Scruffy pap Adnan Ghalib, Britney’s former squeeze, probably wishes he had invested in some anger management classes.
Last February, Adnan allegedly tried to hit process server Ram Moskowitz with his car when Moskowitz was trying to serve him a restraining order on Britney’s behalf. Well now, he has been slapped with a lawsuit for his little hissy-fit.
The complaint, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court by Ram Moskowitz, claims he was intentionally hit by the 36-year-old Ghalib’s car while waiting outside his Burbank apartment.
The process server suffered cuts, abrasions and a fractured wrist in the attack but refused medical treatment when cops arrived.
Moskowitz claims that Ghalib drove at a high rate of speed and zig-zagged across an alley while he was still on perched on the hood of Ghalib’s car. The plaintiff says he held onto the hood but eventually was thrown from the Mercedes, crashing onto the pavement and “sustaining myriad physical injuries.”
“It was a very frightening, scary incident and he’s lucky to be alive,” Moskowitz’s attorney, David Olson, told E! News Thursday. “He’s lucky and Mr. Ghalib is lucky.”
Ghalib, who has since been barred from having any contact with Spears for three years, has pleaded not guilty to felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon, battery and hit-and-run. His next court date in the criminal case is scheduled for May 4.
Moskowitz’s civil suit seeks unspecified damages for assault, battery, negligence and both intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. But if Ghalib, a British-raised Afghan citizen, winds up being deported, the process server might very well end up with nada.
Just this past April, Adnan turned in his gun, in compliance with the THREE YEAR restraining order filed on Britney’s behalf. Sounds like a good idea? eh?
In the video, reporters were asking Adnan why he still keeps texting Britney and how does it feel to have the cameras turned on him now. Somehow he manages to keep his mouth shut, unlike lots of dimwitted celebs we know
Let’s be frank here, this guy is NOT on the up and up. In fact, he sends a shiver up my spine, and even though it was Britney’s choice to see “Mr. Creepy” in the first place, let’s hope this is the last that Britney has to deal with him.
Britney still needs time to heal from the various mental issues she was facing during the tumultuous period of her life in which people like Adnan, and Osama bin Loopy were pulling the strings. These days, Britney seems to be in a better place and she can now hopefully get on with her kooky, sordid life.
Well, that’s one way to keep him away from Britney.
You know, I seriously don’t like Adnan, but I wouldn’t wish this one on my worst enemy. It seems that if Anon Brazilianwax (as he is affectionately known around these parts), if found guilty of assault charges, could be deported to Afghanistan of all places:
It’s a far cry from his glamorous lifestyle a year ago, when he was dating one of the world’s most famous women.
But the paparazzi photographer is now facing three assault charges that could earn him a seven-year jail sentence in the US or deportation to Afghanistan.
Ghalib, 36, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, hit-and-run and battery.
The charges relate to an incident on 11 February in Los Angeles when a court official tried to serve him with a restraining order to stay away from Britney.
The restraining order was issued by the singer’s father, Jamie Spears, who has taken control of her affairs.
Ghalib allegedly tried to run over the court official - the charge of use of a deadly weapon relates to his car.
Okay, that much I understand (and covered a while back). But just where does the deportation come in?
The photographer moved to Birmingham from Afghanistan with his family when he was five years old, and he works in the US.
But if he is listed as Afghani in the legal papers, he could be deported to the war-torn country.
‘The country of citizenship listed on the legal files is where someone convicted of a serious crime will be deported to whether they hold a green card or not,’ a source from the Los Angeles police told People News.
‘There is some confusion on his court documents over where he comes from. Some list the country as Afghanistan, but another states his nationality as British.’
Aha. So basically it will be all his parents’ fault if he is deported. It always comes back to the parents and how we screwed up the lives of our children!
You know, in a way that makes me nauseous, this actually kinda makes me feel sorry for the guy, for about a second and a half. If he is deported to Afghanistan, I have a feeling that he’ll be chewed up and spit out faster than he can close the shutter on a camera. I mean, can you see this guy on the streets of Kabul? Living in Kandahar City? Not sure there’s much market for paparazzi there, and he sure won’t be able to get any upskirt shots.
This might be one time when someone is actually praying for jail time.
You won’t have Michael Jackson to kick around any more!
Well, he did it…Michael Jackson, frail and tottering and acting drugged, made the announcement that he is definitely playing London one last time (I’ll still believe it when I see it):
[The] trembling, gaunt figure in front of the microphone stumbled over his words just long enough to tell everyone he loved them – before saying an emotional goodbye. [...]
‘This really is it,’ he said. ‘When I say this is it, it really means this is it.’
And just in case anyone failed to pick up on the message, he added: ‘This is the final curtain call.’
Quite whether that was worth a five-hour wait in the refrigerator temperatures of the 02 Arena was the subject of much discussion afterwards among those who had so loyally endured the queueing marathon.
What was billed as a press conference turned out to be four minutes that failed to change the world. But, don’t worry. There will doubtless be masses of hyped up non-events like this one throughout what is certain to become the Summer of Jacko. [...]
It has been 12 years since he toured, the last several of which have been shadowed by erratic behaviour, tarnished reputation and concerns over his health.
He might have been punching the air and giving victory signs yesterday but his heavily-caked face failed to mask the uncomfortable impression that here was a middle-aged man who looked and acted as if he was on painkillers.
Now, don’t forget this is in London, so you’re going to have to pony up some dough; after you pay air fare, tickets for Michael’s shows should run around $70-$106 USD (£50 and £75 UKP).
Also this week, Britney Spears kicked off her new Circus tour, with tickets going anywhere from $90-$750 a pop. So, this beggars the question: In this recession, when people are losing their homes and being laid off left and right and wondering just how they are going to put dinner on the table, would YOU pay that kind of money for tickets? I think you already know my answer.
Thinking of these two also brought to mind this snippet, talking about how both Brit and Michael are horrors to work with in the recording studio:
If only Britney Spears could sing in studio the way she’s able to cash in on her All American smile she’d be much more pleasant to work with, according to one of her New York record producers. The shapelessness of her psyche during recording sessions transcends into a living recording hell. The incensed producer said Spears has the blank schizoid fever of white southern trash when it comes to laying down her vox. “She’s the only artist I’ve ever worked with where it takes at least 250 takes to record a vocal,” the producer told IUC. “If you could hear just her voice tracks on solo play you’d have to block your ears. You hear the blank tones of her annoying southern drawl. Simon Cowell would have a heart attack hearing her.”
Another pop icon the producer had stirring memories working with was Michael Jackson. “Michael was impossible to deal with from the second he stepped in my studio,” the Grammy award winning producer said. “He requested mineral water from Norway and refused to wear headphones to record his vocal. That’s the biggest nightmare to work with. Imagine, no headphones and all the background noise filtering through. It’s almost impossible to clean up in post production.”
Searching through videos, I found this little gem of Michael and Britney performing together at Madison Square Garden in 2001 (sadly, shortly before the terrorist attacks). It shows that even as recently as 2001, Michael could still sorta-kinda bring it (even though this was basically a rehash of a previous Grammy performance) and Britney looked pretty good pre-Kevin, although all Brit does is wander back and forth across the stage and shakes her booty a little while leaving Michael to do the actual work. It just ticks me off that they goofed with a great MJ song…you know, from back when he was actually trying. Putting Brit’s voice on there made it toothachingly awful…at least we know Michael can sing when he wants to.
So Britney Spears has finally launched her first tour since the ill-fated Onyx Hotel back in 2004, and from all accounts they rebuilt it, bigger, stronger, faster than before. It’s got everything…clowns, a big top, Britney in various stages of undress, ninjas, Perez Hilton…wait, Perez?
A red curtain descends upon the stage. Music starts pounding — the drumbeat of the apocalypse — and keeps building, until a lone ballerina and a mime appear. The mime is clutching a piece of chain-link fence, which he begins twirling faster and faster, until it turns into a geometric square. Then three jugglers and a little person take the stage, then Shaolin monks in black robes, who do a martial-arts routine, complete with kitanas and spinning axe kicks. Then clowns come out with nunchucks. They’re followed by acrobats and gymnasts in long flowing robes, performing a routine to the music from “Kill Bill.” Then everyone — mime, clowns, jugglers, little person and monks — do a sort of samba, and then Perez Hilton shows up on the video screens to deliver a monologue while dressed as Queen Elizabeth. Then Britney appears and murders him with a crossbow.
And then the show starts. Seriously.
Apparently, the show could benefit from more songs and less spectacle:
Given the massive size of the center stage (painted to look like a target — we get it, Brit) and the non-stop visual and sonic bombast, the pop princess sometimes got swallowed up. Spark-shooting guns and rings of actual fire couldn’t save one-note songs like Do Something and Slave. Fan-favorite Toxic, however, staged mostly with sci-fi-green lighting effects and a minimalist jungle-gym contraption, succeeded because the focus was solely on the star. And her biggest early hit, …Baby One More Time, stripped away all spectacle, with just her and the dancers stalking the bare stage, and was better for it. [...]
The Circus show packs 17 song segments and every under-the-big-top cliché except Siegfried & Roy’s white tigers into a crowd-pleasing hour and 45 minutes. A comeback, certainly, and a solid one at that. But all the sex, fire and stomp-and-slither choreography can’t disguise the fact that the production needs a bigger, purely musical core (a few more songs from the current album would have helped) — and some spontaneity. It wasn’t until Spears finally called out “Thank you, New Orleans” after finishing her Womanizer encore that the crowd got a glimpse into the heart of their homegirl from Kentwood.
I won’t go into all the details of the show, except to say that it includes four parts (Circus, House of Fun, Freakshow/Peepshow and Electro Circ), includes everything from little people to acrobats to set pieces that fly around to flames to an umbrella, Britney struts around showing off her body in various stages of undress and bondage-wear, and seems to be an ADHD tribute to everything Britney. Seriously, the first thought that hit my brain was that this seemed to be designed by a kid who didn’t take their Ritalin that day.
(I did notice in some of the photos I’ve seen that one of her outfits is a sparkly bra/corset/hotpants ensemble, which makes me wonder if that was based on what the MTV people wanted her to wear for her ill-fated Gimme More performance. In other photos, the corset is off.)
I do think it’s hilarious that people are STILL upset that Britney doesn’t sing live at these freak shows. Are you people serious? Like I’ve said before, when you go see Britney, you are not going to a concert, and if you show up expecting any sort of concert, you are going to be disappointed. It’s been proven time and time again that girl just is not a strong singer, she can barely carry a tune, she just doesn’t have the pipes (she ain’t no Tina Turner), and practically everything she does is manufactured in the studio. No, what Britney does is perform…you are going to see a performance, not a concert. If you lower your expectations and don’t expect any actual singing, you’ll be okay.
For an example of what I’m talking about:
And it seems that at least one other person agrees with me that what Brit does best is entertain:
Her singing was dominated by a backing track. Her moves were nothing special — defined by much strutting and stripper-like shimmying, with the minimum amount of acrobatics to prove her mettle as a dance-pop queen. Her physical form, still beautiful, didn’t take one’s breath away the way it did when she was 17.
But on Tuesday’s opening night of her “Circus” tour at the New Orleans Arena, Britney Spears, the mighty Aphrodite with the troublesome tawdry streak, nonetheless renewed her claim as one of the world’s most adept manipulators of the public interest. Powering through a 90-minute show that integrated her impetuous teen hits with the more perverse material from the albums she released after a very public breakdown that made her a constant in the tabloids, the Louisiana native flashed her famous good ol’ girl smile at the fans, mostly female, who still find her a worthy patron saint of the erotic arts. [...]
Despite that first-night stumble [she appeared to miss her cue to reappear onstage] and several numbers in which her dancing was no more than adequate, Spears can safely call this performance a success. She apparently has no interest in proving herself as a vocalist; Pink is a better acrobat and her friend Justin Timberlake is a far better dancer.
But anyone who thinks her lackluster would do well to remember what she really is: a burlesque performer, a carny’s dream born a century or so too late to be fated to ply her art upon the midway, but able to fulfill the spectacle of blond ambition now.
I still worry that she’s putting on too much, too fast, since reviews for the opener have been mixed. I don’t think any of us want a repeat of the past few years, complete with mental breakdown and hospitalization. I’m hoping for the best, but I’m also hoping the stress doesn’t get to her. Let’s not forget that she’s still dealing with a mental illness and she still is under a doctor’s care for it. I worry that the stress of a tour might be too much, but then again maybe keeping herself busy is exactly what Brit needs right now. Plus, after paying ex Kevin $5000 a week to be there as well, she gets to take her sons with her, which I’m sure is a huge plus for her.
Lastly…some tickets were going for as much as $750 a whack. I’m sure people are going to line up to spend their mortgage money for one night of watching Brit shimmy around a stage. I don’t know about you, but there’s no ticket in the world worth $750 to me. More reasonably-priced tickets went from anywhere from $95-$250, which I think is still pretty steep. Do people actually have this kind of money to fritter away? But I guess all this has to be paid for somehow. Hey, magicians and stripper poles and Kevin Federline ain’t cheap, y’all.
All in all, it seems to be the same thing Brit has offered before, just packaged up in a different way with different fabrics. Considering we’ve all seen more of Brit’s bits than we ever wanted to see over the past couple of years, the flesh-baring costumes just seem to be the same old/same old (okay, okay, we get it…you’re still sexy, Brit, put it away). While I’m not crazy about the whore-on-wheels ensembles, girl looks great…about a zillion times better than she’s looked in quite a while now. Despite what it may sound like, I wish her the best, I truly do; I just hope that this will all be worth it in the end.
Britney’s hairstylist was in court yesterday to give testimony against Sam Lufti, in a hearing to decide whether or not to continue the restraining orders against Osmegma and Adnan Brazilianwax:
“Someone kept calling me from a private number … he said his name was Sam,” Roberta Romero stated Wednesday. “He wanted information about Britney. He said he was on her side. I told him, ‘Leave me alone, stop calling me.’ ”
Lutfi allegedly sent Romero a series of 11 texts within a four day period, saying things like, “Please relay the truth to her. I did not do this to her,” apparently referring to Jamie Spears’s indefinite control over the singer’s life. Lutfi also allegedly texted Romero: “I’ve done everything I can to free her from this. Very close to getting her free now.” On another occasion he allegedly wrote: “I went to court to free her.” Romero says she repeatedly told Lutfi to leave her alone via text. [...]
Romero testified about an evening on Dec. 27 when she and Britney went to watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Lutfi had been sending text messages to Romero that evening, and later, the two women texted back, “Leave me the [expletive] alone.”
At some point that evening, Lutfi texted Romero, “Can you wish her a Merry Christmas for me?” At 2 a.m., the women sought help from the singer’s bodyguard, Itamar Gelbman, who also testified in court.
“[Britney] complained Sam was texting her, and that she’s scared,” Gelbman said in court. “She asked for more patrols [around the house]. She wanted me to do more, to make sure everything was locked. She couldn’t fall asleep because of [Sam's texts to Romero]. She told me to make him stop.” Gelbman says he immediately called Lutfi and told him to leave the women alone.
Lawyers for Jamie Spears said Lutfi had been subpoenaed Tuesday night for cross-examination in court. The process server taped a notice to appear on his car windshield, they said, but Lutfi failed to show up.
It seems that Britney has finally opened her eyes to the evil that is Osmegma bin Luftwaffe and told her friend to stay away from him:
Romero, who has worked as Spears’ stylist for more than a year, said the singer told her to tell Lutfi to leave them alone. Romero and Spears notified the singer’s security staff about Lutfi’s text messages.
Romero said she only spoke to Lutfi once, weeks before Spears’ security became involved. She said he was not threatening over the phone, but that the singer told her to avoid her former friend.
“She told me she’s scared of him and not to talk to him,” Romero said.
Ultimately, the judge decided to extend the restraining order to March 18 and the hearing will resume on April 1…kind of appropriate when you’re dealing with these two fools.
I thought we were done with these two buffoons, but I guess they just can’t take a hint. Adnan has had his own run-in with the law yesterday when he turned himself in before the popo could grab him on a warrant stemming from a little incident with a Mercedes, a process server, and his front bumper. And you’ll recall that Osmarmy bin Loopy is suing Brit’s parents for damaging his character. Yeah. For reals.
So let’s take a look back at Sam Lutfi and his Magical Dancing Text Messages:
For reals. Osmarmy bin Loopy (wow, it’s been forever since I typed that!) is actually suing Jamie and Lynne Spears for, among other things, damaging his reputation:
Jamie and Lynne Spears have publicly blamed Lutfi for the series of emotional crises that led to the singer losing custody of her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline in 2007.
And now he is holding Spear’s parents responsible for damaging his reputation by allegedly leaking false information about his conduct to the press.
He has filed suit for compensation in a Los Angeles court, according to PerezHilton.com.
In a statement to the celebrity blogger, Lutfi’s lawyer Bryan Freedman says, “This lawsuit is being brought as a result of the defamation, ridicule and harassment of Sam Lutfi by Jamie Spears and Lynne Spears.
“A thorough investigation has revealed overwhelming evidence from independent witnesses, showing that Lynne Spears knowingly and maliciously publicized devastating false information about Lutfi, which destroyed his reputation, irreparably harmed his career, and subjected him to constant scorn and humiliation.”
Freedman goes on to allege Jamie and Lynne Spears are using Britney for her money, insisting the truth will all come out in court.
He adds, “At the time of the trial in this action, the jury will have an opportunity to weigh the credibility of the witnesses. In doing so, it will be faced with two threshold questions: Why would a supposedly loving mother write a tell all book about the sordid details of two of the most devastating nights of her daughter’s life and go on countless talk shows for her own profit? And why would a loving father who deems his daughter to be incompetent, thrust her into a massive world tour only to subject her to the very limelight that threatened to shatter her life, for something other than his own personal gain?
“The facts of this case will reveal Jamie and Lynne’s conduct in light of these questions. It will unequivocally explain the motivation of two people who are seemingly willing to destroy anyone and anything that gets in the way of their ability to control and profit from their daughter.”
The lawsuit comes less than a week after Britney was granted a temporary restraining order against Lutfi, his attorney Jon Eardley, and her ex-lover Adnan Ghalib.
Well, first, to sue for damaging his reputation he will have to prove he had a good reputation to damage. Oh snap!
Well, yeah, in that way too. But doesn’t it just seem like yesterday we were talking about Blackout? Now, our little birfday girl has gone and released another album, Circus, dropping it on a packed 27th birthday where she also lit the tree in Rockefeller Center in New York City. She performed her new single Womanizer on Good Morning America yesterday morning (what, was she too embarrassed to face Matt Lauer?), and predictably, people were again Outraged! Mortified! Nay, angered! that she lipsynched:
Singing songs from her new album Circus in New York City today, Britney writhed on stage with her dancers, doing the same moves, wearing the same outfits, with the same pyrotechnics.
Following her disappointing performance on Saturday’s X Factor, where it was revealed her microphone was simply a prop when host Dermot O’Leary had to share his with the singer so she could be heard, fans could be forgiven for experiencing a sense of deja vu after today’s set.
And once again I say…get over it. People have been doing this since darn near forever. Brit isn’t the strongest singer around, her natural singing voice isn’t all that great, and running around dancing and jumping about doesn’t exactly lend itself to a strong vocal performance. Britney gives performances, not concerts, and you can’t judge a performance by concert standards.
Robin Roberts said that this song would stay in your head all day long, and I’m not sure she was being complimentary. Overall, I’m a bit sick of it, but that’s probably because I’ve had to listen to it in the course of writing these articles. The hook does play itself over and over in your head, I will give her that.
But in the recent clips I’ve seen of her performances, she still seems a bit sluggish and nervous. I wonder if all this is too much too soon…she’s had a year from hell, compete with mental breakdown and a diagnosis of a mental illness. I understand her desire to get back to what she does best, but I have to think that perhaps a bit more time off might be in order. I’d hate to see her relapse.
I will say, the guy playing the “womanizer” is the tasty hawtness, despite the Anon Brazilianwax goatee. But maybe that’s on purpose…
Now before anybody gets all up in their cheese about that title, let me explain. Britney went on X Factor, a sort of British American Idol-forerunner show, to promote her new single Womanizer and to get some good exposure for a change. She sang and danced her way through the number, which quite frankly looked sort of like a Gimme More clone minus the spangly bikini, and she managed to do it fairly well. I mean, if you compare the Gimme More performance with this one, they’re like night and day.
But some of Brit’s Brit fans were left disappointed, because not only did she not actively participate in the mentoring of the contestants or even watch the show:
Unlike other guest stars such as Take That and Mariah Carey, Miss Spears failed to mentor the contestants ahead of the show.
She also refused to use a Winnebago motorhome at the studios, instead taking over Simon Cowell’s green room along with her entourage and security guards.
To make matters worse, she did not even watch the contestants’ performances from her dressing room.
Dermot was left baffled after he asked her what she made of the five acts, who each performed one of her hits.
After he handed her his microphone - hers appeared to be switched off completely - she said: ‘Yes, awesome, thank-you. Amazing, I met so many different people, the place is beautiful.’
…but she appeared to be lip synching her vocals:
She mimed to her new hit Womanizer on the ITV show on Saturday night, apparently because she wanted to concentrate fully on her dance routine.
By contrast, all the contestants, who are not professional singers, had to deliver their own performance live.
Miss Spears, who turns 27 on December 2, was said to have feared that trying to sing and dance at the same time would prove too much for her.
A spokesman for the show insisted that there had been ’some live vocals’.
However, one of the American’s aides told the Mail: ‘Everyone knows Britney’s performances are about the dancing and performing.
‘Just as she would have mimed five years ago, she also mimed on the show on Saturday.’
No. Really? Professional singers go on these shows and they don’t sing live? When did this happen?
Srsly. If these people are surprised about this, don’t tell them about Santa Claus, they won’t be able to handle it.
Everybody knows that Brit mimes her way through her performances, aided by a state of the art system, because girlfriend can’t sing:
“I’m good friends with some of her producers and have heard first hand what kind of nightmare Britney is to record,” Medelgi said. “Out of 250 takes the sound engineer had to pick one word at a time and paste it all together. My good friend was flown out to Dallas for one of her performances, got paid 4k to operate the software which lets her lip sync. One can’t tell the difference, it sounds so real. As soon as the signal of her real voice goes into the mic the recorded vocal track is triggered by the sound engineer. When she thanks her fans at the end of the song and talks to the crowd the software automatically turns off and turn back on her microphone.
“What concerns me most here is that people are paying huge amounts of their hard earned money and are being cheated. If they want to hear her recorded voice they’re better off buying the CD for $14.00 instead of being deceived into believing she’s live on stage singing.”
What’s that? Brit’s voice is mainly manufactured in the studio?
If only Britney Spears could sing in studio the way she’s able to cash in on her All American smile she’d be much more pleasant to work with, according to one of her New York record producers. The shapelessness of her psyche during recording sessions transcends into a living recording hell. The incensed producer said Spears has the blank schizoid fever of white southern trash when it comes to laying down her vox. “She’s the only artist I’ve ever worked with where it takes at least 250 takes to record a vocal,” the producer told IUC. “If you could hear just her voice tracks on solo play you’d have to block your ears. You hear the blank tones of her annoying southern drawl. Simon Cowell would have a heart attack hearing her.”
And in case you need yet moar proof, here is audio and video of what she actually sounds like during a concert:
Now, this is not dissing Brit for mouthing her way through Womanizer. You get up there, run around a stage, dance around and jiggle your hips, prance up and down wearing high heels, and try to sing on key, all to the beat, all at the same time. She’s no Broadway star…not a diss, just a fact. Of COURSE she didn’t sing it live, just like she doesn’t usually sing live. It sounded like there might have been a couple of spots where she was actually live-singing, but not much, and they were fairly easy parts. But most of it sounded like it wasn’t live, because she doesn’t sing live at stuff like this, and neither do most stars. Duh.
I mean, she looked a little sluggish, but it was okay, if this is the sort of thing you like in a performance. And that’s the key…people are confusing performance with concert. Brit doesn’t give concerts, she puts on a performance. If you watch her performances expecting a concert, you’re going to come away disappointed. If you’re expecting good singing, you’ll be disappointed. But if you’re expecting computer-manipulated vocals and some dance moves, then you’ll accept it for what it is and move on.
You know, just when I start to really like Britney, she does something stupid. Like opens her mouth and makes words come out of it.
First, it was complaining that she is being “punished” for her actions over the past year or so. No, Brit, you had a mental breakdown, and you have a mental problem, and you need continued monitoring for a while. Hardly punishment and more like looking out for your well-being, because it seems that you still aren’t well enough yet to look out for yourself. But here’s her latest: In her new documentary about her life, she disses fellow celeb mom Katie Holmes:
In her new fly-on-the-wall documentary for MTV, Brit is caught during a candid moment shopping with her assistant. As she holds up a blouse, she says, “Look, this is very mommy.”
Her assistant replies, “It’s very ugly.”
Britney wrinkles her nose and laughs, “It is very Katie Holmes.”
I’ve been firmly on Brit’s side for a while now, but you know how you can support what somebody is going through without really liking them personally? Yeah, that’s kind of what I’m starting to feel about Brit.
Look, I’m not saying she should wear mom jeans and polyester print blouses and sensible shoes. I’m older than Brit and I still dress fashionably. But come on. Have you seen some of the questionable fashion choices Brit has worn out for the paps? I’ve got a folder dedicated to them. Don’t make me bust them out.
And since when is dressing like a mommy a bad thing? Just what look is “very mommy”? One where one’s breasts are underneath one’s shirt and one’s bottom is inside one’s trousers? One where a person has on underwear and doesn’t show it off? You can’t be on parade all the time, Brit. Too many people today equate “sexy” with “half-naked”. You can be a mom, dress like a decent person, and still be sexy, because sexy ain’t clothing.
Yes, Katie’s fashion is geared more towards comfort than clubbing. But even though she’s toned it down a bit (and honestly does dress a bit older than her age, I’d like to see her dress younger), she’s still a beautiful woman. Like Brit is, when she isn’t being nasty. Some things you just can’t blame on being bipolar.
And to me it says a lot about Brit’s continued state of mind if she equates the state of being or looking like a “mommy” with boing, ugly, and not-slutty. It makes me wonder just how ready she truly is to take on her mothering duties. Moms can be sexy, but true sexy don’t need to flaunt it.
Besides, Katie would so totally pwn Brit. Katie can have her husband Tom Cruise come out and point Tom’s Finger at her and scream at her how glib she is, while the best Britney can do is throw Cheetos.
She’s got a new album coming out in a month, she’s recently regained some quality times with her kids, she’s working on a major comeback from what was literally the pit, and she’s looking better than she has in ages, but Britney Spears still isn’t happy. In a new documentary she is featured in, Britney reveals not only that she feels trapped inside the same old same old every day, but (in my opinion) that she’s not quite out of the woods yet when it comes to her mental health issues:
In a new fly-on-the-wall documentary she admits: ‘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.’
Britney believes she is still being forced to ‘pay’ for her well-documented meltdown.
She says: ‘I think it’s too in control. If I wasn’t under the restraints I’m under, I’d feel so liberated. When I tell them the way I feel, it’s like they hear but they’re really not listening.
‘If you do something wrong in your work, you can move on, but I’m having to pay for a long time.
‘I never wanted to become one of those prisoner people. I always wanted to feel free.’
‘I think I’ve learnt my lesson now and enough is enough.’
No, Britney. I don’t believe you are ready.
You see, she’s looking at it wrong. People aren’t out to “make her pay”. Nobody is trying to sit her in the time-out chair and punish her for acting bad or having a tantrum. She has mental health issues, and from all accounts very serious ones. When someone deals with a mental illness (in Britney’s case, it is widely believed to be bipolar disorder), it takes a long time to come back from that. It is a day to day process, sometimes a minute to minute process, and sometimes people do start to believe that they are being “punished” for acting like a bad child…if you’d just lighten up on them and leave them alone, they’d show you that they could behave and act right.
But this isn’t about desiring to behave or punishment or anything like that. Britney was, and I believe still is, a very sick young lady. She needs her father acting as conservator right now simply because the courts and medical professionals do not believe that she is capable of handling anything that serious at the moment. That doesn’t mean that at some point in the future, she won’t be able to…it just means that right now, there’s still a ways to go. She also needs to take her medication and see her doctor on a regular basis. I certainly do hope that she does not decide she’s “well” now and go off her meds, as so many are prone to do when they start to feel better. I understand that she’s speaking from the patient’s viewpoint, and it might seem to her as though some of the restrictions are harsh, but by all appearances they really are not…they are for her own good, and as she gets better she will get more and more things back.
And let’s face it…she’s got more freedom and more resources at her disposal than the average twenty-something single mom. When was the last time you hopped on a private plane and flew several states away just to visit your relatives? Or jetted off to Mexico just to play in the surf? Or decided to sell your house in an exclusive gated community…but it’s okay, you have other houses to live in? In some ways she is restrained, but in other ways she has a lot of freedom, plus resources. No, money doesn’t buy happiness, but Britney has to realize that she’s got it pretty good. I mean, compare Brit’s life to that of a single mom on welfare, or to a senior citizen struggling to pay the heat bill, or to the pregnant teenage drug addict, and I have a hard time coming up with sympathy for her “I feel like I’m in jail” pity party.
And yes, Brit…for so many of us, every day IS Groundhog Day, in that we do the same things over and over and over and over. Life isn’t one big steaming bowl of Excitement Flakes, and the sooner you realize that the better. You take the good parts when you get them, hope the bad parts go away fairly quickly, and you learn to be grateful for what you have instead of whining about what you don’t have…because it can all go away just like that.
Brit, just a word of advice…stick with it. Don’t jump ship now just because you feel like you’re being punished, because you’re not. Look at your life and realize just how good you have it. Everyone is trying to help you. Let them.
Do you really want to go back to the way things were?
I thought we were done with these two buffoons, but I guess they just can’t take a hint. Adnan has had his own run-in with the law yesterday when he turned himself in before the popo could grab him on a 
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