Amy Winehouse’s husband Blake Fielder-Civil was released from jail Wednesday - and checked straight into rehab, a source confirms to PEOPLE.

Fielder-Civil, 26, was released nearly a year to the day after he was first arrested. On Nov. 8, 2007, eight plainclothes officers handcuffed him at his flat - while a hysterical Winehouse looked on - on charges stemming from a pub brawl of assault and perverting the course of justice. On June 5, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 27 months. Prisoners serve half their sentences, and by that point, Fielder-Civil had already served 254 days.

For his release, Fielder-Civil wore jeans, a red-and-white striped t-shirt, his trademark trilby - and a big smile. His only outward signs of having served time: a chipped front tooth and red scratches down his arms.

As part of the terms of his early release, Fielder-Civil has checked into rehab - something his mother told PEOPLE in October she didn’t think was the answer.

Asked what she thought was the answer, Georgette Civil said: “Coming home to us.”

It could still be weeks before Winehouse is reunited with her husband since rehab centers typically don’t allow visitors at the beginning stages of recovery.

Winehouse’s London rep had no comment, and Fielder-Civil’s lawyer did not immediately return telephone calls.

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After a weekend at home, Amy Winehouse has returned to the hospital for ongoing treatment.

The 25-year-old singer, whose well-documented substance abuse has triggered a string of medical interventions, spent the past week being treated at the London Clinic. She left the hospital on Friday, but checked back in Monday.

“She had a chest infection %26#91;last week%26#93; and underwent some tests to make sure nothing else was wrong,” a source tells PEOPLE. (Earlier this year, doctors diagnosed the Grammy-award-winning chanteuse with scarring of the lungs.)

Is Winehouse finally committed to getting healthy?

“She has been told to give up smoking and was initially struggling with that - she was covered in nicotine patches at one point,” says the source. “But she is making an effort.”

Despite her health woes, Winehouse has been recording tracks in her home studio for an upcoming album, her London-based rep, Chris Goodman, tells PEOPLE.

The 25-year-old has even been learning to play the drums, he adds. “We’ll have to see how that plays out on the next album.”

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Singer Amy Winehouse was hospitalized Saturday for tests on her chest and lungs, her London spokesman confirms to PEOPLE.

The 25-year-old singer - who was hospitalized in June with a severe lung ailment - had a doctor visit her at home Thursday.

Then, over the weekend, “they wanted to do some tests as a precaution,” her spokesman Chris Goodman told PEOPLE. “Obviously she had lung and chest problems which she had treatment for not so long ago, so they’re just making sure.”

The troubled singer was taken to the London Clinic, where earlier this year she was treated for drug problems. “She’s fine,” Goodman said on Monday. “Should be back home today.”

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Amy Winehouse has been forced to cancel a European festival performance due to illness.

The singer, 24, was due to take to the stage at the Rock en Seine show in Paris on Friday night, but the singer’s U.K. rep, Chris Goodman, confirmed she was too unwell and had to cancel. “She was taken ill at her house and wasn’t able to travel to France for the concert,” Goodman said in statement.

But her rep Goodman insists the illness is “normal” and nothing to do with medication or her battle with drugs. “It’s nothing serious,” Goodman tells PEOPLE. “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.”

Winehouse’s next scheduled performance is on Sept. 6 when she is due to headline the Bestival music festival on the Isle of Wight in England.

Amy Winehouse has been discharged from the hospital 12 hours after she was rushed to an emergency room, PEOPLE has confirmed.

“Amy is fine and she is on her way home,” says her U.K. rep, Chris Goodman.

Winehouse, 24, was taken by ambulance from her home in north London to the University College Hospital on Monday night after suffering what was believed to be a seizure. Wrapped in a red blanket, she was taken to the vehicle in a wheelchair while her dad Mitch looked on.

The setback was part of her struggle to get clean, the rep insists. (Both the singer and her incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, have a history of drug problems.)

“She was taking a new %26#91;medication%26#93; as part of her anti-drug treatment program,” says Goodman. “And it was an adverse reaction to that new drug. You have to try different things but unfortunately this was not the right one.”

She also spent a brief stint in rehab this year.

Winehouse’s rep claims the troubled singer plans to take it easy in the coming months.

“She has a few gigs to perform,” says Goodman. “After %26#91;playing a few summer%26#93; festivals, she is going to continue writing her new album. It will be rest and writing.”

Amy Winehouse was rushed to the emergency room of a London hospital Monday, her rep says.

The troubled 24-year-old singer was taken by ambulance from her home to University College Hospital, her U.K. spokesman Chris Goodman confirms to PEOPLE.

The singer’s American rep tells PEOPLE: “Amy has been taken to the hospital. We are not releasing any other information at this time.”

Late last month, the Grammy-winning Winehouse was released from the hospital after a stay of more than 10 days for what her rep characterized as treatment for a “chest infection.” At the time, her rep said she would be continuing treatment on an outpatient basis.

Amy Winehouse’s wacky - and waxy - likeness has now been officially immortalized, along with her tattoos.

The singer’s parents, Mitch and Janis, unveiled their daughter’s wax figure at Madame Tussauds London on Wednesday, with her father calling its likeness “perfection.”

“This is the reward for her musical achievements and her talent,” he told reporters.

The waxwork’s outfit replicates the one Winehouse wore to 2007’s Brit Awards - a bright yellow mini-dress with towering black heels.

Although the real-life Winehouse, 24, was a no-show at Wednesday’s little ceremony, her father said she plans to see the figure for herself in the next two weeks.

Amy Winehouse’s husband Blake Fielder-Civil will stay in jail until Christmas, a London judge ruled Monday.

Fielder-Civil received a 27-month sentence after pleading guilty June 5 to charges of assault and perverting the course of justice. Prisoners serve half their sentences, and Fielder-Civil has already served 254 days (about 9 months).

Blake’s lawyer Kate Anderson told reporters, “We are disappointed with the length of the sentence and are giving serious consideration to an appeal.”

“Don’t worry,” he mouthed to her across the court.

At first, his mother let out a gasp of joy - and Fielder-Civil hugged his co-defendant Michael Brown - when they mistakenly thought the judge was releasing him to a private drug treatment program, as his lawyer had suggested. They were crestfallen when the judge went on to sentence him to further time in jail.

“You behaved in a gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful way,” Judge David Radford told Fielder-Civil.

“I think he got the maximum,” Georgette Civil told reporters afterward. “I can’t even talk about it.” Earlier, she was heard crying to a friend: “He’s not going to be out until December.”

Fielder-Civil’s best friend Sophie Schandorff sobbed as she paced outside the court, speaking on her mobile phone.

When Fielder-Civil is released in December, Winehouse will be waiting for him - at least according to Fielder-Civil’s other lawyer, Jeremy Dein.

“It is their ambition to divorce themselves from hard drugs and not separate from each other,” Dein told the court. He argued that Fielder-Civil had committed his crimes in a state “befuddled by drugs and alcohol” and that he’d taken cocaine and was “drinking heavily.” Dein recommended that his client be released and sent to a private drug treatment program, but the judge pointed out that treatment would still be an option upon release.)

Fielder-Civil wants to stay off drugs and “be a role model for Miss Winehouse,” Dein said. “He knows that if he fails, then an appointment with calamity waits not just for himself but for his wife. It will be impossible for her to alienate herself from drugs if he continues to befriend them.”

She didn’t sing, but Amy Winehouse still put on a show Thursday night - dancing and painting her nails as she deejayed at a club in London.

Winehouse, 24, arrived at the Monarch bar - waving a shoe at a photographer on her way in - to face DJ Bioux in a battle of the turntables at the DJ event Snakehips At The Monarch.

With the Union Jack flag and a string of blue lights as her backdrop, she sorted through vinyl records of songs mainly from the ’50s and ’60s. The club night was more of a collaboration than a battle, with DJ Bioux spinning and mixing the oldies songs, including “Wooly Bully,” “Love Potion No. 9″ and “My Boy Lollipop,” for the packed venue.

Winehouse also showed her devotion to her jailed husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, 26, wearing a red heart with his name clipped to her trademark beehive and a midriff-baring shirt printed with the words “Blake’s Girl.”

As the night was winding down, fans yelled out to Winehouse to host an after-party at her home. The singer didn’t answer them, but later left in a taxi as photographers chased after her.

This time, luckily no one got hurt: Just two nights before, the singer got in her fourth altercation in two weeks, allegedly hitting her own bodyguard as she made her way through a crowd of photographers outside her house.

Amy Winehouse’s neighbors don’t care so much if she goes to rehab - they just want her to move out of her North London flat.

Following new reports that the singer allegedly attacked her bodyguard on Tuesday night, neighbors near the $1.4 million rental property Winehouse has lived in for the last four months tell U.K. media they are tiring of her late-night antics and the paparazzi presence outside the apartment.

“This place used to be a nice, quiet area until Amy moved in,” said a neighbor who has videotaped some of the disturbances to the U.K.’s Daily Mirror. “She’s nothing but trouble and every night she is partying. If she’s not inviting friends around to live it up, she is starting fights.”

Photos show the singer grabbing the face of a man believed to be one of her security guards, and pushing him backward while he winces.

A Winehouse pal explains that it was “pandemonium” outside her house as she returned from a night out, and that she didn’t realize he was one of her bodyguards.

“Amy thought it was someone else blocking her way as she tried to get back into her home,” says the friend. “There was lots of pushing and shoving and cameras going off and he was just trying to clear the way. She has apologized to him.”

A rep for the singer had no comment.

It is the second time this week the performer has reportedly been involved in a physical altercation - and her fourth in two weeks.

The other three incidents? Earlier this week, Winehouse allegedly attacked a fan inside a pub and outside her home. And on June 28, she allegedly scuffled with another fan at the Glastonbury music festival.

• Reporting by SIMON PERRY