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Foreign affairs

By: Chas Newkey-Burden   On: 25 August 2008

I’m excited that both the biographies I’ve written have been snapped up for foreign editions. So far, Amy Winehouse: The Biography has been sold to five countries – including Brazil, France and Finland – and Paris Hilton: Life On The Edge has gone to Japan, Russia, France and Sweden.
These editions will mostly appear over the next few months, although I have a copy of the Dutch edition of the Amy book already and it’s trippy to see my words translated into Dutch. They’ve even made her look more Dutch on the cover!
Ironically, I saw the English edition of my Amy biog on sale in Amsterdam last week. Not that I ever trawl bookshops searching for copies of my own books, you understand!

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Eammon Holmes: "Oi, where do you think you’re going Chas?"

By: Chas Newkey-Burden   On: 29 July 2008

I was just nodding off to sleep late last night when a researcher from Sky News rang and asked if I’d go on their morning show to discuss Amy Winehouse’s latest hospitalisation. I’ve been on Sky quite a few times off the back of my books and had kind of expected the call since news of the hospitalisation broke. “Great – we’ll send a car at 5am”, said the researcher. 5am?! Blimey.
It turned out to be a particularly entertaining visit. Eamonn Holmes was the presenter and he was great value off-camera, cracking jokes right up until a few seconds before we went live. I did the slot, and then as I was leaving during an advert break he shouted: “Oi, where do you think you’re going, Chas? I want you back on in an hour!” So I did a second slot, and Eamonn and I had a bit of banter live on-air about the big bucket of fried chicken that Amy’s father Mitch claimed was for her when he arrived at the hospital. We both suspect it was really for Mitch.
While hanging round in the green room between appearances, I met the lovely and rather glamorous Lisa Francesca Nand, who is a Sky regular doing the newspaper review. She told me her nickname is Chessy, and I told her that some of my friends call me Chassy. We chuckled heartily at the coincidence. Things like that seem so much funnier at 5.40am, don’t they? I think Chessy and Chassy should be friends though. Don’t you?

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Amy, Amy, Amy

By: Chas Newkey-Burden   On: 27 June 2008

My friend and co-author Julie Burchill has written an interesting article about Amy Winehouse for The Sun. I really think she’s hit the nail on the head, and I don’t just say that because she quoted me! Coincidentally, I’m off to see Amy tonight at the Nelson Mandela gig at Hyde Park.

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