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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Alexis Petridis

Got a problem? Just ask the Winehouses

Lost in Showbiz thrills to the latest development in the nascent radio career of Mitch Winehouse, straight-talking London cabbie and father to Britain's most

unpredictable soul diva. According to tabloid reports, he intends to turn up to his September 1 slot on BBC Radio London en famille, with his daughter functioning as an on-air agony aunt.

She certainly displays all the traditional characteristics associated with a woman who's really got life sorted: nothing says "I am at one with myself, in control of my destiny and fully qualified to tell others how to live their lives" quite like staggering around

Camden in the early hours in tears, covered in blood and with one of the Babyshambles in tow.

Then again, has there ever been a greater incentive to tune into a local radio station than the knowledge that it is employing an agony aunt whose answer to everything involves wearing an enormous wig and smoking crack?

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