Quirky World... Mandela had soft spot for Winehouse

BROWN REVEALS AMY-MANDELA JAIL JOKE

The ex-Labour leader said the pair met at former South African president Mr Mandela’s 90th birthday party, at which Rehab singer Winehouse made a joke comparing the anti-apartheid campaigner to her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil.

In an interview with the Guardian’s G2 magazine, Brown said of Mandela: “The person he most liked was Amy Winehouse.