Celebritology Archive: Britney Spears
Britney's Not Pregnant, Y'All. Calm Down.
No bun in this oven, says Britney Spears's manager. (AP) As reported in this morning's Mix, Ryan Seacrest let fly with one whopper of a rumor yesterday: that the gossip world's fave erstwhile pop-wreck, Britney Spears, was pregnant. This morning, though, tabloid editors and a handful of paparazzi agencies had their hopes quashed when Brit's manager, Adam Leber, firmly denied any rumors that another bun was cooking in Spears's oven. Leber shared this enervating revelation with blogger to the stars Perez Hilton: "She's absolutely not pregnant. I have no idea where this ridiculous rumor came from. Ryan has communication with our camp and could have checked this before saying it." Darn tootin', Adam Leber. How could anyone be idiotic enough to think Britney -- or anyone with the surname Spears -- would do something so unexpected and clearly crazy? Why, that would be akin to wearing a pink wig...
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April 23, 2009; 10:43 AM ET |
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If U Seek Britney Mania, Look No Further Than Verizon Center
While the brave Josh DuLac covered the main event of last night's stop of the Britney Spears "Circus" tour at Verizon Center (Question: How long can the human ear survive in the face of piercing shrieks?), I was all over the outside, armed only with hard-hitting questions and an intrepid videographer. Fans were fired up, scalpers circled and expectations were high for a visit from pop's resurgent princess. And, because one should never squander the chance to learn something (even from girls with fake tans and boys with fake boobs), here are a few things I picked up last night: 1. Britney is big in Baltimore. Out of the scores of people I talked with outside the Verizon Center, one in three copped to being from Charm City. Though I also talked to one fan who trekked here all the way from Australia just to see Brit on stage. 2....
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March 25, 2009; 10:33 AM ET |
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And Now a Few Words from K-Fed
Kevin Federline. (AP) Yesterday, a resurgent Britney Spears celebrated her birthday on "Good Morning America," announced plans for a North American tour, showed off some seriously re-toned abs, lip-synched her way through a passable performance and topped off the evening with a little spillage and a general basking in the glow of her rekindled career. And let us not leave out Sunday's overhyped MTV special "Britney: For the Record," in which the embattled popstress gave us a peek into her as-yet unsettled psyche: She feels controlled, she's not always happy, she shouldn't have gotten married so young, etc. The overwhelming takeaway was that Brit has a lot of regrets, among them a six-foot-and-change former back-up dancer turned failed rapper with whom she procreated. Twice. All that is well and good. Catharsis makes for healing and so forth. However, that six-foot mistake -- Kevin Federline, aka K-Fed -- has a...
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December 3, 2008; 10:43 AM ET |
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Pop Psychology: Deconstructing Britney
Despite the fact that she's unquestionably in a much better place than she was a year ago -- career back on track, in shape, spending quality time with her kids and our favorite turnaround -- Britney Spears is not a happy camper. Or so she'd have us believe in a new special, "Britney: For the Record," set to air on MTV on Nov. 30, two days ahead of the release of her new album. Amidst the look at Brit's life as a pop phenomenon, come these surprisingly candid statements: "There's no excitement, there’s no passion. I have really good days, and then I have bad days. Even when you go to jail, y'know, there's the time when you’re gonna get out. But in this situation, it's never ending. It's just like Groundhog Day every day." "I think it's too in control. If I wasn't under the restraints I'm under, I'd...
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November 20, 2008; 10:42 AM ET |
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One More Time: Britney Hits the Web Again
Is that Gary Coleman hovering to the right of Britney's shoulder? (Screen grab from britneyspears.com) Hey y'all. If a person's sanity can be measured by the relative put-togetherness of her Web site, then Britney Spears is indeed back in the zone. This week, Team Britney (I kid you not) unveiled a long-awaited new-and-improved Web presence for the image rehabbing star. What it lacks in folksy crackpot poetry it more than makes up for in slickness. A few highlights: The site is introduced by a video snippet from a subdued Brit, promising to take us "where no paparazzi lens ever could." (Please let it be the Quiznos bathroom.) Oddly, the video player floats in the midst of what appears to be a chain link fence holding back the ghostly image of an angry Gary Coleman. A bloggy format takes precedence, with Team Britney (which is probably code name for fully-vetted...
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October 17, 2008; 10:43 AM ET |
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Reading List: Lynne Spears's Parental Advisory
(Image courtesy Thomas Nelson) Tomorrow Lynne Spears's hotly anticipated book, "Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World," debuts. The buzz preceding this launch hasn't been seen Christopher Ciccone's "Life with My Sister Madonna" landed with a resounding thud in July. Says Spears of her book: "... [this is] the story of one simple Southern woman whose family got caught in a tornado called fame, and who is still trying to sort through the debris scattered all over her life in the aftermath. It's who I am, warts and all, with some true confessions that took a long time to get up the nerve to discuss." Spears's prescient use of storm imagery alone is enough to whet my appetite for the rest of the book. What other metaphors can the showbiz mom of the century employ to illustrate her hardscrabble life? Might we...
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September 15, 2008; 11:11 AM ET |
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