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She is also gratifyingly (from a media-land, star-spotting point of view) keen on artificial stimulants and abuse. Since she first appeared in 2003, lurid stories have spread about her consumption of alcohol and marijuana, sometimes on-stage. As a guest on Charlotte Church’s TV chat show, Winehouse was so drunk she forgot the words to Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”, leaving Church to sing unaided while (in the words of one commentator) “being observed by a rather dizzy-looking horse in lipstick”. She claimed to breakfast on Jack Daniel’s and Coke. Invited to comment on the competition at the 2004 Brit awards, she snapped: “Dido’s gonna win, even though she’s rubbish.” With similar generosity, she called Chris Martin of Coldplay “a wanker” and Britney Spears “a joke”. Several people must have itched to call her a little madam; but then they probably took one look at the truculent set of her jaw and thought better of it.

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