I saw this coming years ago when everyone thought she was so great.
This is what you get when you elevate talentless young tramps to super stardom.

I really hope she gets the accepts the help she needs, if only for the sake of those poor little boys.

Geez, even the guy who married her and then saw the marriage annulled 2 days later didn't sound *that* bitter.

As fun as it would be to bash her, I feel bad for her. She's lost everything including her dignity. If only Justin never left....

She's going to need REAL rehabilitation to make it healthy and safe for her to be around those kids. I hate to sound cruel, but they may be better off hearing "Your mother loved you, but she was sick" years from now rather than have to endure a childhood like this.

Who could possibly care about this person? Why can't she be ignored? She is hardly a role model for anything other than how not to live your life.

She's a real sicko it appears. Perhaps the courts will take their blinders off and revoke her visitation rights for a long, long time.

hey! we get a three-day break! maybe the media will report something worthwhile!?

They should base her stay on the bizarre events from 2006 through 2008 (not just last night) and lenghten the lockdown accordingly.

No outside influences, just Brit and a medical team and maybe a cleansing regimen to combat her eating habits.

This is so pathetic. Someone made reference to 'Cops' yesterday & that's exactly what that picture looks like, some drunk being dragged away against their will. BTW, it doesn't look like she's even wearing clothes.

This chick needs serious help. About the only thing she hasn't done is lay a beat-down on someone with a hubcap. Sad.

Liz Kelly, can you provide a link to the WaPo home page for our new friend '16828'? He/she can't seem to find the news pages...

Nice, Byoolin.

Like most of the others here, I have to feel bad for Britney at this point. Clearly she's completely out to lunch and needs serious medical attention. Hopefully she'll get it and the courts will keep her away from the kids until she does.

How many years til this is a movie?

Um - I'm more astonished by the photo of her - it looks like it was taken while she was INSIDE of the ambulance.

Geez, paps - no one needs to see that, and those that want to really shouldn't be catered to.

damn it.... and i thought all those people who put her in their deadpool were jumping the gun

those kids would be better off in witness protection... relocate them, change their names, allow adoption by a responsible family.

b - I would take them - they really are adorable little guys - except that oddly enough, I think they are best with their father. And, I know from personal experience that complete separation from one's biological mother is not good regardless of how many other wonderful people step into that role for you. Even if she's gone round the bend, the boys will actually be better off if they can see her in some safely monitored situations. (Maybe the court appointed monitor was in the john when all this chaos occurred???)
Anyway, it's very sad and I truely hope that she gets the help she needs and recovers and gets on with being a mom, and a human being, if not a superstar poptart.

Em, this has Lifetime "Moment of Truth" movie written all over it.

16828, you are on a blog called CELEBRITOLOGY, if you want real news go to the top on this page and click on the "NEWS" tab.

I am sick of people bypassing article after article of real news to get to this blog and then complain about the lack of real news.

Chasmosaur -- If you saw the CNN coverage of the Britney breakdown you would have been astonished (not really)at the number of photographers snapping through the windows of the closed ambulance doors after Britney was loaded in. Truly amazing in a slightly sick way.

Britney needs to go away for a very, very long time and get well, if she can. Those boys need to stay away from her for a very very long time. I certainly hope that they have very poor long-term memories and, when the day comes that Mama is well they won't remember any of this craziness.

What can possibly qualify as a "bizarre incident" in Britney Spear's life at this point? Bizarre is just understood at this point.

"They should base her stay on the bizarre events from 2006 through 2008 (not just last night) and lenghten the lockdown accordingly. "

From what I understand (from dealing with troubled friend not legal/psychological expertise so I could be wrong and it may differ from state to state)a person can only be commited for 72-hours after that they can be realeased unless they committed a crime and can be sentenced but even then they can choose jail over a psychward. During the 72 hour lockdown they try to convince the person to stay.

Hey, does anyone know if the kids are okay? This morning on the news, they showed one of the little boys being taken on an ambulance. I was wondering if there were any updates on her little boys.

ahh byoolin your witiness continues to amaze and cause giggles. i bow down to your snarkines.

She's totally nuts, loves the attention, and will continue her spiral downhill as long as there is a reporter and papparazzi on her trail. Ignore the talentless little bimbo and maybe she'll go away. Put the kids up for adoption since the loser who married her isn't much better.

All this is because the Jan. 2 Celebritology included how "2008 was a good year for Brit, so far." Did Liz jinx her?

Not to break away from the 16828 bashing, but I believe he/she was referring to the "real" news sites, not celebrity-based ones, that constantly focus on Britney non-news. Her being away for three days will force those people to focus on more important stuff and maybe even make Liz and other celebritologists dig a little deeper for a more diverse smattering of gossip.

or, more likely, it will force all of them to bribe hospital workers at Cedar Siani for a good scoop.

"How did Britney like her oatmeal this morning? Is her hair still a mess?"

Case in point: "This morning on the news, they showed one of the little boys being taken on an ambulance."

I sure hope Chris Crocker is alright.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but part of me is facinated w/ the train wreck that is BS. I'm always refreshing to see if there's a new development.

The other part of me feels badly for her. I've seen video of the pap. follwing her everywere, monitoring her every move. She really just can't go anywhere with out being watched. She's always on display, like an animal, and her cage is our computer screen, celebrity magazine, and TV. At some point you can't help but be amazed by the whole situation.

I don't judge and I don't offer a solution becuase I realize I am part of why it happenes.

Lisa de Moraes is hereby nominated for an honorary Celebritology Comment Of The Week, based on this exchange in the "On TV" chat on this website:

Alexandria, Va.: Because there are no chats where this question would be exactly relevant, I'll ask you: Who do you think had the worse time last night, Hillary or Britney?

Lisa de Moraes: I'm guessing Hillary because there were no paramedics on hand....

Mental illness, addiction, acting out, demanding attention at any cost--this is the aftermath when adults sexualize a child and turn her into a product without regard to seeing to her development as a human being. Many people made money off Britney, and lots of it (not just her bloodsucking mother). She was marketed to children! She helped make stripper and porn-star chic mainstream years ago! Of course, not a single one of those people is there for her now. Now many teenagers seem to have nude photos of themselves on myspace pages, demanding attention and acting out. People laugh at celebrities, especially the young female trainwrecks, as if it's a big joke. I think there will be a whole generation of lost young women like this--not just celebs, but others thinking that this sort of behavior is ok, and parents that either don't care or think it's just a phase. The celebs usually have money and safety nets but regular people don't.

she is on 14-day detention now, apparently.

All of this is making me rethink my celebrity-related New Year's wish as follows:

-Kevin Federline and Shar Jackson rekindle their romance, get married and raise their adorable blended brood in relative anonymity while earning a respectable living in supporting roles on family oriented sit-coms and movies.

-Britney Spears suddenly channels Drew Barrymore. She lays low for several years obtaining the best substance abuse and mental health treatment her money can buy. Sobriety has a surprising effect; a heretofore unknown acting talent brings her critical acclaim as she makes her comeback in a series of independent films. She becomes the darling of Cannes and Sundance. She launches a highly successful line of organic, fairly traded children's personal care products.

Mark Vincent Kaplan produces the 2025 Federline Family Christmas special for the ABC Family Channel, reuniting the whole happy family and heralding Britney's trimuphant return to her musical roots.

"somebody" - you said it the best. No need to say more.

Amen, somebody.

Yes - Amen, somebody. Very well put.

Not trying to nitpick too much but...for the first posted, plenty of far mroe talented people have self-destructed in even more spectacular ways. So far Miss Spears hasn't become and hardcore drug addict nor has she at least officialy attempted suicide. Inumerable rockers and actors/actresses have gone that route and lost completely, so it's not just elevating a label puppet to stardom that's at work here.

I hope she does get help and then goes very far away from a long time. She needs real help, not sychiphants.

Don't know if anyone here saw the final episode of Extras, but Ricky Gervais' monologue at the end points to the bizarre cycle of celebrity behavior, those who document it, and those who willingly read and look. I'm part of this cycle (embarassingly), but as RG says, would people care if this stuff wasn't reported? I know I wouldn't. But if its there, a-la-car accident, I look. Plus where else on the web can we get byoolin?

What bothered me most as I read MSN's article about this poor little bunny's travails is that the pararazzi were banging on the ambulance door once she got to the hospital. http://music.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=291008>1=7702

It's horrible enough that she had a meltdown/breakdown, then had her kids taken away, then was lugged into an ambulance, but then to have people banging on the door once you're incapaciated?! OY! That's just cruel. Let her be.

I think it is possible that Britney Spears is not behaving any differently from the way she has always behaved. Willfull and self-indulgent have been her long established M.O.

The difference now is that the divorce and her husband's attorneys have introduced an adversarial element to her life. A legal adversarial element.

Before that, everyone around her was wall-to-wall Team Britney. Yes, Britney. Whatever you say, Britney. How cute, Britney.

Suddenly, the dynamics have changed and the filter through which she is being viewed is affecting the perception.

But I think she is the same person she has always been.

What do you expect when the celebrity press no longer has Anna Nicole for their daily fix?

What can we do to put all the Presidential candidates, their retinues and the press corps into 72-hour lockdown? Lord knows those excuses for humans need help as much as BS does.

Hmmm..there seems to be a BS theme running through this thread. Coincidence?

4:12 p.m., you may be right, but it doesn't make it any less sad.

You know, if the MSM would just stop reporting about her, a lot of her problems would go away.

That said, this is yet another indictment of the flawed Disney kid farm. The sooner that is killed off and the kids have normal lives, the better for America.

(used to be a Disney shareholder)

Ooooh, I don't think 72 hours is gonna do it for this gal. 72 days might be a good start...

Those poor babies. But maybe their pops will now be so busy caring for them that he won't have time to spawn any more little Federtots. That would be a silver lining.

well, excuse me byoolin, I've always been such a fan of yours.

FWIW, I learned of the Brit-situation from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17711714. Yes, that's the NPR website where I was reading up on the morning's news. Then I ran straight here.

(sigh)

thanks to 01:34pm.

to pnina (from much earlier) -

Ah - I guess that's why I didn't see...I don't watch cable news, except for BBC News America. I follow my news during the day from online sources (WaPo being one of them). I lost my stomach for TV coverage a long while ago. (Columbine to be exact - the morning after, Katie Couric was interviewing weeping parent after weeping parent - I thought it was revolting.)

I watched cable news exactly twice last year: once for the Va Tech stuff (I'm a NoVa native with ties to VT living in Western Wisconsin - our local stations had nothing on it), and once for the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse ('cause I actually drove on that bridge and some of our friends have kids at U of M and details were hard to come by, but rumor was flying everywhere).

But even then, I only watched it for a little bit - the repetition of visual horror and interviewing grieving loved ones doesn't really do anything for me.

Well, she finally lost custody and visitation per the most recent AP/AOL story:

LOS ANGELES (Jan. 4) - A court commissioner Friday gave sole physical and legal custody of Britney Spears ' two little boys to ex-husband Kevin Federline and suspended the troubled pop star's visitation rights.

Let's hope the judge doesn't change his mnd and give her rights back as soon as she follows one single order.

For those who think we won't hear from Brit for 3 days. Please remember how hopeful we were to not hear about Paris for 3 weeks when she went to jail? How many news stories were there -- even after she was put back in jail.

It is not completely the paparrazi's fault. Sure News choppers and banging on the ambulance were out of line. But, they did not make her get drunk around the kids and then refuse to return them. They did not make her defy EVERY SINGLE order from the judge. Brit is an adult. I am not buying the mentally ill excuse (unless a professional says it). She is acting this way because she wants to. She could just as easily choose to act in a mature fashion. Until she does, the paps are going to follow her around because she is always good for a story.

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This girl is pathetic but overall she needs prayers and lots of help.
The media circus on her is even more pathetic.