Amy Winehouse's new boyfriend "obsessed with becoming rich and famous"

Amy Winehouse's new boyfriend, Alex Haynes, is obsessed with becoming rich and famous, it was claimed yesterday.

Haynes -- who has been described as a "clean-cut mummy's boy from Gloucestershire" -- has been dating the married 'Rehab' singer amid claims he will prove a calming influence.

But friends of the 24-year-old -- who is the assistant of Amy's manager -- say he is fiercely ambitious and his geeky appearance hides a love of raucous partying.

One friend told the Mirror: "I'm shocked he's ended up with Amy but more surprised by talk of him being a good influence.

"He's into clubbing and everything that goes with it. He knows how to have a good time, put it that way.

"The other thing that motivates him is money. He always said he would do anything to get rich and he would love to be famous too."

Several pictures of Alex have also emerged. One, on social website Facebook, captioned "Alex tripping", shows him stripped to the waist at a drug-felled Thai beach party as he dances with his eyes half-shut.

In another picture, he swigs from a bottle in a Canadian bar while in a third he larks around with the Grammy Award winner in a flat.

But Alex's stepdad insists he is clean-living and that he has never had a long-term girlfriend.

Roger, 50, of Aylburton, Glos, said: "He'd never get involved in drugs and doesn't drink much. Alex can only be a positive influence."