X17 XCLUSIVE - Britney Working Day And Night!

The following italicized article is from www.x17online.com:

Seems like Brit's been working 'round the clock these last couple of days and last night was no exception!

After working out at the Ritz yesterday afternoon, Britney, her assistant and her bodyguard/cameraman headed to a recording studio in her convertible, where, photogs tell us, she stayed until 1:30 am!

Think we'll get a preview of what she's been working on sometime soon, like, perhaps at the VMAs?

I guess we'll just have to watch and see!

See more pics here!

Source: X17

Rep: Britney In Negotiations To Appear For VMAs

Britney Spears may get a shot at redemption during this year's MTV Video Music Awards.

Widely panned for her glazed-over performance at last year's show, Spears is now in negotiations with MTV to make an appearance at the Sept. 7 ceremony, a spokesperson for MTV said Tuesday. While the network said nothing has been finalized — only Lil Wayne and the Jonas Brothers are confirmed so far — Spears is already appearing in promotional ads for the telecast.

"This is for real," Spears tells VMA host Russell Brand in one of two spots for the VMAs, which were taped last week, according to MTV. In the ads, Spears, dressed in black with blonde hair cascading down her shoulders, giggles as she and Brand banter flirtatiously. She looks sexy, confident and fit — the antithesis of her appearance at last year's ceremony.

Spears' 2007 performance was heavily hyped to be her comeback after months of negative publicity and erratic behavior. Though her disheveled look and bleary routine during "Gimme More" only became the new benchmark for Spears' decline, it was also the most talked about performance not only of the show, but perhaps the year.

Since then, Spears, 26, has appeared to have cleaned up her act. Her father James has been in control of her personal and professional matters as her legal conservator, and she drew high ratings and reviews when she made guest appearances on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" earlier this year.

Spears is working on a new album. If she were to perform, it would surely be a ratings bonanza; last year's VMA's was up 23 percent over the 2006 show.

Van Toffler, head of MTV Networks Music Groups, admitted as much in June when he said there was a possibility that Spears could appear at this year's event, to be held in Los Angeles.

"I'm not sure how we top Britney opening the show," said Toffler.

A Britney sequel just might work.

Source: Yahoo!

Sneak Peek: Britney Reveals All!

The following italicized article is from www.ok-magazine.com:

Just over a year ago, Britney Spears made headlines around the world when she experienced an embarrassing meltdown at an OK! photo shoot, ruining thousands of dollars of designer clothing and doing further damage to a once brilliant career that had already been tarnished by late-night pantyless parties with Paris Hilton, multiple trips to rehab and the infamous public head-shaving incident.

Now, in an exclusive interview with OK!, the pop superstar is finally going on the record to talk openly about her kids, her parents and her career.

In addition to the exclusive photos and interview with Britney, her father Jamie Spears, who has been helping to guide his daughter back to a normal life, speaks openly to OK! about his relationship with Britney and his feelings about her ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Check back with OKmagazine.com on Wednesday morning for your first, revealing look at OK!'s interview with Hollywood's most controversial superstar.

Source: OK Magazine

Rise 'n' Shine: Britney's Comeback Continues With Coherent Interview

The first Britney Spears interview and photo shoot in two years will appear in OK!, and this time around no Zac Posen gowns were defecated on by dogs.

Source: E! Online

Britney Spears & Russell Brand’s ‘VMA’ Promo

The following italicized article is from www.accesshollywood.com:

The new promo spot for the MTV “Video Music Awards” featuring Britney Spears and the show’s host, British comedian Russell Brand, has been unveiled.

Britney and Russell reference the singer’s 2007 “VMA” performance via an elephant in the room, which the duo make no reference to. The pachyderm performs tricks in the background as Britney and Russell joke about his less-than-household-name-in-America, status.

In one spot, Russell jokes with Britney about not knowing his name, as she calls the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star “Russell Brown.”

“You will remember that name because I think pretty soon it’s going to be your surname – Britney Brown,” he jokes with the pop star.

In the second spot, Russell revels in meeting a famous American celebrity.

“You are Britney Spears, right? I’m not dreaming this am I,” asks the British funny man during the ad, as the enormous elephant stands on his hind legs.

“No, this is real,” Britney tells Russell before giving him a playful pinch, ensuring that he’s awake.

Though Brit has been has been nominated 17 times, she has never walked away with a moon man. This year is she is up for best female video and best pop video.

MTV has not announced if Britney will perform at this year’s awards.

Watch Britney and Russell’s “VMA” promo spot HERE!

Source: Access Hollywood

Re-Post - Vote For Britney For The 2008 VMA's

Two nominations so far, let's get Britney her third VMA nom! Britney's video for "Piece of Me" is up for the "Video of the Year" award!

You've got until Wednesday (August 13) to make your selection for Video Of The Year and then on Friday (August 15) MTV will announce which videos made the final cut. OH and you must be a registered user of MTV.com to vote.

LET'S GET THIS NOMINATION FOR BRITNEY! Vote vote vote!

Source: MTV

Britney Spears OK! Magazine Tell-All Interview August 2008

The following italicized article is from www.popcrunch.com:

Now that the press has fallen back in love with Britney Spears, the “reformed” basket case has decided the time has come for her to begin opening up about her battle with mental illness and her journey back from the brink.

Britney has just completed her first exclusive interview and photoshoot in two years with her old pals over OK! Magazine -and unlike Britney’s last provocative interview with the weekly glossy, no designers gowns were stolen, soiled, or otherwise destroyed during this chat.

Britney’s first tell-all interview since a series of emotional breakdowns cost her custody of her two sons will appear in this week’s issue of OK! Magazine, on newsstands nationwide this Friday.

Source: Pop Crunch

Russell Out To Spear Britney

The following italicized article is from www.thesun.co.uk:

SO there is a woman immune to RUSSELL BRAND’s charms – BRITNEY SPEARS.

I would have thought a flick of his back-combed barnet would have been enough to dazzle the fallen pop star into bed.

I mean, she’s not exactly known for her high standards. But the Toxic singer cuts the comic down to size in a clip for the MTV Video Music Awards – which Russell will host – calling him Russell BROWN.

Last year Britney humiliated herself at the bash so badly I thought her career was over.

She ambled around onstage in her undercrackers and fishnets in a daze having taken prescribed anti-depressants.

Millions at home watched from behind their sofas.

But this year the joke is on Russell. He took a real shine to her as they filmed the five-minute interview to promote next month’s star-studded bash.

He flirted with her on and off camera.

But Britney was more than a match for the quick-witted Bizarre Shagger Of The Year. A source said: “Russell is being his usual cocky self in the video, playing the sexuality card with Britney.

“He is flirting with her and tells her he can feel a powerful sexual tension between them.

“But Britney has the measure of him, saying she doesn’t feel any tension – before referring to him as Russell Brown. She really puts him in his place.

“She looks back to her best in the video and seems to have put all her troubles behind her.”

I said last month Britney was taking her first steps on a full-scale comeback – and this video is another huge leap.

She also has nine new songs completed for an album which is pencilled in for release early next year.

Source: The Sun

Britney Working Out At The Ritz-Carlton

The paps caught up with Brit Brit Monday evening. She went to the Ritz-Carlton gym to get her exercise on. She's pumping the dumb bells like a pro. You go Brit!

Source: X17 Video

Britney's Back Talking To The Press Again

The following italicized article is from www.msnbc.com:

Paris Hilton took advantage of John McCain's ad citing her and Britney Spears, but Spears stayed strangely silent. It appears she had more pressing engagements to tend to.

Spears is said to have just completed her first exclusive sit-down interview and photo shoot in nearly two years. OK! magazine, the same publication that attempted to deliver Spears' previous exclusive agreement, is said to be running her tell-all in this week’s issue.

Who can forget just how disastrously the mag’s earlier encounter with Spears was? She took clothes from the set, and her dog did unspeakable things to a Zac Posen dress.

But this time around, a source says that things went quite well. Not only did Spears answer questions (with no couture dresses harmed in the process), but her dad, Jamie Spears, who’s never spoken at length with the media, was forthcoming about Spears’ relationship with her management, Kevin Federline and her sons. The issue is on stands nationwide on Friday.

Source: MSNBC

Britney's License Trial Still Idling

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Britney Spears can continue to keep her distance from the courthouse for now.

The popster's trial on a year-old misdemeanor charge of driving with an invalid license has again been pushed back, this time to Sept. 8. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Sept. 2.

A lawyer for Spears has characterized the case, stemming from the singer's 2007 run-in with a parked car while only toting a Louisiana driver's license, as another instance of a public figure being punished for her fame.

"Anyone can see this is not the case of the century. The fact is that Britney is being treated differently," attorney Michael Flanagan told E! News in March. "This should be just treated as a fix-it ticket or an infraction."

Court dates pertaining to this case have been shuffled multiple times this year, with her legal camp using her early-'08 mental-health troubles to argue that she couldn't quite grasp the repercussions of her situation.

Source: E! Online

Brand-New VMA Video's Starring Britney!

The following italicized article is from www.mtv.com:

While I was off on a much-needed vay-K before the mayhem that was Jonasfest, my esteemed colleague/ blog bestie — Remote Control blogger Control Freak — visited the Los Angeles set last week where VMA host Russell Brand and Britney Spears shot a gotta-see-it-to-believe-it MTV commercial for the upcoming VMAs. Here’s her behind-the-scenes report followed by the exclusive videos, starring Britney.

Britney Spears, an elephant, and a flamboyant ex-crack addict walk into a bar…

Actually it was Stage 25 on the Paramount Studios lot, and this is no joke.

Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of getting up close but impersonal with Britney Spears. Led by a protective entourage of over 10 people, the megastar made a special visit to MTV’s 2008 VMA commercial shoot in Hollywood. Regardless of how long it took her to glam up (uh, two hours), homegirl looked “Hot as Ice” and managed to upstage the enormous elephant in the room.

Her tight, toned figure certainly made an impression on this year’s VMA host, British comedian Russell Brand (or Brown, as Britney jokingly referred to him while the camera rolled). “Britney,” the towering Brit with questionable (as in, “Why? Why? Why?”) hair styling called out, “You must be releasing estrogen or some other chemical that’s beguiling me.”

Well, something was definitely activating Russell’s epicenter of kink — at one point, the unabashed Forgetting Sarah Marshall star spread open his shirt and fondled his “too-tiny nips,” to which an unfazed Britney simply giggled and nonchalantly offered up a quiet, “Really? OK.” Not the response Russell was looking for, so he went at her again with some talk about stimulating her womanly bits. That one did the trick. “Oh My God!!!!!” echoed throughout the stage.

You’ll be having your own OMG moments while watching this year’s VMAs, as Russell clearly doesn’t have a filter — just watch the first few commercials below to get an idea of what the notoriously inappropriate host has in store.

Source: MTV