Britney Spears’ record label says she didn’t break the law by having her son in a forward-facing childseat:

It looks like she got off on a technicality. This wasn’t as much as a snafu as driving with Sean in her lap, but it still makes her seem like a neglectful mother.

Britney is working on a new album and has hired R&B producer Jonathan ‘JR’ Rotem, who produced Rhianna’s hit “SOS.” Rotem has said that Britney will have a song about the paparrazi on her new album, and he reveals how difficult it is for Britney and K-Fed to deal with:

Being followed everywhere seems to be the price of extreme fame and wealth. If Britney and K-Fed would lay low for a little while, they might get some peace.

When I first saw these pictures of Britney driving with Sean Preston slumped over in his carseat in the back I thought, “oh, how cute, my son does that too.” The thing is, I was thinking of him sleeping in his stroller, not his car seat. I also forgot that my son’s car seat was until recently rear-facing as is required by law in the states for children under the age of one. My son never falls over like that when he’s sleeping in the car, because he’s strapped in tight.

Britney could get in trouble with Children and Family Services yet again:

We installed car seats for our son in both of our cars about a week before he was born. Before we were allowed to leave the birthing center with our newborn, they checked the car to make sure we had a car seat and that it was installed properly. Britney or one of her handlers didn’t know better when they put this seat in her new car, and obviously no one bothered to make sure it met regulations.

If she does get some kind of warning for this, it won’t be her first. She’s being monitored by the Department of Children and Family services, and will receive regular visits from the agency as a result of a head injury that eight month-old Sean Preston sustained when his hairchair supposedly snapped. (Although witnesses claimed SP also fell off the couch when Kevin was meant to be watching him, and that could have caused the injury.)

Britney was also famously pictured driving with Sean Preston on her lap, and refused to take responsibility for the incident, blaming the paparrazi for hounding her.

In terms of child endangerment, installing a carseat wrong is dangerous but seems like a legitimate mistake. At least she put him in the carseat this time.

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Britney Spears has been getting deep beyond her ability to comprehend. She made a couple statements recently that reveal that she’s trying to come to terms with the spiritual side of life, and is failing miserably.

She made a strange brief statement on her website, her first in over a year, saying she’s given up Kabbalah.

She is also quoted as saying that she considers herself a sort of prophet:

Britney, you may not have realized it consciously at the time, but when you have sex without protection you can get pregnant. So you had more of a biology revelation when writing that song than a spiritual awakening.

It’s a good thing Britney has given up the Kabbalah cult, though. She doesn’t need any more complications in her life.

Britney is pregnant with her second child, which is rumored to be a girl.

Here she is with an unknown male outside a studio in Hollywood on 5/12. Kevin Federline is shown on the same day outside another studio.

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In the “please let this be true” department is a story that Britney is so unhappy in her marriage to Kevin Federline that she wants a divorce.

From Life and Style via The Scoop comes news that she threw out his booze and wants to surpise him with divorce papers:

That rocks! Britney seems to have found her strength again with recent public appearances for her perfume line and on Letterman, and it looks like she’s not going to take any more crap from Kevin.

She would be much better off raising two kids on her own than having to put up with him. Britney was said to be furious when Sean Preston fell off the couch while K-Fed was supposed to be watching him, and that may have helped her realize how useless her husband is.

Meanwhile Kevin is quoted as saying that he wants out of the relationship, too:

Britney recently refused to fund any more expensive trips to Vegas for K-Fed and his friends, showing that she’s finally ready to put her foot down.

It looks like the end for these two, and we can’t wait! Go Britney.

Here she is outside of the Late Show studio yesterday.

Britney Spears make a surprise visit to the David Letterman show last night. She joked a little with Dave, confirmed her pregnancy and read the Top Ten.

Referring to earlier banter with Paul Shaffer about Britney’s possible pregnancy, Letterman said to Britney “Are we on to something here?”

“Don’t worry Dave, it’s not yours.”

Britney looked happy and seemed excited to be there, but she kept kicking her legs, which made her come off as nervous. She was also chewing gum! You’re not supposed to chew gum during a television appearance!

After Britney read the Top Ten “Suprises of the Bird Flu Movie,” skipping the word “Tamiflu” because it was too hard, Dave said “So, we’ve established that you are in fact pregnant?”

“Yes.”

Here’s the best video currently on YouTube. Once a better one is up, we’ll post it.

CBS also has a video online through the Late Show website but it’s in Real Player format, which won’t install for us here, and you may need to disable pop-up blockers and use IE. It’s way too much work and those idiots need to update their website. Real Player went out in 1999, why are they still in business anyway?

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Britney Spears attended an Elizabeth Arden event in NY yesterday to celebrate the success of her three perfumes put out by the company.

In the pictures at the event, Britney looks polished and happy. She seems to enjoy the dance contest and gets a kick out of the young dancers. In the pictures published by Wireimage, it’s hard to tell if she looks pregnant. There are candids of her leaving the event, though, that show a definite bump.

I’ve gradually changed my mind about this - Britney really is pregnant!

Britney Spears is selling a special Mother’s Day bear through 1-800-Flowers. $5 of the proceeds of each sale will benefit the Britney Spears Foundation.

She has a new song available online.
You can download “Luv the Hurt Away” featuring Full Force from BreatheHeavy.com.

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Britney Spears is said to be fed up with her husband Kevin Federline’s spending, and has told him she won’t pay for any more expensive trips to Vegas for him and his friends:

This isn’t the first time Britney has been concerned with Kevin’s spending. She supposedly cut up his credit cards and had his Ferrari towed back in December, but quickly reneged.

This comes right after news that Britney hired a security guard babysitter for Kevin, further suggesting their relationship is on the rocks.

Here she is outside of a Taco Bell in LA and in a new magazine spread for Glamour UK. [via] It could be the wind blowing her top out, but she looks pretty pregnant.

Everyone was waiting with baited breath to see what Britney Spears would announce in her press conference yesterday. I even got up early to catch the news and was suprised that it wasn’t listed in the Google Entertainment News section yet.

It turns out that now our week of bullshit gossip news is complete, because the entire press conference was a hoax:

I googled “Karen Phillips” combined with either “Sony Music” or “Sony BMG” and logical variations like “Karyn,” “Caryn,” and “Philips” and got nothing about her - except for this supposed quote about the Britney press conference. There is a musician named Karen Phillips, but no “executive.” She is also not included on the Sony BMG site among the “executives” listing, although there are only four old white guys there, so there are probably plenty more executives there.

The bottom line is, this Karen Phillips person who was quoted about the press conference probably doesn’t exist.

Earlier in the week we found completely fabricated quotes about Katie Holmes’ fitness routine from someone we actually know.

It’s hard to determine where this press conference story originated, but clearly someone is making up quotes and it’s just spreading.

This is gossip, innuendo and rumor, so it’s not like it has to be held to a high standard of journalistic integrity. Still, there’s a huge difference between saying it’s your opinion that someone is pregnant or screwing so and so, and making up shit entirely and acting like it’s true. Too many of these stories are totally bogus.

Oh, and Britney fan site BreathHeavy.com reports that Britney and Kevin are going to renew their vows after Kevin promised Britney that he would change. They don’t have a source listed, though, and this doesn’t sound true to us. Not much does lately.

News reports are taking this out of context. Kevin Federline was being interviewed on Power 106 radio station in California and the DJs asked him to answer “questions out of the forbidden hat.” They told him he could “tap out” at any time, and that he didn’t have to answer a question if he didn’t want to. He said he wanted a threesome with Jessica Alba in response to a question, but that’s a no-brainer, and he didn’t even know her name.

We actually listed to this crap, and here’s what he said:

When questioned, he says that Britney is a better lover than Shar Jackson although he hesitates, and he also says Britney is a better dancer than him.

While it’s rather damning that Kevin would immediately admit that he’d pick his son over his wife and wouldn’t say it’s a hard decision, it’s not that unusual to want to save your helpless child over an adult.

Kevin says in a different interview that Britney supports his music career, and that he would probably give it up if she didn’t.

Britney’s big press conference for music industry executives is today. People are buzzing that she’ll announce a pregnancy, and that she’s having a baby girl, due in October.

You can listen to Kevin’s interview online. Here is the mp3. [via]

On April 13th, we reported that the Department of Children and Family Services announced that they closed their investigation into Sean Preston’s highchair fall accident. We mentioned that it seemed odd that they would close a case so soon, considering that it usually takes months for them to investigate. It turns out that we were right, because Britney will now receive regular visits from the child welfare agency. They have made careful statements saying there’s no “ongoing investigation,” but they’re still going to check in on her:

Seven month-old Sean was said to have suffered from a skull fracture, which may have occurred from a highchair fall or a reported fall off the couch when his father Kevin was supposed to be watching him. Sean Preston did not have a skull fracture or a blood clot, and those reports were false. He did suffer some kind of head injury that made him sleepy, though.

Britney is said to be five months pregnant with her second child. News reports went back and forth as to her pregnancy status, with the latest news stating that it’s true. When questioned about his wife’s pregnancy at a recent radio station appearance, Kevin said “I wouldn’t bet on it.”

Here is Kevin going out to dinner at the restaurant Nobu with a friend. Pictures [via]