A lesson in how to deal sensitively with the self-destruction of a star from Gordon Smart's Bizarre column in the Sun today.
Writing about Amy Winehouse's constantly banging on about her imprisoned husband Blake he says this:
'I almost wished I was in NELSON MANDELA's old prison cell when she brought up her waste-of-space husband at Mandela's 90th birthday gig on Friday.'
Now, it's not often that LiS can wholeheartedly endorse the thinking behind one of Gordon's statements (eg: "silly thing to do Amy") - not as often as I'd like, anyway. But there's a problem, nonetheless. The enormous chasm of experience between the incarceration of Mandela and the imprisonment of Blake (for GBH or similar) is what made everyone, including it seems Gordon, wince. But the enormous chasm of experience between listening to Winehouse being boring and a bit crass and "almost" wishing oneself onto Robben Island is no smaller. And I don't think Gordon can plead any of the mitigating circumstances that we might acknowledge in Amy's case.
