Britney Spears News
September 2008: Britney appears at MTV Video Music Awards
The BBC has a clip of Britney Spears appearing at the MTV Video Music Awards show in Los Angeles, where she won 3 prizes for her track Piece of Me.
July 2008: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline agree child custody settlement
The BBC and others have reported on the settlement Britney Spears and her former husband Kevin Federline have reached over child custody.
January 2008: Britney Spears taken away in ambulance
AP and others have reported that Britney Spears was taken from her home in an ambulance after "a custodial standoff involving her children".
September 2007: Britney Spears charged with hit-and-run
Britney Spears has been charged with hit-and-run and driving without a valid licence.
Britney's trials and tribulations continue as she is accused of hitting a parked car and driving away.
September 2007: Spears performs again
Britney Spears has given her first major performance in three years. She sang at the MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas to a mixed response.
The BBC article, Britney's MTV comeback falls flat, reported that their own David Willis said the singer looked "really out of sorts" and "looked as though she completely lost the art of lip-synching" whilst Perez Hilton said:
"She blew it. Everybody knows Britney lip-synchs, but that's because she dances so much.
"She barely even danced in this. It was so bad. It was painful. It was embarrassing. And I loved it!"
July 2007: Spears and Federline divorce completed
The BBC has reported that, "The divorce of pop star Britney Spears and former dancer Kevin Federline has been completed and they are no longer married, Spears's lawyer has confirmed."
March 2007: Britney agrees divorce settlement
People Magazine has revealed that Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have reached a divorce settlement.
February 2007: Britney shaved her head
There were concerns over Britney after some seemingly erratic behaviour. She shaved her head and got a black-white-and-pink cross tattooed on her lower hip and red-and-pink lips on her wrist. US Magazine has details.
September 2006: Britney and Kevin file for divorce
Less than a couple of months after the birth of Jayden James Federline, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences".
November 2006: Britney has boy
Britney Spears had her second boy on 12 September. Jayden James Federline was born at a Los Angeles hospital, delivered via a scheduled C-section.
People magazine has more information.
19 September 2004 - Britney marries (again)
Britney Spears is reported to have married dancer Kevin Federline in a low-key ceremony earlier today at a private home in Studio City, California.
The marriage of Spears aged 22, and Federline aged 26, took place about 7:30 p.m. with only about 20 family members in attendance.
Invitations had already gone out for a October 16 wedding near Santa Barbara. Apparently this will now be transformed into a party.
Britney cover photo - RollingStone is ahead of the times in more ways than one
At the time of writing the RollingStone website has just posted a news item of interest:
"Britney Spears has been on nearly 100 magazine covers, but her first was Rolling Stone, in the spring of 1999. "It was freakin' awesome," she says. "Most girls my age would have done their first cover for Seventeen or something..."
The strange thing about it is that not only were they ahead of their time in publishing the Britney cover, but also so it seems with the story itself. At the bottom of the item it says: "(Posted Sep 30, 2004)" but as I write it is 14 September 2004!
Going, Going, Gone! Associated Press reports today on an unusual Britney Spears used item for sale: " There are over two dozen auctions of used chewing gum on eBay, each claiming their product has been spit out by the 22-year-old singer. Prices go as high as $14,000, but most are for significantly less.'
My first thought was 'what about the provenance?', and sure enough this turns out to be a problem. One vendor offered a piece of Spears' gum from the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards that "still has her teeth marks in it." The only problem is that Britney didn't turn up for that event.
Anyway, I started thinking a little deeper and realised that the ramifications for future generations could be very serious. London's Bond Street and Brighton's Lanes will lose all their wonderful old furniture and artefacts and instead the antiques shops of tomorrow will be full of discarded celebrity junk. Their windows will be dressed with gum from Britney Spears and dead fingernails from Eminem.
Worse still, that lovely old programme, 'The Antiques Roadshow' will no longer feature old 'chaps' in bow-ties pontificating about Georgian tables, and clocks from the Louis XIV era. Instead, someone will produce a cellophane-wrapped rotting apple core retrieved from Moby's trash can.
"How long has it been in the family?" our new generation pundit will ask. "My grandfather bought it on eBay 100 years ago for $70" says our hopeful punter. "Well unfortunately, as you can see, it is not in pristine condition. Also, you may not realise, but when Moby and his contemporaries realised the value of their debris they started churning them out - a little bit like Picasso and pictures...now if this was a 20th Century apple core then it might be worth rather a lot, unfortunately its degradation seems to suggest that it dates from around 2006." And our hopeful punter starts to look crest-fallen.
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