We poke a lot of fun and derision at celebrity, here at Fortune’s Pawn mostly because we think it distracts so many, so frightfully many, people from the important news of our world. A headline over at CNN caught our eye this afternoon, however, which we just couldn’t ignore. “Love loses weight thanks to diet – and colonics” Okay, once we figured out that the headline referred to Courtney Love, it made a bit more sense.

My daughter (Frances Bean) and I were kind of going for it because the dessert’s fantastic,” she says. “I put on 30 pounds, and I put on another 15 out of emotional depression. Then I finally get an Italian Vogue cover, and I’m 182 pounds.””By the way,” she adds, “I hate reading magazines where the actresses are saying, ‘Broccoli and fish, broccoli and fish.’ You liars. You bulimic liars.”

Love, whose last stint in rehab was about two years ago, is trying to leave her troubled past behind.

“For many years, I took pills. I felt like I had this dirty secret,” she says.
Love loses weight thanks to diet — and colonics – CNN.com

As the photo above shows, this diet has had good effect. And if anyone
thinks that Courtney lacks style, you simply must check out this shot.

We could understand the reader thinking that Courtney might be a good role model for Amy Winehouse, given her recent exploits (see below as well):

The father of troubled singer Amy Winehouse has insisted she is on the road to recovery after collapsing from a drugs overdose.The 23-year-old, who is notorious for her wild partying, was treated in a London hospital last week after taking a cocktail of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine and the horse tranquiliser ketamine.

However, after spending a weekend in “crisis” talks with his daughter, former taxi driver Mitch Winehouse said he was confident she would pull through.
Amy Winehouse Admits Massive Overdose, Refuses Rehab, “Will Be Fine” – Entertainment on The Huffington Post

One might think that, but then there’s this:

Courtney Love is being sued by Beau Monde International for $181,286, who claim she didn’t pay her rehab bill.

Courtney checked into the Orange County, California center in 2005.
The rocker put up the $10,000 to check in, but failed to pay the
$10,000 a week tab for the remainder of her two week stay.
Courtney Love Sued For Failing To Pay For Rehab | Pop Crunch

So maybe Amy really does know best (doubt it!).

A couple of items on Erratic (or is that Erotic) Songstress Amy Winehouse in today’s Independent:

They rule the pop charts with their acerbic lyrics, and their outrageous antics are well-documented in the tabloid gossip pages.

Now Britain’s two most notorious pop princesses will go head to head at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards after Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse were both nominated for the best new artist award.

Winehouse is also up for best female artist and best video of the year for her hit single “Rehab”.
MTV sets the stage for the battle of the pop princesses – Independent Online Edition > News

And the denouement:

Amy Winehouse yesterday cancelled her shows this week in Scandinavia. Instead of boarding her flight to Norway to perform at two festivals, I hear that she was admitted to London’s University College Hospital. The gaunt-looking singer’s spokesman said last night that she is suffering from “severe exhaustion”.

Her hospitalisation sets alarm bells ringing. The erratic songstress, pictured yesterday morning, is known as much for her boozy benders and last-minute show cancellations as for her two Ivor Novello awards. She has suffered from eating disorders and depression and has self-harmed in the past.
‘Exhausted’ Amy cancels shows after hospital visit – Independent Online Edition > Pandora

One thing about Wit of the Staircase, Theresa Duncan’s hyper-cool blog, which always left Pawn more than a little perplexed was Theresa’s fascination with, and defence of, all things Kate Moss. One cannot even count the number of times that Ms Moss or Pete Doherty (her Babyshambles fronting, heroin addicted boyfriend) appeared photographically on Wit, but it must number around a hundred.

We’re sure Theresa, were she still blogging, would have posted something about this:

Doherty seemed prepared to put the couple’s unhappy history with the newspaper aside yesterday by selecting it as the place to lay bare his feelings for her, in the hope of winning her back.
Not all of Doherty’s prose may delight Moss (he describes her as a “nasty old rag” who “kicked me in the head”), but since she reads the paper, he believes his appeal through its pages might work. “Take me back. Kate if you love me then realise I don’t want any other girl. I’m here to tell her that I love her,” the Babyshambles frontman said. “We fell out for the same old reason. She accused me of fucking this girl who lives around the corner. She’s got an awful temper. I grabbed my guitar and books and said, ‘I’m never going to be treated this way again’.”
Ms Moss is reported to have called in removal men to get rid of all of his possessions and has changed her locks, though the musician says she called him in a drunken state recently singing the Breakfast at Tiffany’s classic “Moon River”.
Thirty ways to win back your lover – Independent Online Edition > This Britain

After Theresa and Jeremy Blake (her artist/lover/paramour) passed away this past month (by whatever means) a friend of Pawn began to read up on her and expressed a similar bafflement at the Kate Moss addiction. “She is so much better looking, so much more beautiful than Moss. She should have been modeling.” Here then, some pictures of Theresa to recently appear on the web.