By Sheri

AMY WINEHOUSE IN HER BETTER DAYS… NOT!!!

In a ‘there’s a switch’ moment that happened recently, Amy Winehouse, known for her totally wasted looking and out of line behavior in public over the years, received an apology for someone else’s drunken behavior. The SODIP (Seen Often as Drunk In Public) Amy Winehouse received an unexpected telephone call from British comedian, Russell Brand.

Brand called Winehouse to apologize on behalf of his father, Ronnie, after he found out that a drunk and loudly obnoxious Ronnie was all over Amy Winehouse in a London pub, The Hawley Arms, trying to give her a hug. A blonde female pub patron was reported to have pushed and slapped Ronnie away from Amy. Winehouse reportedly laughed the whole incident off (did she even remember it?) but was appreciative of Russell Brand’s phone apology.

It seems Brand’s no stranger to apologizing. After a huge incident last year involving the BBC, Brand’s radio show on the network, Radio2, and Andrew Sachs, the actor best known for playing Manuel on Fawlty Towers, he got pretty good at it. It seems Russell Brand, who does stand up comedy and has a new movie out – Get Him to the Greek – and a few other guys, caused over 5,000 listeners to complain when they made an impromptu radio skit that involved calling Andrew Sachs and leaving lewd, sexual messages about Sach’s granddaughter on his answering machine. Brand apologized, but ended up getting suspended and the BBC got a 150K fine.

Amy Winehouse was said to be drinking at the bar during the Ronnie Brand incident (well what else would she be in a pub for?) so I guess that means, she’s still sayin’ “no, no, no” to rehab… like her song. Amy’s said to be working on a followup album to her super hit Back to Black. Her father, Mitch Winehouse, 59. who used to drive cabs in London, has just released a swing music album of his own called “Rush of Love to the Heart.”