![]() This isn’t even a pop quiz anymore, it’s an intervention Amy,” Amstell chirped. “Can we resuscitate the old Winehouse? I loved you when you were sober. ![]() Winehouse, visibly drunk, belligerent and sloppy on the show, was met with calls of “Do you want another drink?” from host Simon Amstell, then “Do you want us to just sit here while you drink yourself to death?” There were jokes about her working with Pete Doherty (“He wants to sell you drugs!”) and her drug use (“I thought crack was your new thing”). Amid the usual snark lurked something darker. But in 2006, while promoting her second album Back to Black, something had changed. You needed to be sharp as a tack and able to dodge an attack to do well and Winehouse was adept at both. ![]() Winehouse appeared twice on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, BBC Two’s hilarious but often harsh quiz series. Campaigning for the Brits by shouting at passersby from the back of a cab? Yes, and can we stop to lob apples at a Dido billboard on the way? Answering the same question for the hundredth time? No. But if they asked her to carve a beef joint in a local butchers (“I love handling meat!”), she was game. If a TV interviewer compared the singer’s work to Dido’s, she’d shut down completely. Winehouse was the former, but with teeth. These were programmes like Popworld, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and SMTV: Live, where pop stars either leaned into the silliness or were shown up for being po-faced. Amy Winehouse is inextricably linked, in my mind anyway, to those irreverent pop TV shows of the early 2000s.
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