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Her appearance at the MTV Video Music awards left Britney Spears' comeback up in the air. But the "star" seems intent on putting custody issues to rest.

Spears attended a meeting with Federline and his lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, Wednesday. The exes arrived at offices of Spears' attorney, Laura Wasser.

The meeting fell on son Jayden James' first birthday and five days before they are due to face each other before a family court judge on Monday.

The meeting was Britney Spears' idea, according to a source close to her.

"Britney asked for [the meeting]. She wants to put an end to this public debacle," says a Spears source. "However, Kevin [has] refused. He needs more money so he's determined to win this."

Court documents released August 30 show that Spears' income is an incredible $737,868 a month and that Kevin Federline receives $20,000 a month in spousal support, but has no "net income after business expenses."

A source close to FedEx confirmed the meeting, but said that Federline was not - as is speculated - drawing out the process due to financial self-interest.

"He's not going for additional child support in the court papers that were filed. It's not about the money," says the insider.

When asked if Britney Spears was hoping to settle, the Kevin Federline source retorted: "She might settle, she's got stage fright."

Britney Spears' Las Vegas weekend featured eight party-hopping nightclub excursions and one epically disastrous nationally televised dance number.

Could she have avoided sych public embarrassment? According to a report in the The New York Times, the singer's record label, Jive, was reluctant to put her on stage, until one of her lawyers, Gary Stiffelman, advised otherwise.

Meanwhile, American Idol, which specialize in turning embarrassments around, reportedly wants to do the same for Spears, according to FOX News.

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Completely buried by the fact that Britney Spears humiliated herself and gave celebrity news sites endless fodder with her god-awful performance at the MTV Music Video Awards is the controversy over one of her new songs.

As we reported last Thursday, Britney Spears' "Baby Boy" (a.k.a. the slow jam leaked by Perez Hilton that sounds nasally, whiny and incomprehensibly bad) sounds eerily similar to a song by singer-songwriter Kim Ross.

Follow the link to listen to Kim Ross' "Beautiful Lies."

Did Britney and her managers steal the song? It certainly looks that way, but one reader isn't buying it. The tracks sound more than just similar - they're exactly the same, says Jz (no relation to Beyonce's boyfriend), who believes this to be a stunt.

Here's what this reader of The Hollywood Gossip writes:

"Just a minute. I listened to both tracks. Usually when I hear a rip off, I hear something very similar. BUT in this case, the two songs have THE SAME EXACT, IDENTICAL instruments and sound effects! Normally when someone rips off a track, the musicians disguise it by changing the instruments etc.

For some reason I can't under stand one person had to have access to the others source recordings! No one would rip that blatantly. For that, I'm suspecting this is some kind of publicity stunt to get Kim Ross noticed.

I mean, HOW could Britney Spears' producers get a hold of the EXACT sounds from Kim's recordings unlesshe [sic] shared them? Is there a karaoke version with no words to one of the songs? What going on here? I realize that with EXTREME effort a songs instruments could be made to sound that close, but WHY? Copying instruments isn't needed to rip a song... Plus it gets the person doing it caught. Again, something is fishy about this claim. I wish I understood it better."

So do we. What do you think? Did Britney Spears bogart the track? Or do you buy this alternate theory? And did anyone see her at the VMAs? She was bad!

We know these are old pictures, but as a tribute to the U.S. Open this month, and to the train wreck that is Britney Spears, we present to you this photo finish....

Which bald individual has the better backhand: A rehab-fleeing, umbrella-wielding Britney Spears, or eight-time grand slam champion Andre Agassi?

These two have gone at it in our celebrity look-alikes feature, but the battle continues. Even if Britney now rocks the weave instead of the cue ball look.

Of course, Andre Agassi had the sense to retire before he became a joke. After Britney Spears' VMA disaster, she might want to give it some thought.

A quiet life with Sean Preston and Jayden James has to be better than this.

Move over, Hillary Clinton.

50 Cent is singing the praises of another buzzed-about woman - Britney Spears - and saying Kayne West's outburst against her Sunday was unwarranted.

"He was upset," 50 told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show, referring to West's backstage meltdown. "He's not used to not being recognized. Period."

Kanye West, however, will be recognized in one unlikely place â€" Seacrest announced Wednesday that Kanye will perform at Sunday night's Emmys.

As for 50 and Kanye, both rappers appeared on BET's 106 and Park on Tuesday, and West said he wished he could have opened the VMAs.

"It was always my dream to open the show with 'Stronger' but they talked me into doing the suite thing," he said. "Then when they had Britney Spears open, I said, 'How are you going to have Britney open? Because she's not ready'."

But, according to 50 Cent, Kanye West was out of line.

"[Kanye] expressed that he felt that Britney Spears shouldn't be actually opening the Video Music Awards - almost like he forgot that Britney Spears sold 50 million records. She did," the rapper told Seacrest.

"He is not thinking about her full body of work. She deserved to headline the show better than anybody else that was on it ... even in the state she is in."

Asked if he thinks West will go through with his threatened boycott of MTV, 50 Cent answered: "I don't think he can. I don't think it's possible. I think he [got] carried away in the moment. MTV doesn't need him."

After he appeared with 50 Cent and looking friendly on BET, later that day Kanye West bailed on a scheduled TRL appearance.

"He's nervous," 50 Cent joked about West's cancellation. "You think he had a problem with MTV? Nah. He knew he had to be here today ... He was like, 'You don't want to give me no trophies? Okay, I quit.'"

West also pulled out of a scheduled appearance on the Today show.

A rep for West told the New York Post: "It was a creative decision. There were problems ... Kanye wanted to do things a certain way with an elaborate light show and he would have had to move indoors for that ... He was contrite."

Please, no one tell Chris Crocker the following.

We fear for what that insane YouTube poster and Britney Spears fan would do if he discovered that terrorists were out to murder his beloved train wreck. And this was before they saw her MTV Video Music Awards performance!

According to Aaron Klein's new book, "Schmoozing with Terrorists," our nation's enemies love celebrity gossip as much as we do.

In an interview with hater Muhammad Abdel-Al, the bad guy referred to Britney and Madonna as "prostitutes" and said: "If these two... keep doing what they will do, we of course will punish them... We can stone them and even we can kill them."

It's true. Check out the book's table of contents for yourself:

 

Of course, there are some celebrities the terrorists love, such as Richard Gere, Jane Fonda and Sean Penn. We're also guessing they won't do harm to Miss Iran, Sepideh Haftgoli... although she is dating an American in Andy Baldwin. So it's hard to say.

Naturally, the book also claims Jihadists love Mel Gibson.

Which is ironic. Because they hate freeeedooooom!

No one was more shocked watching Britney Spears' stinking up the joint at MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday night than the 25-year-old pop "star" herself.

"She was also able to see video of herself playing throughout the auditorium," a backstage source tells Us Weekly.

"She flipped out. She came running off the stage, yelling ‘Oh, my God, I looked like a fat pig! I looked like a fat pig!' She was inconsolable."

We wouldn't that far, but clearly, Spears has no one to blame but herself for her incredibly hyped and disastrous performance at the VMAs.

The lip-synching pop tart showed up late for her big comeback, reports the New York Post - completely unprepared and with a drink in her hand.

On Saturday, the day before the VMAs, Britney Spears was scheduled to arrive at rehearsal at around 1 p.m. You know where this is going.

"She didn't even get to Las Vegas until 4:30 p.m. It was ridiculous," an inside source tells the Post. "The production people at MTV were freaking out. Nobody can tell Britney what to do anymore. No one can control her. She is a mess."

To make matters worse, when she arrived in Vegas, Britney Spears didn't go straight to rehearsals, but instead to the mini-bar.

"She went to her hotel and ordered a bunch of food and some margaritas," the spy said. "She came down an hour later with a frozen margarita in her hand."

When Spears preformed, she stumbled a couple times and couldn't remember the words she was lip-syncing. She covered her mouth at one point but by the end of the song simply gave up any pretense of singing.

"The dance number was spectacular ... without Britney," said a Post source who witnessed the rehearsal. "When a stand-in was rehearsing with the dancers, in the hours they were all waiting for her, it was amazing. Then Britney showed up and refused to do anything."

Reportedly, the dancers were supposed to lift and twirl Spears in the air a few times, and that just wasn't going to happen in her condition. All of the more complicated dance moves had to be erased because she couldn't cut it.

Meanwhile, Britney Spears grew increasingly agitated because she didn't like the outfit MTV had selected for her. Says a source:

"MTV wanted her to wear a corset. It would have looked great and covered a lot of things up, but she hated it and didn't think it was sexy enough."

Instead, Spears changed into a bra-and-underwear outfit she'd brought with her - one that emphasized her weight gain over the last year.

Yes, Chris Crocker. We know she "had two f*%king kids." We're just sayin' there's a little more junk up in that trunk nowadays.

MTV execs weren't the only ones worried about the impending debacle. Another spy said worried dancers were texting pals, asking them to pray for them.

After the debacle, she allegedly broke down in tears but then partied until 3 a.m. and once again was photographed by paparazzi wearing no underwear.

You know, standard operating procedure.

Wouldn't it be great if every time one of our favorite celebrities had a meltdown, Hayden Panettiere were there to weigh in on it?

Similarly, if every time a celebrity were asked a question about Sarah Silverman, the foul-mouthed comedian magically appeared?

Well, Hayden Panettiere was at LAX last night, returning from the VMAs in Las Vegas, when celebrity news photographers started asking her about - what else - Britney Spears' awful VMA performance and Sarah Silverman's jokes.

Regarding Silverman's effect on Spears, Hayden just turned around and said, "You can go ask her yourself, she's right there!"

Sure enough, there she was! What a neat trick! You don't see cheerleader Claire Bennet pulling off anything that cool on Heroes.

The photographer then went over and asked Sarah Silverman if she thought she was hard on Britney Spears.

"I hope not," she replied, simply.

Asked if she thought her routine (calling her kids mistakes, making references to Britney's oft-exposed vagina) threw Britney off, Sarah explained, "Since I didn't do any of my jokes until my performance, it couldn't possibly have."

Another Britney Spears excuse out the window. Sorry, Chris Crocker. We know you were holding out hope that this one was true.

T.H. Gossip Correction: When we declared that Britney Spears' performance at the VMAs was panned universally, we were mistaken. One person is still fond of Spears - and off his/her medication hating on the celebrity news media for bashing her.

On YouTube, Chris Crocker passionately defends Brit - and herself, promising that the display of emotion below (which has to be seen to be believed) is real.

"Yes, I was REALLY crying, you f*%king morons," he/she (we can't tell) writes. "The one time I'm NOT acting- everyone says I am. I filmed this window lighting which washes out my face- if the video is watched full screen I am clearly crying, a$$holes."

Okay then. Without further ado, you gotta peep this...

This hysterical, distraught Britney Spears fanatic, who should really consider enlisting a whole team of psychologists, ASAP, implores: "How f*%king dare anyone out there make fun of Britney after all she's been through!?"

She has, indeed, been through a lot. Like parading around with no underwear at clubs. Girl deserves a break. How could anyone make light of such a thing.

We take it all back. Happy now, Chris Crocker?

Britney Spears. No pants. Certain things just go together.

Yes, the commando queen is back at it again, treating us to another fine upskirt display after her universally maligned VMAs performance on Sunday.

What else would you expect from the former pop star than to go out partying at the Bellagio in Vegas and show off her hairless axe wound once again.

She knows it's been a whole week and a half since she gave us a good shot of her wearing no pants. We appreciate your concern for our well being, Brit.

The newest pictures of Spears with no pants circulating around the Internet speak for themselves. The only questions:

1. Which has more hair: Jayden James' head, or his mom's vagina?
2. Which was more bare: Britney's lack of caring during the VMAs, or her baby factory?
3. In the next few months, which are we more likely to see: a high-selling Britney Spears album, or pubic hair?

Questions for the ages, all of them. For the uncensored photos of Britney's crotch, which really aren't all they're cracked up to be (or anything at all new), head on over to Perez Hilton by CLICKING HERE.

Rarely has a live performance been as universally panned and ridiculed as when Britney Spears took the stage at last night's MTV Music Video Awards.

Spears is reportedly reeling after her first major public appearance in four years, in which she donned silver and black sparkly underwear and knee-high black boots to mail in her new single "Gimme More."

Fans were in hysterics, critics claimed she looked disinterested and unfit, and her fellow celebrities seemed to agree.

Speaking backstage after the event, the great Akon said, "That could have been better. She needed to focus more. She looked nervous and I think the pressure got to her."

Common added, "I think it didn't seem like she wanted to be there. There wasn't any spark, it didn't feel like life was there."

Kanye West said, "I have no words."

As if that weren't enough, Britney also had to endure withering remarks from comedian Sarah Silverman during the ceremony.

She sarcastically remarked, "Was that incredible? Britney Spears. Wow. She is amazing. She is 25 years old and she's already accomplished everything she's going to accomplish in her life. It's mind-blowing."

Silverman also called Brit's sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, "the most adorable mistakes," and brought up the fun topic of Britney's shaved crotch.

The New York Post may have summed it up best: "[Britney Spears] jiggled like Jell-O and didn't seem to care that she danced like she had a load in her pants."