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Monday, December 1, 2008
Britney Spears Tops Yahoo Searches
The following Italicized article is from www.accesshollywood.com:She did it again: Britney Spears was the most popular search term on Yahoo for the fourth year in a row — her seventh time topping the list.
Spears bested World Wrestling Entertainment, Barack Obama, Miley Cyrus and the online game “RuneScape” as the five most-searched terms of 2008 the Web portal and search company announced Monday, a day before the singer released her new album “Circus.”
Jessica Alba, the anime series “Naruto,” Lindsay Lohan, Angelina Jolie and “American Idol” rounded out the top 10 list.
To compile their year-end review, Yahoo editors analyze search queries based on “absolute volume and growth versus previous periods, to see which themes and trends bubble to the surface.”
Users and their search queries remain anonymous.
Spears also continues to be a ratings draw on television, too. The Saturday episode of the British talent show “The X Factor,” which featured an appearance by Spears, attracted 12.6 million viewers, the show’s biggest audience, The Guardian reported Monday.
Source: Access Hollywood
The Dates Have Been Announced!
Britney Spears is 100% going on tour next year!In fact, dates were just announced.
This will be the wannabe comeback kid's first live dates since those shiteous House of Blues concerts. Her last major tour - the Onyx Hotel - was a handful of years ago.
The Pussycat Dolls will be opening for Spears on the new tour. The first show is March 3rd in New Orleans and the last concert will be April 28th in Rosemont, IL.
BritBrit is also scheduled to perform two London, U.K. shows in June.
CLICK HERE to find out where and when she's going in North America!
Source: Perez Hilton
MTV Scores With Britney Special
The following Italicized article is from www.hollywoodreporter.com:For the record -- Britney Spears' MTV special did pretty good Sunday night.
"Britney: For The Record" averaged 3.7 million total viewers at 10 p.m.
It also pulled in a 3.5 rating in the network's target demo of persons 12-34, tripling the time period average in that demo and all others.
The documentary, part of Spears' career relaunch, provided insight into pop princess' rough last few years and into her paparazzi-filled everyday life.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Happy Birthday Britney
Happy 27th brithday Britney!We want to wish you good luck on your Good Morning America performance and we hope that you have an awesome day and celebrate it with lots of good friends and your children.
May there be many more birthday's to come.
Inside Britney Spears' Real-Life Circus
The following Italicized article is from www.ok-magazine.com:When Britney Spears puts her heart and soul into something you know she's not going to do something small.
On the eve of both her 27th birthday and the release of her highly anticipated new album, Circus, the pop superstar went to a real-life circus in NYC to put the finishing touches on her first live solo performance in over a year.
For Britney's appearance on Tuesday's Good Morning America, the mother of two will perform in a circus ring – complete with an animal cage – alongside performers from the Big Apple Circus.
"It's going to be pretty wild," one eyewitness, who managed to get a sneak peek of the rehearsal tells OK!. "Brit was dancing in the ring with her regular team, while stilt walkers towered over her and the gymnasts were throwing themselves all over the place."
Says the witness, the Brit-Brit that played ringmaster at today's rehearsal is a far cry from the dazed and confused singer that muddled through her now-infamous performance of "Gimme More" at the 2007 Video Music Awards. "She seems to want to show everyone what the new, improved Britney can do!"
Earlier on Monday, the "Womanizer" star spent the morning taking care of business at her uptown hotel, before leading the caravan of photographers and reporters to her rehearsal at the Big Apple Circus.
In fact, this is the second time this week that the paparazzi has crowded outside the Big Apple Circus on Manhattan's Upper West Side. On Thanksgiving, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes took Suri to see the show there as a holiday treat.
Source: OK Magazine
Britney Is Going To Be On Ellen!
You guys asked for it, and now it's happening. Britney will be a guest on Ellen THIS THURSDAY! Set your Tivos. Source: BritneySpears.com
Offering An Apology
G-A-Y in London has just issued the following apology for their Britney debacle this past weekend:"I have been dreading writing today's mail out, I have written this so many times, I started writing this at 5am Sunday morning, deleted it, re-started writing this on Sunday & once again kept on deleting it because everything I wanted to say, didn't come across the way I wanted it to
Whatever I say now, I know that I'm going to get either slated or have people agree with me but most importantly I want to apologize that what should have been an amazing night ended up being one of such a disappointment for so many, including myself and Michael, Stuart & Peter, who I want to give a special mention to. So I am very, very sorry
There are few facts that I would like to correct, because not everything about Saturday has been reported correctly. So first of, Yes, I had approached Britney to make an appearance at G-A-Y, never a performance, it was just for an appearance, I knew she was only in the UK for 24 hours & there would have been no rehearsal time, so my approach was only for an appearance, nothing was ever confirmed, hence the reason I advertised a Britney Party, however at no stage did I ever advertise that Britney would be there.
There was a possibility that Britney would appear but it had to be hush hush, when the story leaked in the Sun, it meant it was going to be unlikely, but still a possibility, so to try & make it still happen, I didn't respond to the Sun article, because it would make it even less likely, plus I couldn't say either way whether she would be there as, the truth is, I didn't know & wasn't going to know to the very last minute, which is how it would happen.
I knew that if Britney was to appear at G-A-Y then it wouldn't be decided until around 11pm or later on Sat night, so to make sure no one entered on Saturday thinking Britney would be there I instructed security to tell everyone individually that she would not be there, so there would be no disappointments.
At 12:30, I got a call saying she was coming, from my discussions with her TM, I thought there was going to be a chance that Britney would come on stage, the stage was cleared & her security was happy the venue was safe, that is fact despite several people saying she wouldn't go on stage because the venue was unsafe. The venue was at capacity, no more, no less with a queue of one in, one out. It's amazing that people can state reasons for her not going on stage when they weren't backstage with her but decide they know better.
When Britney arrived, no one had spoken to her about going on stage, even though I had had discussions with her tour manager & security & therefore she hadn't planned going on stage & wasn't in the right frame of mind to. I did everything to try & persuade her, & she was thinking about it but as people started to move to the front, the front half of the dance floor was getting to busy where as the back half by the bar wasn't because people were surging forward, so that's why I went on stage to say she wasn't coming on, even though she was still considering it. I wanted her to come on stage but once I knew it wasn't going to happen, even after several other announcements people wouldn't believe she wasn't going to come on & wouldn't move, hence it becoming a dangerous situation, we tried to get people to move back but they wouldn't.
I know we have a lot making up to do, I know we have to re-build the confidence in G-A-Y again & it starts now, so once again I can only apologize.
Jeremy"
Source: Perez Hilton
Britney Performing In Japan On The 15th & 16th Of December
According to BMGjapan, Britney will be performing on a show called "HEY!HEY!HEY!" on the 15th of December, followed by another performance on "NTV Best Artist 2008" on the 16th.Source: BMG Japan
Simon: Brit is 'Back on Top'
The following Italicized article is from www.extratv.warnerbros.com:Restored pop princess Britney Spears performed on "The X-Factor" Saturday night, helping the UK series nab its biggest ratings ever -- and only "Extra's" Terri Seymour was behind the scenes with judge Simon Cowell, who praised Brit's performance, saying, "A star is a star is a star. Incredible. She's back on top."
Cowell added, "This girl's got huge star quality... You've got to hand it to her. She's a great performer." And how would he rate her? "Britney's back... 9.5 (out of 10)!"
When asked how Cowell managed to book Spears on "The X-Factor", he explained, "We got a phone call, 'Do you want Britney on the show?' Let me think about that, 'Yes.' And that was it." Even Cowell couldn't believe the paparazzi frenzy surrounding Spears' appearance. "That's the price you pay for being a star. Her pictures are worth a fortune."
Source: Extra TV
Sean And Jayden Join Britney On Tour
The following Italicized article is from www.tmz.com:After completely retooling her image with last night's "documentary," Britney Spears tempted the gods and opened an umbrella indoors!
Britney's mom and dad -- the one she called an "a-hole" on the docu-thingy -- safely brought little Sean Preston and Jayden James through Newark airport yesterday, while Britney battled through the scores of paps alone over at JFK.
Sourc: TMZ