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When a teenage Britney Spears was burped into the limelight way back in 1998, you could tell from the start she knew exactly what she was after.

Now 25, she can no longer stomach the level of fame she's attained. But can Britney Spears, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, resurrect her career?

That's the question appropriately asked by The Boston Phoenix, which notes that Americans love comeback queens almost as much as they love train wrecks.

Can Britney Spears rise from the ashes of her own self-destruction?

"Everybody is really attuned to showing what a manic-depressive, bipolar, poor-mother mess this girl is," says Kelly Cutrone, former publicist and the founder and CEO of People's Revolution PR in New York City.

"Everybody's building on it, stalking her, and running around getting pictures of Britney Spears, just waiting for ‘the moment' to line up."

Yet despite her penchant for irresponsible partying, her astoundingly bad VMA performance, a poor driving record and â€" rock bottom â€" the loss of custody of her sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline, Spears' new single "Gimme More" may still hit pop pay dirt and Blackout drops October 30. So there is hope.

Most Americans get off on a good redemption story, and Britney Spears would make a darling poster girl â€" but can she just stop parading that naked vagina around like a beauty-queen's crown long enough to turn things around?

It's the question of our time. In a show of encouragement to the Louisiana lush, The Phoenix came up with a field guide to celebrity comebacks. The pop princess is a Category One at the moment. Follow the jump to continue.

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Backup dancers from Britney Spears' infamous MTV VMA debacle likely can't get her new single, "Gimme More," out of their heads.

And not because the song is good. It's not!

A source tells Us Weekly that the dancers have yet to be fully compensated for their work leading up to the September 9 event - which went great.

"The dancers were paid for the actual show and some of the rehearsals, but not all of them," an industry insider says.

The problem may stem from Britney Spears being unceremoniously dropped by her own management agency, The Firm, back on September 17.

Not the same firm featured in the Tom Cruise movie The Firm, we're guessing.

"Her management usually pays the dancers," explains the source.

McDonald/Selznick Associates, which booked the dancers, had no comment on the matter. But it's just the latest bad news for Britney Spears.

Her family feud and bitter custody battle continue to dominate headlines, most recently yesterday when her "parenting coach" slammed her.

Not! Britney Spears' parenting coach - yes, a parenting coach (could it get more pathetic?) has submitted a report to the court - and it's worse than you think.

Sources say the two-and-a-half page report depicts Britney Spears ignoring the parenting coach - we're talking about not even acknowledging her presence.

The coach, who might want to take up a new profession, says she was unable to teach the "singer" anything, because Britney Spears didn't wanna listen, y'all!!

The report, which was presented to the court yesterday and will be critical in the task of determining if Spears should regain 50/50 custody of Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James Federline, 1, concludes that Britney often ignores her kids and lives in her own little world. Now there's something we didn't know!

Moreover, Britney often disappeared and wasn't around the coach... or the kids. The coach says Britney "spends lots of time on the phone and changing clothes." The Hollywood Gossip could have told y'all this without wasting money on a coach!

Spears' fate won't be sealed until October 26, but K-Fed's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, is certainly going to have a field day with this one.

If, after reading the headline of this post, you were expecting a photo of Britney Spears blacked out and face down on the floor naked next to Howie Day and piles of cocaine and crystal meth, you were mistaken. But good guess.

Courtesy of People magazine, we've got the first look at a photo outtake from Blackout, Britney Spears' first album in nearly three years, due to hit stores October 30. It's looking like a hit in the making. Possibly.

In addition to her first single "Gimme More," Spears' new disc includes tracks titled "Piece of Me," "Ooh Ooh Baby," "Get Naked (I Got A Plan)," "Freakshow" and many more. We're sort of eagerly anticipating its release.

In the meantime, here's a surprisingly non-nude Britney Spears pic ...

Britney Spears: Ready to get drunk and Blackout October 30.

Britney Spears got a collagen injection October 18 in Beverly Hills. A new photo of Spears reveal some serious DSL a nice new set of fuller, thicker lips.

As the Britney Spears picture comparison below shows, our girl continues to look hotter by the day. Oh, how we long for the good old days... of 2002.

Britney Spears: Before and after collagen injections.

Spears got her lips fattened up right before she ran over a photographer's foot ... while trying to hide the procedure and speed away from the doctor's office.

Yeah, it's been a rough week for Britney Spears, but at least she was able to get back visitation rights with sons Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1.

On Saturday night, she actually skipped out on clubbing - in related news, hell froze over - for a quiet night with her children at her Malibu home.

Kevin Federline's bodyguard picked the boys up around 9 a.m Sunday.

At 1:45 p.m., Spears and a pal went tanning, then hit a nearby Starbucks, where she was met with a barrage of questions from photographers.

Fresh from getting her lips pumped full of chemicals, Britney Spears covered her mouth the entire time as she spoke. Bad manners!

When asked what she thought of the Malibu fires â€" which are threatening many celebrities' houses and have destroyed at least 39 buildings in Southern California at last count â€" Spears told photographers, "Well, it's not near my house."

Such empathy. One of the many reasons we love the girl so.

Through some miracle and/or loophole, Britney Spears regained visitation rights of her sons, Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, over the weekend.

Saturday, the quote-unquote star was spotted driving with her two young children in Studio City, Calif., in her white Mercedes convertible.

The car, which she recently used to run over the foot of a celebrity news photographer, was decorated with pumpkins on the dashboard. Cute.

A presumed court-appointed monitor was seated in the front seat, with her sons in the rear. Here's a picture of Jayden James looking happy as ever ...

Jayden James Federline wears a familiar look of confusion and despair.

On Wednesday, L.A. Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon had temporarily suspended her visitation rights. A source close to Spears and the custody case said he removed her visitation rights after the pop "singer" was unreachable by a cell phone designated for court-related scheduling.

Thursday, Kevin Federline's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said he expected Britney Spears would get visitation reinstated soon because "she has now complied with the part of the order [causing the suspension]."

Lawyers for both sides did not respond to calls for comment. Spears and K-Fed are both required to show up for their next hearing October 26.

In the last 48 hours, Britney Spears lost visitation privileges with her kids, was seen leaving a medical office in Beverly Hills with noticeably larger lips, and reportedly settled a hit-and-run case out of court.

None of these events are related to this post. That's the kind of week it's been for Britney Spears. You never know what comes next with her.

On her way out of the doctor's office (where she must have gotten collagen injections, as she was hiding her lips), Britney Spears ran over the foot of a celebrity gossip reporter as she drove away.

When she realized what she'd done, Britney Spears stopped her car for a second, in shock, then covered her face, started crying ... and went speeding off.

The photographer ended up breaking his foot. In this video segment captured by HollywoodTV, appropriately called "The Unfortunate Foot Incident," you can see Britney run over the dude's foot. Or at least hear it.

After she runs over his foot, a group of celebrity news personnel standing by erupt into chaos as Britney breaks into tears, a policeman attempts to contain the group on the sidewalk and general confusion ensues.

Check out the video of Britney Spears running over the guy's foot here:

Britney Spears has settled her civil case with the owner of the car she hit in a parking lot last August, according to a source close to the case.

The L.A. City Attorney filed criminal hit and run charges against Britney. Several law enforcement sources now say Spears reached a civil settlement, so the hit and run case against her would probably be dropped shortly.

Sources say Spears has agreed to pay the owner of the parked car approximately $1,000 for damage to the vehicle plus ensuing rental car expenses.

Britney Spears has also been charged with driving without a license. That charge probably will not be dropped as a result of the civil settlement, sources say.

Recent reports claimed Spears was going to blame the celebrity news media for the incident. But it is not clear as to whether that excuse was used.

Spears still could lose the count of driving without a valid California license. A source said that Brit's attorney, Michael Flanagan, plans to present documents proving she now has a valid license, which may reduce the count to a citation.

Good thing Sam Lutfi took her to get that, finally. Here's hoping Britney can put this messy incident behind her and move on to better things: fighting helplessly for custody of her kids and wearing no pants to Starbucks.

Looks like her underwear isn't all that Britney Spears has had stripped from her this month. The train wreck has lost visitation rights with sons Sean Preston Federline, 2, and Jayden James Federline, 1, according to a court documents.

"[Britney Spears'] visitation with the two minor children is suspended pending
her compliance with court orders," the document, released today, reads.

No further explanation was given. However, on September 17, the alleged pop star was ordered to complete a long list of court requirements, including random drug testing, work on parenting with a coach, and counseling.

Britney Spears: Not a fan of court orders. Or underwear.

The ruling was handed down by L.A. Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon after K-Fed's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, requested a hearing Wednesday.

A lawyer for Britney Spears had no immediate comment.

After being temporarily stripped of custody on October 1, Britney had been given visitation rights with access every other day to Sean Preston and Jayden James.

She was then allowed an overnight visit once a week with the children after making a personal appearance in the courtroom last week.

However, it's clear that little has changed. As Tuesday Knight says, the girl just doesn't want to wear underwear. Old habits are hard to break.

Spears and Federline are required to attend the next hearing, October 26.

While the custody fight between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline plays out in court, it appears the "star" plans to expose - in the form of "music" - some of the frustration she felt in her second marriage.

According to a source, "one of the most personal songs" in Spears' newest album, Blackout, which is scheduled for an October 30 release, was written by hit singer and producer Pharrell Williams - and is all about betrayal.

Called "Why Should I Be Sad," the track makes references to money, cars, and even other women. No, Kendra Jade is not specifically named. 

As Britney Spears, 25, sings in one part of it: "It just seemed that Vegas ... only brought the playa out of you." Kevin Federline loves his Vegas, no doubt.

Pharrell Williams, 34, says of Britney Spears: "At the end of the day she is a sweet person. She's made a couple of decisions that none of us would necessarily agree with, but you try being that age and living under that kind of pressure. I wish her well. I pray for her. I hope she fares well throughout all of this craziness."

That's right, y'all. You try being 25 years old and putting on underwear each morning before you criticize Britney Spears. Got that?

A Spears source says "Why Should I Be Sad" is definitely about Britney and Kevin and "their relationship when they were married. Britney entertains the idea that she stayed home with [Sean and Jayden] while Kevin was out partying. The track will be very revealing for her fans."

Not as revealing as those upskirt pics. But close.