MITCH OF THE DAY

Fresh from telling the Sunday Mirror yesterday that Amy is in the early stages of lung condition emphysema, Mitch took time out of his day to talk to Radio 5 Live. It's almost as if he's enjoying the attention. 

According to Mitch, the singer is "eating like a horse" and determined to kick the drugs for good. But (again) don't horses eat grass and hay? That's not going to help her get back to health is it? Unless he was referring to her katamine intake...

Mitch said: "She's covered in nicotine patches. The only thing that can go into her lungs is fresh air. She faces a stark choice - either she sticks to it or she won't sing again.

"She's eating like a horse - she's 16 pounds heavier than the last time she was in hospital.

"There will be a decision on whether she can sing at Glastonbury.

"She understands she has to change. All she wants to do now is to sing."

Wasn't Amy supposed to have come to this realisation when she nearly killed herself with drugs last year?

Anyway, we hope Amy gets well soon. If only to shut Mitch up for five minutes. What's the betting he's got his own newspaper column/chat show by the end of the year?

And there was bad news for our hero Peat too as Daddy W has explicitly banned him from his daughter's company.

"I'm saying to those drug dealers, and they know who they are, if they are supplying crack to Amy, then they've got to take responsibility. I don't want her hanging out with her mates like Pete Doherty either," he said.

Is he suggesting that there is something else other than his guitar and his poetry in that ropey old guitar case of his that he turns up to her house with?