For the lazy celeb journalist, Amy Winehouse is a god send. There’s no need to even back up any stories about her since the public will swallow anything. All you need is a seed of an unverified rumour and a wild imagination.
Cue example 1:
Amy Winehouse - wedding singer, baby-desirer and divorce-seeker all in one week.
The Sun says on 13.09.09:
Amy Winehouse is being a wedding singer for £20,000 at a Greek wedding in Hertfordshire.
This is good – it follows her character arc as ’singer on a downward spiral’ without going into the over-used areas of drugs or broken marriage.
This also perfectly backed up by this anonymous, untraceable person:
A source said: “Amy agreed to do it because it was a nice little earner and didn’t involve a lot of travel.”
And finally, Hertfordshire. Beautifully vague. Kinda believable.
Example 2:
The News Of The World on 05.09.09:
Amy and Blake are back together.
News of a celebs splitting up with or getting back together sells papers, guaranteed. No matter how feeble the story. There is a vague mention of an unnamed bar in Old Street, and a strange lack of photos, but hey ho.
Example 3
The Sun on 1.09.09:
Amy paints freckles on her face in bid to get back her husband.
Again this mysterious unidentifiable ‘pal’ is back:
A pal said: “She painted the orange marks on her nose and wore a tiger-print top so that Blake would notice.”
Extra freckles added by Starsuckers courtesy of Photoshop
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