Cashing in on the Britney Spears breakdown |
| Published: January 7, 2008, 11:18 am |
| Tags: paparazzi, hospital, judge, k fed, mommy dearest, dr phil, britney spears, memoirs of a medicated child, kevin federline |
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Perhaps she expected sympathy. Perhaps that's what she deserved. But as Britney Spears lay strapped to a stretcher last Thursday night, some failed to see a desperate, ill woman and instead saw dollar signs. It began the moment the pop singer broke a court order and refused to return her children to the custody of their father. As the emergency services arrived at her home, so did the paparazzi. With the promise of a monster payday, more and more rolled up until the street was thick with bodies and the sky filled with the sound of helicopters. Four hours later, an ambulance, taking a distressed Spears to hospital for an assessment, could only manage a crawl for the crowds filling the road. But if footage of the paparazzi shoving cameras at the ambulance window were confronting, they were not the only ones enthusiastically cashing in on the 26-year-old's downfall. The famously acerbic gossip blogger Perez Hilton was so overjoyed that Spears's hospital admission increased the [ Full article ] |
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