Britney Interview starts at :58 in and goes to 3:30. At 2:45 she puts on a slight British accent that sounds like an accident, remember when she did that constantly?

Britney Spears’ new Femme Fatale tour stars this Friday and goes until the end of November with a whopping 54 shows in 53 cities around the world. She gets a six week break at the end of summer before she starts her European tour, which means she’ll do about four shows a week when she’s in the states. I would say that I doubt she’s up for it, but I said that before her Circus Tour in ’09 and that went off almost without a hitch. Britney is a money-making machine, and this time around she seems like she’s ready for it emotionally. She’s still kind of strutting around the stage and lip syncing, but as many of you have pointed out she has a bum knee and might not be capable of the more demanding moves she was known for before she had knee surgery.

Anyway Britney hasn’t done any non-pretaped video interviews, as far as I can find, to promote this latest album. She’s done some print interviews that sound written by a PR team with Britney-isms added for authenticity. Carson Daly tweeted in late March that Britney’s people had some incredibly strict demands on any video interviews. They had to be pre-taped, pre-approved and presumably edited before they could be released.

So here are two new interviews with Britney that were probably scripted and were both pre-taped and likely approved by her people. She still comes across as genuine and as trying, especially in the British interview above. She lapses into a British accent at one point that seems inadvertent but then she puts on the accent again on purpose for effect. She’s funny and seems somewhat natural and comfortable. I love what she says about how she tries to make her tour buses and dressing rooms like home by using the same shabby chic style she favors. (I’m not a fan of that style, but it’s Britney and if she’s into it more power to her.) It’s also funny that she says she keeps slim by eating “clean,” considering the rumors that her tour has banned hot dogs and cookie dough.

In the Entertainment Tonight interview below she’s more “deer in the headlights” but still seems to be trying and to really care about her fans. She gets excited when explaining how pumped she gets to hear the fan response right before she sets foot on stage.

There’s something kind of sad and reluctant about Britney in that second interview, but at least she seems like she really enjoys touring and seeing her fans. It’s more than I expected from her, and gives me hope that she’s doing fine and is ready for this. It’s not the first time she’s toured and it’s worth noting that her last tour went off very well.

Oh – on their website ETOnline is going with the angle that Britney would do a reality competition show, like Christina Aguilera on The Voice, but I think she’s just being positive about it and isn’t ruling it out.

Interviews via ONTD. Photos are from 5/14/11. Credit: PRPhotos and WENN.com

Whenever I hear the name Enrique Iglesias I get that “Tonight I’m f’ing you” song stuck in my head on a loop and picture greasy guys like The Situation and Pauley D picking up women with big hair at a club. (Inglesias does say “here’s the Situation,” so the guy inevitably comes to mind.) So I don’t really think of Enrique Iglesias as an “artist” or someone who wouldn’t benefit from hitching his name to a bigger star. He seems to think he can do fine on his own, though, and made a statement last night that the joint tour that Britney Spears just announced with him wasn’t happening.

Update: Enrique just released this statement, confirming he WON’T be touring with Britney.

“Unfortunately, Enrique Iglesias and Britney Spears will not be touring together,” his rep said. “Despite initial reports based on formal discussions of the possible run, Enrique will continue on his solo tour in support of his new album EUPHORIA. Enrique has great respect for Britney and is a longtime fan of her work. He is very sorry for the confusion this might have caused to anyone.”

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The Britney Spears and Enrique Iglesias tour is over even before it began, after the hunky star pulled out just hours after they announced the joint venture, RadarOnline.com has learned.

The tour was made public on Tuesday, moments before Spears shook her stuff for a much talked about performance on Good Morning America.

But it appears that the Spanish hunk no longer wants to pair up with the pop princess and has since cancelled.

Live Nation is promoting the show and sent out a media advisory stating: “Enrique Iglesias is no longer on this tour.”

No further explanation was given, but Billboard is reporting that he ducked out because he doesn’t want to be an opening act for anyone.

“Plans called for Iglesias, who is currently on tour in Europe, to be much more than a standard opening act; he was slated to carry full production on the Spears tour,” Billboard reported. “While two such high-profile artists with top-shelf production values was sure to be attractive to fans, such an endeavor is also very expensive to produce.”

[From Radar Online]

So what happened? Did Enrique see the hilariously bad “performance” that Britney gave on Good Morning America? She was kind of teetering around the stage, moving her arms and lip syncing but that’s what she did on her entire Circus tour from what I remember so it isn’t new. He probably realized he was better off not being associated with Britney or relying on her in any way. I bet his people cooked up that joint tour idea and he was on board with it until he saw her perform and realized what he was getting into. It’s possible that it was some business decision as they’re claiming, but that seems like a convenient excuse to me.

TMZ is reporting that Enrique didn’t want to be opening act for anyone, but I bet he didn’t want to be second biller to Britney.

Photos are of Britney performing last night on Jimmy Kimmel credit: Fame and of Enrique performing on 3/25 in London and 3/28 in Holland. Credit: WENN.com

It seems like everyone is breaking up lately. This couple isn’t a surprise as they’ve been on shaky ground for some time, but it’s still sad. Britney Spears and her agent, Jason Trawick, are said to have broken up in late February, which must have been after their Valentine’s Day outing to McDonalds. E! Online reports that they’ve been fighting a lot and that it was just a matter of time. Trawick is still officially her agent, though.

Britney Spears is once again a solo artist.

The 28-year-old pop princess and her talent-agent boyfriend Jason Trawick called it quits at the end of February after about a year of dating, a source exclusively tells E! News.

“They were fighting a lot and have not been getting along,” the source says.

William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, where Trawick plies his trade, confirmed Tuesday that the 38-year-old agent is still representing Spears. A rep for the blond-again Circus star has not yet responded to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time the business-and-pleasure-mixing duo have required some time apart.

Spears and Trawick cooled off over the holidays in December, but rekindled the flame in time to attend the Grammys together on Jan. 31, where Spears was nominated for Best Dance Recording for “Womanizer.”

They were last seen in public together on Valentine’s Day at a McDonald’s drive-thru in L.A.

“They both just needed to take a break from each other,” the source says. “It wasn’t working out.”

Just as it wasn’t the other [sic] time they split up within the last three months, but, as our insider says, reconciliation remains on the table.

[From E! Online]

I’ve been in those relationships where you break up, get back together again, the same old issues come up, rinse and repeat. The situation can really do a number on your emotions and self worth. Sometimes the person just isn’t right for you, and sometimes you both need the time apart to get your head on straight before you can make it work. I’m thinking that Britney and Jason aren’t married, as much as she would probably like to be, and that she should move on. The sad thing is that this is probably the closest thing she’s had to a committed long term relationship since K-Fed. The guy took her to McDonalds for Valentine’s Day, and as much as she may have said it was her preference I’m sure she wouldn’t have turned down a romantic dinner at a fancy restaurant. There are better men out there, Brit!

We might soon be seeing more of Britney Spears’ little sister, Jamie Lynn. The National Enquirer reports this week that Jamie Lynn intends to move to LA from Mississippi to live with Britney. This would also allow the former Zoey 101 star to revive her acting career, which was put on hold when she fell pregnant at 16. (I love how the Brits say that, “fell pregnant,” like it was an accident.) According to The Enquirer, this was all their mom Lynne’s idea, who hopes that Jamie Lynn will soon be working again. (And bringing in those paychecks to pay for Grandma’s plastic surgery.) Lynne also hopes to keep Jamie Lynn away from both Casey and a guy that she’s been dating, a 28 year-old businessman, of whom Lynn doesn’t approve. Oh I’m sure the industry types in LA will be much better for Jamie Lynn.

Teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears is leaving her native Louisiana and moving in with her big sister Britney in Los Angeles, the Enquirer has learned.

The move is part of mom Lynne Spears’ plan to revive her 18-year-old daughter’s acting career and separate her from her new boyfriend James Watson, insiders say.
Jamie Lynn started dating the 28-year-old businessman last December, but her mom disapproves of their 10-year age difference, revealed a source.

“Lynne is very unhappy about Jamie Lynn’s relationship with James. She thinks he’s too old for Jamie Lynn and has nothing to offer her,” the source told The Enquirer. “Lynne wants to see her daughter get back into show business.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, March 22, 2010]

So now Lynne is trying to control 18 year-old Jamie Lynn’s life. She admitted that she left a then 15 year-old Britney in the care of a friend and let her move to LA for her career. When Lynne was promoting her book, she also said that sshe thought Jamie Lynn was joking when she handed her a note that she was pregnant. Nothing was Lynne’s fault or responsibility and she reasoned that she couldn’t supervise Britney as a teen because she was teaching school and had two other children to care for. Now she wants to keep her 18 year-old daughter with a nearly two year old baby away from a guy because he’s ten years older than she is. Lynne thinks the best way to do that is to move Jamie Lynne to LA and back get her back in show business. What a piece of work this woman is. It’s good news at least for Britney as she’ll have her sister and niece with her. I wonder what’s next for Britney as she seems kind of lost when she’s not working.

Britney, Lynne, a bodyguard and her boys are shown outside a movie theater on 3/1/10. Jamie Lynn is shown at LAX airport returning to Mississippi on 2/10/10. That’s Maddie being carried. Credit: Fame Pictures

There’s a new, very long interview with singer Ke$ha in UK publication The Daily Record. Ke$ha has exactly one hit song, Tik Tok, and while it’s dominated the charts for a few weeks it’s not like she has more than one single out or much of a career to speak of. I barely knew who she was until a few weeks ago and now know her as the girl who shows up at events and awards shows looking like a hot, over accessorized mess.

In Ke$ha’s interview with The Record, she sounds like she’s just so full of herself and impressed with the hard knock life she was living before Tik Tok propelled her to the top. I had to google some interviews to see if this girl is as obnoxious as she comes off as in print and she kind of is. (She looked pretty drunk and maybe high in this interview on Lopez Tonight and in this interview she talks about how she’s hoping to have fans tattoo her face on their body.)

Anyway Ke$ha calls it “bullsh*t” that Britney lip syncs her performances and calls it unfair to the fans. She also goes on at length about how broke she was before she made it big and how she had to steal clothing and food to survive. How hardcore she was! I don’t suppose she could have stuck with one of those menial jobs she complained about in order to pay the bills. This whole interview sounds like stream of consciousness crap, and here are the highlights:

On stealing to make ends meet
But her success was far from overnight. As a child, she wrote songs with her mother and Ke$ha helped out Britney Spears, Flo Rida and Miley Cyrus with songwriting and vocal duties before making it in her own right.
She said: “I was homeless but I would sing on demos and get waitressing jobs and check IDs at a club until they discovered I was 17.

“I had odd jobs. I was a telemarketer for two days, which meant calling people, being hung up on a lot and being yelled at. I was trying to get them to refinance loans. I hated it. I had no idea what I was doing and lasted two days.

“I was trying to make some dollars to pay the rent. There were points when I was really broke.
“The low points would be stealing food and selling clothes to make money for food. But even then, I would get the subway in LA, which is disgusting and there were homeless people exposing themselves. I’d have to turn a blind eye.

“I always found humour in everything, which I think is an important quality.
“It’s better for your soul. It helped to make it easier. If you listen to my record, you can hear that I am saying, ‘We’re broke but who cares?’ It’s not like a starving artist wallowing in self pity. I’m broke but I’m still f***ing fantastic.”

At one stage, she broke into Prince’s home in the hope that he would listen to a demo of her songs. She also threw up in Paris Hilton’s toilet after partying too hard following her backing vocal duties on the socialite’s debut album Paris.

It was at her lowest ebb that Ke$ha turned to shoplifting food and selling her clothes to get by. She said: “I’m not saying everybody should go steal stuff but I did it out of necessity because I needed to eat.
“I’d go to the dollar store. It would have been a bit of a nightmare if I had been caught and arrested. There are so many times I’ve come close to being arrested.

On Britney lipsyncing
Ke$ha insists the new wave of hot, female singers are showing the traditionally male rock scene how it should be done.

She said: “The chicks are killing it right now. I think it is cool to be part of this strong women movement, with us taking over in what has been a male-dominated society for so long.

“I think it’s cool that people are accepting my music, which is really sassy, as well as the Beyonces and Lily Allens and Gagas of the world.”

There is one exception, however. She is unimpressed by Britney Spears’s miming on her world tour.
Ke$ha, who featured on Britney’s track Lace And Leather, whispered: “I think that’s bulls***.

“I don’t think that’s fair at all for people who are going to see the show. I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance.

“If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing. I would never do that to my fans.

“No offence to her specifically but people have asked me before to mime. I have been up at three in the morning for a television show with jet lag but I refuse to mime.

“It’s treating people as if they are too stupid to realise you are not actually singing. Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans. I don’t want to treat my fans like they are stupid.

“That is my take on my fans and life in general. My whole record is super-honest. I am really honest. When I am singing I may sound s*** sometimes but at least you’ll know I’m singing.”

[From Daily Record]

There’s more, including Ke$ha bragging about how she got pulled over by a cop who wanted her phone number, talking about how she dropped out of high school to pursue music, and how she once lived with a man she assumed was her real dad, but turned out not to be. She’s an interesting person, but her personality just rubs me the wrong way. I’m kind of hoping she’s a flash in the pan and that she won’t be all over the place soon like Lady Gaga. Tik Tok is probably a one hit wonder.

Also, I’ve heard Tik Tok and it sounds like Ke$ha relies heavily on auto-tune and computers to make that little throwaway dance track. (Hat tip to a commentor on the Record for mentioning this.) Why then is she ragging on Britney for lip syncing?

Photo credit: WENN.com

Just when you thought Britney was recovered after her downward spiral two years ago comes news that she’s adopting some strange old habits. This story is from British rag The Sun, so let’s keep our fingers crossed that it’s made up. Supposedly Britney is speaking in an English accent in an attempt to imitate maniacal baby Stewie from “Family Guy.” The last time Britney was known to speak in an English accent was when she was driving around aimlessly being followed by countless paparazzi, many of whom were British. She also dated that creepy British paparazzo Adnan Ghalib right before her breakdown in early 2008.

Here’s the story from The Sun:

Britney, who has a lengthy history of odd behaviour, has taken to trotting around the Mondrian Hotel mimicking the troublesome child, who speaks with a plummy British accent.

A source said: “Britney has developed a real fascination for Family Guy.

“She’s been staying in the hotel’s penthouse suite and has been watching box sets. She really likes Stewie and has been trying to copy his British accent.

“It’s a bit weird, especially when she’s in the gym speaking like a camp Brit.”

Stewie is voiced by Family Guy’s creator SETH MacFARLANE. He is obsessed with world domination and plotting to kill his own mother. Given Britney’s own character flaws, perhaps her behaviour isn’t that odd.

[From The Sun]

Before Britney’s breakdown she was staying in hotels too. She’s staying at a hotel in LA now and she has a mansion nearby, so it’s all a little worrying. Britney is still under a conservatorship and her father can step in at any time, though. Still, she’s finding ways around his restrictions, like using one of her bodyguard’s credit cards to buy shoes when she’s over her $1,500 a week spending limit. Britney did extremely well on tour, so maybe her dad should just step in and plan some more activities so she keeps busy. There’s nothing wrong with watching “Family Guy” and attempting a British accent, but if the pink wig comes out she needs and intervention for sure.

Britney is shown out shopping and getting her nails done on 1/15/09. Credit: Fame Pictures

Earlier this month there was some buzz over Britney Spears potentially being released from her father’s conservatorship. Britney’s long tour went off with barely a hitch and she seems to be more in control of her life than ever. A judge ruled that the conservatorship would be extended, though. There is no set date but TMZ claims it will be six months to a year at least. Britney’s estate was also ordered to pay huge fees to various lawyers, as usual.

Britney is under both a personal, i.e. medical, and professional conservatorship, and from what I understand both have been extended:

It was an expensive day in court Tuesday for Britney Spears. In a Los Angeles courtroom Commissioner Reva Goetz ordered the co-conservatorship of Britney Spears to continue, with her father, Jamie Spears, to continue to receive $16k a month for his duties as conservator of his daughter.

Goetz also ordered the co-conservator of Britney, Andrew Wallet, to be paid $174,569.10 for services rendered from July 2009-November 2009.

In addition Goetz ordered Jamie’s attorneys to be paid $183,918 and attorney Joel Boxer to be paid $62,965.06. Another law firm was ordered to be paid $50k. Jamie Spears was also allowed to continue to receive $1200 for office space.

Samuel Ingham, the court appointed attorney for Britney Spears, said in court that, “She [Britney] accepted the accounting as filed and had no objection to it.”

Other housekeeping issues concerned continuing to seal all medical and certain business transactions because of “trade secrets” and the commissioner also increased the bond for the conservatorship from $1 million dollars to $25 million. Bond is similar to insurance in conservatorship cases, so if anything were to happen to Britney’s money she would be covered and reimbursed.

The next court hearing is scheduled for January 14th. Fees for Laura Wasser, Brit’s legal ace divorce attorney will be dealt with at that time.

[From Radar]

Things have been running smoothly for Britney since her father took over. It’s been almost two years since her huge breakdown and she seems back to normal. Honestly, I didn’t expect her to be able to complete her tour, which ran from the beginning of March to the end of September with only a couple of one-month breaks. She also did 14 dates in Australia last month. Apart from yelling that her “p*ssy was hanging out” and getting slammed for lipsyncing in Australia without providing a live video feed for the audience, we haven’t heard many complaints about her tour. She only missed one gig due to an issue with the promoter. Sure she lipsynced and strutted around, it’s what she does. Sadly she may have to do it for a while in order to continue to pay huge lawyer bills, child support payments, and staff. At least she seems happy. Well, sort of.

Britney Spears is shown at JFK on 12/20/09. Credit: WENN.com

A couple of weeks ago, Courtney Love made the mind-boggling claim on her Facebook page that Britney Spears’ father molested her and now enslaves her through his conservatorship. Courtney did stop letting her crazy out in brief spurts through Twitter, but she’s still clinging to Facebook and whenever she makes a little sense she seems to be saying something libelous:

britneys dad molested her , imagine the father that molested you owning you for slavery while your forced to sing songs picked for thier sexual content every night, insane right? i have it on First had authority, and fight as hard as she is and does she still didnt pull that card, its a pride thing i can relate to, However they want to play dirty, lets go, Im SO not affraid of the little trolls who hit this when i was f-cked up who are called lawyers. lets GO.

[From Courtney Love's Facebook through Movieline]

Britney’s people have refused to take Courtney’s slurred bait. Her spokesperson Louise Taylor issued a response to The Daily News that amounts to “whatever.” “We’re not commenting on Courtney Love, or any aliens who might come to Earth to impregnate people.” The News reports that there’s a report coming out in a British tabloid from “a female member of the Spears family who contends she can back up Love’s allegation.” Given all the relatives Britney has, some of whom have been willing to talk to the press on the record, I’m sure there’s a second cousin somewhere willing to lie for some cash.

Meanwhile TMZ reports that Britney might be released from her father’s conservatorship. There are meetings going on to help negotiate the eventual end of the conservatorship now that she’s finished her tour. TMZ thinks it is likely to take a while, and notes that Britney is under both a professional and personal conservatorship. While a court-appointed psychiatrist could possibly recommend that Britney’s personal conservatorship be lifted, her business affairs are likely to still be controlled by her father. That’s probably a good idea considering that she was buying a luxury car a month under Sam Lutfi’s influence. Given how much Britney is being charged in legal fees, I would expect that it will be a few weeks before the personal conservatorship is lifted. Her money-grubbing lawyers are probably going to drag their feet over this one.

Britney is shown out shopping at Fred Segal with boyfriend Jason Trawick on 12/2/09. Credit: MAC/Fame Pictures

A “source” close to Britney Spears’ has categorically denied reports that Britney spooked her on-again boyfriend, CAA agent Jason Trawick, with an unsolicited marriage proposal. We’ve heard rumors for some time that Britney is either gunning for an engagement or is already engaged. She’s also been seen out with engagement-like rings on her significant left ring finger several time. Last week’s OK! Magazine claimed that Britney and Jason were getting married and that she got her young son’s blessing as if preschoolers are regularly consulted in such life-changing decisions. OK! has also had multiple fake Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson covers, so you can’t put much trust in them lately.

Another tabloid reporting an “engagement” story this week is In Touch, which claims that Britney is pushing Jason into proposing partly because she’s hoping to escape her father’s conservatorship. In Touch also claims that Britney of course wants to pin Jason down. They quote a “source” who says “She’s already reading bridal magazines… She likes having Jason in her life and wants to keep him around… Her biggest fear is that he will leave her.”

An Australian gossip rag seems to have taken the engagement rumors a step further by claiming that Britney proposed to Jason during her tour there and that he flat out rejected her. I wasn’t able to verify the exact origin of this story, but I think it’s from News.com.au. (They just as easily could have picked it up somewhere else and run it without sourcing it.)

People reports that a “source” has denied this story, and says there was no proposal and that Britney and Jason aren’t engaged. Britney and Jason are said to be “very happy” though, and the source explained that although Jason left Australia before Britney he “spent more time in Australia than originally planned.”

I tend to believe the rumors that Britney would love to get engaged and that she’s either subtly or not-so-subtly dropping hints about it to Jason. She posed for paparazzi photos several times in which she held out her hand to show what looks like an engagement ring. That kind of behavior probably extends to her personal life too.

These two do seem happy as and while they did go through a rough patch they’re probably committed again now. You often seen Jason out with Britney’s sons. He seems like he really adores them. I don’t see him proposing, though. He may be into Britney but she’s not the most stable person and that’s got to be in the back of his mind.

Britney is back in LA after completing her tour of Australia. Her tour went off really well, with only one arguably minor lip syncing controversy. She has no further tour dates lined up, so we’re sure to be treated to plenty of photos of her out to dinner and shopping. I wonder what else she’ll get up to.

Here is Britney at LAX on 11/30/09. Credit: Fame Pictures and WENN.com. She’s also shown out with Jason on 11/16/09. Credit: Pacific Coast News.

Despite efforts by Australian officials to warn potential ticket buyers that Britney Spears would be lipsyncing through most of her concerts, hundreds of fans left her concert in Perth on Friday just a few songs into the show. Many outlets are reporting that the flack is over the fact that Britney doesn’t actually sing live, but it seems like the main issue is that people couldn’t see her at all, and that the big screens only showed circus-related imagery and didn’t display her live performance. People describe her as a “dot” on stage.

Fans shelled out hundreds of dollars, only to be left disappointed that they’d wasted their hard earned money. Tickets ranged from $185 to $1,300, so you can understand why people would be upset that considering that Britney didn’t sing, they couldn’t see her perform either. It’s like they just paid to hear a recording and watch a pre-recorded video. (Update: there may have been tickets cheaper than $185. CNN reported that “regular” seats went for AUD 200, or USD $185, so it’s possible there were cheaper seats.)

Disgruntled fans walked out of last night’s concert in Perth – the first of her latest Australian tour – upset by her lip synching.

”It was just really bad,’’ Kathy Wright, 32, said. ‘’She has not spoken, there is no interaction.”

Friend Josh Blee said: “We are really big Britney fans but it was crap.”

“I thought after the music awards she would make up for it with a wicked concert, but she has let us down,” Blee added.

Maria Carmody also left with a group of friends. They were disappointed that the giant screens did not show any vision of Spears performing.

The screens only displayed circus-related images but nothing of the performer herself which infuriated large groups of fans as Britney had her back to them for large portions of the concert.

Several fans complained that there was no vision on the giant screens and questioned whether it was cover up her lip synching.

“She is a little dot on the stage,’’ Carmody said.

She was also put off by the bad behaviour of fans in the general admission area.

She claimed she was elbowed and pushed by overzealous fans.

Spears performed to over 17,000 fans last night at Perth’s Burswood Dome.

[From HeraldSun.com.au]

Did the big screens at Britney’s US concerts display her performance, and if so why didn’t they do the same in Australia? It doesn’t make sense that they wouldn’t show her on the screens unless there was some kind of technical glitch and they had to resort to using stock footage at the last minute. Maybe we’ll hear more about this and Britney’s people will apologize. It definitely seems more about the issue that fans couldn’t see Britney rather than the fact that she mimed the words to her songs. Anyone who shelled out nearly $200 and was then disappointed that she was lipsyncing has no excuse for not doing their homework first. Britney’s Australian tour has 12 dates left, so it will be interesting to see if her ticket sales suffer after this debacle.

Update: E! Online has more information, including responses from Britney’s camp. Instead of being apologetic about the concert, they’re defensive and say the complaints are the work of one journalist, that no one complained to them, and that most fans liked the show. That’s funny, because there are at least two reports out of Australia that quote different concert-goers complaining about it.

The promoter of this tour leg refuted claims of fans fleeing the Circus, telling The Australian newspaper “Britney is aware of all this and she’s extremely upset by it.”

Also issuing a nuanced response were reps for the Burswood Entertainment Complex where the Perth concert was held, who announced, “From Burswood’s perspective, the event was a huge success.”

Not sure how well that response will go over with the woman who told the Telegraph, “It was a waste of $200—I could have got four pairs of shoes for that.”
Spears’ manager, Adam Leber, also came to the superstar’s defense via Twitter, claiming that it was the work of a sole Australian journalist that sparked the lip-synch debate.

“It’s unfortunate that one journalist in Perth didn’t enjoy the show last night. Fortunately the other 18,272 fans in attendance did.”

[From E! Online]

Here’s Britney out in Perth on 11/7 (sunglasses) and 11/5/09 (no bra). Credit: Scope Features, PacificCoastNews.com. She’s also shown with her sons out in Calabasa, CA on 10/22/09. Credit: Fame Pictures