Amy Winehouse becomes a bear

The people who brought us Bad Taste Bears are going back to black this November with the release of its Amy bear.   

John Wright, managing director of The BT Bears Company, said:

"Amy will be joining a number of other musical tributes in our range, which are all designed to raise a cheeky smile.

"She has thick eyeliner and a tall beehive, pinned back with a syringe and cigarette, while showing off a suggestive 'Coke' tattoo and singing into a microphone."

The troubled singer has barely been out of the headlines all year, and her bear incarnation is sure to excite gays, who as you know love that sort of thing.

For more details on the availability of the Amy bear to gays, visit www.badtastebears.com

Amy Winehouse and the potential killer

This just in: Smoking crack can lead to emphysema!

   

 

 

     

British soul-singing sensation Amy Winehouse was diagnosed with an early stage of the debilitating lung disease that could one day render her a virtual invalid, or worse, dead.

The Grammy-winning bee-hived crooner and notorious drug addict was admitted to the London Clinic after she passed out last week, leading doctors to catch the potentially deadly disease early.

"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her,” Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse said in a statement to the  Sunday Mirror.

“The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid—she wouldn't have been able to breathe.”

Despite the seriousness of the disease, Winehouse, 24, “has an early form of emphysema,” said her publicist Chris Goodman.

“It’s totally reversible and she’s responded well to treatment.”

Winehouse is slated to perform at a concert in London’s Hyde Park in honour of former South African President Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday on June 27, but it’s yet to be determined if Winehouse will be recovered enough to make the appearance.

The “Rehab” singer has had several bouts with rehab herself, but so far, nothing has appeared to stick.

But her father said he hopes the emphysema diagnosis will be the catalyst that will help his daughter kick the drugs.

“With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes, her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70-percent lung capacity,” Mitch Winehouse said.

“If she doesn't go back to drugs, then she can lead this magnificent life. We are praying that that's what Amy really wants. She seems resolute."

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