Madonna has spoken out about troubled singer Britney Spears, and revealed she works out to Spears' new album Blackout. "I actually love Britney's new album, she said in an interview with New York radio station Z100 FM. "I usually work out to her record. I do a combination of Pilates and dance aerobics.
"They (the media) need to step off. For real, let's go save her." Madonna, 49, said her daughter, Lourdes, 11, feels the same way. "She knows Britney, (but) she doesn't really watch TV or read gossip stuff," the pop star said in the interview. "I think she sort of gets the drift of what's going on, and I think she feels very protective of Britney."
Madonna also revealed she will only perform Like A Virgin again for $30 million. The star, who is set to embark on a tour this autumn, is tired of singing her early hits and has no desire to include them in her set lists. She said: "I'm not sure I can sing Holiday or Like A Virgin ever again. I just can't - unless somebody paid me like $30 million or something. Like if some Russian guy wants me to come to the wedding he's going to have to a 17-year-old, you know it."
The singer, who gave Justin Timberlake a vitamin injection in his butt while they were recording 4 Minutes after he complained of a cold, insists she asked him to drop his trousers for purely professional reasons. Madonna said: "First of all, I've seen enough butt. The reason I gave him a B-12 shot is because we only had a certain amount of days in the studio and I didn't want him to use that as a lame-a** excuse not to come to work.
"It's got nothing to do with butt. I promise you. Listen, I don't need to give him a shot to see his butt!" Madonna denied her marriage to director Guy Ritchie is in trouble calling the speculation "ridiculous", but admitted the couple have to work hard at their relationship like everyone else. She said: "We still have to take turns to compromise. It's not easy."
A guest appearance from Britney Spears has helped US sitcom How I Met Your Mother to its highest-ever ratings. The Toxic star played a doctor's receptionist in the CBS show as her cameo boosted the show's viewing figures to 10.6 million on Monday night, up from the third season's usual figures of 7.8 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.
How I Met Your Mother, created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, sees Ted Mosby telling his children about the events that led up his falling in love with their mother, with Josh Radnor playing the young Ted in flashback while Bob Saget voices scenes featuring Ted as an old man. And in playing a character with a crush on Ted, Britney also scored highly among US television critics.
The Associated Press news agency commented: "Britney the trainwreck showed how she can still be Britney the performer." The New York Post newspaper said: "Brit looked slim, (OK she was behind a desk), trim and gorgeous," while the New York Daily News added: "Spears proved she can act every bit as well as she can sing." Despite her career prospects improving Britney's legal troubles have continued, with a judge yesterday dismissing a challenge to the conservatorship ruling that gives the pop star's father control of her assets.
Jon Eardley, an attorney claiming to represent Britney, said she had not been given the requisite five days' notice before control of her estate was transferred to her father James and lawyer Andrew Wallet. However, US district judge Philip Gutierrez rejected Eardley's appeal as the conservatorship of Britney's affairs remains temporary and Eardley also has no proof that he is the singer's legal representative.
The attorney who persists in representing Britney Spears, despite having been given instructions to the contrary, is still on the court's case. New York-based lawyer Jon Eardley filed a new batch of documents Monday related to his appeal of the legality of Britney's conservatorship, including a declaration from a UCLA law professor that supports his theory that the 26-year-old pop star never received proper notice—as mandated by state law—that her father was seeking control of her estate.
A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner named Jamie Spears and attorney Andrew Wallet coconservators of Britney's estimated $100 million fortune on Feb. 1, a day after she was committed to the neuropsychiatric ward at UCLA Medical Center for observation. Since then, Commissioner Reva Goetz has ruled that Britney was not fit to hire her own counsel and, most recently, allocated a $1,500 weekly spending allowance for the "Toxic" singer and a $2,500-per-week stipend for her dad while he's managing her affairs and authorized Jamie and Wallet to sell some of Britney's cars. The conservatorship has been extended until at least July 31.
Meanwhile, professor William McGovern stated in a declaration filed Monday that Britney should have been personally served notice of the court proceedings occurring while she was in the hospital because her case was not one where the rule of offering at least five days notice did not apply. In Britney's case, she was not facing imminent substantial harm. Because Britney wasn't notified, due process law dictates that Jamie's heightened status should have been good for no more than 30 days, the declaration says.
Britney's right to pick her own lawyer was infringed upon by the appointment of her father as conservator, which allowed him to restrict and limit her visitors and who she can contact, McGovern continued. He stated that he arrived at his conclusion after reviewing Goetz's temporary conservatorship order and corresponding documents filed by Jamie and Lynne Spears. After a federal judge refused to remove the case from probate court, Eardley appealed the conservatorship and Jamie's court-ordered allowance on Mar. 11, despite U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez's previous finding that he had "no authority" to go to bat for Britney.
Meanwhile, documents released Wednesday shed some light as to why Jamie's camp is looking to liquidate his daughter's vehicular fleet, which includes two white Mercedes, a white Mini Cooper convertible and a black Audi. (View related filings.) Apparently Britney owns seven rides of various shapes and sizes and unloading the cost of maintaining, insuring and storing the vehicles will "save substantial expenses to the conservatorship estate."
Britney Spears has already spent a million dollars (£500,000) on legal fees in her child custody case and objects to paying half a million dollars to ex-husband Kevin Federline's lawyers, her lawyer has said.
Attorney Stacy Phillips told a Los Angeles court that Federline's lawyers are entitled to only about 150,000 to 175,000 dollars (£75,000-£87,000).
She also says Federline has the ability to pay his lawyers on his own.
Federline's attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan says the case is unusually complicated and all the billing is legitimate.
Commissioner Scott Gordon has not yet ruled on the matter and the hearing is continuing behind closed doors.
A Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner extended the conservatorship over Britney Spears' estate until July 31, leaving Spears' father Jamie in control, a court spokesman confirmed on Wednesday (March 6).
Mr. Spears and his attorney have been in charge of Britney's affairs since the court first gave him control on February 1, following her hospitalization - which was her second hospital stay since her January 3 standoff with police at her Beverly Hills home.
Superior court spokesman Allan Parachini informed People.com of the decision saying, "I can confirm that the order was issued this afternoon, but I don't know the attorneys' motives."
Spears seems to have benefited from her father's control, as she has been teaching childrens dance classes at the Millenium Dance Studio for several weeks, and has visited her two sons regularly since she was last released from hospital.
Rihanna's worldwide Number One hit 'Umbrella' was originally offered to Britney Spears who turned down the song.
Madonna has spoken out about troubled singer Britney Spears, and revealed she works out to Spears' new album Blackout. "I actually love Britney's new album, she said in an interview with New York radio station Z100 FM. "I usually work out to her record. I do a combination of Pilates and dance aerobics.
A guest appearance from Britney Spears has helped US sitcom How I Met Your Mother to its highest-ever ratings. The Toxic star played a doctor's receptionist in the CBS show as her cameo boosted the show's viewing figures to 10.6 million on Monday night, up from the third season's usual figures of 7.8 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The attorney who persists in representing Britney Spears, despite having been given instructions to the contrary, is still on the court's case. New York-based lawyer Jon Eardley filed a new batch of documents Monday related to his appeal of the legality of Britney's conservatorship, including a declaration from a UCLA law professor that supports his theory that the 26-year-old pop star never received proper notice—as mandated by state law—that her father was seeking control of her estate.
Britney Spears has already spent a million dollars (£500,000) on legal fees in her child custody case and objects to paying half a million dollars to ex-husband Kevin Federline's lawyers, her lawyer has said.
A Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner extended the conservatorship over Britney Spears' estate until July 31, leaving Spears' father Jamie in control, a court spokesman confirmed on Wednesday (March 6).