Britney Spears
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: McComb, Mississippi, United States, 02 December 2020
Spears replied: "Thanks, I think I’m going to keep it this way."
’Out of control Britney needs help’ - Feb 19 2007
Britney Spears’ recent behaviour is erratic and worrying and she needs help, according to a leading psychologist.
The pop star reportedly checked into rehab, then checked out again within 24 hours, before shaving off her own hair in a Los Angeles salon.
Professor Cary Cooper, professor of psychology and health at Lancaster University, said: "She’s obviously quite a disturbed girl at the moment, she doesn’t know who or what she is.
"If she’s checked in and checked out within a 24 hour period, it shows she’s kind of lost control. She obviously needs some help, and needs somebody to take hold, because her behaviour is very erratic."
Professor Cooper, an expert on stress, added: "I think it’s a call for help. She’s saying, ’I’m very confused, I’m not in control of myself at the moment, I need a fresh start, I need help’.
"You couldn’t have anything clearer than that. To me, it’s a symbolic act, saying, ’Help, I’m not altogether here’ - and it’s certainly drawn attention to her."
Spears shocked fans looking through the window of the San Fernando Valley salon on Friday night when she grabbed an electric clipper and shaved her own head.
Owner Esther Tognozzi told CNN: "I tried to talk her out of it. I said, ’Are you sure you’re not having a bad day and tomorrow you’ll feel differently about it? Why don’t we wait a little bit?’
"She said ’No, I absolutely want it shaved off now.’ Next thing I know, she grabbed the buzzer and she went to the back of my salon and she was shaving off her own hair."
Britney avoids Paris? - Feb 9 2007
Britney Spears appeared to be doing her best to avoid ex-pal Paris Hilton at New York fashion week.
Scheduled to attend Wednesday night’s uber-hip Heatherette show, a brunette Britney apparently changed her mind at the last minute, sparking rumours that Paris’s expected appearance on the runway was to blame.
"Ten minutes before the show started, they got a call that Britney was in the parking area outside," a backstage witness told the New York Daily News.
"They went out with a Heatherette sweatshirt to throw over her head, but there was no Britney. She got to the parking lot and bailed."
Paris was a no-show too, apparently calling in sick for the show, according to the newspaper.
While Paris presumably rested up, Britney went for dinner at Midtown eatery Rue 57, before heading off to meet old flame Justin Timberlake’s former *NSYNC bandmate JC Chasez at Manhattan club Marquee.
But, while Justin himself was on stage across town at his Madison Square Gardens gig, Britney was reportedly none too pleased when the DJ decided to spin a Timberlake track.
According to a witness, she asked him to change the record.
The mother-of-two reportedly called it a night at around 4am, via a stop-off at McDonald’s.
K-Fed and Brit stay joint parents - Feb 3 2007
Britney Spears and ex Kevin Federline have agreed to continue sharing custody of their two sons Sean and Jayden.
The couple had already signed to do so for the month of January and now Kevin’s lawyer says the same deal will be carried on through February.
The agreement is only temporary. On top of a large demand for spousal support, K-Fed has also sought sole custody of the pair’s kids.
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During the early years of her career Britney made millions thanks to merchandising deals and successful hits. But she faced controversy throughout with rumours of plastic surgery and feuds with other stars. Her third album, which saw her take a sexier and more adult turn, was a relative disappointment while her critically panned but box office friendly debut movie Crossroads was a fleeting highlight. Meanwhile her long relationship with Justin Timberlake came to an end in 2002 amid claims that her reputation as a virgin was false and in fact that she had cheated on the N*Sync star?Britney responded by sharing a kiss with idol Madonna on stage at the MTV Awards ? an act which saw the pair criticized more than admired.
The kiss signaled the end of Britney?s pop-childhood and with the release of In The Zone and the hit single Toxic she began building a new fanbase. A drunken Las Vegas wedding to childhood friend Jason Alexander ended in annulment after just fifty five hours but, rather than concentrate on her career, Britney continued leaning on the lovelife self destruct button. She, despite advice to the contrary, married dancer, aspiring rapper and all round rat-faced bad boy Kevin Federline in a trailer trash wedding in 2004 and within months announced she was pregnant.
Having given birth to son, Sean Preston, Britney seems to have put her career on hold despite the success of a greatest hits album and the launch of her fragrance, Curious. Meanwhile rumours persist about the state of her marriage to Federline with the press accusing him of taking no interest in his wife and son and of cheating on the singing star.
December 2007