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Last update - 20:38 08/06/2008
Amy Winehouse caught on video singing racist chant about 'gooks,' 'pakis'
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Drugs, U.K., Racism 

A video showing British singer Amy Winehouse singing a racist chant and apparently surrounded by drug paraphernalia has been released by The News of The World tabloid.

In the home footage, filmed by the Grammy Award-winning singer's husband Blake Fielder-Civic, Winehouse sings a racist football chant to the tune of the British children's song 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes'. In place of the conventional words, however, Winehouse sings with a friend: 'Blacks, pakis, gooks and nips.'

The clip shows a coffee table in the background upon which six cigarette lighters are resting, alongside a substance which looks like heroin on a foil.
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According to the British tabloid, it received the video from a friend of the 24-year-old singer's, who also handed over a number of photographs in which Winehouse is seen apparently taking drugs with Fielder-Civic.

Fielder-Civic, 26, is currently in jail facing trial for Grievous Bodily Harm, in addition to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. In another section of the video he asks Winehouse to perform a sex act on him in the public stairwell of a hotel.

The British newspaper The Daily Mail reported that the troubled singer apologized on Sunday for her racist words, speaking to photographers on the steps of her London home.


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      1.   voyeurism 17:59  |  Dror 08/06/08
      2.   # 1 18:10  |  Rolland 08/06/08
      3.   Ooh boy human suffering! 18:10  |  Don 08/06/08
      4.   That is her career finished then 18:19  |  Chris Linthwaite 08/06/08
      5.   Amy Winehouse and Israel would need exactly the same thing....... 18:31  |  Swiss (Dino) 08/06/08
      6.   Dror, it depends on how you report, what style 18:55  |  Mark B. 08/06/08
      7.   Racist parodies 18:56  |  Yerushalimey 08/06/08
      8.   racism 18:57  |  Edithann 08/06/08
      9.   Before or after...? 19:07  |  Esther 08/06/08
      10.   Mirror Mirror on the Wall 19:51  |  C`est Moi 08/06/08
      11.   A bit much 19:59  |  Steve G 08/06/08
      12.   Swiss Dino and his guiding hand - #5 20:06  |  Kate 08/06/08
      13.   Winehouse Only Enunciates Israelis` Attitude To Minorities 20:10  |  chet 08/06/08
      14.   Amy expressing the general mood in UK today, even under drugs 20:12  |  Genuine Tosefta 08/06/08
      15.   kate in london 20:37  |  wh 08/06/08
      16.   #14 Are you aware that Amy Winehouse is jewish girl? 20:42  |  John 08/06/08
      17.   Unfair To Focus On Jewish Entertainers 21:37  |  Yosemite 08/06/08
      18.   Amy Winehouse as Jewish Girl 22:22  |  Deb 08/06/08
      19.   A bad girl 22:23  |  Dav 08/06/08
      20.   Think again 22:30  |  H 08/06/08
      21.   I honestly hope she`s finished 22:35  |  MarkC 08/06/08
      22.   # 12 Kate 22:43  |  Swiss (Dino) 08/06/08
      23.   Re chet #13 22:59  |  Esther 08/06/08
      24.   This is getting ridiculous. Just remember what wise pepole have 23:02  |  Andreas 08/06/08
      25.   The Gedapo (Mind Police) cries wolf again 23:41  |  Paul Henzen 08/06/08
      26.   giving Haaretz more credit than they deserve 23:55  |  Dror 08/06/08
      27.   She`s not the first. 00:04  |  tooshay 09/06/08
      28.   what if similar racism targets Jews? 00:14  |  Historian 09/06/08
      29.   Dror = lol 00:38  |  wibism 09/06/08
      30.   How ironic 00:57  |  Ismail 09/06/08
      31.   What if Muslims are not terrorists to be despised? 00:57  |  Genuine Tosefta 09/06/08
      32.   Amy Winehouse and Her Racist Rant 02:15  |  Derekhshemtov 09/06/08
      33.   Racism in Ashkenazim community is major 02:26  |  Peter 09/06/08
      34.   Peter in Glasgow 03:19  |  Nathan 09/06/08
      35.   Swiss (Dino) 03:51  |  Eitan 09/06/08
      36.   Such a Talented Young Woman! 04:04  |  Itzhak 09/06/08
      37.   #17, DEB, read the talmud 04:53  |  VIPER 09/06/08
      38.   who cares 05:58  |  mike 09/06/08
      39.   wibi 07:50  |  Dror 09/06/08
      40.   Chet you think the same thing about Israelis 08:22  |  x-ray 09/06/08
      41.   Swiss Dino: you too have mind problems: an OCD Israel related 08:43  |  Army MD 09/06/08
      42.   # 35 Eitan # 41 Army MD What is the connection...???? 10:41  |  Swiss (Dino) 09/06/08
      43.   The Rants of Talkback 13:13  |  Ronnie Wolman 09/06/08
      44.   amy winehouse 20:44  |  candy 09/06/08
      45.   I am still amazed, but no longer surprised, to read... 21:05  |  JP 09/06/08
      46.   #41 Army MD 21:06  |  JP 09/06/08
      47.   #30 Ismail - Good point. 21:08  |  JP 09/06/08
      48.   Swiss (Dino): I Didn`t Ask for a Parallel 04:24  |  Eitan 10/06/08
      49.   response 21:21  |  mike 17/06/08
      50.   disgusting 21:23  |  bob 17/06/08
      51.   racism 00:54  |  bob 20/06/08
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