The Dishing Diva

Amy Winehouse just got back from a relaxing two-month Caribbean vacation and according to police and her rep, was charged with assault Thursday for allegedly attacking a fan at an end-of-summer ball in London last Sept. 26th.

Dancer Sherene Flash had told tabloid newspapers that she was hit in the eye by the much-talked about retro-soul singer after asking to take her picture at the Berkeley Ball, a charity function held in central London’s Berkeley Square.

Amy’s spokesman Chris Goodman said Friday that she went voluntarily to the police station, where she was arrested and charged. Police issued a statement saying she’s been released and is due to appear in court on March 17th.

Jamie Spears has filed documents stating that taking care of his daughter Britney is more than a full time job. He says he puts in between 60-70 hours per week and that justifies why the court is allowing him $16,000 a month as a salary.

In a declaration to the conservatorship commissioner that he filed last Friday, pappy Spears wrote that he deals with anywhere from 200 – 400 communications every day to coordinate his daughter’s schedule/life.

Jamie says he is making sure that all aspects of Britney’s tour (that kicks off tonight) runs smoothly, and he also coordinates Britney’s “medical, health, business, costuming, personal, security, household staff, and legal matters (touching upon entertainment, music, family law litigation, the resolution of numerous disputes, and the ongoing litigation and conservatorship matters.”

Hmm, guess I should be more appreciative of my parents. Mine did all that for my sister and me because… they love us!

Here is a picture of Vanessa Hudgen’s signed hard hat. She is just one of the many celebrities lending her support to the Hollywood branch of Habitat for Humanity.

She along with other celebs has signed a white hardhat that will go up for auction. The proceeds from sales will go to support Habitat’s mission of providing safe and decent housing which will benefit families served by Habitat for Humanity.

On Vanessa’s hardhat is her sweet message, saying: “Thanks for all your hard work. All my Love, XOXO.”

Other celebrities with hardhats up for auction are: The Jonas Brothers, Zac Efron, Ashley Tisdale, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift.

Check the others at clothes off our back. Here is the link:

http://www.clothesoffourback.org/categories.php?cPath=1_167

Although fans were supposed to wait another month before the official release for Kelly Clarkson’s new “All I Ever Wanted” album, the Norway division of iTunes mistakenly leaked it onto the Internet.

Supposedly users of the Norwegian iTunes were able to initially first stream 30-second-clips of the new album, but they then found out they could purchase the entire album! Then boom, the album hit P2P sites and message boards around the world.

Her album is a great comeback. Will Apple have to cough up and pay big bucks to Kelly and her record label for this major screw up?

Kanye recently did an interview with Details Magazine and shared his thoughts on a few topics. I don’t know that many of his hits off the top of my head, just one, Gold digger comes to mind, so I think his statement about his cultural impact might be over the top. He really needs to talk with the little people, the ones who are outside of his life bubble. If he did, he may be stunned when he realizes he isn’t that important to them!

I wonder… could it be possible he’s pulling a Joaquin Phoenix and switching gears in his career? Either that or he may be living on another planet from the rest of us who really don’t ‘get him’ and all his wonderousness.

Here are a few snippets from the interview, enjoy all you Kanye fans:

Kanye Wants To Focus On Fashion Since He’s Mastered Music:

“Put this in the magazine: There’s nothing more to be said about music. I’m the fucking end-all, be-all of music. I know what I’m doing. I did 808s in three weeks. I got it. It’s on cruise control. . . . Man, we talked about music for God knows how long! Now let’s talk about how my fucking sweater didn’t come back right from Korea. That’s what’s interesting me.”

Kanye On How He Has Contributed To Our Generation:

“If not me, then who? Someone could be a better rapper, dance better. But culturally impacting*? When you look back at these four and a half years, who’s the icon at the end of the day? Who broke down color barriers? What other black guy would a white person use as a fashion reference?”

Kanye’s Opinion on “that’s so gay” Is In His Opinion A Compliment:

“Titles are very important. I like to embody titles, y’know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that’s good. Take the word gay—like, in hip-hop, that’s a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I’ve encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y’know, I haven’t, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person—the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design—it’d be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids’ll say, ‘Dude, those pants are gay.’ But if it’s, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it’s on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it’s, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, ‘Dude, that’s so good it’s almost . . . gay.’”

In a shameless move to boost US sales, Lily Allen just posted the following message on her official blog:

“Ok, so I never thought I would have to write this blog. Earlier today my record company told me “its not me it’s you” (my ne w album) has a pretty good chance of going to number 1 in the US charts this week. Im currently sitting behing Alison krauss and Robert plant, who, quite rightly are sitting at no 1 . ive never had a number one album in England , never mind the US ,and all of this is a bit crazy . I could well be up for no1 here(America ) , which makes me want to cry a bit . Iv’e never begged you to buy from me ever,but I am now . this will be the only time ever in my life that this could happen for me. Help me get to no 1 , go to I tunes and download the album, you’re the only hope ive got guys. Ill love you forever.

Ps thank you to everyone who has brought me this far.

I love you always x”

Girl has got to do what she’s got to do to make it to number 1. I kind of like her new album cover. Simple, fresh, kind of sassy… like her!

Osama Lutfi, aka Sam Lutfi, Britney’s former ‘manager’ was served a restraining order the other day by Britney’s attorneys and he has now reacted to that by filing documents suing her and her parents for slander.

His court papers allege she broke an oral contract with him for his services and owes him thousands of dollars in unpaid fees. What kind of manager was he that he had an oral contract with someone who is mentally unfit to take care of herself?

Sam also claims in his court papers that her parents: “began a campaign of slander, libel and defamation aimed at discrediting, destroying and physically and emotionally intimidating Lutfi in order to drive him out of Britney’s life.”

He says since Britney’s mom’s book came out he has lost his reputation. No, he did that all on his own with the way he mis-handled her and her career. Is he even a credited manager? Does he have a license?

Hairspray starlet Nikki Blonsky is insisting that her family is still as close as ever after having gone through that airport dual family brawl with America’s Next Top Model former contestant Bianca Golden.

She tells People:

“We are a very strong family, we love each other and nothing will ever tear us down. I don’t even need to defend myself. It’s pretty obvious that it was just a big scam.”

Nikki talked about her father saying:

“He’s a strong man. He is my hero because he showed me that no matter what happens in life you can make it through. I never expected that somebody would try to use my fame to get themselves fame.”

She’s calling that whole fiasco a scam? Her dad is awaiting trial, as Bianca’s mother ended up in the ICU! Interesting that Nikki thinks Bianca is trying to “use her fame”. You have to have fame in order for people to steal it and when you are both on the D list… really… there is nothing to steal.

I seriously doubt Bianca even knew who Nikki was when this started. You know both Bianca and Nikki did interviews when this first happened, but Bianca has since stayed quiet, Nikki should too, it’s all blown over now, no one really cares anyways!

Gwen Stefani and hubby Gavin had another date night this past Saturday night at Madeo’s in LA. They look so happy together.

This was the second evening in a row without the kids as they were also at an event, the Feeding America party with Dan Glickman held in L.A. on Friday. It was a cocktail party hosted by David Arquette and many celebs were there to lend their support.

Here they are checking out Shepard Fairey’s new art he created to help spread awareness about hunger.

Here are some quotes from Gavin from an interview he had recently where he talked about working out, and how he wants to pass down and share his love of tennis with his sons:

* On why he doesn’t work out with Gwen: “We don’t work out together. It’s like you’ve got to keep the romance alive. No one wants to be sweating like a pig – that would be me. She just glows, clearly.”
* On whether he’ll teach his children tennis: “Yeah, of course. Of course. As they wish, you know. As they wish. But it’d be kind of fun. I suppose you always want your kids to do something that in some way you can help them with. And I definitely can help [Kingston] with that. So that would be fun. I mean, it would be so sad if he took up ice hockey because I’d be useless. What would I do? Who doesn’t want to contribute? There are a few things that I could help him with. About four or five things, and outside of that he’s on his own.”
* On what he could help teach his sons: “Music, tennis, football – I could really help him with football. And good books, things like that. And good art. And good wine. And the right beer to drink. And good restaurants. Good bands, obviously. After that… theater – I couldn’t help him that much. And you know what? I’d learn ice hockey. I’d figure it out.”

Possibly because of her personal troubles or maybe not, Britney Spears is still the hottest human being on Planet Earth, according to USA Today’s annual Celebrity Heat Index, which measures how much exposure a star gets in print and online.

For 11 weeks this year, Britney received the most media attention out of everyone else and because she did, she earned the top spot on the index for the second year in a row! That coverage included everything from her shocking breakdown last January to her best-selling album, just released on Dec. 2.

PEOPLE readers also honored her with not one, but two titles, “best comeback” of 2008 as well as being the “most talked about celebrity.”