Amy given album ultimatum

AMY WINEHOUSE has been warned by her label to keep out of trouble – or NEVER release another album.
Chiefs at Universal issued the stern ultimatum that the druggy singer can only put out another CD if she is clean.
The firm’s European head honcho, LUCIAN GRAINGE, made a similar threat earlier this year to get her into rehab after The Sun exposed footage of her smoking crack.
But label bosses have watched her slip back to her old ways and have reminded her of the conditions of releasing a third record. A source revealed: “Amy has been reminded of her responsibilities. Unless she is clean she will not be allowed to release another album.
“She took notice when Lucian talked to her earlier in the year and agreed to go to rehab. But she didn’t take it seriously enough.
“They would never release her from her deal, they would just not put an album out.”
On Saturday I revealed Amy’s label are now privately accepting there will be no album until 2009 after she scrapped plans to start recording in the Bahamas. And my source added: “The label were not impressed. She has been warned about her behaviour and needs to keep the standards up.”
Universal’s stance suggests this could be the last album of her deal. Otherwise they would be churning something out to capitalise on her fame. And while it’s commendable they are taking a tough stand, I think Universal need Amy more than she needs them.

Pete Doherty – shooting up in prison

Jailed rocker PETE DOHERTY stares vacantly in his cell — amid revelations he is shooting up heroin in the prison’s detox unit.
The junkie singer, 29, has been injecting smack smuggled into London’s tough Wormwood Scrubs slammer.
Doherty, jailed for snubbing rehab orders, is paying for the drugs by begging credit from fellow lags and writing IOUs.
A fellow inmate said: “We can’t believe how much he’s still clucking for it. They put him inside to force him to give up but Pete always has a need to feed his habit.”
Doherty was banged up for 3½ months last week for failing to take drug tests ordered by a court after he admitted possessing heroin, crack, cannabis and horse tranquiliser ketamine.
He is sharing a cell in the Scrubs’ Connibere detox wing with a 28-year-old drug dealer.
Doctors are giving him heroin substitute methadone in a bid to wean him off. But the rocker is topping up with the real thing. The fellow inmate said: “He hasn’t received his prison wage yet so he’s getting the drugs on credit and writing IOUs.”
Doherty has struck up a friendship with a burly ex-streetfighter named Ray, who is protecting him after lags started a rumour the singer brought a stash of drugs with him from the outside.
The inmate said: “It wasn’t true but it was enough to make people want to find him and rob him. Ray is making sure this doesn’t happen.”
Prison officers are said to treat Doherty like a superstar – and tramp from other wings to get his autograph.
The inmate said: “He usually signs his name next to a scribbled smiley face with a trilby.”
He added that Doherty sleeps on a urine-stained mattress and has been told he will be transferred to an open prison when a place is available.
A Prison Service spokesman said last night: “We will act on any intelligence which indicates drugs are being smuggled or abused.”


In other news…
* Cheryl Cole has been secretly plotting her solo pop move with top producer T2. He recently hit no. 2 with single Heartbroken – and apparently the two have been synchronising their diaries to find time to get in the studio and work on some new material together.
* BB8’s Ziggy and ex-WAG Charlotte Meares? The two were picked leaving the Crystal Club together last night. Another great Z-list couple in the making.
* Alicia Douvall’s 12 year old daughter Georgia wants a boob job – in order to launch her modelling career. Her plastic fantastic mum has even given the thumbs up, once she's 16, and reckons her girl can be more famous than Britney Spears.
* David and Victoria are sending Cruz to an exclusive Jewish school in the US. They have been meeting staff at the top private nursery attached to a Jewish temple, and have said it’s the perfect place for their youngest to start school.