Is Rehab the New Hollywood Fashion?

Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Keith Urban, Amy Winehouse and now the normally squeaky clean Kirsten Dunst. All have signed up for a spell in rehab. There was a time when walking the red carpet was all the publicity a celeb courted but now its far more intriguing. First it was fashionable to carry the little pouch in an oversized handbag, then it was adopting babies from foreign, war torn lands (see Madonna and Angelina Jolie for experts in this field!) and now a spate in rehab seems to carry the same fashion ticket.

There was a time when ‘rehab’ was a word kept under the table along with divorce, abortion and unwanted pregnancy, but now it appears it has become a way of courting the press during a down time in a celeb’s career.

So Dunst has had a couple of broken relationships. First Brokeback Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaal and then there was her more recent split with Johnny Borrell. Seeing Jake all snuggled up and happy with Reese Witherspoon sure didn’t help but which of us hasn’t experienced a break up and clawed our way back from the brink without a month in rehab?

Serious claims have come to light concerning the actress’s penchant for mixing alcohol with her medication. Prolonged nights of drinking have kept the 25-year-old’s family on pins & needles.

Maybe she should get herself a doggy in the bag or a baby from Vietnam!

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Amy Winehouse on the Loose in the USA???

Who was it who said, ‘any publicity is good publicity?’ Not so for the trouble Amy Winehouse.

The Back to Black singer was allowed to leave rehab at Capio Nightingale clinic in north London on January 24, days after a video emerged showing her apparently smoking crack cocaine and last October she was arrested and fined in Norway for possession of cannabis while visitng with her husband Blake Civil Fielder.

Her trip out was for the purpose of attending the US Embassy in London to apply for a visa to gain her entrance to America to attend the Grammy Awards in Los Angles on February 10th 2008. She has been nominated for 6 Grammys.

Unlike any ‘normal’ person wishing to travel to the USA, due to Amy’s international exposure to the media following her troubled drug rehabilitation, she has to apply to the embassy for a visa. She cant just fill in the statutory green waver form given to ‘clean’ visitors to the US.

On her jaunt out of rehab Winehouse was accompanied by a nurse, as the terms of her treatment mean she must remain under supervision at all times. Her father, Mitch, was also by her side.

Amy, 24, was dressed in normal street clothes. A white skirt and a polka dot top, but still sported a beehive hair-do. She appeared to be in much better health than the last time she was photographed entering rehab.

No immediate decision has been made about her visa and a spokesperson said, “Amy was accompanied by a nurse as the appointment was under supervision. She has not left rehab and remains under the care of the clinic.”

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Amy Winehouse Arrested and Released

 

Amy Winehouse was arrested yesterday on charges of “perverting the course of justice” in the case against her husband. Last month, Amy’s hubby, Blake Fielder-Civil was arrested on similar charges related to the alleged assault of a bartender. Classy couple, eh?

Amy was released not long after the arrest, which her rep says was only a technicality, and that Winehouse has not officially been charged with any crime. Yet. Since her husband’s arrest, Amy has cancelled her UK tour and spent plenty of time with lawyers. Maybe a little extra time in at the police station will help her clean up– just a spray or two with one of those high powered hoses would be an improvement.

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