News about Amy Winehouse

When punters arrived at the Hawley Arms in London 's trendy Camden, they couldn't believe their eyes when they saw who was pulling pints behind its busy bar. After doing a double take, they would realise it was actually Amy Winehouse , then at the height of her fame, chatting and giggling with guests. 'Amy said it was what she was born to do,' says a friend of the star who was also a regular at the pub back in the mid- to late-Noughties.

It is relatively low-budget and was launched with minimum fanfare and very little promotion, but in just three weeks Baby Reindeer has become one of the most talked-about TV sensations of the year. The Netflix drama about a struggling comedian targeted by an obsessed and deranged female stalker has notched up almost 14 million viewers in the UK alone and is the number one show globally. Part of the fascination, it seems, is the fact it's billed as 'a captivating true story'. What's more, the lead actor and scriptwriter Richard Gadd is the person it happened to. All this has created something of an online frenzy among armchair sleuths desperate to identify the real-life characters, locations and events. Here we try to separate what in the show is fact, what may have been embellished, and what is pure fiction...

Here, FEMAIL looks at the real life locations which are thought to have inspired the show - and bars, streets and buildings across London and Edinburgh, which were used in filming. Netflix's Baby Reindeer, which entails actor Richard Gadd's real life experience with a stalker, has had viewers in a grip. Audiences have been desperate to dig around the real life personalities - and places - which inspired moments in the show.

The Alexandra, in Clapham (right), which sits just off Clapham Common, has become the latest boozer to face a backlash over the cost of its drinks. It comes as furious punters lashed out of the soaring price of beer in the capital, with pints of larger now hurtling towards the £9 mark. A receipt (left) from The Alexandra, in the south of the city, revealed patrons to the venue last week forked out £9.20 for two pints of Diet Coke (inset). The price is fractionally shy of the average cost pub-goers in the UK splash out for a pint of lager, which is £4.80.

The Victoria-era Trafalgar Tavern which sits on the Thames in Greenwich, south London, was highlighted as one of many pubs across the capital charging much more than the UK average of £4.80. And the Dublin Castle in Camden, north London, which features prominently in the new Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black, has prompted a fevered debate about just how much nights out in the capital can now cost. A devoted pubs fan shared on X, formerly Twitter, how he loved the pub's music selection but was taken aback when charged £7.80 for a pint of Cruzcampo lager. Many more have now shared their outrage at prices in venues across London, which many now costing at the very least £7 - compared to the national average £4.70.

Marisa Abela enjoyed a night out with her boyfriend Jamie Bogyo as they attended a screening of Back To Black in Paris on Monday. The actress, 27, who plays Amy Winehouse in the biopic, cut a glamorous figure for the evening in a black long-sleeved dress. The garment featured a cut out detail while Marisa styled her brunette locks into loose waves for the event.

Blake Fielder-Civil's life today couldn't be in starker contrast to the one he enjoyed in the mid-2000s. Then, as the paramour of singer Amy Winehouse, he shared her £1 million Camden flat and an infamously hedonistic lifestyle in the capital. A former drug addict, Blake, after all, has admitted being the one who introduced the star to heroin and is widely blamed for triggering her descent into the drug and alcohol abuse that eventually saw her succumb to alcohol poisoning in 2011, aged 27. These days, the father of two lives hundreds of miles from London in a quiet suburb of Leeds, in a modest three-bedroom semi bought by his fiancee Bay Wright for £217,000 in 2019. Now aged 42, he says he has been clean for years, but he can sometimes be spotted swigging from a beer can as he makes his way to meet friends at a nearby social club.

Eddie Marsan has revealed Amy Winehouse's family staged nine interventions in a bid to try and save her amid her drink and drugs battle.  The actor, 55, plays Amy's father Mitch Winehouse in Back To Black, a biopic about the singer's life, and spent time with her family while researching the role.  In an interview with The Times, Eddie revealed he bonded with Mitch, 73, having grown up in the same area of east London, and that during their chats the former taxi driver admitted to 'making mistakes' with Amy. 

Back To Black, the Amy Winehouse biopic, has been released to a cacophony of criticism. You can take your pick of the objections. Marisa Abela doesn't sing as well as Amy (of course she doesn't); the portrayal of Amy's junkie husband Blake Fielder-Civil is too kind; her cab driver father Mitch is too likeable - and so it goes on with everyone having their tuppence worth of memory. I saw an early screening and very much enjoyed the film, especially Marisa's touching performance as Amy, once described as a 'North London Jewish girl with tons of attitude'.

Amy Winehouse's best friend Tyler James has claimed the later singer would have been left 'fuming' by controversial biopic Back To Black and branded it dreadful. The recently released movie tells the life of the late singer (played by actress Marissa Abela) who tragically died from alcohol poisoning aged just 27 in 2011. Back To Black, which has been endorsed by Amy's father Mitch (played by Eddie Marsan) has drawn outrage from the singer's pals who slammed it for it's 'ghoulish' depictions of the star's drug addiction and also filming her funeral.

EMILY PRESCOTT: The King seems to have inspired some of the Royal Family's younger members to follow his love of nature. Lady Amelia Windsor, pictured, the granddaughter of the Duke of Kent and second cousin to the King, is now working on a wildflower plot that will be exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show this year. Amelia, 28 - once dubbed the most beautiful member of the Royal Family - is also carving out a career as a freelance gardening writer to go with her modelling work. The stylish aristocrat, pictured below among daffodils in a post on her social media account, says of her Chelsea role: 'So excited and honoured to be a very small part of the team for Kent Wildflower Seeds's first garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.'

The 41-year-old (left, with Amy Winehouse) is the subject of renewed attention because of his portrayal by Skins actor Jack O'Connell in Back To Black, the controversial biopic about Amy's life that hit cinemas today. He has admitted introducing her to harder drugs such as heroin - but rejects that he was to blame for her death in 2011 at the age of 27 from alcohol poisoning; fans have accused filmmakers of 'whitewashing' some aspects of the singer's life. And speaking today, the father-of-two reiterated his 'regret' over his drug use (right) - revealing he had not spoken to Amy's father Mitch in years as he expressed an interest in getting back in touch, saying it's what the singer would have wanted.

While Marisa and her boyfriend enjoyed a sweet outing, her latest movie Back To Black faced a poor reception from film critics.

Blake Fielder-Civil met Amy (together, left) in the early-to-mid-2000s, marrying her in 2007 before divorcing her to 'set her free' - but their tumultuous relationship saw him introduce her to heroin, for which devotees of the star have never forgiven him. The 41-year-old is portrayed by Jack O'Connell in new biopic Back To Black, which has been slammed by critics and fans as a 'whitewash' of some aspects of Amy's life - including its portrayal of Blake, described by one friend as akin to a 'Disney prince'. But Blake says the film is an 'accurate' representation of the relationship he had with Amy, who died in 2011 at the age of 27 - adding that he continues to 'bear the cross' of her death and receives death threats online (right).

'I get all I need from the Daily Mail,' says the saintly Blake Fielder-Civil in Back To Black, Sam Taylor-Johnson's new biopic of that most talented, most troubled of singers, Amy Winehouse. It's the wisest choice in a film that makes a hundred bad ones, among them its decision to portray Fielder-Civil - Winehouse's, let's say, controversial ex- husband - as saintly in the first place.  Here, as played by the overly buff Jack O'Connell, he's a kind of winsome, toe-tapping Jack the Lad who's only incidentally involved in his wife's descent into addiction.

Marisa Abela has discussed the long preparation process to physically transform into Amy Winehouse at her 'most frail' while filming Back to Black. The Industry actress, 27, plays the late singer - who died in 2011 aged 27 from alcohol poisoning - in the new biopic directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.  Marisa had to follow a strict regime to shrink to Amy's slender frame but did  consult a dietician and was being monitored to keep her as safe as possible during that time.

The English actor, 55, who plays Mitch in the biopic released in cinemas on Friday, ditched his silver tresses and opted for a new look as he promoted the new film.

Amy Winehouse's friend Dale Davis has revealed they spoke only hours before her tragic death at the age of 27. The singer tragically passed away from alcohol poisoning at her Camden townhouse in July 2011. Dale, 57, is an accomplished bass player who met Amy in 2003 when she was just 19 and joined her live band, later becoming the musical director.

For anyone wanting Italian food in London today, there are hundreds of venues to choose from. From what was Little Italy in Clerkenwell to the hub of Italian venues in Soho, the capital is awash with outlets serving pasta, pizza and other dishes. The history of Italian food and culture in the capital stretches back to the 19th century, when immigrant ice cream sellers (bottom right, an ice cream seller in 1877) flogged their wares on poverty-stricken streets. London's oldest delicatessen, Terroni of Clerkenwell (top right), which opened during the reign of Queen Victoria, is still trading today. As is the iconic Soho establishment Bar Italia (left, and inset recently), which was set up in 1949 to serve good coffee and act as a social hub for the capital's Italian community.

The English actor, 55, who plays Mitch Winehouse in the biopic released in cinemas on Friday, instead said that addiction should be viewed as the 'main villain'. Speaking on The One Show on Tuesday, Eddie said that he believes Amy's death affected so many people so much that they needed to create a 'comfortable narrative'. 'The comfortable narrative for everybody was that there was someone to blame, it was either Blake or Mitch, and you create a narrative of villains of an victims,' he said. 'The reason why that's comfortable is you think "Well if my daughter doesn't marry someone like Blake or if I don't behave like Mitch then my daughter won't die" but that's not how addiction works.'

Director of the new Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black Sam Taylor-Johnson has been lambasted by friends of the late singer for glamourising her tearaway husband Blake Fielder-Civil. The highly anticipated new movie premiered in London on Monday night, with Ms Winehouse's family present for the first showing of the blockbuster which stars striking Marisa Abela as the troubled songstress. But some who saw the film were stunned by the lack of criticism of Fielder-Civil, 44, who himself admitted that he first introduced the singer into the world of Class A drug abuse which would cause her such harm.

Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace has hit out at the Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black and claimed it is 'upsetting' for the people who were close to the late singer. The film follows the life of the singer, who tragically died from alcohol poisoning aged just 27 in 2011, and includes some of her darkest moments. Aisleyne, who attended the UK premiere of the film on Monday night, said that she struggles with the idea of these moments being dramatised for entertainment.

EXCLUSIVE: This is Back to Black actress Marisa Abela looking altogether more winsome, starring in the school production of Tristan and Yseult (Tristan and Isolde) back in 2014 when she was just 17 years old (left). A pupil at the exclusive girls-only independent Roedean in Brighton, East Sussex, she took to the stage to feed her love of drama. And even back then staff recognised she had 'star quality' and say she would light up the stage with all her performances - ahead of her starring role in the controversial biopic (right) that has divided fans of the late soul singer, who died aged 27 in 2011.

The Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black has been slated by film critics as a 'poor piece of filmmaking' and a 'Saturday-night impersonation' of the star. The film, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson tells the life story of the late singer, portrayed by Marisa Abela, who died in 2011 aged 27 from alcohol poisoning.  The flick had its premiere in London on Monday and the first reviews in praised both the film's director and cast.