Winehouse blames 'illness' as French festival fumes

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

LONDON (AFP) — Amy Winehouse pulled out of the Rock en Seine festival outside Paris after falling ill at home, the troubled singer's spokesman said Saturday as the furious organisers vowed to sue.

Rock en Seine had to scrap the headline gig at two hours' notice and has now threatened legal action against the 24-year-old. It is the second year in a row that the British soul singer has pulled out of the festival.

"Amy Winehouse was regrettably unable to perform at the Rock en Seine show in Paris, due to illness," her spokesman Chris Goodman said.

"She was taken ill at her house and wasn't able to travel to France for the concert."

Some 25,000 concert-goers were waiting for the singer to appear on stage in Saint-Cloud outside the French capital.

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