Amy Winehouse to perform at Brit Awards

Amy Winehouse performs at Lollapalooza in Chicago in this Aug. 5, 2007 file photo. Winehouse, up for six Grammy awards including album of the year, is due to perform via satellite from her home country, where she is currently being treated in a rehabilitation center for substance abuse.

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Amy Winehouse performs during the 2007 Mercury Music Awards at the Grosvenor House hotel in London, Sepember 4, 2007. Rehab has never been hotter in Hollywood, and nowhere was that more apparent than on Sunday at the Grammy awards with Winehouse's five big wins, more than any other artist.

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Amy Winehouse performs via satellite from London at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles, California February 10, 2008.

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Amy Winehouse is shown on a screen as she performs via satellite from London at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 10, 2008. British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse won the Grammy for best new artist on Sunday. Amy accepted her award at a London recording studio.

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Paris Hilton: Britney's a 'great mother'

Associated Press

NEW YORK - Paris Hilton is rooting for Britney Spears.

"I wish the best for her and I just wish everyone would leave her alone so she could live her life," the 26-year-old hotel heiress-actress tells E! News. "She's a great mother and a great girl and I really care about her."

In an interview that was to air Tuesday night, Hilton says: "She's a very sweet girl and I love her to death."

Hilton and Spears were nearly inseparable following the pop star's split from ex-husband Kevin Federline.

The tabloid magnets were photographed partying, shopping and driving in a car with Lindsay Lohan in the weeks after Spears filed for divorce from Federline in November 2006. But their whirlwind public friendship seemed to fizzle out after Spears' fans complained that Hilton was a negative influence.

Hilton served a 23-day jail sentence in Los Angeles last June for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless-driving case. She vowed to focus on philanthropy afterward.

Meanwhile, Spears, 26, continued to unravel in the public eye after a rough year in which she shaved her head, checked in and out of rehab and attacked a car with an umbrella.

She was taken to a Los Angeles hospital by paramedics earlier this month after police were called to her home because of a dispute involving her two sons. A court commissioner decided to keep in effect an order suspending Spears' right to visit Jayden James, 1, and Sean Preston, 2.

Britney Stands By Her Man

We wonder if the former paparazzo minds having flashbulbs and photographers in his face 24/7. Hopefully he's getting a dose of his own medicine.

While scuttling Brit off to Pinkberry for a fro-yo, perhaps Adnan mentioned that his estranged wife, Azlynn Berry, filed for a legal separation from him, citing irreconcilable differences,



That evening, the 'Toxic' singer's on-again/off-again boy toy, Adnan Ghalib, arrived at Malibu's Taverna Tony to pick her up for a late night date.