Mr. Winehouse In Jail For Xmas

Amy Winehouse reportedly shed tears in court as a judge told husband Blake Fielder-Civil he will be spending Christmas behind bars.

She was said to have blown kisses from the public gallery of the court as he made a November 23 appearance to be charged with trying to bribe a pub landlord to drop an assault allegation against him.

Fielder-Civil was refused bail and may face a lengthy stay in London’s Pentonville Prison as Judge David Radford "pencilled in" the trial for June 23.

He will certainly remain there until January 18, when he’ll be back in court along with two other men to enter a plea to a charge of perverting justice.

He allegedly offered James King, the licensee of The Macbeth pub in Hoxton, east London, a large sum of cash to leave the country and withdraw a claim over an attack said to have taken place in June.

Fielder-Civil and his co-defendant Michael Brown, of Carshalton, Surrey, both deny assaulting King. A third man is accused of involvement in the plot.

Throughout the previous week the papers monitored Winehouse’s U.K. tour, following an opening night in Birmingham where she looked as if she had more than just "one more for the road."

The sections of the media that weren’t already camped out on the doorstep of her London home appear to have been at the gig, getting their knives sharpened to carve up a show that the Daily Telegraph described as "a shambolic and apparently drunken performance."

Winehouse reportedly left the National Indoor Arena crowd less than wowed by repeatedly dedicating songs to her husband.

Most papers detailed Winehouse’s performance from its "slow and slurry start," focusing on how she responded to the boos from the audience by saying: "Let me tell you something. First of all, if you’re booing you’re a mug for buying a ticket. Second, to all those booing, just wait till my husband gets out of incarceration. And I mean that."

She cried "Blakey" at the end of "Back To Black" and mournfully told the punters: "Nothing’s going to bring my husband back," before dedicating another song to her husband.

Apart from the Daily Mirror reporting another hiccup or two at her November 24 gig at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, most of the first week’s reviews pointed out that Winehouse’s talent can still rise above her tempestuous private life in London.