Winehouse stable in hospital: spokesman

Troubled British soul singer Amy Winehouse was in a stable condition Monday evening after being rushed to a London hospital's accident and emergency unit earlier, a hospital spokesman said.

He added that Winehouse will stay in hospital overnight, and was expected to return home Tuesday if she had a comfortable night, but noted that medics will take a decision in the morning.

The 24-year-old's spokesman Chris Goodman said she "suffered a reaction to medication at home this evening and was taken to hospital."

"Doctors have advised that she will be kept under observation overnight and is likely to be released tomorrow."

Goodman had earlier said that paramedics had been called to Winehouse's home in north London, and that she had been taken to University College Hospital.

"We were called at approximately 8:40 pm (1940 GMT) to an address (in north London) ... to reports of an adult female taken unwell," a London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said.

"We sent an ambulance and a fast response car and the patient has been taken to hospital."

The Grammy-award-winning "Back To Black" star, a recovering drug addict, was diagnosed with lung condition emphysema last month, and her father said earlier this month he feared she could die "a very slow and painful death" if she did not remain on the straight and narrow.

(Agencies)