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Tina Turner: Amy, the drugs don't work

Like an R&B agony aunt, the singer offers Amy Winehouse her words of wisdom on substance use. Plus, Coldplay stand on the shoulder of Oasis, and Take That's offensive facial hair blights their Ivor Novello win

There are sage words from Tina Turner this morning on the welfare of Amy Winehouse. That said, we wonder if there's a celebrity in the land who doesn't have an opinion on Amy Winehouse. Bryan Adams was so moved he offered the singer his Caribbean home as a place of convalescence , Mick Jagger proclaimed her a "brilliant artist who makes fantastic music", and Danny Dyer, while not having done so on record, has probably said something along the lines of "Nah, she's awight, just 'avin a larf and that, d'yaknowhaimean?"

This time, however, Turner has issued the 24-year-old singer with a warning. Well, that's how the Mirror's 3am team reports things anyway. "My view of Amy is that her problems started before her success," Turner says, adding that "you get nothing from drugs except a feeling and bad health." Wise words from the "grande dame of pop", who, according to 3am, has "thighs Jonny Wilkinson would be proud of". We imagine Amy might not be the only one in need of some help if they keep on comparing the wonderful Ms Turner to a rugby player.

Are Coldplay hoping to stoke the flames of a celebrity feud by "doing an Oasis"? Bizarre's Smart Gordon thinks so. "There are raised eyebrows in the Oasis camp over Coldplay's decision to release their new album on a Thursday," says Smart, referring to the fact that the Manchester band did just that 11 years ago with their album Be Here Now, which subsequently became the fastest-selling British record of all time. Discussing proceedings with a "source", Smart Gordon writes: "Some people reckon Coldplay have nicked their successful blueprint from Be Here Now to try and break the record."

Other people, namely Coldplay's camp, explain that Viva La Vida is being released in the UK on June 12 because that's what the rest of Europe is doing. Sounds plausible to us, and hardly the kind of Be Here Now row that Smart is claiming this morning. Perhaps Oasis will announce their next album will be released for free over the internet just to annoy Chris Martin, now that would be interesting. Well, we say interesting...

Finally, 3am offer their congratulations to Take That for the band's success at yesterday's Ivor Novello awards. They do so by rubbishing Gary Barlow's "gingery facial ferret", but a backhanded compliment is better than not being praised at all, we suppose. The pop stars took home a gong for most performed work for the Barlow-penned single Shine. The singer managed to stop working just long enough to tell the Mirror's premier gossip team that he was "most looking forward to seeing Amy Winehouse" at the awards. What, no advice on the dangers of dabbling with drugs? No West Indian retreat? Pah, where's Danny Dyer when you need him?

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