What do you do when you’ve spent most of your day in court trying to get your kids back? That’s easy, you party!
That’s exactly what Britney Spears did Friday night after her court appearance. Britney met up with her friend/cousin Alli Sims and they both headed to Ketchup to meet with Dallas Cowboy Tony Romo(the guy that’s reportedly dating Sophia Bush).
"[Spears] walked around the restaurant into the lounge where she met up with some people," an eyewitness told People magazine. "She didn't eat or drink …[It] seemed like she was rounding up people to go to [out]. She was very friendly and smiley, in and out."
"Alli was meeting up with Tony and his friends at Ketchup and Britney wanted to come along. Tony and Alli have been good friends. They've known each other for a little over a year. "
After their short time at Ketchup Britney and Alli headed to hot spot Les Deux where they were later joined by Romo. Spears was "sitting with her friends and Tony. Everyone was just hanging out. Brit was upbeat, really seemed fine."
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(Reuters) - Lawyers for Hot Britney Spears have told a Florida radio station to take down billboards showing the pop star's shaven head as part of an advertisement for its morning talk show.
The billboards featured three identical pictures of Hot Britney Spears, apparently snarling, next to radio station WFLZ's logo and a picture of talk show host Todd Schnitt.
Atop the pictures run the labels "Total nut jobs," "Shock Therapy" and "Certifiable."
A spokeswoman for Clear Channel Communications, which owns WFLZ, said on Monday it had received a letter from law firm Lavely & Singer dated June 14. The letter demands that the billboards be removed and says images of Spears can be used only with consent.
"Clear Channel was already exposed to substantial liability for its offensive, unauthorized commercial exploitation of my client's photograph on the billboards," the letter said.
"Once again, we demand the immediate removal of the billboards, confirmed by documentary evidence and verified under penalty of perjury," it said.
Schnitt said in an interview that Clear Channel had already pulled down the billboards. "I'm not happy with that," he said.
Nude Britney Spears is trying to stage a comeback and reportedly is working on a fifth album. Nude Britney Spears entered rehab earlier in the year after a spree of high-profile partying and erratic behavior, including shaving her blond hair.
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In a TV landscape dotted with serialized dramas, crime procedurals and reality programming, the poor, forgotten miniseries is deader than the sitcom.
But the genre, which brought us such seminal TV events as "Roots," "The Thorn Birds" and "The Stand," pops its head out of the grave once in a while, usually in far more modest form.
For instance, USA Network is dabbling with the miniseries form with a romantic comedy called "The Starter Wife," starring former "Will & Grace" star Debra Messing as a Hollywood wife thrust into turmoil when her husband leaves her for a Britney Spears-type girlfriend. The six-hour series debuts at 9 tonight.
"The biggest television event of the summer," USA Network has hyped in TV ads. But Marc Berman, a TV analyst for Mediaweek.com, said "big events" are hard to come by when there are hundreds of channels to choose from, compared with the days when it was only ABC, NBC and CBS.
"It's very difficult in this fractionalized marketplace for viewers to commit to watch several hours in one week, which is why you don't see it anymore," Berman said.
In fact, USA is spreading the six hours of "The Starter Wife" over five weeks.
This past season, the major networks mostly ignored the miniseries, even during the so-called sweeps months, which help local advertisers set rates. "Miniseries don't exist anymore" on the big networks, Berman said. "They hardly even do made-for-TV movies anymore."
The heyday of the genre was the late 1970s through the early 1990s, when networks would regularly haul out the big budgets and the big stars (Richard Chamberlain! Robert Duvall!).
"It was a dominant form of television," said Ron Simon, curator for the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City. "It brought broadcast networks prestige as the era of three networks came to a close. At the time, cable couldn't afford to do it."
However, as broadcast networks saw their audiences dwindle across the board, the miniseries lost their financial allure, especially if viewers didn't glom on early.
Nowadays for the big networks, "the miniseries is disruptive to audience flow" in relation to regular series, said Brad Adgate, director of research at media planning firm Horizon Media. "Just think about Fox and the problems postseason baseball causes for them in the fall."
Berman said the last time he can recall a broadcast network trying a huge miniseries was NBC in 2003 with the drug-trafficking drama "Kingpin." It ran six hours over three weeks, and, he said, it bombed.
There is some debate over the definition of the term "miniseries." But it's generally acknowledged as a midway point between a film and a regular series, typically running two to eight episodes, frequently on consecutive days or over a relatively short period of time. Many are period pieces, often based on a novel.
"The Starter Wife" is based on a best-selling fictional book by Gigi Levangie Grazer; it's set in modern day, and its aspirations are not exactly the level of a "Shogun" or "Elizabeth I."
"We're looking to give TV viewers the equivalent of an escapist beach read," said Laurette Hayden, senior vice president for long-form programming for USA.
For Messing, taking on this role was a way to go deeper into a character while not having to make a long-term commitment as she did with "Will & Grace."
"I think you would sacrifice a lot if it was a two-hour movie," Messing said in a recent press conference. "As an actress, it was a thrill and luxury to be able to do what you're supposed to do in a six-hour project and not to rush things."
And since a miniseries lacks the potential return on investment of a regular series, even networks with the scheduling flexibility and budget of USA Network will do only maybe one a year.
In the case of USA's sci-fi miniseries "The 4400" in 2004, the drama was such a success, it became a regular show. Its new season will start June 17.
SciFi Network uses miniseries as a way to test the feasibility of a concept for a regular series. The remake of "Battlestar Galactica" started as a miniseries in 2003 and turned into a critically acclaimed series.
The close-ended nature of a miniseries still has appeal, said Simon, the TV museum curator. But in many ways, he noted, viewers have another outlet to see a cast of characters interact over a brief period with a definitive ending to bring closure. It's called reality TV. And it's much, much cheaper.
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Lindsay Lohan was recently spotted in a New York City nightclub watching a Hot Britney Spears impersonator 'Mini Britney' perform.
26-year-old Terra Jole, performs across the U.S. as the pop princess. Britney Spears is such a big fan of Spears that she has had her own costumes made up that are carbon copies of the pop princess' outfits in a smaller size.
"Lindsay approached me and said she wanted to have her photo taken with me," Mini-Brit said. "Britney Spears said I had done a great job."
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Last night on ABC's hit show "Dancing with the Stars"….another couple was sent home…John and Edyta. BOO! I loved him. And she was a total hottie. I think dancing is the key to great abs. Did you see her's? WOW! I still think Ian Ziering…Steve from "Beverly Hills 90210" will take the trophy. He's got skill!
SUPER-SUPER model Giselle Bundchen will no longer be a fixture in "Victoria's Secret" catalogues. The model and the bra company parted ways because….Giselle wanted to up her million dollar contract. She was making $5 million a year modeling in bras and bikinis…and she wanted a raise….$10 million. WOW! That's a lot of money for posing in your skivvies.
Britney Spears performed for the first time in 3 years last night. Britney performed at the House of Blues in San Diego. She went on stage at 10:15pm and sang for 15 minutes…actually…there was NO singing. She lip-synched. To every song. But I hear her body looked killer and her dance moves were on point. Love her when she dances. She is a great performer…I wonder when she'll be performing in Vegas a la Celine D. Hmmm….
And finally - make sure you watch "American Idol" on FOX tonight. 2 contestants are going home. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it is NOT our boy Chris from Chesapeake. He's to sexy to go home…I need some eye candy. If anyone needs to go home it's Paula Abdul's wardrobe stylist. ICK!
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Yay! Such good news right? Who would want to hear Hot Singer Britney Spears singing the blues anyway. From the looks of things, Britney and Sean Preston seem to being doing just fine right now, so why shouldn't her new album's material match her mood.
Spears' upcoming release will be about "feeling good" and "celebrating womanhood" Nate "Danja" Hills, who worked on the album, says.
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It's fun, it's basic and there's nothing wrong with that. It's about feeling good, celebrating womanhood," Hills said. "And if you don't dance to it, I really don't know what you're listening to.
"There was no, 'I need to let it all out'. She said she deals with that in another way. She didn't let none of her personal life into what she was doing... She wanted to stay away from being personal.
"As far as her work ethic, I haven't seen anybody come in like that. Boom, boom, boom, and get it done. So as an artist? She's ready to go."
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Britney Spears is set to sing a duet with the late Marilyn Monroe. The troubled star plans to boost her ailing career by performing with the movie icon - who died more than four decades ago - on a previously unreleased Marilyn song called 'Down Boy'. Lance Bass, 28, a former member of Britney's ex-lover Justin Timberlake's band *NSYNC, has reportedly secured the rights to the song and thinks it would be perfect for Britney.
A source told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "Lance wants Britney Spears Pic to sing with Marilyn on the track, like Natalie Cole did on 'Unforgettable' with her dad Nat King Cole." Plans are already in place for the 'Toxic' singer to don a platinum Marilyn-esque wig and dress like the glamour icon, when they shoot the video. Screen and music goddess Marilyn died of an overdose aged 36 in 1962. Despite being one of the most successful women of her generation, the star Britney spears No Pantie was believed to have battled numerous personal demons. Mother-of-two Paris Hilton and Britney Spears Pic, 25, recently spent a month in rehab following a bout of excessive partying and worrying behaviour, which included shaving off her hair. The singer Britney Spears is currently working on a new album planned for release in October and has been furiously exercising to regain her famously toned figure.
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Britney Spears is hurt and angry, and now that she’s out of rehab Britney Spears's planning a tell-all book about all the people “who did me wrong,” say sources in the new issue of Star magazine. They claim that the partied-out pop princess is determined to dish every last bit of dirt about her once closest confidants and that they’re going to be shattered by her revelations.
Britney Spears has plenty to say about ex-lover Justin Timberlake, 26. “Brit blames most of her problems with drugs and alcohol on the heartache she experienced years before, during her time with Justin; she couldn’t trust him,” says a second insider. “I hear she’s going to say that she believes he constantly lied to her about other girls and that destroyed her self-esteem.
Hot Britney Spears also felt he became mean toward the end of their [nearly three-year] relationship; she said he called her fat and told her she’d need to lose weight before he would have sex with her. “When Justin learns about this book, he’s going to be pissed.”
Her two husbands, in particular, Kevin Federline, and source says Brit will reveal the terrible truth that she planned to kill herself after it finally sank in that Kevin had used her for his own selfish ends, according to the insider.
“His womanizing, his wild spending, the verbal abuse he hurled at her when he thought their marriage was coming to an end…Brit will say he deliberately tried to drive her crazy. She feels Kevin just pretended to love her for the money and a music career. When that sunk in, she was so heartbroken that she wanted to kill herself.”
The final bombshell, the insider says, will involve Britney’s mother, Lynne, 51. “Britney will call her a stage mom from hell’ and blame her for almost every ill in her life. She’ll say Lynne’s money hungry and that she was just along for the free ride. Britney Spears thinks of her as a meddling, smothering person and blames her for her messy marriages.”
When naked Britney Spears recently told Lynne and her father, Jamie, 54, about the book, they were both devastated. “Lynne was totally crushed,” says an insider, “and her dad warned her that if she bad-mouthed any of the family, she would regret it for the rest of her life. He knows from experience that sometimes Britney’s honesty isn’t always based in fact.”
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Where in the world is Louis J. Pearlman? The man who gave us *NSYNC, Justin Timberlake, the Backstreet Boys, O-Town and even Britney Spears to some extent has vanished into, if not thin air, then air, in Europe. He's wanted in Florida for scamming 1,400 investors out of roughly $317 million.
If only Lou Pearlman could party again like it was 1999. The fat, frenzied manager of insipid boy bands was on top of the world then.
Forget that he was busy destroying the history of pop music with pre-wrapped junk designed to a have a shelf life shorter than the pet rock. He was raking in money and even keeping portions of it that didn't belong to him.
Eight years have gone by. And now Pearlman, who put Orlando on the map as a capital for Mouseketeers who graduated to Top 40 hits, for better or worse, is missing.
Don't worry; he's OK. Britney Spears, Justin timberlake and Nick Carter's former mentor is said to be on the lam in Europe while a bankruptcy receiver tries to untangle the humungous mess he left behind.
What's more: Federal prosecutors guess that Pearlman defrauded hundreds of investors to the tune of $317 million in a Ponzi scheme, or pyramid scheme, that didn't even involve music but phony investments.
Pearlman, in other words, is a real-life version of Mel Brooks' beloved Max Bialystock, the fictional Broadway producer who swindles little old ladies out of their life savings.
Indeed, this real-life Max recently suffered the suicide of his real life Leo Bloom. Frankie Vazquez Jr., Pearlman's closest associate since they were kids, took his own life in February. Journalists, experts and pundits in Florida figure Vazquez knew everything, especially that the end was near for Pearlman's scams.
Now, as lawyers try to figure out where the money went, Pearlman has slipped out of sight. His last correspondence came from Germany, where he was promoting another boy band. If the FBI knows where Pearlman is, it is not saying. And it doesn't matter. If he ever returns, everything he owned in Florida will have been sold or put on the block.
Pearlman has quickly moved to the top of the most-hated lists in Florida. He is a staple in the St. Petersburg newspaper. He has also inspired a Web site called scammedbypearlman.com.
It's not funny. The investors in his long-running scheme — in which he accepted money, promised returns and pocketed the funds — were not millionaires like Justin or Britney Spears but moms and pops who handed them their entire life savings.
Ironically, Pearlman apparently was bilking investors all through the 1990s at the very least, meaning during the time his boy bands were having hits on the radio like "I Want It That Way" and "Bye Bye Bye." They were also raking in money playing for sold-out arenas full of screaming teenage girls.
But that money wasn't enough for Pearlman, who also took banking institutions for another $150 million. He lived it up, too, with a private Gulfstream jet, Rolls Royce Phantom and a $12 million, 15,000-square foot Florida crib.
If Robert Stack were still alive and hosting "Unsolved Mysteries," he would put it this way: Louis J. Pearlman was last seen in Germany promoting a new boy band, US5. So far, no one's been able to locate him, but he did write a letter to the Orlando Sentinel in February proclaiming his innocence.
Pearlman's 100 or so companies, including those that still collect money from Backstreet and *NSYNC royalties, were put into bankruptcy recently. A receiver named Gerald McHale was appointed to bring some order to the chaos.
On April 9, McHale wrote to Pearlman's creditors: "... this is the beginning of a very long and tedious journey ... Monies borrowed for one purpose have obviously been used for other purposes; investor funds have been moved around freely amongst the Companies..."
McHale, in fact, did sell off Pearlman's largest asset right away — a local shopping complex called Church Street Station. But the sale's gross of $34 million was much lower than expected and creditors were warned not to expect anything from it.
The sale also had a deleterious effect on McHale, who told creditors that he would lose his office because of it, including phone and Internet service. McHale's theme song at this point would be: "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely."
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British bookmakers were taking bets yesterday on who Prince William will marry following his reported split from girlfriend Kate Middleton, with Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue among the front runners.
Bookmakers William Hill were offering odds of 6-1 that the 24-year-old prince, second in line to the throne, would tie the knot with a female fellow army officer.
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William Hill offered 8-1 on Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, a dippy British socialite and friend of the family, 14-1 on Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue and also on US party girl naked Paris Hilton, the hotel chain heiress.
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Other potential queens quoted included US singer Kelly Osbourne and Paul McCartney's estranged wife Heather Mills, both at 100-1.
A same-sex civil ceremony was also a 100-1 shot. William's brother Prince Harry, 22, was tipped to beat him to getting down on one knee. William Hill said Harry was 1-2 to get engaged first while William was 6-4.
They offered odds of 2-1 that William would get engaged between the ages of 28 and 30, 10-1 that he would still be unmarried at 35 and 20-1 that he would become king as a single man.
William Hill said they had expected to pay out over £50,000 ($100,000) if William married Middleton.
But media reported yesterday that the love affair was over. "We are as shocked as everyone else, if rather more relieved than most as we were preparing to pay out over £50,000 to punters who had backed the couple to wed," said William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams.
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The 'Toxic' singer was rumoured to have had the treatment in Las Vegas on Monday (09.04.07) to get her figure in shape for her pop comeback.
Hot Britney Spears's representative has denied the claims.
The star stayed at the luxurious Wynn resort with a girlfriend and several bodyguards.
Britney spears visited the pool on Monday but she stayed out of sight for most of the time in a cabana.
Britney spears then dined on sushi at Nobu in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, wearing an auburn bobbed wig, a straw cowboy hat and large sunglasses.
Meanwhile, Britney's relationship with her manager Larry Rudolph is said to be on the rocks again.
Britney Spears and Larry parted ways shortly after she married Kevin Federline, but were reunited after she filed for divorce.
Rudolph encouraged her to go to rehab and allegedly ordered her friends not to take hot britney spears calls on the night she shaved her head.
A source told Us Weekly magazine: 'There is tension. He's been trying to get her help, and britney spears new song doesn't feel she needs it.
'It is tough love.'
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Tori Amos has leaped to the defence of troubled pop star Britney Spears crotch shot, insisting her recent rehab session was a revolt against her record label's unreasonable demands.
The 'Crucify' hitmaker abhors how today's music stars are encouraged to define themselves as a brand rather than stay true to their personality, and fears Spears' breakdown was a result of this pressure.
Britney Spears says: "Whether they're selling perfume or a song, people have decided they're a brand. Hollywood did a good job of creating icons in the 30s and 40s, they understood a story. Now, give 'em a haircut and some clothes and they think they can pull off Aphrodite.
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