Britney: In Memorium (PHOTOGRAPHY)

What's happening to Britney Spears says far more about us, it is far more of an indictment against the masses than against her. We are a society that is on average overweight, over-indulgent and overly-obsessed tabloid 'reality', and yet pudgy fingers poke towards the TV in self-righteous indignation...Gorging and gulping, indulging all we can on 'sexy-hot' celebrities but as soon as the zeitgeist shifts, the contempt sets in. It's a schizophrenic hot cold, love hate, on off psychology that's disconnected from any personal relevance to the standards we're applying...that's inherently defective, deeply flawed and incredibly insane.

If this is how we treat people we hardly know, would we treat the people we do know any differently (and to different standards?), and worse: what does it say about how we see ourselves? When you're hot you're hot and when you're not fuck off and die?

Britneys' sister pregnant at 16

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Britney Spears' 16-year-old sister, who stars as a schoolgirl in Nickelodeon's popular TV show "Zoey 101," is pregnant.

The cable channel confirmed a report in the forthcoming edition of celebrity gossip magazine OK! that Jamie Lynn Spears is expecting a child.

"We respect Jamie Lynn's decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation. We know this is a very difficult time for her and her family, and our primary concern right now is for Jamie Lynn's well being," Nickelodeon said in a statement e-mailed to Reuters.

A high school student who lives in Louisiana, Jamie Lynn Spears reportedly met the father, Casey Aldridge, the son of a Tennessee papermill worker, at church. Jamie Lynn Spears' personal publicist was not available for comment.

Her big sister, Britney Spears, may not be the best source of parenting advice. The 26-year-old pop star lost primary custody of her two sons, aged 2 and 1, to ex-husband Kevin Federline after their divorce last year and is engaged in a bitter custody battle that has shone a harsh spotlight on her maternal shortcomings.

"Zoey 101," which wrapped production on its fourth and final season in September, revolves around a headstrong student at a co-ed boarding school in California. Fresh episodes will air through 2008, a spokeswoman for the Viacom Inc-owned network said.

NVDL: Don't laugh or snigger - it could happen to you, and in some cases, it probably did. This sort of Oops will happen again, whether the young mum claims to be the Virgin Mary, or not. It's quite brave to actually have the child. Worse is covering it up, and having an abortion in secret.

Leave Britney Alone!

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Ag shame! Britney Spears is really bearing the brunt of a cold, cruel world. Leave her alone! But this is a world that works according to the philosophy that when you're hot you're hot, and when you're not you're not. Meanwhile, being 'hot' is predicated on being:
sexy
good looking
willing to show a lot of flesh (which naturally implies being young, slim, otherwise well endowed)

Britney, having recently become a mom is no longer sexy, having shaved her head she's (actually) not great looking - I still think she's attractive though, c'mon - and though she is willing to show off her bod, her bod's not the toned sex machine we're used to.

And it's frieaking tough to get into sex-machine shape once out of it. In the good ol' triathlete days, I too was a walking SM (he said modestly). Would I like to pull on that same skin once more? You bet? Doing so is another story. You have to work VERY hard. Heartbreak hard. And Britney now being a mommy, with all the emotional trauma that entails, well it makes it so much harder to get up and go.

I hope she's able to pick herself up. The world might be baying for her blood; I hope Britney's Survival Instincts kick in and she fights her way back. Will she? Can she put away the drugs and put aside all the negativity swooshing in from all sides? I'm holding thumbs that she can.

The crowd though, must be saying: 'gimme less (not more!).

But Britney, I for one feel for you. I'm bald, getting older and flabbier, and it's not fun when you start realising just how skin-deep the whole 'when you're hot you're hot' vibe is. It's painful, it says a lot about how fickle the crowd is.
People want popcorn and smut. Those who want a slightly more intellectual conversation are vastly outnumbered. Welcome to the desert of the real.

From Stuff.co.nz:

Chris Crocker's video, called Leave Britney Alone!, has had more than two million views since he posted it on YouTube yesterday.

In it, Crocker defends Britney's widely-criticised performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, in which the troubled pop star appeared out of time and out of shape while miming the words to her new song Gimme More.

Crocker berates the media for their treatment of Britney since the awards show and says fans should be thankful she decided to perform.

"How f**king dare anyone out there make fun of Britney after all she's been through," Crocker said.

"She went through a divorce, she had two kids ... and now she's going through a custody battle. All you people care about is readers and making money off of her. She's a human.

"She hasn't performed on stage in years. Her song is called Gimme More for a reason - because all you people want is more, more, more, more, more ... leave her alone.

"You're lucky she even performed for you bastards. Leave Britney alone ... please."

Britney Makes a Balls Up

Britney was asked to kick off the MTV awards (what were they thinking). The Oops-she-did-it-again star started off the show with a bunch of boo boos.

From CNN: Kicking off the show Sunday night with her new single, "Gimme More," Spears looked bleary and unprepared, much like her recent tabloid exploits on the streets of Los Angeles.

She walked through her dance moves with little enthusiasm. It appeared she had forgotten the entire art of lip-synching. And, perhaps most unforgivable given her once-taut frame, she looked embarrassingly out of shape.