Here’s a shocker: At the last minute, Amy Winehouse pulled out of a concert in Paris on Friday night because she was too sick to perform.

The trouble-stricken Brit, who’s been hospitalized twice since June, was too ill to make the trip from her home in London to the City of Lights for the Rock En Seine festival.

Her spokesman Chris Goodman told People, “It’s nothing serious. It’s just a normal illness—she hasn’t visited a hospital or anything like that. She’s at home in bed, just unable to sing.”

On the festival’s official blog (in French), organizers say they weren’t given an exact reason for her absence and that they may seek legal action.

The 24-year-old chanteuse is due to perform at next weekend’s Bestival festival on England’s Isle of Wight.

Ticket holders, don’t hold your breath…

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Johnny Depp returned to his musical roots Friday night, reuniting with his old band The Kids for a fund-raiser in Florida.

With his girlfriend, Vanessa Paradis, and their 9-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose, screaming in the crowd of 2,500, the Oscar-nominated actor strapped on a guitar and sang backup vocals during the power-pop group’s 90-minute set.

The second annual Sheila Witkin Memorial Reunion Concert honors The Kids’ late manager, who was well known in South Florida’s music scene. All proceeds from the benefit go to the Dan Marino Foundation, which funds programs for children with special needs. The band also reunited in January 2007 for the same cause.

The 45-year-old actor joined The Kids when he was a high school student in Miramar, Fla., and moved to Los Angeles with them in search of a record deal. After the band broke up, Depp decided to pursue a career in acting.

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Shannen Doherty has hit out at Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan – insisting they deserve to get negative press for flashing photographers without wearing underwear.

The 37-year-old star was branded a ‘bad girl’ during her stint on hit show Beverly Hills, 90210 during the height of her acting career in the 1990s.

But she insists her own outlandish behavior never matched that of Spears and Lohan – who have been snapped in a series of photographs without their underwear.

She says, “You know, you play a character; people perceive you as the character. I guess it means I did my job. But what did I do?! I went out. I was 18 years old! At 18, you’re going to sorority parties. I just did it in the public eye. I certainly wasn’t showing my crotch. Just because I was on 90210 didn’t mean that I didn’t get to have my own real life experiences. You have to live somewhat normally.”

And Doherty says she’s already made plans to settle far away from the limelight, where she hopes to start a family.

She adds: “I’m just a normal person who likes to play with my dogs and ride my horses. I dream of moving back to the South every single day of my life now. I’m actually looking at places in Mississippi and Tennessee… I definitely want a child. Or two. Not sure on the two.”

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Diane Kruger isn’t up for a trophy at this year’s Venice film festival, but Wednesday she received a prize of a different sort.

“I just found out I’m going to do [Quentin] Tarantino’s next film with Brad Pitt,” Kruger told People at the Valentino party in Venice Thursday. “I’m very excited. Quentin just called. I play a German movie star but I don’t want to give too much away.”

Kruger was in Venice sans boyfriend Joshua Jackson, who’s “working – he has a job, you know.” But, the actress added, “He comes in on Saturday so I’m excited for that, too.”

Kruger said she was “fashionably busy” at the film festival. Besides the Valentino premiere and party, where she sat next to the designer at the film’s screening, wearing a beige gown he picked out for her, she’s also attending a party Sunday for Jaeger Le Coutre, the Swiss watch company she promotes.

Kruger previously worked with Pitt in Troy.

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Contrary to a report, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are not opening a bar in NYC.

“It’s not true,” Pratt tells Usmagazine.com.

W magazine’s Editor’s Blog had reported that the Hills duo are “in talks to open a bar” in the Murray Hill area called The Hill.

Though Montag endorsed John McCain for president, the couple doesn’t have plans to attend the upcoming Republican National Convention.

“I don’t think we have enough time,” Montag told Extra on Wednesday.

Before McCain’s selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, Montag suggested, “I am McCain’s vice president! Go Team!”

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