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Scans from the new edition of 'People Magazine' which features pictures of Britney Backstage of 'The Circus' & a few qoutes from Britney herself

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The Making Of 'Radar' Music Video On ET Monday

Entertainment Tonight will broadcast the making of “Radar” music video including an interview with Britney on Monday, July 6.

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Britney : "I'm Still The Same Old Silly Britney"

Britney :

"I don't think it's (breakdown) changed me at all. I'm more experienced now and I've learned a lot, but I don't think it's changed me. I'm still the same old silly Britney – ha ha!"

"I don't look at myself as famous. That really freaks other celebrities out, because they do think of themselves as this goddess or this big celebrity, while I think of it as a job."

"I go on stage and do my thing, and then I come off and I'm just like you, you know?"

"I know I'm famous but I don't look at it like other people do. Sometimes it surprises me because I forget that I am famous. I do – I totally forget."

"It took a long time for me just to be happy with me because I was always really worried about what other people thought about me."

"I just like eating tuna and talking to the dancers and watching television, you know."

She said her life has been "Madness" (with paparazzi)

Source : Metro

Britney To Appear On Alan Carr's New Chat Show ?

Will Britney be on Alan Carr's new Channel 4 chat show, 'Alan Carr: Chatty Man'? The British comedian, posted on his official Twitter account:

"We've got Britney on!!! Well i say that, she recorded all her answers and im lipsynching the questions"


'Alan Carr: Chatty Man' is set to debut on 14th June 2009. I hope this is true, I love Alan Carr, he's hilarious and he's a huge Britney fan too!

Source : UntouchableBritney

Britney's Interview With 'More! Magazine'

Hey Britney.How do you feel about your life now?
I feel positive,I feel much happier,and things are looking good again.I am learnign to relax more and take everything in my stride,and not to place so much pressure on myself.

How does it feel to be perfoming to your "Circus" album?
I have been through a lot and I am really excited about my album.I feel like this is the best work I've done and I've very proud of it.I'
ve really enjoyed the process of putting this album together and it's been jind of theurapetic for me.Music is such a huge part of me.

Are all the songs personal to you?
I think this album speaks to people,especially women,very directly.For me,It's a very personal deep-felt set of songs and I feel I'm trying to express some of my feelings to people in a way that means more to me than just singing different kinds of things.

Photos of you on holiday revealed that you're looking incredible toned now.What's your secret?
I used to be a workout freak,but after i had my kids it was a lot harder for me to get back to that routine.i used to love going to the gym but then as you get older and you have more responsibilities you lose that kind of discippline.Even now I have a much harder time getting mentally physced to train,but once I', at the gym,I start getting into it and i feel great.

How is your life different now that you're on tour?
I like going to bed early and getting up eraly.I just think it's a better way to live my life,especially when I have the kids-I need to have lot of energy because they just have a lot of energy themselves!

And we’ve only seen you on a few nights out with your dancers this time round…
I’m just not that into going out late at night or going to clubs anymore. It’s the last thing I want to do with my life. I’m not interested in being with people who are looking to exploit me. I’m staying close to my family and friends and living very peacefully.
I need my energy from my children and music. I want to show people that I’m a strong woman. I have a lot of great things ahead of me that I want to accomplish.

You seem very relaxed these days. How do you achieve that?
Taking my time these days and not letting myself feel any pressure other than to just feel happy.

Do you feel happy about life now?
There are so many things that I am grateful for. I just want to make the most of this time in my life and build from there. It’s a good feeling.

Britney : "I Feel Much Happier"

Britney recently did an Interview with Britain's More! Magazine

Britney :

“I feel positive, I feel much happier, and things are looking good again,”

“I’m learing to relax more and take everything in my stride, and to not place so much pressure on myself.”

“I’m learning to take better care of myself and not get stress or down about things for nothing. I’m taking my time these days and not letting myself feel any pressure other than to just feel happy and to work on my music.”

“There are so many things that I am grateful for. I just want to make the most of this time in my life and build from there. It’s a good feeling.”

Full Hello! Magazine Interview

Here’s the full interview. Some lines were cut off when the magazine was scanned so I don’t know what it says. 

A lot of people thought maybe I wouldn’t make it,” Britney Spears was saying. It was opening night of her new tour in New Orleans and she’d just come off stage after a stunning performance in front of a sold-out house of 35,000 people. “People thought I was finished, didn’t they?” she asked me. “I guess for a while last year it looked that way.” She shrugged her shoulders and smiled. “Nothing I can do about the past, I guess. But I’m hoping to prove them wrong now. And I have really put everything I have into this new show.”

The new show she’s speaking of is The Circus Starring Britney Spears, and the trouble she’s talking about was her much-reparsed struggle with her mental health, which saw her spend time in hospital and ended with her father Jamie taking control of her affairs. However, though she’s now determined to give a great performance, Britney is not about to lose sight of what’s really important in her life.

“Number one priority for me? My kids.” She says. “They come first. If the boys are okay, everything else falls into place.”

DOING IT FOR THE KIDS

Nothing makes Britney lights up more than when someone mentions her children, the precocious Preston, three and mischievous Jayden, two.

Earlier this year, when it seemed lawyers could not agree on whether or not her children would be able to travel with her for the show, Britney, 27, threatened to pull the plug on the entire tour rather than leave them behind in Los Angeles.

Eventually she won the right to have them join her on the road, and she took the boys with her last week to the Caribbean during a break from performances. The singer was also snapped splashing in the surf and relaxing on the beach with her agent Jason Trawick, to whom is she said to have become very close. Those around her say there’s nothing to rumours of a romance, though there’s undeniably a flirtation there. Certainly at such an important point in her career, Jamie – who has control of her personal as well as professional life – will not allow her to get into anything serious. Nonetheless, Jason is clearly close to Britney’s sons and was photographed carrying and cuddling them on the family’s sunshine holiday in the Bahamas.

“Really, the thing that matters most to Britney is the boys.” Explained her manager Larry Rudolph. “They are her life, those kids I think her back on stage has been important, yes. In fact, it’s been very therapeutic for her. But it’s the kids that keep her going, no doubt about that.”

Also with Britney on this most important tour has been her ex-husband Kevin Federline, 30, still has primary custody of the boys, though Britney is now allowed so much access to them as she wants.

“It was once a week, then twice a week, then three times,” says a source inside the Spears camp. “But she’s doing so well now, it’s pretty much all the time – or as much time as she has, considering her crazy touring schedule.”

The European leg of the Circus tour kicks off in London on 3 June for eight nights before gigs in Manchester, Dublin, and the Continent. It’s reported that Britney has taken over a £1,100-a-night penthouse suite at The Dorchester for her stint in the capital with fresh flowers that she can arrange herself and DVDs of her favorite Marilyn Monroe movies.

Some reports also suggest all junk food has been banned. Not true, Britney has been staying in shape by eating sensibly, but her children are certainly not on a diet, and neither is anyone else. I noticed fruit platters backstage in New Orleans, as well as juices and diet sodas – but also plenty of cookies.

“I sure could use a chocolate-chip cookie,” Britney joked. “But I’m trying to be good. But after this tour, watch out!”

Whether the boys will accompany their mother on London remains to be seen. Both have their passports ready and Britney is planning on taking them. However Jayden has had a cold for three weeks and his parents are afraid it could run into a breaching problem. If he stays behind, so does Preston.

Earlier this year Britney received some words of wisdom from fellow pop parent, mother of three Madonna, who paid her a surprise visit backstage after one of her shows in New York.

“Madonna gave Britney some great advice about the kids,” says a dancer on her tour. “Keep them close by when you’re on the road.” She told her. “I have always taken my kids on the road with me. It’s a life they learn to accept as long as they’re with their mom.”

Apparently, Britney mentioned to Madonna she was concerned all the raveling might be too immense for the boys, Madonna agreed. “Kids get little colds and they can get cranky.” She told Britney. “But you want to look back on these years and know they were with you. They’ll look back on these years, too. And they’ll be very glad to have these memories, believe me.”

“I do think it’s about history,” Britney said at the end of her New York dates. “What we as others are doing is creating this history with our kids that we can look back on and say, “yeah, that was hard. But it was fun because we did it together.” When they’re adults, I want my kids to say, “Wow, my mom was working so hard, but she was always there for us.” That’s what I want to hear 20 years from now.”

So whether it’s taking them to an amusement park in a city where she is performing, or taking them shopping or on a picnic – or even, as our exclusive picture shows, to a water park in the Caribbean – Britney is intent on making every moment count. “She wants them around all the time,” says the source. “Except, maybe not for parts of the show that she thinks are so suggestive…”

PARENTAL ADVISORY

The show features a fun-paced mix of songs from her recent platinum selling CDs Blackout and Circus, as well as generous helping of hit records such as Toxic and I’m a Slave 4 U. there’s a lot of bumping and grinding going on, and Britney wears the skimpiest of costumes – a gold-plated corset and a black, bare-midriff dominatrix (?) outfit among them.

“A couple of times along the way, Lynne [Britney’s mother] has taken the boys out of the arena when the show goes a little outrageous.” Says one of Britney’s intimates. “But for the some part, the kids are there and Lynne – who is on the road for many of the dates – and Kevin are with them, saying, “There’s Mommy. Clap for Mommy. Yay!” the kids love it.”

Whether this is a scene that will be repeated at Britney’s London shows is still uncertain.

“We’re working out the logistics of that,” says manager Larry Rudolph. “I’m pretty sure they will be with us. It’s want we all want. But it depends on how complicated it becomes and whether Britney thinks it will be in the boys’ best interest. So, we’ll see. We’ve been through a lot, and there are few other things we’re dealing right now.”

Though he didn’t say as much, Larry is likely talking about the behind-the-scene melodrama of (cut) and was in the news for her serious emotional problems including a mood disorder.

At the time, it was reliably reported that she was battling a bipolar condition. Though that diagnosis was never officially confirmed, her father Jamie will say this much about the terrible period. “Her life was pretty well a disaster. She had nothing going on, just mostly being in the tabloids. She was kind of wild; very messed up.”

“If ever a father proved his love for his child, Jamie did,” adds another source close to the family. “He stepped up to the plate, established a co-conservatorship to take care of her, got rid of the bad people around her and – well, look at her now. She’s thriving. It’s a miracle.”

Jamie’s control over Britney’s (cut) February last year and made permanent in October.

“She’s on the right meds, and everything is good,” comment one family member. “But we know we have to be careful, so there’s a cautious operations (?)…,”

perhaps there is good reason for caution, Jamie has been battling with two of Britney’s former friends – Adnan Ghalib, the paparazzo she dated last year in the midst of her emotional chaos; and Sam Lufti, her unofficial manager during that time.

Last month Sam was ordered to stay away from her for three years and now Jamie, determined to keep both men away from his daughter, is seeking a permanent restraining order against him and Adnan.

Both men certainly seem not to want to leave Britney alone, saying she herself wants them in her life, having been in secret phone and text contact.

Hello! Can reveal that (?), head of Britney’s security, keeps a binder of the names and whereabouts of people he feels are a threat to Britney, and that Adnan and Sam are top of the list. (?) says that when the two started trying to establish contact with Britney again, the pop star was so scared that she began losing sleep over the situation.

THE FUTURE’S BRIGHT

Today, when asked about the two men, all Britney will do is shake her head sadly. It’s clear she’s had enough of them both and just wants to concentrate on her new life, her show… and her boys.

“Toys and games are an important part of the Circus tour as the stage props.” Says another source. “And two nannies make sure everything is okay.”

“Kevin has been great, as always.” Jamie Lynn – Britney’s younger sister – told me in New Orleans. “he and Britney have become best friends. She knows how much he cares about the boys, and he knows the same is true of her.”

“Kev also gets along great with Mom and Dad, so it’s one big happy family pulling together.” Added another source. “Everyone just wants to make sure this tour is successful for Britney and that she has the comeback she deserves.”

“I’m happy,” Britney told me after the show. “Truly, I feel like the girl who has it all. I have my family, my boys, my friends, my fans… this show. But most importantly,” she concluded with a warm smile, “I’m not sad anymore. I was just so sad for so long, but not anymore. And you know what? That feels really, really good.”

Britney Done Photoshoot For 'Elle Magazine' ?

Britney Spears has cleaned up her act -- but she's still kind of a mess. The pop tart took time off from her "Circus" tour to do an Elle magazine shoot, our spy says, and it was a disaster. "They dressed her in all these beautiful couture clothes -- and, well, let's just say she forgot what time of the month it was. It wasn't pretty." A rep for Spears didn't return e-mails.

Source: NY Post

Confirmed : Britney Interview In Hello! Magazine

"Britney Spears How the comeback queen has turned her life around as she prepares to tour the UK"

Source : Hello!

Britney : "I'm Not Sad Anymore"

Britney :

"A lot of people thought maybe I wouldn't make it. People thought I was finished, didn't they? I guess for a while last year it looked that way.

"Nothing I can do about the past, I guess. But I'm hoping to prove them wrong now. And I have really put everything I have into this new show."

"I'm happy. Truly, I feel like the girl who has it all. I have my family, my boys, my friends, my fans... this show.

"But more importantly, I'm not sad anymore. I was just so sad for so long, but not anymore. And you know what? That feels really, really good."

Source : Hello! via DigitalSpy

Jamie Lynn : "Britney & Kevin Are Best Friends"

Jamie Lynn :

"Kevin has been great, as always,”

“He and Britney have become best friends. She knows how much he cares about the boys and he knows the same is true of her."

An Inside Source :

“Kev also gets on great with mom and dad, so it’s one big happy family pulling together. Everyone just wants to make sure that this tour is successful for Britney and that she gets the comeback she deserves,”

Source : Hello! & PopCrunch

Alli Sims : 'Jamie Told Me To Stay Away'

Alli Sims :

"I was told that if I picked up the phone when she called or if I called back, then I’d have to deal with the lawyers"

"So I decided to back away, I really didn’t have a choice. I don’t have the funds to fight it"

"I had to take myself out of the situation until she’s in control of her own life again"

"I feel bad for her because I’m sure she probably thinks that in a way I abandoned her"

"Everybody wants to get something from her"

"It has got to the point where she doesn’t trust anybody, which breaks my heart"

Source : NowMagazine 

Alli Sims On Britney.... Again

Alli Sims :

"It seemed a lot crazier than it really was because it made simple things just like going to Starbucks seem so out of hand. It was insane because of the paparrazi, but it really wasn't that bad when you were sitting there going through it personally. I just thought it was interesting how people expected us to stay home and not go anywhere... It's not her fault she has that many people following her around."

"We didn't have a falling out at all or anything. I just kind of stepped back. She had a lot of stuff going on that she needed to focus on, so I took that time to put all my energy into my music...I definitely think I'll talk to her soon. It's not like we're never going to talk again."

"I love her to death and I miss her and I hope she's happy."

"She's definitely one of the reasons why I recorded it... She was one of my very close friends. I do miss her a lot."

"I was sitting with her in the living room... and a song I'd done in high school popped up [on the computer] and she was like, 'I love this song. Who's singing it?' And I go, 'I am, actually.' She goes, 'You're still living with me. I'm getting another assistant to help me out and you're pursuing this.'"

"I think it's a kind of like a double-edged sword. Think it helped in a lot of ways because people did know who I was because I was around her, but it's also been hard because people expect so much from you -- you definitely have to prove yourself with everyone... there's a lot more eyes on me."

Source : Extra TV

Alli Sims : Britney Wanted To Teach

Alli Sims :

"Britney would always say, 'Maybe I just want to be a teacher. I just want to do something on a normal level. I've been something big for so long.'"

Danja On Britney

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