Radar Online has a kind of heartwarming article about Britney Spears and how she’s grateful to her father for stepping in and saving her career and life with that conservatorship following her breakdown. It’s a nice reminder of how far Britney has come since she was carted away by ambulance in early 2008 and placed on a 5150 hold. I was blogging back then and I remember following her bizarre behavior closely. She was overmedicated, in my office chair physician’s opinion, and she needed someone to make sure she was on the right dosage and drugs for her condition. Her most talked about incidents at the time were when she shaved her head and later went after a paparazzo with an umbrella, but she also just used to drive around aimlessly, speak in a British accent and sit on the curb outside her house crying and fight with that evil dude who was trying to control her, Sam Lutfi.

After Britney’s dad took over there were plenty of stories that she resented it and just wanted some freedom, but she supposedly now knows that it was the best thing for her. Radar also reports that Britney’s beau, Jason Trawick, wants to propose but is waiting for the right time. The conservatorship could be lifted next year. Here’s more:

Jamie became Britney’s conservator almost three years ago, after a series of very public meltdowns by his troubled daughter, who has since turned her life around and is back on track and back on top.

“Britney now recognizes that if her father hadn’t stepped in and taken the action that he had, well…. Britney is now crediting Jamie for saving her life,” an insider tells RadarOnline.com. “Britney is on top of the world right now. She is getting ready for the next leg of her world tour, which will be on September 22 in Moscow. Her father will be with her for some of the European performances, along with her mom.

“Britney’s relationship with her dad is in a very, very good place now. She was extremely emotional backstage before leaving for the VMAs and kept telling her daddy how much she loves him.”

Three years ago, Britney had a now infamous and much ridiculed performance at the VMAs in which she appeared out of shape and unable to perform her signature dance moves.

“Britney always knew she would have a comeback. She just didn’t know it was going to be on this level,” the source reveals.

Meanwhile, there will be a routine hearing for Britney’s conservatorship on Tuesday morning to deal with accounting issues. “After Britney’s tour concludes, which will be at the end of this year, her doctors and advisers are going to meet and confer about how much longer the conservatorship should go on for,” the source tells RadarOnline.com.

“There is a very good chance that a decision could be made to pull the plug in early 2012.

“It’s likely that Britney’s business affairs will still remain under control of the conservatorship though, even if they determine that she no longer needs it for herself personally. The idea is that this will be a gradual transition for Britney to return to her life, on her own.”

Britney might also have another reason to celebrate in the new year.

“Jason (Trawick) is very, very serious about Britney,” the source shares. “Jason has made it known that he wants to marry Britney. It’s just a matter of timing of the engagement — and if the conservatorship is lifted off Britney personally, well, it makes it a lot easier for Jason to propose. He doesn’t want her to feel pressured, it will happen when the time is right.”

[From Radar Online]

Does she really need to remarry? I mean I’m happy for her and everything but maybe she should be on her own, legally, for some time before she takes on another husband. Given Britney and Jason’s storied history, it just doesn’t seem like a great idea for them to marry, or for Britney to marry in general.

Getting back to the conservatorship issue, it’s so nice to see Britney doing well and having completed two successful big tours after her very serious, very publicized problems. I would actually love to see Lindsay Lohan get clean and have a minor comeback of sorts. (Nothing too major, just enough to show she’s sober and totally embarrassed about her past.) Yes she’s awful and entitled and addicted, but it’s sad that there’s no one in her life who would help her, like Britney’s dad did, to get sober without trying to exploit her.

photo credit: WENN.com

Here’s a sad story from The Enquirer that claims that not only is Britney Spears not happy that her parents are reuniting after their 2002 divorce, but that she suspects they’re doing it to get more of her money. Britney’s father Jamie has been her conservator since 2008, and she’s been trying to get out from under his thumb ever since. Britney used to think of her mom as an ally, and enlisted her help to try and end the conservatorship. Now that her parents are back together, Britney feels that no one is on her side and that they’re conspiring to control her – and her cash. Here’s part of the Enquirer’s story:

You’d think Britney Spears would be thrilled to see her divorced parents get back together – instead she’s furious!

The troubled performer believes the reunion will destroy her chance to gain her freedom from court-ordered supervision…

Until the recent reconciliation, Britney shared her complaints about her father’s supervision with mom Lynne, 55 – and she was convinced that Lynne would help her win back her freedom.

“Britney feels completely betrayed,” revealed a source. “Britney used to be able to confide in Lynne about all the problems she had with her father.

“Lynne gave Britney hope that she could get out of the conservatorship and be on her own again. She even promised to speak to Britney’s doctors and lawyers on her behalf. Now Britney realizes Lynne was going behind her back and telling Jamie everything she said.

Britney, who turns 29 on Dec. 2, believes that Lynne was working with her father all along to manipulate her into being more cooperative – and that she did so for financial reasons.

Dad Jamie, 58, earns $16,000 a month for his role as Britney’s conservator.

“If Jamie were no longer her conservator, the money would stop and Lynne and Jamie would both again become dependent on Britney’s generosity for money. Britney doesn’t want her parents back together. She thinks their relationship is very dysfunctional.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, December 6, 2010]

Britney has been a cash cow for her family since she was a little girl. You like to think that her family has her best interests in mind, especially since her dad was able to help Britney turn her life around after her breakdown. Her mom Lynne was not there for her when she was growing up, and she made a lot of excuses about it during her book tour two years ago. It makes sense that Britney thinks her parents are motivated by money. They’ve arguably used her to make a living for most of her life, although her dad genuinely seemed to want to help her these past few years. We also know that he supported himself as a chef after the divorce and before he was called in to be Britney’s conservator. Hopefully Britney’s parents got back together for love and no other reason.

Photos are from a Hawaiian vacation that Britney took with her parents and boys in late August. Britney is shown on 11/2/10 outside California Pizza Kitchen. Credit: Fame Pictures.

This is a nice story – Britney Spears’s parents, Jamie and Lynne Spears, have reconciled eight years after their 2002 divorce. Jamie and Lynne split at the height of Britney’s success, and I remember rumors at the time revolving around Jamie wanting to be in Louisiana and Lynne wanting to be in LA for both Britney and Jamie-Lynne’s careers. Gossip Cop was the first to report the reconciliation, noting that the couple were “spotted being affectionate with each other on Saturday at Boudoir, a club in Los Angeles…A source close to the family tells Gossip Cop Jamie and Lynne have been back together since the summer.” People Magazine has more:

Britney Spears’s parents, Lynne and Jamie Spears, are reconciling eight years after their divorce.

“They are back together and are doing well and happy,” a source tells PEOPLE. “[They're] not remarried but back together.”

The couple, who divorced in 2002, were looking friendly on Saturday at Los Angeles lounge Boudoir. Onlookers at the lounge spotted Lynne and Jamie cheering and dancing as DJ Mr. Best spun Britney’s hits, like “Toxic” and “Gimme More.”

“They were in a great mood together,” says an onlooker. “They were laughing together – dancing and laughing [and] totally having fun.”

“Lynne is a dear, sweet person,” a family friend tells PEOPLE. “She deserves happiness. As her friend, my wish for her would be a happy ending.”

In 2002, shortly after the breakup of her parents’ 30-year marriage, Britney told PEOPLE it wasn’t a bad thing.

“It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to my family,” says Spears. “My mom and dad, bottom line, do not get along. When I was a baby, they argued.”

Britney, 28, also has been doing well romantically, and is currently dating Jason Trawick, 38.

Lynne and Jamie have been back together as a couple since last summer, according to Gossip Cop, which first reported the news of their reconciliation.

[From People]

These photos that I’m using, they’re from August, when Jason Trawick took Britney to Hawaii, Jamie and Lynn stayed in LA and took care of Sean Preston and Jaden. They even took them out for a happy beach photo op. I remembered the photos from when I first saw them – just because I thought Jamie and Lynn looked so happy and sweet together. Do you think their mutual concern for their daughters brought them closer together? Or is it because Jamie moved out to LA permanently to take care of Britney, and the move was convenient for Lynne? I like to think that they were simply still in love, and they just wanted to be together, all over again. *wipes tear from eye*

Photos courtesy of Fame.

It’s like we’re going back to 2007, when every day there was some new Britney Spears hell. Yesterday, it was the report from The National Enquirer that Jamie Spears still won’t allow Britney to be alone with her sons. Today’s story comes from In Touch Weekly, and it’s partially along the same lines as that article from The Sun a few weeks ago, about Britney’s dad ordering mandatory breakups (with Jason Trawick) and bras. Only in this In Touch Weekly story, it’s Britney who wants to breakup with Jason, and she also wants her daddy to fix her up with someone new before she does the dumping. She even has a list of dudes she’d like to date. Hold your breath, because this list is hilarious:

Britney Spears’ romance with her agent, Jason Trawick, seems to be nearing the end — so she’s asking her father, Jamie, to help her find a new guy! Since Jamie is Britney’s legal conservator, he keeps a watchful eye on anyone with whom the star, 28, is romantically involved.

According to a friend, she has given him a “wish list” of famous men she’d be interested in dating — and Britney’s got high standards. The friend claims that Brit has her eye on, among others, Ryan Phillippe, Jersey Shore’s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Doug Reinhardt and Avatar star Sam Worthington.

“Britney wants a new boyfriend lined up before she dumps Jason,” the friend explains. “She doesn’t want to be alone, so she has her dad looking for her.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

The Situation? Sure. Ryan Phillippe? I think the guy’s a douche, but I know he wouldn’t get anywhere near Brit. Sam Worthington? How random. And Doug Reinhardt? That’s my pick, honestly. Paris Hilton will be so pissed!

Anyhoodle, is there any merit to this story? Who knows? I’ll buy that Brit doesn’t want to be alone, and I’ll buy that she thinks she needs to have a boyfriend at all times. What I don’t buy is the idea that Britney is making her own decisions about her love life, or anything else. I think her daddy told her to “date” Jason because Jason would be a good “minder” for her. And I think the only way Jason and Brit are going to breakup is if Jason wants out of his contract.

Britney’s daddy still isn’t convinced she’s sane. That says something, you know? Because we can make gentle jokes about her unharnessed nipples of doom, and her reluctant wearing of the bra of sanity, but we don’t really see what she’s like in private. Is the girl still totally crazy? Are the meds helping at all? I think they must be helping, just because the sole appearance of the pink wig was as it stood cryptically in the background of Brit’s Candie’s ads. But Jamie must think that Brit is still pretty crazy, at least according to the National Enquirer. They’re reporting that Jamie still won’t let Brit have unsupervised visits with her sons. And now Brit is starting to resent him even more, because she wants to spend private time with her boys:

BRITNEY SPEARS and her father are at each other’s throats again – this time over the pop star’s desperate wish to be alone with her kids, sources say.

Under the terms of her court-ordered conservatorship, Britney must be supervised by another adult when she’s with her boys – Sean, 4, and Jayden, 3. The singer feels that at 28, she’s mature enough to parent her sons on her own when they visit her.

“Britney is furious that she isn’t trusted to care for her own kids without supervision,” an insider revealed. “She gets into screaming matches with her father Jamie because she can’t have quiet time with the boys without bodyguards, nannies or another family member.

“She’s had enough of the watchdogs, and she’s afraid her sons won’t feel bonded to her as they get older because there are always other adults around.”

The troubled singer also resents being given advice on how to raise her children, and she often lashes out, said the source.

“Little things set her off – like being told what the kids should eat. Britney has always been fond of junk food, and she sees nothing wrong with getting take-out pizzas or hamburgers for the kids,” the source divulged. “When her parents or a nanny suggest the boys shouldn’t eat so much fast food, Britney sees it as interference and resents it.”

Britney’s ex-husband Kevin Federline was granted sole custody of the boys after she suffered a headline-making breakdown in January of 2008. During the incident, she held Jayden hostage in the bathroom of her Beverly Hills mansion, and police had to break in to rescue him.

Britney ended up in a mental ward, and a judge ordered the conservatorship, putting her father in charge of her money, her business affairs and her personal life.

After her successful “Circus” world tour, Britney was convinced the restrictions would be lifted. Instead, the conservatorship has been extended indefinitely, leaving her devastated. But the extension was good news for Federline, said the source.

“Kevin never trusted Britney’s decision-making when it came to the boys. She never kept them on a regular schedule, and their diets were poor. She’d sometimes feed them greasy fast food at 10 p.m.,” said the source.

Meanwhile, Britney is completely frustrated.

“She feels there’s nothing normal about being watched all the time,” said the source. “When it comes to making decisions about the boys, she’s being overruled by her father, Kevin, even the hired help – and Britney blames it all on her dad.”

[From The National Enquirer]

As much as this story breaks my heart a little, I’m kind of happy that Jamie and K-Fed are still putting their feet down regarding the boys. Because, at the end of the day, would you really feel comfortable with Britney watching after her, yours or any child unsupervised? I’m not sure she’s ready. That being said, I think it’s a good goal for her to work up to, and although I have doubts about her mothering skills, I don’t doubt that she adores her sons.

I was glancing through this story, thinking about how funny it is that Jamie Spears is trying to put some kind of lojack on Britney’s nipples, when I came across the buried lead – according to The Sun, Jamie made Britney and Jason Trawick split up?!? What? Jamie thought Britney’s relationship with Jason was “too intense and volatile. He feared it was sending her back to her old ways. He warned her: ‘It’s Jason or your children’.” Jesus, I just shuddered. I mean, yes, I still think Britney probably needs the conservatorship, and I do believe she needs someone to help look out for her. But threatening a mentally unstable woman that she needs to dump her boyfriend (who seems like a good influence, seriously) or she won’t be able to see her kids? Ugh. It reminds me Changeling, when you found out all of the women in the asylum had been institutionalized because they pissed off the cops in various ways. Bad call, Jamie. If it’s true, that is. Anyway, on to a happier subject: Britney’s wayward nipples.

BRITNEY SPEARS’ worried father has banned her from leaving home without wearing a bra. Dad JAMIE – who has legal control over all Britney’s affairs – fears his troubled daughter is getting close to the brink again and has imposed a host of new rules on the Womanizer singer.

He is embarrassed by constant pictures of her nipples popping out of her clothes and has insisted she only leaves her Los Angeles home wearing the correct support.

Jamie, 57, is taking the order so seriously he has even threatened to sack one of the 28-year-old’s security guards who has let her be photographed bra-less several times in recent weeks.

Jamie recently forced his daughter to dump her 38-year-old boyfriend JASON TRAWICK because he was worried she was falling back into her emotional turmoil after years of recovery.

He feared their volatile relationship was sending fragile Britney close to the edge.

A pal revealed: “Jamie’s control over Britney’s life is incredible. He hates the pictures of her with her nipples all over the place so he has banned her from leaving the house without a bra. He wants her to put across the right impression. One security guard was told he is close to getting fired because he lets her go out without her bra.”

“It was also Jamie who made her split with Jason. He likes Jason but their relationship was too intense and volatile. He feared it was sending her back to her old ways. He warned her: ‘It’s Jason or your children’.”

The friend said Jamie treats his daughter “like a child” but added: “Jamie means it all for the best.”

[From The Sun]

FREE THE NIPPLES. No, I get it. Britney’s nipples (and her boobs in general) are out of control. I’ve been wearing a bra since I was 12 years old – I developed early, but they didn’t become huge until college, when my weight fluctuated. And save for a brief moment in college when I was like “f-ck my bar, I’m going commando” I’ve always been strict about my bra-wearing. It’s important! Because for that brief time period where I didn’t wear one, too many dudes commented about my nipples. Just like Britney.

Sam Lutfi has it rough. First, he meets Britney Spears, drugs her, and tries to control/ruin her life. Then people tell him he can’t do that! No fair! Sam is suing Britney’s parents for all sorts of ridiculousness, and when you weed through all the legal jargon, that’s about what his case boils down to: no fair! Sam says Lynne and Jamie Spears have ruined his life; claims he never drugged Britney like Lynne alleged in her book, and says he lives in constant fear for his life. Giggle.

Britney Spears’ former BFF has filed legal papers in his defamation lawsuit against Britney and her parents, claiming they have ruined his life.

Sam Lutfi claims Lynne Spears’ book about her famous daughter is a pack of lies, especially the part in which she says Sam told her he secretly ground up pills and put them in Britney’s food.

Lutfi says as a result of the book, “I am constantly in fear for my life…” He says he was “harassed and cajoled by the public.” If our memory serves us correctly, Lutfi was cajoled long before Lynne’s book was published.

Lutfi trotted out his own cast of character witnesses in the new legal docs — notably the infamous Adnan Ghalib — currently being prosecuted for felony battery. Adnan wrote a declaration, claiming Lynne’s assertions that Sam was effectively holding Britney hostage were false.

[From TMZ]

Then Lutfi stomped his foot on the ground and started screaming “I wanna do whatever I wanna do!” He then hurled his body on the ground and started angrily pounding the floor with all his limbs in a classic five-year-old’s conniption fit. I absolutely adore how Sam Lutfi just cannot wrap his brain around the idea that he cannot do whatever he wants to do. And it just infuriates him, which makes me really happy.

If Sam had an ounce of sense – which I would never accuse him of – he wouldn’t associate himself with Adnan Ghalib for any reason, even though Adnan’s obviously willing to do whatever Lutfi wants. And frankly that goes both ways – neither guy is helping himself by being associated with the other. It’s just a sliding scale of douchery.

I’m surprised the court has allowed Lutfi’s lawsuit to go on so long without tossing it out for being so obviously meritless. Hopefully whenever they do they’ll also hold him responsible for the Spears’ legal costs. He’s got to have a whopping $3 to his name now, which is way more than he deserves.

Britney and Sam in 2008. Credit: Fame Pictures

Britney’s very successful “Circus” tour has added a new leg in Europe, and after her vacation, she’ll be getting ready for shows on the other side of the pond. However, it seems that the whole thing was not her idea and she is not pleased with the expansion. It’s her father Jamie who has been pushing to make the tour longer. Right now it is a “battle of the wills” between father and daughter as Jamie is working to add even more dates.

Sources close to the singer claim she’s still emotionally fragile, and it’s her conservator-father Jamie Spears who insists the show must go on.

“It’s a freak show right now,” a tour insider told the Awful Truth’s Ted Casablanca. “(Britney’s) phoning every song in. It’s pretty obvious she is not happy to be here.”

But happy or not, the Britney Spears comeback tour is far from over. According to a recent report in Reveal magazine, Jamie Spears plans to add even more dates and keep his reluctant daughter on road.

“Jamie can’t physically force Britney to get on stage and do more concerts, but he does have nearly all the power,” a family friend explained to the magazine. “He controls the purse strings and can make things very difficult for Britney if he chooses to. He gets to dictate her schedule — where she goes, who she sees, who she doesn’t see. He’s in charge of everything to do with her life. It’s a battle of wills over who will win — but while her dad remains in charge, he’ll be laying down the law.”

[from MSNBC]

Jamie Spears has done a lot of good things for his daughter. He got her mental help and got the bad people out of her life – including this sycophant. However, he also strikes me as an overly-controlling man who’s in it for the money as well as for his daughter. He doesn’t seem to recognize that he’ll never get his 17-year-old daughter back, and should be teaching Britney how to function on her own, not controlling her life as if she were still a child. His micro-managing may have rebuilt her image and created a comeback, but it doesn’t seem to be fixing the real problem here: Britney.

Here’s Britney performing at the O2 Arena in London on Wednesday. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Britney at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Miami on March 10th. Images thanks to Mavrix.

Britney Spears’ is suffering from some extreme paranoia again. According to the latest gossip, Brit is convinced that her father/conservator Jamie Spears is drugging her to keep her under his control. The entire notion is especially suspicious given that Britney’s former “manager” Sam Lutfi admitted to Brit’s mother Lynne Spears that he drugged her, and Britney has been in communication with Lutfi and his accomplice/her ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. Makes you wonder if Lutfi is planting the seeds of paranoia.

Britney Spears has a new fear — she’s worried that her dad is drugging her.The singer, 27, is currently under the conservatorship of her father, Jamie Spears. And Britney has “convinced herself” the patriarch is upping her medication to keep her subdued — so he can stay in control of her life.

“Britney is sure her father is out to get her and that he’s drugging her to turn her into a zombie who won’t fight back,” a source told British magazine Look. “Ever since her breakdown last year when she was hospitalized, she’s been on prescription pills to battle her panic attacks. Her doctors have also prescribed anti-anxiety drugs Valium and Ativan to deal with stress and to help her sleep.

“As part of the court-ordered conservatorship, Jamie has to make sure Britney takes the correct dosage because she forgets to take them otherwise. But lately she’s been nodding off randomly in the middle of conversations and is convinced it’s because Jamie’s giving her too much much.” The source adds that Britney’s friends, “tell her it’s because she’s working so hard and performing every night on her Circus tour.”

But Britney, says the source, “thinks there is a more sinister reason and insists her dad is drugging her to keep her under control. It’s a bad sign that Britney’s paranoia is rearing its head again. She’s sneakily sent text messages to her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib, and told him she needs help because her dad is poisoning her. She’s desperate to untangle the conservatorship and get her dad out of her life.”

[From Showbiz Spy]

Last time Britney was drugged her behavior was incredibly bizarre. It’s hard to tell how much was due to a mental breakdown and how much was due to pills in her drinks. Obviously it would also depend on what she was being drugged with, but she doesn’t seem to be exhibiting any behaviors that would lead most people to think something duplicitous was going on.

Britney’s friends are right: nodding off a lot is much more likely due to her rigorous concert schedule (and strenuous performance routine) than being surreptitiously medicated. And if she’s eating sugary crap, that could make her tired too. I’d think it would be more rational to focus on getting more sleep and eating better – tenets of basic health – than assume her father is drugging her.

An audio recording of a voice mail left for a lawyer by a woman identifying herself as Britney Spears has surfaced on YouTube through the website jfxonline. It hasn’t been verified that the voice is Britney, but it definitely sounds like her. In the message, made in January, she says she’s trying to get out from under her father’s conservatorship, and also mentions that Jamie has threatened to take away her kids if she does so.

“Hi my name’s Britney Spears. I called you earlier. I’m calling again because I just wanted to make sure that during the process of eliminating the conservatorship that my father has threatened me several times, you know, he’ll take my children away.

I just want to be guaranteed that everything will be fine with the process of you guys taking care of everything that things will stay the same as far as my custodial time. That’s it, bye.”

[From jfxonline]

The video was posted by Jordan Miller, the guy who used to run Britney’s biggest fan site, BreatheHeavy. Jamie Spears is in the process of having the site shut down, claiming copyright infringement. Thus, Miller had to post his story on another site, though he did link to it on BreatheHeavy. He’s been a vocal opponent of Britney’s conservatorship for months now, and says that Jamie is just using the copyright claims as an excuse to get the site shut down in order to keep Miller quiet. OK Magazine has the entire story.

While the recording does sound like it’s Britney, a few questions do come into play. From her phrasing she appears to be unsure of what’s going on in the legal process and unfamiliar with the lawyer. Perhaps that’s because she’s having him do things secretly so she can’t keep in touch with him often, but it strikes me as odd. Also, what kind of lawyer would release this call? If he really was acting on Britney’s behalf, then attorney/client privilege would have been violated. Of course it is possible – maybe even likely – that someone else who had access to the voicemail is the one who leaked the call.

No matter what, it seems like the crap’s about to hit the fan.

Here’s Britney arriving to her official post-concert after party at Tribe nightclub in Montreal, Canada on March 20th. Images thanks to INF News and Features.