This article is from the source 'bbc' and was first published or seen on . It will not be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/7530099.stm
The article has changed 8 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
Version 4 | Version 5 |
---|---|
Singer Amy Winehouse in hospital | Singer Amy Winehouse in hospital |
(19 minutes later) | |
Singer Amy Winehouse has spent the night in hospital after an ambulance was called to her London home. | Singer Amy Winehouse has spent the night in hospital after an ambulance was called to her London home. |
She had been taken to University College Hospital after suffering a "reaction to medication", the 24-year-old's spokesman said. | |
There have long been concerns about the singer's health, and she received hospital treatment last month for traces of lung disease emphysema. | There have long been concerns about the singer's health, and she received hospital treatment last month for traces of lung disease emphysema. |
She is due leave hospital later on Tuesday after being under observation. | |
Winehouse's father Mitch, who has previously expressed fears over the effect his daughter's drug use has had on her health, is with the singer in hospital. | Winehouse's father Mitch, who has previously expressed fears over the effect his daughter's drug use has had on her health, is with the singer in hospital. |
The singer is playing several festival dates over the summer | |
He told BBC Radio One Newsbeat that the singer was well enough to eat a KFC meal with him on Monday night, adding "she scoffed the whole thing". | |
The ambulance was called to her house in Camden, north London on Monday evening. | The ambulance was called to her house in Camden, north London on Monday evening. |
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We were called at approximately 8.40pm to an address in NW1 to reports of an adult female taken unwell. | A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We were called at approximately 8.40pm to an address in NW1 to reports of an adult female taken unwell. |
"We sent an ambulance and a fast response car and the patient has been taken to hospital." | "We sent an ambulance and a fast response car and the patient has been taken to hospital." |
Crowd of photographers | |
Police were called at about 2100 BST to clear a path for the ambulance through waiting photographers. | Police were called at about 2100 BST to clear a path for the ambulance through waiting photographers. |
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We were asked to assist the London Ambulance Service leaving the vicinity where a crowd of photographers had gathered." | |
Winehouse hit headlines last week when her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, was jailed for 27 months for attacking a pub landlord and perverting the course of justice. | |
Judge David Radford said Fielder-Civil was high on alcohol and cocaine when he and another man attacked the landlord outside the pub in 2006. | |
Fielder-Civil has already spent nine months in jail on remand. | |