Amy Winehouse caught on video singing racist chants

Amy Winehouse performing at the Brit Awards 2008 in London on February 20. (AP)

Last update - 20:38 08/06/2008

Amy Winehouse caught on video singing racist chant about 'gooks,' 'pakis'

By Haaretz Service

A video showing British singer Amy Winehouse singing a racist chant and apparently surrounded by drug paraphernalia has been released by The News of The World tabloid. In the home footage, filmed by the Grammy Award-winning singer's husband Blake Fielder-Civic, Winehouse sings a racist football chant to the tune of the British children's song 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes'. In place of the conventional words, however, Winehouse sings with a friend: 'Blacks, pakis, gooks and nips.' The clip shows a coffee table in the background upon which six cigarette lighters are resting, alongside a substance which looks like heroin on a foil. According to the British tabloid, it received the video from a friend of the 24-year-old singer's, who also handed over a number of photographs in which Winehouse is seen apparently taking drugs with Fielder-Civic. Fielder-Civic, 26, is currently in jail facing trial for Grievous Bodily Harm, in addition to conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. In another section of the video he asks Winehouse to perform a sex act on him in the public stairwell of a hotel. The British newspaper The Daily Mail reported that the troubled singer apologized on Sunday for her racist words, speaking to photographers on the steps of her London home.