Britney Spears still isn’t an independent adult. At least legally. Though it wasn’t what she wanted, Britney Spears has agreed to extend her father’s conservatorship until the end of the year. Jamie Spears moved out of her house last week, which at the time led a lot of people into thinking the conservatorship wasn’t going to be renewed. However it became clear yesterday that Jamie was probably still going t retain control over her life for the time being.

Britney Spears will be under the conservatorship of her father Jamie until December 31, it was decided in court Thursday. “Ms. Spears is reluctantly agreeing to extend the temporary [conservatorship],” L.A. Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz said after the hearing.

Jamie and attorney Andrew Wallet were put in control of the pop singer’s finances and estate in February after she was hospitalized in January. While Jamie was not spotted at the courthouse Thursday, Britney’s brother Bryan was. When asked by Usmagazine.com if he had a comment, he shook his head.

Since Spears’ father was put in charge, she has reunited with her sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 17 months. Kevin Federline’s attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told Usmagazine.com that a reunion “couldn’t have happened without” the help of Spears’ father. We were able to get it to a point where everyone was comfortable,” Kaplan told Us. We’re just very positive about it,” he said. “Having her dad stabilizing everything is a good thing.”

[From Us Weekly]

By pretty much all accounts Jamie has been a good influence on his daughter. Which is particularly surprising given that he wasn’t a very good father while she was growing up. He was an alcoholic who wasn’t very interested in his daughter. A lot of people have theorized that this early treatment by her primary male role model is why Britney has often picked the type of guys she’s gone after. Jamie turned his life around a few years ago, stopped drinking, and has quietly held a job as a chef. He’s never been supported by Britney’s money until he became he quit his job to become her conservator – and he still gets paid about what he was making as a chef.

Perhaps in the long run, this could really help Britney and Jamie repair their relationship. It seems like he’s been there for her now in a way he never was before. Though nothing can totally erase that memory, later is better than never. Putting his life on hold for her shows Britney that she matters to him and that she has value in his eyes. It can’t erase all the damage, but even as an adult it feels pretty amazing to finally feel like you’re loved by your parents. Hopefully Britney will continue to get better, and be a whole different person come January 1st.

Here’s Britney with Jamie out on February 23rd at Mastro’s Restaurant . Images thanks to Splash.

Britney and her dad out to dinner in February. Credit: WENN
It looks like Britney might not be quite ready for life without parental supervision, despite her father moving out of her house. It seems his conservatorship of Britney is probably going to continue for a while longer.

Britney Spears’s father will likely remain in control of the singer’s affairs following a court review Thursday, an expert says.

“I would be very surprised if the court ends her father’s control so soon,” says Terry K. Wasserman, a mental health attorney not involved in her case. “It’s rare for someone to regain their capacity in just 60 days.”

Two months ago, Spears’s attorney Samuel Ingham testified that the pop star was unfit to take part in legal proceedings. “In fact, they could be harmful to her,” Ingham said.

People

It seems like so much longer than 60 days, doesn’t it? The LA Times has an article on how Britney’s new found sanity is bad for the paparazzi and gossip columnists, and discusses the changes in her since her father has taken control.

A commissioner in Los Angeles County Superior Court subsequently named her father, Jamie, co-conservator of her and her estate, giving him and a lawyer control of the 26-year-old’s medical care, finances and day-to-day activities.

Out went the paparazzi-friendly advisor, the British-accented outbursts and the aimless driving excursions that sent caravans of photographers coursing through the city. In came meals at home, family talks, conferences with attorneys and, on a good day, dance class.

The structure and supervision transformed Spears’ life for the better, her representatives say.

Ten months after she lost custody of her sons, she finalized an agreement with her ex-husband that provides for gradually expanding visitation rights. She is reportedly back in the recording studio. On the rare occasions she ventures out, the gossip sites that documented her woes have congratulated her on her healthy, happy appearances.

It is welcome news for her family but an enormous change for those used to translating Spears’ intemperance into a paycheck.

“Her father is doing what a good parent would do, but that doesn’t help the paparazzi,” said Bonnie Fuller, who was editor of Star magazine and Us Weekly when Spears was a staple.

“She’s not going out with her former BFFs Paris and Lindsay anymore,” Fuller said, referring to Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

Before the court intervened, Spears was seemingly omni-available to the videographers and still photographers who camped outside her Studio City gated community.

She dated a paparazzo. Her closest friend and advisor, Sam Lutfi, allowed photographers into Spears’ house and provided them with information about her comings and goings, according to her mother, Lynne.

LA Times

Very impressive for two months work, although I think a relapse of her mental health issues is going to happen, as it does for most mental helth patients. I think that come December when her new album is released we’ll see her crack under the scrutiny.

Not that I’m looking forward to this, but the Telegraph has this article talking about how she is hounded. I found this a really interesting insight into what her life is like.

CEO (of papparazzi agency Hollywood.tv) Sheeraz Hasan told me he got into the Britney business after receiving a message from God whilst on the hajj to Mecca. I started to laugh. Then I realised he wasn’t joking.

“I’d been praying all day when I stopped at a café,” he said. “There in front of me was a magazine with Britney Spears on the cover. It was like God saying ‘I’ve got something in store for you when you get back to LA’.”

Sheeraz has had a team tracking Britney 24/7 ever since. Later on the day that I met him he got a tip that the star was in a restaurant off Sunset Boulevard and before I knew it we were holed up in the car park with a pack of 40 paparazzi photographers.

When Britney strolled out of the back door chaos erupted. Flash bulbs strobed and grown men vaulted over parked cars to get their shot. It was a feeding frenzy, and I’ll admit, it was exciting — this is Britney after all. But Britney herself looked scared.

Most disturbing I found was this comment from the creator of poorbritney.com, Kristi.

Kristi told me that Britney is not the first tragic star she’s been drawn to. She’s still pretty hooked on the queen of celebrity tragedy Princess Diana.

“I loooove Diana” she explained excitedly, “because she was another who was miserable in her personal life and then she died in an accident that involved the paparazzi. Britney could be my new Princess Diana”.

Telegraph

Does she want another Princess Diana incident? Kirsti actually isn’t the best person to interview on the subject although she does make for a sensational soundbite. She writes on the website that she loves Britney because she is mentally unstable and not responsble for her actions, and is ‘craaazy and sad and fragile’.

Britney is currently working on her tan in Mexico, and a new album is anticipated for December. The Thursday court hearing will also decide whether or not to put a restraining order on Sam Lufti, reports People.

Here are older photos of Britney going out to dinner with her father in February. Credit: WENN

While it seemed like everything was getting better for Britney Spears lately, several sources claim she had a significant mental health relapse after little sister Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to her daughter last month. Now magazine claims that Britney’s visit to see her new niece Maddie was so short (just one day) because she had a severe emotional breakdown. She and father Jamie hightailed it back to Los Angeles, where Brit was seen visibly upset at the airport. Everyone assumed that was because of the paparazzi crush, but now it looks like it might have been due to some emotional turmoil.

And for the next two days, says the publication, Britney’s dad Jamie — who is staying with the troubled star because he’s in control of all her affairs — became more anxious about his daughter’s deteriorating state.

A source says Britney was “a bit dazed and distant”, wouldn’t answer any of her dad’s questions and “had no enthusiasm for anything”. And on June 21, at around 9.30pm, Jamie found his daughter naked on the bathroom floor, crying hysterically and mumbling to herself about wanting a baby girl. Jamie rang the doctor, who rushed to Britney’s side and diagnosed a breakdown.

A source says, “Seeing her little sister give birth was too much for Britney. It made her realize what a mess she’s in. She’s insanely jealous of Jamie Lynn having a girl because she’s always been desperate for a daughter. Jamie found her sobbing her heart out and repeating: ‘It’s not fair, Dad, it’s not fair.’ He sat with her, cuddled her and stroked her hair. Then he got her some clothes and helped her into the bedroom before calling the doctor, who ordered her to rest. They bumped up her Melleril and Ativan because of the drama she was creating.”

[From Showbiz Spy]

If it’s true, that’s an incredibly sad story. It sounds like Brit’s dad did just the right thing, and she’s really lucky to have him around to take care of her. I know a lot of people will disagree with me on this, but I don’t think this is actually completely scary behavior. Children and babies are a sensitive subject; and feeling brokenhearted at the loss of her own sons makes sense. Shortly after this, Britney was granted her first overnight visit with her sons in months, so her psychiatrist must have felt she recovered decently well.

Brit clearly isn’t entirely put back together yet, but I can understand how something like this could trigger an emotional break for her. It’s long been reported that she wanted a daughter. She barely sees her two young sons anymore. She’s widely viewed as a bad mother. Seeing her much younger sister have a daughter and handle the whole thing reasonably well probably triggered some feelings of deep inadequacy. It’s incredibly hard as an older sibling to feel like you don’t measure up to the younger one, and that’s probably a new feeling for Britney.

She still has a ways to go in terms of getting her life on track. Who knows, in ten years Brit may be totally together, have a great family, and be able to really appreciate the things that matter.

Here’s Britney arriving at LAX after spending one day in Louisiana. She was surrounded by 30 paparazzi and that there was a fight between one of her bodyguards and a photographer, which resulted in the cops being called. Images thanks to WENN.

Star Magazine has a cover story this week titled “Jamoe Lynn: Delivery Room Drama!” OMG! Jossip offers invaluable analysis of this probably half bullshit, half embellished story. They say that by having an exclusive deal with OK! Magazine for photos and stories about her baby, Jamie Lynn incurred the tabloid editor’s wrath more so than your average celebrity.

Here are the supposed details of Jamie Lynn’s “Delivery Room Drama!” Star claims Casey passed out, Britney pled with Jamie Lynn to have a cesarean, and mother hen Lynn insisted on being in the room when Jamie Lynn gave birth, cursing her out like a movie cliché of a delivery room scene:

In the new issue of Star, on newsstands now, we have all the details about Jamie Lynn’s delivery room drama — including her life-threatening decision, emergency surgery to save the baby, Britney’s jealous episode, Lynne Spears fighting with everyone and the brouhaha over a paternity test.

“The baby’s heart rate dropped every time she tried to push,” a family insider tells Star. “They did an ultrasound and quickly discovered that the umbilical cord was too short.” But despite the doctors’ dire warnings, the 17-year-old “was adamant about having a natural delivery.”

Everyone in the room at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb, Miss., pleaded with Jamie Lynn to listen to the doctors — including big sister Britney. Brit had already been with Jamie Lynn for hours, massaging her back as she endured painful contractions. “But she got mad,” says the insider. She told Jamie Lynn to “just have a damn Caesarian,” as she did. “Britney then ran out in tears because she couldn’t bear to see what was happening.”

The girls mother, Lynne, only added to the tension. “Lynne was already angry because her daughter didn’t want her in the delivery room at all,” says the source. “But she had insisted on being there, along with Casey Aldridge, Jamie Lynn’s boyfriend. Jamie Lynn cussed and yelled at her mom, and told her to get out. She cursed Lynne for bringing her into the world to bear such pain.”

[From Star Magazine’s website]

How poetic of Star: “She cursed Lynne for bringing her into the world to bear such pain.” I love that line. I’ve never heard of an umbilical cord being too short, but I Googled it and it does happen and can result in increased infant mortality.

Jossip notes that the article also claims that “Lynn Spears, Maddie’s grandma, wants a DNA test right away because she doesn’t believe Aldridge is the father.” Their explanation of how so many things went wrong with the birth is a lesson in a tabloid scorned:

You know what you get when you’re a celebrity and you sign an exclusive deal with a tabloid? Bad karma from the rest of the magazines.

Jamie Lynn Spears, who signed a $1 million exclusive deal with OK! for her pregnancy story and pics, is getting stabbed by Star with a dramatic cover story exclaiming, “Delivery Room Drama!” Since Spears is prohibited from playing ball with the other celeb weeklies, there’s only one thing Star can do: deliver one piece of bad news after another. If only Spears hadn’t signed with OK!, she could’ve scored some protection.

[From Jossip]

Star spreads a lot of fake news about celebrities but it’s particularly malicious when they’re blocked from a coveted story. On the remote chance that all of this is true, you could also say that Jamie Lynn had an unremarkable natural birth despite some minor complications and pressure from her doctors and family to have a c-section.

I guess Britney Spears had all the Kentwood, Louisiana she could take. Or maybe it was all the Spears’ family she could handle. Spears boarded a plane on Wednesday to go to her hometown and be present for the birth of younger sister Jamie Lynn’s daughter. But after one full day in the joint, she’s ready for the pampered life of a starlet again. The pop star was seen boarding a plane with her dad today to head back to her home in Beverly Hills. Because I’m sure she has a lot more important things to do than bond with her new niece or help her teenage sister take care of an infant. That’s Mommy Lynne’s job anyway, right?

Britney Spears has a tearful goodbye with her family as she left her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana the day after younger sister Jamie Lynn gives birth to a daughter, Maddie Briann.

Spears, 26, is likely on her way back to her home in Beverly Hills. (The singer is currently at work on a new album, her vocal producer and co-writer Jim Beanz confirmed exclusively to Usmagazine.com.)

Maddie Briann was born Thursday weighing 7 lbs., 11 ounces. She is the first child for Jamie Lynn, 17, and fiance Casey Aldridge.

“I’m sure the baby’s beautiful, and I’m so glad everybody’s healthy and doing well,” cousin Alli Sims told Us an after-party for Wanted in Los Angeles on Thursday.

“I just wish them all the happiness in the world,” she said. “I know they’re going to have so much fun.”

[From Us Weekly]

Ah, yes. Cousin Alli. Like anyone in the Spears family talks to that dumb waste of space anymore. Anyway, I’m sure Britney needed to get back to see her two little boys, but I can’t help think that it’s going to be a long time before she sets foot in Kentwood again, even if her mom told a judge that she’s eventually going to move back there. And I suppose she doesn’t have a whole lot of parenting wisdom to impart to her little sister anyway.

Update by Celebitchy: Here is Britney arriving at LAX yesterday with her father and assistant. Britney was surrounded by 30 paparazzi and TMZ reports that there was a fight between one of her bodyguards and a photographer. The cops were called, but the two made up afterwards and no one was arrested. Thanks to WENN for these photos.

The Spears family seems to be moving forward in a mostly positive, healthy, normal manner – at least for them. According to several reports, Britney is leaving for her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana later this week, to be with pregnant little sis Jamie Lynn. She may stay up to a month.

Hopefully Britney won’t be passing on any parenting techniques. Well, maybe a few she learned by trial and error: don’t drop the baby (especially when photographers are around); always use a car seat; don’t drive with a kid on your lap… you know, the kind of lessons most parents really have to just learn for themselves.

While Britney’s spending some quality time at home, her dad Jamie is selling her house. He got permission from the court yesterday – though presumably Britney’s okay with it too.

Earlier today, a Los Angeles court commissioner OK’d a request from Spears’ conservatorship asking for permission to put the property on the market. The court approval comes days after Spears was spotted looking at a $5.6 million, 7,300-square-foot house (above) in the L.A. suburb of Encino, closer to the home base of ex-husband Kevin Federline and the ex-couple’s sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

Spears has not exactly endeared herself to fellow denizens of the community, who have complained about the constant presence of paparazzi outside the gates. Some reports have blamed Spears as the reason neighbor Ed McMahon has not received a single offer on his $6.5 million house that’s facing foreclosure.

[From E! News]

It sounds like it’d be a good idea for Britney to get a fresh start. She’s made a lot of big improvements to her life; certainly moving closer to her sons would be another one. And if it helps Ed McMahon, who wouldn’t want to do it?

Britney’s conservatorship is slated to be extended or go to trial in early August. If all parties agree to extend it, nothing will happen, but if Britney doesn’t agree to her dad retaining legal control of her life, she has the right to a jury trial. Can you imagine the drama? Britney wasn’t in court yesterday – her lawyers said she was out of town, but didn’t specify where – but she and her lawyer will be going over her options in the next week.

The evil, gossipy part of me hopes she doesn’t agree to extend her conservatorship, just for the drama of a trial. The slightly more benevolent part of me hopes Britney agrees to keep everything moving forward. Little sister Jamie Lynn is expected to deliver her baby sometime near the end of the month. Hopefully all that family time will be good for everyone.

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline both spent the weekend in Las Vegas – but by all accounts, they did so separately. Brit was there to celebrate Father’s Day with her dad, while Kevin was there to celebrate his own Father’s Day… albeit without his kids. Kevin was busy receiving an award for Father of the Year from Prive nightclub. Whoever thought a club would be handing out awards to doting parents? Can you say “cheap attempt to get quasi-famous people to hang out there?”

According to a source inside Vegas’ Mirage Hotel & Casino, where Brit and dad were holed up for the holiday, the singer spent her afternoon in Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at The Mirage. “She swam side by side with the dolphins at the resort in a private pool,” says the insider. “Later she gushed over Siegfried & Roy’s six-week old tiger cubs in their special nursery at the Secret Garden taking pictures of the cubs with a female friend.”

The singer was so enamored, she even stopped by the habitat’s gift shop to pick up a plush tiger and plush lion, perhaps for her boys back in L.A.

[From OK Magazine]

Britney had to have her extensions redone after swimming with the dolphins. I can’t imagine how confusing it must be for a dolphin to look up and see Britney Spears next to it, trying to hang on to her matted non-human hair. If I were a dolphin, I’d get my ass to another pool before she clogged up the drain.

Brit spent the rest of her day at a topless-optional pool, though by TMZ’s account she kept her top on – though wore a sun dress so short she nearly exposed her bottom on several occasions.

K-Fed didn’t just party it up with a few friends in Vegas – he brought along his lawyer. Because nothing says “Good Times!!” Like Mark David Kaplan.

Looking dapper in a black suit and red tie, Federline, 30, arrived at Prive just before 1 a.m. with an entourage of about 30, including his divorce lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan. At a VIP table, Federline nodded his head to several hip-hop songs and paid little attention to the risqué fashion show that was happening on top of the club’s deejay booth.

At around 2:30 am, Federline headed to the back kitchen of the club, where he was presented with a “Father of the Year” trophy out of the public eye, an honor he told reporters “surprised” him.

[From People]

I doubt K-Fed was all that surprised, considering the club announced the “honor” several weeks ago. Before you think he’s actually a terrible dad, spending Father’s Day in Vegas while his kids are at home in L.A., People reports that he jetting home early Sunday morning to spend the day with Jayden and Sean.

It sounds like both Britney and Kevin had a good weekend and behaved themselves. You’d almost think they were semi-normal, real adults or something.

Here’s K-Fed arriving at Prive to be honored as ‘Father of the Year’ as part of Father’s Day weekend on Saturday. Header of Britney from June 10th. Images thanks to WENN.

Being pregnant in summertime must suck. Being pregnant at 17 must really suck. Put those two things together, and you have whole new levels of suckitude. And unfortunately for Jamie Lynn Spears, that is exactly what she is going through. “Insiders” (I love “insiders” – I imagine they’re mostly comprised of small house rodents and bugs that report back to E! News and Star once a week) say Spears is in the last few weeks of her pregnancy, and is remarkably uncomfortable. She’s also been dealing with some false labor cramps.

“She’s feeling so large and just feeling all the discomfort that comes with it,” a source close to Jamie Lynn tells E! News. The pregnant teen has also been hit with some mild cramps for the past two days, our insider says. “Sounds like some false labor pains,” says the friend. “But nothing serious enough to go to the hospital over. They called her doctor, but everything’s fine.”

At least the pregnant teen has plenty of support. Daddy Casey Aldridge is doing his best to make her feel better, rubbing her back when the cramps kick up, says our source. And her mom is at her side, pitching in with last-minute nursery decorating. But the humid summer heat plaguing Mississippi (where the parents-to-be own a home) isn’t helping. Even a brief trip outdoors leaves her sticky with sweat.

“Britney apparently called her recently and ordered her to stay inside, under the air conditioning, as much as possible,” the source says. “It was really cute.” Britney and father Jamie have been calling regularly to check in on the mommy-to-be, who is expected to deliver at the end of this month. Unless, of course, the baby’s late.

“Jamie Lynn knows first babies have a habit of being late,” says the pal. “And she isn’t too happy about it. I think she’s ready for all this pregnancy stuff to be over and the mommy stuff to start.”

[From E! News]

I’m under the impression that once the “mommy stuff” starts, that when things really get difficult. I mean it’s great that you’re not throwing up all the time anymore, but it’s more than made up for with the crying and the diapers and lack of sleep. I’m no expert, but I really don’t think Jamie Lynn’s going to find motherhood to be some permanent reprieve.

It does seem like she’s willing to really focus on her baby, since she bought a house near her mom’s home in Kentwood, Louisiana. At first everyone was assuming she’d raise her baby in Los Angeles while working on her acting career. But last time I checked, Kentwood wasn’t exactly the Hollywood of the South. So it sounds like Jaime Lynn will probably focus on raising her baby for now. Hopefully the next few weeks won’t be too uncomfortable for her, and the baby won’t be late.

Apparently Jamie Spears is the new Joe Simpson. Papa Spears isn’t just improving Britney’s finances and fragile mental state –according to Star magazine, Jamie has offered Kevin Federline up to $14 to reconcile and eventually remarry Brit. Whoever said arranged marriages were out of vogue?

The story is in Star, so it could be totally made up - the plethora of exclamation points always makes you wonder. But considering just how much K-Fed has gotten his act together – and just how much Jaime Spears has gotten Britney’s act together – you can’t help but wonder if this is true. And rumors of this nature have been floating around for a little while now.

They say money can’t buy love, but Britney Spears’ dad doesn’t believe it. Jamie Spears has offered Brit’s ex Kevin Federline a $14.5 million incentive package to reconcile with and remarry his daughter, a source tells tar - and he’s doing it behind Britney’s back!

“Jaime’s been after Kevin to get back with Britney for months. He knows he may have to pay to get it done - and the money would come out of Britney’s assets, which he now controls,” the source said, adding that Jamie first approached K-Fed a few weeks ago with a $2 million offer. but Jamie is so desperate to make this reunion happen, “he keeps raising the stakes!

“His latest offer is $4.5 million in cash and a trust account set up with another $5 million if Kevin moves back in with Britney within a year. If they actually remarry, Jamie will add another $5 million to Kevin’s account.” Even if Britney, 26, asks for a divorce within two years, the source says, Kevin gets to keep all the money. “All in all, Jamie told Kevin, he’ll make out very well.”

[From Star Magazine, June 16, 2008, print ed.]

There’s only one problem with this. Scratch that – there’s at least one big problem with this. While Jamie does have control of Brit’s finances, I seriously doubt that means he can spend her money willy nilly. I’m sure he’s held accountable to someone, and if nothing else could get the crap sued out of him if he misappropriates Brit’s cash. How in the world is he going to “secretly” spend $14 million? I really doubt a judge – or whoever Jamie has to justify this to – would sign off on buying Britney a husband.

According to Star, Kevin is holding out for a cool $20 million. Apparently that’s how much a man demands in order to sleep with - and deal with - Britney Spears.

And considering how crazy her life was under K-Fed’s influence, you have to wonder how much good he really can do for her. True, Federline has dramatically cleaned up his act in the past few years. But it’s hard to say he was good for Britney the first time around, regardless of where they both are now in their lives. But according to Star, Jamie Spears believes that K-Fed really does complete Britney, crazy as it is.

Jamie supposedly thinks that he and K-Fed could open a Britney-themed company of some sort, with Kevin managing all the marketing. It’d have the good old Britney clothes, dolls, lunchboxes, etc. All the stuff she was able to sell in mass quantities to teenagers when she was one herself. The question still remains though: even if Britney gets back into the studio and records good stuff, will she still be relevant to today’s teenagers, 10 years after her big break? Something tells me her original fans - now in their mid-twenties - won’t be lining their shelves with Britney dolls anytime soon.

Britney supposedly purchased her future grave site this week. While at first I thought that was a sign that she was regressing, if the story is true it’s actually a big step forward, as she told her that she wanted to be buried there when she dies at 101.

Troubled Britney Spears has reportedly chosen her own burial plot. The ‘Toxic’ hitmaker visited Hollywood’s Forever Cemetery over the weekend; and after looking at the graves of Marilyn Monroe and Italian actor Rudolph Valentino, the 26-year-old decided she wants to be laid to rest there.

A source reveals, “Britney is fascinated with Marilyn and visits her grave often. Since she’s been getting her life together she’s been reading about the star and recently has been glued to a book about the actress. She’s fascinated that Marilyn asked her favorite make-up artist to make her look beautiful after she died and picked her own burial plot. So when Britney saw Rudolph Valentino’s grave at the cemetery she shrieked and said she wanted one.

“She told her aides, ‘I’m going to live so I want to be brought to the Forever Cemetery when I’m 101′.”

[From Showbiz Spy via Gossip Rocks]

Photos are older file images of Britney and Kevin when they were together; thanks to WENN.

Britney Spears showed up to court today, didn’t freak out, looked relatively normal and healthy, and managed to stay for all of the court proceedings. She was accompanied by her lawyer Blair Berk and both of her parents. Though the details are a little vague, it appears that Britney has won some “expanded” visitation rights with her sons. According to Us Weekly, she will have three days of supervised visitation each week. The Huffington Post picked up an article from the Associated Press that’s headlined, “Britney Spears Granted Overnight Visits With Her Kids,” – however the article itself never mentions any overnights, so we’re not sure if that’s accurate.

Britney Spears’ visitation rights to sons Sean Preston and Jayden James were expanded Tuesday following a custody hearing with ex-husband Kevin Federline. There was no change in custody, Federline’s attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan said at a press conference, but he said her time with her boys will be “more than it has been.” He would not elaborate. Spears will get three days supervised visitation a week and visitation on Mother’s Day, TMZ.com reported.

“The court made orders today, they were orders that the parties were able to mostly agree to,” Kaplan said. “It represent a cautious step moving forward.” Kaplan said the court was “pleased with the progress that seems to be occurring” with Spears daily. He called the court’s ruling “a step in the right direction. The children are doing great — that’s the key,” Kaplan said. “That’s what all of this is about.”

Court spokesman Allan Parachini also read a statement from Britney’s parents, Jamie and Lynne. “We are so pleased with Britney’s progress, and we are very appreciative of the court’s recognition of this progress,” they said in their statement.

[From Us Weekly]

All the media outlets reported that Britney, her parents, K-Fed, and all the lawyers smiled and gave positive reactions upon leaving the courthouse. Some noted that Britney seemed upset during a break in the court proceedings halfway through the day, and was seen holding her mother’s hand. Say whatever you want about her parents’ behavior raising her – they have definitely been there for her in the past few months. It’s scary to think where Britney might be right now if her father hadn’t stepped up as her conservator. It would have been nice if they’d done a better job earlier on, but at least they’re here now, and it seems like she really appreciates that.

It sounds as if everything is going well for Britney, and the court recognized all the positive changes she’s made. According to TMZ, her goal is to have a 50/50 custody split by August. If Britney keeps up the good work, that seems very attainable.

Here’s Britney arriving to court today. Images thanks to Splash.