Amy Winehouse's Ambitious Father

A. Everything at the moment is under control. Sometimes - and I'm not talking about Amy - but sometimes other addictions come after another addiction. One of Amy's positive addictions is she's got her own gym. She's in the gym three or four hours a day. I mean boy is she fit - really, really fit. So that's a really positive addiction. But addictions can come in groups. It can be buying stuff, buying stuff that's not necessary. She's been through that as well. The whole process is one of recovery.

Plus, all her friends have supported her all the time. They're a very good network of people, so she spends a lot of time with them.

Q. We keep hearing reports she plans to remarry her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil. Is there any truth in this?

A. You are joking me, right? You are kidding me! No. No wedding. No.

Q. What's next for Amy?

A. Amy's always focussing on her music. She's always focussing on that. Hopefully there'll be an album out next year and we will go from strength to strength. She's never going to be a prolific writer. You're never going to get an album every six months out of her, because as you know, each one of her songs that she writes is dragged out of her guts. There's a lot of emotional turmoil that goes into writing an album for her. I really wouldn't want her to be releasing them all the time.

Q. Now you're branching out into a showbiz career of your own, what's next for you?

A. I've got an album coming out in March. It's a kind of jazz, swing album. It'll be nice. But it probably won't be with Amy's label Lioness Records because people will only say I've got the deal because I'm her dad. We've just got two more tracks to do, so we're not worried about it. We know we'll get a deal one way or another.

Q. Will Amy and her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield do some backing vocals for you?

A. No. I'm not having them on my album. I want proper stars on my album like David Hasselhoff. I know he's very successful in Germany, but I've never actually heard him sing.

By Rachel Jones.

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