Britney to be new face of Kiwi cocktail brand?

Wellington (ANI): Popstar Britney Spears has reportedly been approached by a New Zealand company to be the face of their new Kiwi cocktail. The local company is looking to launch a new cocktail worldwide, where they require an international face to give the launch a big impact, reports the NZPA.

Earlier, Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria was approached but she wasn't available. Socialite Kim Kardashian was also in the running. But was eliminated because her image was deemed 'too trashy'. The company execs were also unsure about whether she actually drinks

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Britney Spears Unveils Her World Tour Team

Britney Spears fans, March is only two months away—and you know what that means...it's the month the 27-year-old pop queen's The Circus: Starring Britney Spears world tour kicks off!

This will be the "Womanizer" singer's seventh tour. And to get things underway, Britney's official website has presented the roster of the official team behind her upcoming traveling show:

Jamie King, choreographer. King previously co-directed Spears' 2000 tour.

Simon Ellis, musical director. Director of the Spice Girls' 2007/2008 reunion tour. Ellis previously worked with British acts such as Steps, S Club 7 and Hearsay.

JaQuel Knight, contributing choreographer. The dance-move genius behind the video for Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," which recently spent four weeks at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart.

Tony Testa, contributing choreographer. Has worked with Danity Kane, Janet Jackson and Beyoncé.

Dreya Weber, aerial choreographer. Has designed segments of shows for Madonna, Pink and Cher.

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PETA Circus Comes to Britney Spears' Town

Britney Spears has done it again...at least as far as PETA is concerned.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were none too pleased when she wriggled around the stage with a python at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2001. Now, the critter-friendly crew has taken issue with the pop star's use of pachyderm costars in her latest video, "Circus."

"We're not takin' this sitting down," a PETA blogger writes. "[Britney] of all people should be able to relate to the horror that captive animals go through when they're used for entertainment. Except Britney chooses to perform and the lifestyle just comes with it."

No comment yet from ringmaster Spears—or, for that matter, her elephant buddies—on the whole "Circus" experience.

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GET A NEW MORTGAGE! Britney Spears due here in April

Maybe the third time will be the charm here for Britney Spears, who kicked off her two previous concert tours in San Diego and now suddenly appears poised to add an April 20 show here at the Sports Arena.

We say "suddenly" because, when Brit's 2009 North American "Circus" tour was announced yesterday, the closest date to San Diego was April 19 in Anaheim. But the teen-pop-sex-tart-turned-tabloid-cover-queen has apparently reconsidered. Assuming all goes as planned, tickets for her April 20 Sports Arena show here go are scheduled to go on sale Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. at the arena box office; all Ticketmaster locations; on-line (www.ticketmaster.com); and by phone: (619) 220-TIXS. Please note: Until her show here (which will also feature The Pussycat Dolls) is officially confirmed -- which should happen by tomorrow -- it will not appear on her official concert itinerary or the Ticketmaster Web site.

Ticket prices for her show here are slated to start at $34.50 and go up to $125 each, plus service charges. But fans who want to sit up close should expect to pay dearly to attend since it appears Brit and her handlers are blissfully unaware that the country is currently in the midst of a major recession. The top prices for "special" two-ticket packages for her Los Angeles and Anaheim shows are $349.50 and $549.50, plus service charges. For that much money, we think Brit should also also come to your house, wash your car and and cook dinner before the show, but that's just us.

If you really want to splurge, a pair of "platinum" front-row seats are being offered by Ticketmaster for as high as -- gulp! --$6,007.94. Click here for more info -- or to arrange an appointment with a financial counselor or a good therapist.

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Curses! Britney Spears’ tots tap bad habits

Britney Spears loves her young sons, Sean Preston, 3, and Jayden James, 2, but she’s stressing because they already have potty mouths!

“They’re starting to learn words like ‘stupid’ and Preston says the F-word now sometimes,” the Mother of the Year told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview being published in its Dec. 10 issue, US Weekly magazine reports.

Spears, 26, swears the kids don’t get their dirty vocab from her.
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“(Preston) doesn’t get it from us,” the pop tart says. “He must get it from his daddy (Kevin Federline). I say it, but not around my kids.”

The mother of two says that every time she sees her boys, she thinks about “how they’re such special people.” She also said the boys are “almost like twins” because they “take care of each other.”
Well, someone has to care for them!

Spears, who has two daytime visits and one overnight visit per week with the kids, says she’s begun to feel like an “old person.”
The star claims she tries to avoid late-night partying and instead is in bed “at, like, 9:30 every night, and I don’t go out or anything.
Spears’ new album, “Circus,” hits stores Dec. 2.

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Britney Spears opens up about split with Timberlake

Pop star Britney Spears has spoken candidly for the first time about her bitter split with former boyfriend Justin Timberlake in 2002.

The singer has revealed all in a forthcoming TV documentary Britney: For The Record, reports mirro.co.uk.

"With Justin, he was part of the magnitude of what I had become. So when he was gone I was like, 'What am I supposed to do with myself?' When it ended I felt so alone. I didn't really want to think about the reality of it. I never faced it - I just ran," she said.

The duo started dating in early 1999 before a high-profile split in March 2002 amid tabloid press speculations on Spears' infidelity with choreographer Wade Robson, a mutual friend of Spears and Timberlake.

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"One More Time" for troubled diva Britney Spears?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A year ago, Britney Spears was taking court-ordered drug and alcohol tests, had fired her managers, was losing custody of her kids, and some journalists were preparing her obituary.

This week, she was caring for her children like any mother would when she rushed 2-year-old Jayden James to a hospital after a bad reaction to something he ate. As for her career, only one week ago she was on stage performing with Madonna and on the brink of an extraordinary musical comeback.

Industry watchers wonder whether Spears, 26, can win back the young, fickle fans now accustomed to watching her fall apart, or if she can stage a comeback like pop diva Mariah Carey. She spent several years in a slump before rebounding to charttopper status with 2005 album "The Emancipation of Mimi."

"You can only have so many second chances and this is definitely one of those now or never moments," said Ellen Carpenter, a senior editor at Spin magazine.

Ten years after she burst onto the world stage as a perky 17-year-old and scored hit songs including "... Baby One More Time," Spears seems to have pulled her life and career out of the toilet with a hit single, a new album due out in December, a tell-all documentary and talk of her first tour since 2004.

Spears' first single "Womanizer," off her Dec 2. album "Circus," was a good omen. It leapt to the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart in October and went to No.1 on iTunes charts in Canada, France, Spain and Sweden.

But in an era of falling record sales, the big money in the music industry is made through live shows. Spears, who has done only a handful of live performances since 2005, is expected to launch a world tour early next year.

"Nothing in this economic environment is a slam dunk," said Gary Bongiovanni, editor of concert magazine Pollstar.

"When an artist stays off the scene for a couple of years, it is impossible to tell how much that audience has gravitated elsewhere until you put tickets on sale," Bongiovanni said.

Spears made headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2007 and early 2008 -- shaving her head, partying without panties, two hospitalizations for psychiatric checks, losing custody of her sons and giving a laughable performance at an MTV Awards show.

As the sexy young pop star who sold more than 60 million records in her heyday gave way to an erratic, disheveled divorcee, her musical and personal obituary was being written.

"Last year, it didn't seem like she would ever come out of it. Her falling apart was bigger than anybody, even Michael Jackson. I don't know if anyone in pop music has fallen that low and come back," Carpenter said.

But since February, when Spears' father Jamie took over her business and personal affairs, the singer has reunited with the manager who made her a star, won three MTV Video Music Awards, recorded her sixth studio album and relaunched her Web site.

She will mark the release of "Circus" with a November 30 TV documentary about her darkest days and an appearance, on her 27th birthday, on U.S. TV chat show "Good Morning America."

Still, Bongiovanni said it may be hard for fans to separate Spears the pop star from Spears the pop problem. "Are they coming to see you because they think a train wreck is about to happen, or because they really like your music?" he said.

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