Whitney Houston Blames A/C For Warbling Woes

The body was there, but "The Voice" didn't show up in Greenwich last night. Whitney Houston's sold-out crowd were treated to a "bloated and bedraggled" performance in which the singer failed to coax her vocal cords into the skyscraping registers that made her career. To her credit, Houston acknowledged her misplaced chops, and blamed the air conditioning in the O2. But punters weren't pleased: "I remember her 20 years ago, she's not a patch on what she was", was the verdict from Dave of Plymouth, a man clearly pregnant with the elixir of eternal youth.