Saturday 1 December 2007

Britney Spears Partners with X17online.com to Host Charity Auction

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Britney Spears has chosen to work with X17online.com exclusively to organize and promote the charitable auction of a signed copy of her new CD “Blackout” to benefit UNICEF.

Spears told X17online: “I think it’s important to give back and with the release of ‘Blackout,’ this seemed like the perfect opportunity to give the fans a chance to bid on something to help children everywhere.”

Spears’ most recent album, “Blackout,” is the #2 album in the US and the first single, “Gimme More,” is the most downloaded single on iTunes.

X17online.com is one of the Internet’s hottest destinations for celebrity news, photos, and video and has become a destination for Britney Spears fans around the world. These fans have been contacting X17online, asking us to ‘give them more’ Britney and here it is!

100% of proceeds will go to the United States Fund for UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund).

Are Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson Buying New Manhattan Lofts?

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (November 12, 2007)-- Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson are looking to buy new houses in New York City.

Britney is said to be looking at lofts in the West Village in the $9 million price range, according to a report by Page Six.

“Britney and her manager recently looked at a couple of places a few weeks ago,” a source told Page Six, “She apparently wants to start over in NYC.”

This wouldn’t be Brit’s first bite out of the Big Apple. She sold an apartment in the Silk Building on East Fourth Street for $4 million last year.

Britney's Failure To Pass A Drug Test Is Her Biggest Success In Recent Months

Breaking: Britney Spears fails another court-ordered drug test. But before you judge her, you should know the results were apparently tainted to to the presence of “prescribed narcolepsy medication.”

Oh, Brit. When everyone from court psychologists to Us Weekly have criticizing your parenting skills, the judge has granted you limited supervised visitation provided you pass semiweekly drug tests and “false-positive” is the closest thing you’ve heard to a compliment all year, don’t you think maybe, just maybe, it might be time to throw in the custody towel?

TMZ Faces Subpoena Over Britney Video

The celebrity Web site TMZ.com reported Sunday it has been told it will be subpoenaed to turn over videotape showing troubled celebrity Britney Spears, her children in the backseat and a text-message device in her hands, driving through a red light last week.

A judge in Los Angeles is currently considering a request by the children's father, Kevin Federline, to prohibit Spears from driving with the children in the car. Her license has reportedly been suspended, although the video shows her at the wheel last week.

The video, shot at the intersection of Mulholland Drive and Coldwater Canyon Boulevard, shows Spears inching the car through a line of phalanx of paparazzi who had surrounded the car. The driver, identified by TMZ and the photographers as Spears, appears to be busy typing a message into a cellphone's keyboard, and the sleeping children are visible in the back seat.

As photographers yell "red light, red light," Spears inches into the intersection and turns left against a red arrow, as oncoming cars honk. That intersection, at the crest of a hill, has been the scene of numerous crashes.

TMZ reported Sunday that Federline's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, has contacted them and said he will subpoena the tape, which was broadcast last week on the TMZ television show.

Did Britney Spears Fail Another Drug Test?

Could it possibly be a Monday morning without some sort of Britney Spears story? Don't be silly.

Sources tell TMZ.com that Britney has failed another drug test, but, somehow got a passing grade anyway. The Britney insider says that the test was a "false positive," and Britney was actually clean. Suuurrrre.

What kind of false positive? That's ridiculous. Did she eat one too many poppy seed bagels before peeing in the cup? A false negative I would believe, but a false positive? Not so much.

Meanwhile, Kevin Federline's lawyer has asked TMZ for their paparazzi video of Brit running a very red light, while Sean Preston and Jayden James slept in the back of the car. He plans to submit it in court on Wednesday.

Another day, another monumental screw up for Britney.

Britney's Fury at Book Deal

BRITNEY SPEARS is so furious with her mother for writing a book about her, the troubled pop star looks set to publish her own side of the story. Mum Lynne, 52, has signed a $1 million (GBP500,000) deal to write a book on parenting but the pop princess plans to publish her own tell-all memoir at the same time. Spears is reported to have told a pal, "She is trying to make a quick buck. She says she's not sure if she'll go through with it - but I can't really trust her."

Britney Spears Bad Driver

With the help of the local sheriff’s office to escort her to her brand new Mercedes, Britney Spears was spotted shopping with Sam Lufti at popular baby shop Bel Bambini, on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles on Friday.

With all the vehicular complications the “Gimme More” singer has dealt with in the past few months, you’d think she would try to obey the traffic laws, especially when Jayden James and Sean Preston are in the car. But instead, on Thursday night she ran a red light on camera, giving K-Fed’s lawyers more fodder for their custody battle.

Mark Vincent Kaplan (K-Fed’s lawyer) pled with the judge not to allow Britney to drive her kids around anymore. “We’re asking that she personally shouldn’t be the driver of the children,” he declared in their court hearing earlier this week.
Unfortunately, the issue of Britney’s fitness to drive her boys herself won’t be discussed until a hearing scheduled for November 26th. Until then, it’s open season on Los Angeles’ traffic laws.