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Amy Winehouse up to her old tricks as she causes chaos at the Q Awards
26th October 2009
He's certainly got a few tales of rock and roll debauchery of his own. But in case Robert Plant had forgotten how it’s done Amy Winehouse gave him the perfect demonstration.
The 26-year-old singer managed to leave the Led Zeppelin front man aghast today as she delivered yet another shambolic performance at a prestigious music awards ceremony. As well as arriving late to present an award, Winehouse interrupted one acceptance speech and heckled another from the back of the room.
Despite her father’s insistence that she has overcome her troubles, many were left wondering if he was being a tad optimistic.
Winehouse single-handedly brought the Q Awards to a halt in front of stunned guests as she failed to arrive on time for her presenting duties. The troubled star was due to hand over the prize for the most inspirational artist alongside reggae singer Don Letts.
But Letts was forced back into his seat while embarrassed host Al Murray frantically tried to fill time and organisers searched for the singer. After several minutes Letts was called back to the stage to present the award to band The Specials with no sign of Winehouse.
Midway through The Specials’ acceptance speech, Winehouse finally arrived, picking her way through the audience and clambering on stage - only to be given a furious talking to by an angry Letts.
Clearly hoping to make a show stopping entrance in the skimpiest of cocktail dresses which showed off her £5,000 breast enlargement surgery, she succeeded for all the wrong reasons.
As the group left the stage she grabbed a microphone shouting down to a hushed crowd: 'I know you’ve been to these awards a million times but give it up for The Specials,’ which brought muted applause from the crowd.
All this was witnessed by her 13-year-old Goddaughter Dionne Bromfield whom she had starred with on Strictly Come Dancing recently. Explaining her tardy arrival to the Daily Mail after the event she looked visibly unsteady as she slurred: 'What’s it to you, I was doing my hair. F*** off.'
Things deteriorated further when Robert Plant arrived on stage to collect the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award in front of a room that included singer Lily Allen and bands Kasabian and the Stereophonics.
As he came to the end of his emotional thank you speech Winehouse heckled from the back of the room across a hushed floor. It stopped the veteran star in his tracks before he regained his composure and continued.
Her late showing at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London was even more surprising given that organisers had booked her a suite upstairs in the building in a desperate bid to ensure that she would turn up on time. Staying in a £1,000 a night fourth floor suite she had only yards to travel yet still managed to disrupt the event which had gone smoothly until her arrival.
Her car-crash showing comes just a week after her father Mitch claimed his daughter was recovering from her high profile battle with drink and drugs.
Speaking on This Morning, he claimed his daughter had been healthy for the last year and said: ‘There is no total recovery. It’s a recovery. It's a slow, gradual recovery. ‘If you look back to where we were a year ago, you know we are in a different planet. We are in a different space and a different time and a different person. We all are. We're all recovering.’