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Britney Set for Return to VMAs

September 3rd, 2008

One year after nearly killing her career on the MTV Video Music Awards stage, it’s been confirmed that Britney Spears will be returning to the VMAs on Sunday to kick off their 25th anniversary ceremony. Unfortunately, unlike last year where the singer opened up the show with a disastrous, scantily clad performance of  "Gimme More," MTV has announced that Brit will not be singing this time around.

“MTV has long played an important role in my career," the pop superstar said after today’s announcement. "How can I not be there to kick off their 25th VMA’s?  I’m excited to open the entire show, to say hi to my fans and to be nominated.”

Brit is nominated this year for Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year for her hit song, “Piece of Me."

Van Toffler, President of MTV Networks had this to say about the decision to have Brit back. “Britney has done everything from perform with a snake, lock lips with Madonna and prove that what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. I can’t wait to see what she does to kick off this year’s show.”

Check it all out when Britney opens up the 25th annual VMAs, live from L.A. on Sunday, Sept. 7  at 9pm ET.

Manager: Britney Too Busy for VMAs

August 26th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

With her personal and professional lives finally getting back on track, it had appeared likely in recent weeks that Britney Spears would attempt to make a image-reversing performance at September’s MTV Video Music Awards. But alas, says her manager, that doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen.

"Contrary to media reports, Britney was never slated to perform on this year’s VMAs," says Larry Rudolph, Brit’s manager, who was re-hired earlier this year after months of erratic behavior by the pop star. "She’s in the middle of recording her next album, which is going amazingly well, and her focus remains on the studio."

Last September, a disoriented and distracted Brit took the VMA stage in Las Vegas for an embarrassing lip-synched performance of her single, "Gimme More," and drew mostly gasps and giggles from the audience in reply.

One year later, a much-improved 26-year-old appeared to be opening the door to a VMA performance with a pair of recorded promotional pieces for the awards show with this year’s host, British comedian Russell Brand.

However, it should be noted that, while Rudolph says Britney won’t be performing live during the Sept. 7 broadcast from L.A., he said nothing about her being too busy to make a brief appearance either in person at the ceremony or on videotape. The singer’s hit, "Piece of Me" is nominated for Video of the Year.

OK! Exclusive: Brit & Adnan Back Together!

January 22nd, 2008 / Author: cwillett

Even though Britney Spears appeared to be rid of her photographer beau Adnan Ghalib, OK! can exclusively confirm that the troubled singer has rekindled her romance with the former paparazzo.

This news comes after sources confirm to OK! that not only have Britney and her legal team called an emergency hearing for Wednesday morning at L.A. Superior Court, but that the embattled pop star has agreed to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Brit has refused several times in the past to an evaluation, and is agreeing only on the grounds that she be allowed to visit with her boys, Sean Preston and Jayden James, during the evaluation. Brit is reportedly asking that the visitation be court-supervised and that it take place in a "therapeutic environment."

But until she has her boys back in her arms, it looks like she’ll be hugging Adnan. Around 6 p.m. PT on Tuesday, the pair were spotted leaving Taverna Tony’s restaurant in Malibu. Hand-in-hand, they jumped into Britney’s white Mercedes and off down the coast back toward L.A., smooching all the while. Around 6:40 p.m. PT, Brit and Adnan, whose wife recently reportedly filed for a separation, popped into a Pinkberry in Beverly Hills to grab some frozen treats.

 

Meanwhile, as of 7:30 p.m. PT, Brit and Adnan have been holed up on the 8th floor of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Perhaps the pair were watching Adnan on TV. This afternoon, Brit’s on-off was interviewed on Entertainment Tonight, where he admitted that at the time of the taping, Britney was not aware he was doing the interview.


Britney On the Move Again

January 8th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff

Following Monday night’s wild goose chase around Beverly Hills, which saw pop star Britney Spears A) Bringing traffic to a standstill when she abandoned her wounded Mercedes at a busy intersection; B) Hopping into the car of a tailing paparazzo; C) Sitting alone and crying outside the restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel; D) Checking into yet another deluxe hotel, The Peninsula, where she spent the rest of the evening.

Well, sort of…

At 4am, only hours after the fidgety singer settled into a third floor room at The Peninsula, she was off and running again. This time, in the back of a taxi cab that drove the pop princess, not to her nearby home, but to her leased abode around 30 miles away in Malibu!

And while Brit was kicking back in her rented house, which she has barely visited in recent months, Entertainment Tonight reported that sources are telling them the 26-year-old mother of two was speaking in a British accent during her brief hospital stay last week.

Around 2pm PT, Britney was once again on the road, driving back to Los Angeles in a black Escalade to her house inside the gated community known as The Summit.

Two hours later, the singer, who is generally friendly with the paparazzi that follow her, exited The Summit with a police escort blocking anyone from following her.

Meanwhile, the photographer who gave Brit a lift Monday night after she abandoned her car, which is currently impounded, is going on the record in defense of his one-time passenger. "She doesn’t seem to be on drugs," photog Fabrizio Mariotti told TV’s Extra. "I was surprised. She’s an awesome person."

Stay tuned to OK! as the ever-changing Britney story continues to develop.

OK! Exclusive: Britney’s Newest Man

December 23rd, 2007 / Author: cwillett

With only days to go until Christmas, it appears that a grinch may have stolen Britney Spears‘ holiday cheer, as the troubled pop star appears to be in the center of yet another downward spiral. But perhaps the newest man in her life can help her out of the hole she’s in.

The latest round of craziness began Saturday night when the singer, wearing the same turquoise top (sans bra) and jeans as the previous day, left her gated community at 7 p.m. and drove to a gas station where, in typical Brit fashion, she used the restroom, where witnesses overheard her unleashing a profanity-filled tirade at her friend Sam Lutfi over her cell phone. And when that unpleasant conversation came to an end, the "Toxic" singer decided to phone up a recording studio to book space. When she was given the bad news that there weren’t any rooms available, witnesses tell OK! she let loose on the poor receptionist, hollering through the phone, "I need a f**ing studio now. Don’t tell me you don’t know who I am. F*** you. I need it now, not tomorrow!"

Brit must have liked her experience at that gas station restroom as she visited two more quickie-mart toilets over the next hour! At one point, the mother of two invited a photographer named Phillipe to join her and her assistant in the car. The young man accepted the invite and spent the next hour or so in the backseat as Britney tooled aimlessly around L.A. in her Mini Cooper, blowing through red light after red light.

Eventually, the trio ended up at Malibu eatery Taverna Tony’s, where Phillipe was given the heave-ho from the car, and where Brit went inside to change into a red top. After a brief stop at the restaurant, the singer and her assistant asked Phillipe to take them to a Target store. And when he told her that Target was closed, she responded with, "I don’t care. Take me there anyway."

Believe it or not, things only get stranger. Apparently changing her mind about wanting to go the now-closed Target, Britney asked her new photog pal to place a call to another photographer named Adnan to summon him to Malibu. This is the same photographer who assisted Britney at an L.A. Quizno’s earlier this year, and who she confessed on-camera was "cute."

After receiving the call Adnan raced down to Malibu from his sister’s home in Santa Barbara. When he arrived, Brit hopped into his car and told her assistant to follow. Through the window of Adnan’s car, witnesses could see Britney playing with Adnan’s hat, while they drove for over and hour back down to L.A.

Around 11 p.m., Brit finally rejoined her assistant in her car, but the pair soon came to a sudden stop, causing a major traffic jam as Britney hopped out of the car to try to take a
photo of a wall mural on the side of a building. When the dozens of photographers following her got in her way, the singer lost her cool, screaming, "You guys get a million pictures of me. Just let me get one for myself. No I can take it. I don’t want you to take it. Move out of the way you f***ng a***holes. You stupid f***s. I can’t see. Move! I can’t take a picture with you standing there, you m***f***rs. You’re f***ing stupid. Shut up."

However, only minutes later, when she realized that she had dropped her camera during the tirade, and when one of the same photogs she had just screamed at helped her get the memory card out of the damaged camera, Brit appeared to have changed her attitude completely. "I love you guys," she told the assembled crowd with a smile. "I’m just in a bad mood. It’s not like me to get mad at you."

A couple hours later, Britney must have gotten the urge to use another public restroom as she pulled into a Walgreen’s drugstore to make her fourth public pitstop of the night. From here, the pop star headed home… but not for long.

After only 10 minutes at home, Brit once again exited the gates of her private road, wearing her THIRD outfit of the night — though it’s more of a costume than an outfit. Donning a pink wig and a leopard mini-dress, she made her way to the Peninsula Hotel, where Adnan is waiting to escort her up to a room.

An hour later, Adnan left the hotel for a few minutes to buy cigarettes. When asked if there’s any romance going on he responds cryptically, "It’s hard to make babies when
you’re just having lunch."

After scoring some smokes from the photogs, Adnan retreated to the hotel room where he remained until 10:25 a.m.! Upon leaving, he joked to his fellow snappers that he and Brit are getting hitched, which some insiders think might not be unbelievable. "He’s one of the hotter-looking photographers out there," one insider tells OK!. "He and Brit have been flirting for months now. He’s always the one to pump her gas, or hold her car door open for her, or run crowd-control to help her out. He always puts himself in the position of being the knight in shining armor."

It appears that the love-fest isn’t over, as Adnan drove from the hotel to Britney’s house, where he remained into early Sunday afternoon, around the same time Britney is supposed to be visited by her two young boys.

Britney Ditches Deposition

December 12th, 2007 / Author: cwillett

OK! has learned exclusively why Britney Spears has chosen to NOT show up for today’s deposition in her ongoing custody battle with Kevin Federline.

So why the absence? Brit’s attorneys showed up to the deposition on time, apparently expecting their client to follow! She finally called in "sick" about an hour later. "She’s very sick with high anxiety," explains Britney’s friend Sam Lutfi exclusively to OK!.

However, Britney might want to get better in a hurry as this third attempt deposing Britney — she has cancelled two previous depositions — was ordered by the court. With that in mind, K-Fed’s attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan tells OK!, "I may exercise my right to ask the court for relief," meaning he might request that the judge take away Britney’s visitation rights.

Spears and Federline have been battling over custody of their two sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, for months. This past October, Spears lost temporary custody of her sons and was granted just two daytime visits a week and one overnight visit.

Britney Bails on Her Own Video Shoot?

November 27th, 2007 / Author: cwillett

Despite a full crew toiling tirelessly since 8 a.m. Tuesday morning on the set for the video of Britney Spears‘ latest single “Piece of Me,” the troubled pop star was still kicking back in the comfort of her Beverly Hills mansion seven hours later.

Sources tell OK! that it’s now likely that the shoot at Social Hollywood will finally begin at 6 p.m. L.A. time with outdoor shots that will feature Ms. Spears in a blonde wig being chased by paparazzi as she runs to her car.

Though closely guarded by several uniformed police and private security guards, OK! was able to spot bright blue curtains, red, blue and purple lights and a giant platform being set up for the indoor portion of the shoot.

Earlier this month, Brit cancelled a scheduled shoot for the video just as final rehearsals were about to begin.

Turns out, the “Toxic” singer finally arrived at 8:33 p.m., more than 12 hours after everyone else had begun work on the video shoot, to film a scene involving her and a Mercedes-Benz wagon.

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