arrested in Atlanta, just a few hours before he was scheduled to perform at the BET Hip-Hop Awards. He was allegedly attempting to purchase unregistered machine guns and silencers.

His official charge is possession of unregistered guns and silencers and possession of firearms by a convicted felon. He managed to make bond and is currently serving under house arrest.

Convicted felon, you ask? Well, let’s review the laundry list of T.I.’s previous run-ins with the law. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, he was involved in three other instances of unlawful possession of guns.

The first incident was on December 22, 2001. He was carrying a concealed 9mm pistol and told police his name was Douglas Morgan. He managed to get out of this one without a criminal conviction.

The second time was November 1, 2002, less than a year later. He was carrying a 10mm pistol. Guess he hadn’t learned his lesson yet.

The third incident occurred when a search warrant was issued for his Fulton County home on December 18, 2004. Police found a gun with attached silencer, ammunition, and pictures of T.I. holding weapons. Again, this incident did not bring a criminal conviction.

Part of this newest charge is possession of firearms by a convicted felon. Seems T.I. was arrested for selling crack in Atlanta when he was just 17 years old. He was given seven years of probation for that offense, which he violated, so he was then sent to jail.

It seems to me that his problem isn’t just playing with guns; it’s listening to authority.

Amy Winehouse gave one of her usual bombed-out performances at the MTV Europe Music Awards. She was even booed off the stage when she could barely say the word “Thanks” after receiving her Artists’ Choice award. However, the new drug-free Pete Doherty says that Amy is on “the straight and narrow,” Holy crap…I was going on and on about how freaking ugly she is (all the time when I see her pics on the internet and music news sites)…then I got a look at her husbands teeth! Sweet mother of Jesus! Can you imagine kissing that thing! It looks like he’s never brushed a day in his life. Bet it smell reals nice, jack! He wouldn’t be a bad looking guy though if he wasn’t so messed up on drugs and hadn’t messed up his body. Yipes; these 2 are obviously not good for each other. I bet there’s some serious mental & emotional abuse going on, in addition to the drug abuse. Hope she gets out of that situation alive.

He’s rapped about it, made movies about it and is even nicknamed because of his love about it. But in a shocking turn of events, Method Man is going to educate people about the dangers of using it. What is it? Weed of course!

The Wu-Tang Clan member is ‘thrilled’ at his plans to discuss everything he knows about the evils of weed. He’s going to be speaking to students from 15 New York City high schools as part of a plea deal from getting busted with drugs this year.

Well that figures. It’s all a publicity stunt for the judge.

Really like her - because she does her own thing AND has a beautiful voice - and hope so much she gets herself together (right expression?) - cause it would be a shame she throws her life away. The night that she overdosed, Amy said she smoked heroin, snorted cocaine, took ecstasy pills, took Ketamine pills, and drank tons of vodka and whiskey. Puke! Just saying vodka and whiskey aloud makes me gets that tingling feeling in my lip like I might vomit. How does this chick do it? How disgusting. Let’s hope she gets some help. I really am puzzled at one thing, they booze so much, they ecstasy pills and heroin and if there’s something else then I do not know the word for the obscure thing but how do they manage to keep their voices intact and still manage to sing that well, by now they should have lost their voices completely. That’s a miracle to me.

British pop star Lily Allen has disappointed fans by canceling a series of upcoming gigs across Europe after falling victim to illness. The Smile singer was due to play four dates later this month, but has been forced to pull out of any performances while she recovers from sinusitis - a condition she believes has been caused by excessive world travel. Posting on her MySpace blog - accompanied by a photo of her holding a doctor’s note - she writes, “I’ve literally been around the whole world in two weeks from London to Japan around Australia and then to LA and Vegas then back to LA for a 17 hour video shoot. That docs prescription is a fake, she is suffering from a thing called ‘exhaustion’ something that is literally similar to what Amy Winehouse is suffering from and all these girls from Paris to Lindsay to Amy to Lilly all have the same drugs problems and none will tell us so. They just don’t have the energy to carry themselves for a week and anything above a week of hard work makes them awfully tired. All of them are a bunch of drug addicts.

Veteran rocker Keith Richards has revealed that if not for a head injury that occurred last April he would certainly not have quit cocaine. Get all these rockers and pop singer and top on the list Rappers must be taken into custody and hit hard on their heads and immediately be given a medical prescription with a warning – drug consumption could be fatal. The 63 year old ‘Rolling Stones’ star has a serious head injury after falling down from a palm tree, now what was he doing so high up on the tree, most probably watching his neighbors wife have a nice shower, couldn’t get self control over his imagination and feel head over heels. Ever since the accident he as been on the drug that he is not allowed to mix with cocaine. Now dude help your self, u want more drugs – don’t climb the palm tree again, you want more women – climb a palm without having cocaine.

4500 fans ended up being disappointed when they found out that Amy Winehouse canceled her July 4 show in Liverpool. It doesn’t help when you find out that she was seen drinking out later that evening.

The ‘Rehab’ singer called off the concert due to a supposed illness. It’s not good to know that the supposed illness was a bad case of a hangover. Then she goes out that night to have some drinks at a London Pub with her hubby. She was also seen drinking the previous day.

I think Amy is over wanting to sing for a living. I think she wants to drink for a living.

Remember the disaster that was Richie Sambora at the Bon Jovi ‘Unplugged’ taping? Apparently, he doesn’t have a huge problem with drugs or alcohol that couldn’t be cured by a mere week of detox and therapy. Sambora and the rest of Bon Jovi performed on the ‘Today’ show a few days ago. Matt Lauer then asked Sambora about his recent ‘Lindsay’ moment and treatment. Sambora revealed that he just did detox and that it was no biggie.

His stint at rehab, or detox rather, was so quick that I highly doubt that the middle-aged women all over the world that are willing to drop their panties for him even heard about it.

Rock group to support group to rock group again. Rock it Richie!

Pete Doherty plans to marry Kate Moss this summer — providing he stays off drugs, his diary says. London’s The Times newspaper has printed extracts from the journals of Babyshambles/Libertines rocker Pete Doherty. The troubled singer gives insight into his tempestuous relationship with the supermodel in “The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty.”

He writes that he hopes to marry her this summer, provided he is “smack and needle-free. I become (sic) 10 times happier than any given smack head. Huzzah!” The entries also detail the fights between the couple, many of which appear to be about Doherty’s addiction to heroin and crack cocaine.

Doherty is booked to play Glastonbury over the weekend with Babyshambles. Rumors are rife that he will also perform at the festival with ex-Libertines band mate Carl Barat