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I know we have a three-times-a-week limit on the Britney stories, but rules don’t apply on Saturdays. That also goes for dieting, exercising, and pretty much all the other rules out there, aside from the legal ones. Speaking of breaking legal rules, Britney Spears has had quite a week. I’ll save you the complete recap, but suffice it to say that Brit has managed to run over two people’s feet in only two weeks. That’s got to be some kind of record, right? Especially for a theoretically sober person. Along with running over feet, Brit’s also been busy running through red lights. And getting taped while doing it. The woman is such a moron, she was surrounded by paparazzi. Did she think they wouldn’t eagerly publish the footage? Or that Kevin Federline wouldn’t eagerly run to his lawyer to tattle? Well he did, and the 1,834,283 emergency hearing was requested by Federline’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan.

An official has barred Britney Spears from driving with her sons out of fear for their safety. The trouble-plagued pop tart was reportedly slapped with the order after she was spotted by paparazzi running a red light with the children Thursday. Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon called a hearing on the matter today at the request of lawyers for Spears’ ex-hubby, Kevin Federline, who lodged a complaint about her wild ride with sons Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1. A shutterbug working for the X17 photo agency who snapped Spears running the light reportedly testified about what he saw. The tape of Britney running the red light was not viewed today, but it was a major point of the hearing, a source told People magazine.

Britney’s lawyer’s brought in an expert who argued that, for whatever reason, Britney could have made the turn through the red light. The court sealed the order and the parties would not discuss what happened at the 90-minute court hearing. Spears lawyer afterward said the hearing went great, according to People. “I can’t tell you what was discussed, I can’t tell you what was in the papers, I can’t even tell you what was in the order,” Federline’s lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan said. However, TMZ.com reported that Gordon barred the singer from getting behind the wheel with the two children indefinitely.

[From the New York Post]

From watching the video, I can understand how it’d be hard to drive through that. And I understand that you could get easily distracted. Nonetheless, Brit’s got two kids with her. She should have learned how to drive safely with them by now. If she can’t, she can certainly afford to hire a professional driver.

In terms of running over feet, I gotta say that if there are 50 people within inches of your car at all times, you’re bound to run over a foot or two. I feel sorry for the cop who’s foot was run over when he was trying to help Britney navigate her way out of the paparazzi mess. But the other pap who got his foot run over… I think that’s just an occupational hazard anytime you’re within inches of a moving vehicle and flashing bright lights into it. Truly, I give Britney Spears credit for nothing, but how the hell anyone could drive through that is beyond me. I was going to say that if the woman has any sense, she’ll hire a driver. But she doesn’t have any sense, which means a judge had to come in and have some for her. While a teeny, tiny part of me feels badly for her, most of me just wants to see her kids get taken away forever. There is no way in hell that she won’t accidentally leave them in the bathtub or something. She’s way too irresponsible and illogical.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s the red light video. Header image of Britney Spears yesterday at a local gas station in her white Mercedes with her boyfriend Sam. She then tries to hide underneath a sweatshirt exposing her sweaty armpits and also lack of bra. Images thanks to Splash Photos.

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Celebrities’ lavish spending is nothing new, but according to several recent articles, the amount of spending is. Where stars used to bank money away – knowing that their careers could always take a nosedive – these days they seem to spend until it has all dried up. Last month court papers were made public that revealed Britney Spears takes home an average of $737,000 every month. Yet the records also show that she doesn’t have any savings or investments. That kind of lifestyle has led many of the famous and the formerly famous into bankruptcy.

“Most high earners, like celebrities, should view themselves like ballplayers do,” said Everett Weinberger, a financial adviser at Merrill Lynch. “You need to put away money right at the beginning, assuming that it may end. … Young people can be very shortsighted, forgetting that they’re not going to be famous forever.”

Michael Jackson knows this story all too well. He’s defaulted on a $23 million loan, and if he doesn’t pay the full amount — plus $212,963.83 in interest — by the end of January, he could lose his beloved Neverland Ranch. Twelve years ago, the female R&B group TLC was also forced to file for bankruptcy, despite selling a staggering 23 million records. Britney may not be far behind. Court papers show that she spends $102,000 each month on entertainment, gifts and vacations. Her monthly clothing bill is a whopping $16,000 — $1,000 more than she forks over for child support.

Lindsay Lohan reportedly spent more than $1 million on clothes last year, but her publicist denied it. (Her stylist Rachel Zoe also reportedly said that her client’s closet is filled with $8,000 Prada dresses and $2,000 Prada bags.) And Jessica Simpson’s penchant for $1,400 Egyptian-cotton sheets was well-documented on MTV’s ill-fated “Newlyweds.”

[From Fox News]

The article goes on to give one of the most famous examples of ridiculous spending followed by financial ruin – MC Hammer. Although Jacko’s obviously following closely behind. Hammer made over $33 off “U Can’t Touch This” – and ran through it all in under four years. His entourage included over 200 employees. He had 17 cars, an entire stable of thoroughbred race horses, and added three waterfalls and $2 million worth of marble to his home. Not only did he blow through all $33 million, but when he filed for bankruptcy in 1996, Hammer was in debt an additional $13 million.

The article goes on to list some celebrities that have been smart with their money by investing it to make even more.

Rapper Jay-Z owns a stake in the New Jersey Nets, co-owns the Rocawear clothing line and is president of Universal Music Group’s Def Jam Recording. Sean “Diddy” Combs has interests in Bad Boy Records, the clothing lines Sean John and Sean by Sean Combs, a movie production company and two restaurants. And Def Jam Records co-founder Russell Simmons owns a management company, a clothing line called Phat Farm, a movie production house, TV shows, a magazine and an advertising agency. The three men are worth approximately $547 million, $358 million and $340 million respectively.

“Celebrities tend to over-invest in real estate because it’s tangible and sexy,” Weinberger said. “They see that beautiful house in Florida or California and have to have it. People should know, in general, that real estate is not going to appreciate as well as the stock market.” Nevertheless, real estate can always be sold off to pay creditors, whereas handbags, stilettos and sheaths lose value the minute the tags are cut.

[From Fox News]

I think the author is taking a rather biased view – she doesn’t bother to mention any female celebrities that have made good financial decisions. As much as I can’t stand her, Kimora Simmons has quite an empire going on. Oprah has phenomenal business skills. There are certainly a lot of young idiot celebrities that may very well blow it all, but it seems like they’re focusing on the ladies a lot more than the men. Certainly there are some guys out there sporting too much bling and an excessive entourage. I seriously doubt saving money is even on Britney’s list right now – but considering the downturn her entire life has taken, she may want to get a good financial advisor to safeguard her money. And Lindsay’s been reported to be broke for almost a year now, with rumors floating around that she’s selling pictures of herself to gossip mags for money. The optimistic part of me hopes that as they mature, they’ll be able to save and spend a little better. And hopefully they’ll still have careers then too.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Lohan again, shopping at Chanel in Beverly Hills, after having lunch at the Ivy. She reportedly bought an expensive purse – though Lindsay’s known for her ability to haggle free swag. In light of this article, more power to her I guess. Header image of Britney and her new white $200,000 Mercedes SL6. She went shopping with “boyfriend” Sam Lufti at trendy baby store Bel Bambini, on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles on November 10th. Images thanks to Splash Photos.

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Nancy Grace was released from the hospital yesterday after being admitted for complications from pulmonary edema. Grace gave birth to twins John David and Lucy Elizabeth on November 4th – two months early. After she was initially discharged from the hospital, Grace and her husband David Linch returned that night to visit the babies. While there she had severe shortness of breath and was examined by doctors, who said she was fine and sent her home. However her condition steadily declined until she could barely breathe by this past Sunday. She was admitted to the hospital, where an X-ray and CAT scan found some blood clots and fluid in her lungs. She was admitted to the hospital for monitoring and given medication.

Nancy Grace was released from the hospital on Thursday after checking in over the weekend due to complications from giving birth prematurely to twins on Nov. 4.

According to the CNN Headline News anchor’s rep, Grace’s condition is “much improved and she’s on the mend,” she tells PEOPLE.

Grace, 48, is currently at her Atlanta home with husband David Linch. The twins, John David and Lucy Elizabeth, remain under a doctor’s care. “‘Home’ is merely a word,” says Grace’s rep. “Nancy and David are spending all their time visiting the twins at the hospital.”

According to the rep, “Nancy hopes to bring the babies home for Thanksgiving. They have so much to be grateful for.”

[From People]

The twins are doing much better as well. John David weighed 5 lbs., 1 oz. at birth and Lucy Elizabeth weighed 2 lbs., 15 oz. Both of them are doing well and have put on weight. Linch told People that John David was initially being fed through a tube and is now being fed by a bottle. Lucy is nearly ready for bottles as well. “They’re out of the critical area and have stabilized pretty well.” Some have noted that perhaps pregnancy will soften Nancy Grace a bit. She’s sure had a rough initiation into motherhood, hopefully things will look up for her from here.

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Jan Adams, the doctor who performed the tummy tuck and breast lift on Kanye West’s now-deceased mother Donda, had an arrest warrant issued for him today. It turns out Adams has quite the rap sheet, at least for a well-known surgeon. Adams failed to show up for a judgment debtor examination in Los Angeles. A former patient, Lori Ufondu, had sued Adams after he left a sponge inside her during a surgery in 1996. The sponge wasn’t discovered until 2003 when the patient went to another surgeon to have her Adams’ botched surgical work corrected. Adams eventually showed up to the hearing, claiming he was “stuck in traffic” and the judge canceled the arrest warrant. Ufondu was awarded $100,000 in her case against Adams, which he has yet to pay. He has quite the long – and torrid – history, both with patients and in his personal life.

TMZ.com has been reporting one case after another of malpractice lawsuits against Dr. Jan Adams, the Harvard-educated plastic surgeon who said he operated on the mother of Kanye West sometime before her death on Saturday… According to TMZ, Ufondu obtained a judgment in excess of $100,000. Her lawyer says the doctor has yet to pay, and that there are several outstanding judgments against Dr. Adams, who has ignored his obligation to pay.

In yet another lawsuit, filed in Orange County Superior Court less than two weeks ago on Halloween, Rhonda McClain accuses Dr. Adams of medical malpractice following a surgery that took place on March 10, 2007. McClain says Dr. Adams and Euclid Outpatient Surgery Center were responsible for “mental, physical and nervous pain and suffering” after a procedure that left her with one breast implant. She also claims she nearly bled to death following the surgery.

[From EURweb]

So the guy’s not the greatest surgeon. One would think a woman as smart as Donda West (she was a college professor) would have researched her surgeon thoroughly. I wonder what made her go with this guy? It’s been documented that at least one other surgeon refused to operate on her, saying she had pre-existing health issues that made it unsafe. Maybe she went with Adams simply because he was willing to do the surgery.

Adams also has issues with a past girlfriend who had to get a restraining order against him in 2002. Apparently the guy is negligent, a poor surgeon, and has a temper. What a winner.

Additionally, TMZ has obtained documents filed by Dr. Adams’ ex-girlfriend, Deborah Pratt, seeking a restraining order against him for his alleged “Jekyll and Hyde” behavior when he drinks alcohol. The papers, filed in L.A. County Superior Court in 2002, say in part: “Defendant has an unfortunate drinking problem and unless restrained immediately, will assert the worst side of his ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ personality when he is intoxicated. Defendant is very attached to my children and he has been abusive when intoxicated in their presence, so he must stay away from them, also.” Pratt said on one occasion Adams burst into her home, threatened and chased her in his car. Dr. Adams filed papers denying the allegations, but the judge granted the restraining order.

[From EURweb]

Adams was the host of the Discovery Health Channel series “Plastic Surgery: Before and After” which has since been taken off the air. He was also featured on Oprah a few times, which is ironic since she did a special on surgeons accidentally leaving things inside of patients. And a follow-up to the story. Now she can have a follow-up to the follow-up. “Access Hollywood” said that Adams was one of two surgeons Oprah personally recommended to Donda West, so that’s likely one of the reasons she went with him. I hope Oprah investigates her “experts” a little more thoroughly from now on. Donda West’s funeral is scheduled for Tuesday in Oklahoma.

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That should do it. Now I’m off the save the world one marshmallow at a time. As always, more under the cut.

Also check out Part 1 and Part 2.

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I split the show up into 3 parts because Wordpress is a little bitch. I hate you Wordpress.

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The 2007 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show took place last night and featured models such as Adriana Lima , Alessandra Ambrosio, Heidi Klum, Miranda Kerr, Selita Ebanks, Izabel Goulart, Karolina Kurkova and Marisa Miller among others walking the runway in traditional bra, panties and wings while men hid their erections with their program. Wow, it’s like sixth grade all over again.

The show will premiere December 4 on CBS at 10 p.m. et/pt. And this means nothing to the guys, but there was also a duet with Seal and Heidi Klum. That’s right. A real baby seal that they clubbed right after. It made the show both sexy and delicious. A lot more pictures after the jump. A lot.

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Fans the world over have been gearing up for the Spice Girls reunion for months now, with entertainment blogs studiously reporting on the Girls every announcement. While their tour hasn’t officially kicked off, the Girls gave everyone a preview at last night’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Unfortunately the girls were less than impressive… at least for their singing. They lip-synched through their whole show. While audience members noted that a few songs had some vigorous dancing that would have been hard to sing through, several others didn’t – yet the girls just mouthed along anyway.

The Spice Girls took to the stage together for the first time in almost 10 years – but disappointed fans by miming their songs. Despite masses of hype surrounding their reunion, the Girls had clearly not prepared enough to sing live at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show at the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, last night. They performed two songs, the first was a rendition of their classic Stop, dressed in military clothes and with male dancers. The second was their new Children In Need track Headlines.

While Stop had some ambitious choreography, Headlines had no dancing – making the lip-synching unacceptable. One person at the show said: “It was amazing to see them back on stage again. They obviously put a lot of work into their dance routines, but it was disappointing they didn’t sing live.” The girls kick off their world tour on 2 December in Vancouver, but it’s unclear whether they plan to sing live during any of those shows.

[From the Daily Mail]

Their outfits sure are cute though. And they look better than they did ten years ago. Were they ever really known for their singing? I remember reading years ago that the casting call for the group said something along the lines of “No singing skills necessary.” Obviously they’ve had a lot of training and are able to sing just fine, but it’s not like they were famous for their incredible vocals. One criticism of the Girls is that they’re just trying to rehash the past and cash in on their old fame instead of coming up with new and creative songs.

Tonight the girls will do a live link from LA during the Children In Need event, but one person who’s not overly excited about seeing them is Strictly Come Dancing [the UK version of Dancing With the Stars] judge Arlene Phillips.

She told us the girls should have moved forward with their sound, and that their new single is stuck in the past.

She said: “I think they are Spice Women now, and not the Spice Girls. I think their whole attack should have been about not what they were, but where they are now.”

Nearly a decade after the five-member group became four — when Geri Halliwell left Mel C, Mel B, Emma Bunton and Victoria Beckham — the Spice Girls reunited for a greatest hits album, released this week, and a world reunion tour, starting in Vancouver on Dec. 2.

[From the Daily Mail]

I really don’t think that’s going to bother anyone. Most people seem to just want to look at the Spice Girls more than hear the Spice Girls. They’re fun to watch, sorta diva-ish (but not if you ask them) and wear crazy outfits while dancing to annoyingly catchy songs. I wouldn’t pay to see them, but if someone handed me a ticket I’d totally go to their show, just for the spectacle.

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Joel Madden has already begun musically educating his unborn child in hopes that it will some day be just like daddy. Douchey. Joel says he’s been playing it new stuff, old stuff, classical stuff and movie soundtracks. Meanwhile, brother Benji is psyched to become an uncle.

“I’m going to teach [the baby] about life,” he said. And sports. “I could coach the tee-ball team! Or teach them in soccer, whatever they want to do,” he said.

What if the baby comes and all it wants to do is punch the Madden brothers in the balls? That’s the first thing that would pop into my mind after I open my eyes and realize I was created from the fusion of Nicole’s egg and Joel’s sperm. I don’t think these two imbeciles could raise a chia pet much less a living being. I’m 98% sure the first thing Nicole says when the baby is born is, “Ew. Why is it so fat?,” and then she’ll stick her finger down its throat.

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The Sun is back. This time with more of the same from Amy Winehouse. Today, they have footage of Amy fondling her bee-hive for an inordinate amount of time before pulling something out and snorting it. The Sun says,

The footage was filmed by an audience member at one of her shows and is currently being sent around the world over email. Do you reckon it could have been a decongestant inhaler or was it perhaps, something a little less wholesome?

I’ll give you three guesses and a hint as to what it is. It sounds like Rogaine. No, it’s not Rogaine. Try again. Propane? What? You’re really testing my patience. Cocaine! There you go. I would have smacked you with my shoe if you didn’t get it. You know what? I’m going to do it anyway. And since I’m a nice guy, you get to choose. Would you like me to use my boot or this loafer?