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The following italicized article is from www.nydailynews.com:Reps for Britney Spears and her father, Jamie, are brushing off Courtney Love's recent claim that Jamie molested Brit as a girl. But one British tabloid is not. We hear the London paper has opened its checkbook to a female member of the Spears family who contends she can back up Love's allegation. Spears spokeswoman Louise Taylor denies anyone in the family is talking and tells us: "We're not commenting on Courtney Love, or any aliens who might come to Earth to impregnate people."Source: NY Daily News
The following italicized article is from www.nydailynews.com:Celebrity names can sell loads of stuff, but these days, they’re stinking up the perfume business.
Indeed, sales of celebrity-branded fragrances are going out of favor faster than the last Britney Spears single, according to TheStreet.com. Some of the decline, experts suggest, is because consumers may be embarrassed to use a celebrity fragrance.“On blind scent tests many of these fragrances test extremely well; they're designed to be the least offensive and offer the broadest appeal,” Karen Grant of the market research firm NPD Group told TheStreet.com. “But when a celebrity is associated with it, you see a different reaction.”Fragrance peddler Parlux France relies heavily on its celebrity branded scents and has taken a hit for it. The company produces Queen Latifah’s Queen, Jessica Simpson’s Fancy and Fancy Love, Andy Roddick's Andy Roddick and all of Paris Hilton's many fragrances (Paris Hilton, Paris Hilton for Men, Heir, Heiress, Just Me, Can Can, Fairy Dust and Siren). The company lost $4.3 million last year and $2.5 in the second quarter of this year alone.
While the prestige fragrance market as a whole is down 10% from last year, Britney Spears is one celeb who appears to be bucking the odds.Sales of her fragrances - Fantasy Britney Spears, Britney Spears Believe, Curious Britney Spears and Curious in Control Britney Spears - rose 13% in the June quarter. Elizabeth Arden, the company behind the ageing pop tart's perfumes, just brought out Circus Fantasy, named after her latest tour and album.Then again, she’s global.“More than half of the sales of Britney brands were sold of outside of North America,” said an Arden company spokesman.Source: NY Daily News
The following italicized article is from www.nydailynews.com:When her daddy’s away, Britney Spears plays ... and how.The pop star found an on-tour playmate in a hunky 21-year-old backup dancer while father Jamie was tending to business in L.A. late this month. According to a well-placed tour source, Britney’s relationship with the hoofer was not that innocent. “Britney was a bad girl,” says our insider. “Literally as soon as her dad left, she started getting cozy with a dancer named Gio. It wasn’t serious. They had a few romantic interludes, and she bought him a few things — a pair of shoes and some clothes — even though she’s on an allowance.”But now that Jamie’s back with the “Circus” tour and casting a watchful eye over his daughter again, Brit’s romance has cooled. “Britney was definitely getting jiggy there for a hot minute, but they’ve slowed down since Jamie got back in the picture,” says the insider. “It’s basically over now.”Source: NY Daily News
The following italicized article is from www.nydailynews.com:Z100 afternoon host J.J. Kincaid says Britney Spears is looking great these days. He should know, because she paid him a visit on the air Monday. "You see all this stuff on the blogs," he says. "But I can tell you that in person she looks really good. She was cool off the air, too. She seemed together - nothing at all like what we were seeing a year ago." A year ago, of course, Britney was the American train wreck. Now her hair has grown back, she has a new CD out, and she told Kincaid she's planning a world tour next year. "If she pulls it together, that's the kind of story ending you never hear," says Kincaid. "Most of them end so badly." Kincaid's interview came together in a flash, after Spears' manager text-messaged WHTZ (100.3 FM) program director Sharon Dastur, saying Britney would like to come by and thank the station for its Britney weekend. "We didn't know if she'd do an interview or what," says Kincaid. "We just had to be ready." Her people finally decided she could do three minutes on the air, on the condition the conversation not go to tabloid places."That's okay," says Kincaid. "It's their call. But I'd love to sit down with Britney some day for a '60 Minutes' kind of interview, where she just talks about the stuff that's happened. I think that would be fascinating." As it is, he says, he still threw a scare into some of her entourage by saying on the air that he wanted to bring up "the T-word." "There must have been 15 people in the room, and when I said that, you could feel every one reaching for their BlackBerry to try to figure out what I was about to ask," he says. "When I said 'tour,' it was like the whole room let out this huge sigh of relief."Source: NY Daily News
The following italicized article is from www.nydailynews.com:Britney Spears is giving her sons a shout-out ... on a necklace.The mother of two stepped out in Los Angeles over the weekend wearing a homemade brooch necklace featuring the names of her little boys in black and white block letters.Spears, 26, lost custody of Jayden James, 1, and Sean Preston, 2, to her ex-husband Kevin Federline in July, but retains visitation rights.The fallen pop star isn't the first star mom to use her offspring as inspiration for an accessory. Nicole Richie has worn several "H" necklaces after giving birth to her daughter Harlow in January, while Angelina Jolie has multiple tattoos dedicated to her brood.Spears appears to be bouncing back from a rocky year-and-a-half in which she shaved her head, was hospitalized twice for mental illness and fell under her father's conservatorship.Frequent trips to the gym have helped Spears get her old body back, which she debuted last week. The singer is also working on her sixth studio album - reportedly set for a mid-December release - alongside Kanye West and Pharrell Williams.Source: NY Daily News
The following italicized article is from www.nydailynews.com:Britney Spears looked like her old self again while shopping in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The "Gimme More" singer showed off clear skin, new blond hair extensions and a toned body underneath her casual velour sweatpants and white tank top. The 26-year-old appeared to turn back the clock to 2003 - before she was a twice-married mother of two with several hospitalizations for mental illness under her belt.Despite a rocky year in which she lost custody of her sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline, Spears seems to have turned her life around under her father's conservatorship. The pop star's formerly erratic nights on the town and odd behavior have been swapped with regular trips to the gym and music studio, where she's recording her sixth album.Kanye West and Pharrell Williams are working with Spears on her comeback CD, which is reportedly scheduled for a mid-December release. Source: NY Daily News
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