Britney Spears

Well, it sure looks like Britney Spears is taking control of her life.

Whether that's a good thing, though, is subject to great debate.

She fired manager Larry Rudolph and ostracized her own mom, Lynne Spears, for quote-unquote forcing her into rehab. What overprotective bitches, indeed.

Now, Jayden James' once-hot mama is getting all on her high horse and throwing fits over something different - a photo shoot regarding her popular perfume line.

"There was a shoot last week in L.A. for a new perfume Britney's coming out with and something happened," according to a source, quoted by the New York Post, regarding the bitchy Spears.

"She got very upset and stormed out of the shoot and wouldn't come back. Britney is not listening to anyone and doing exactly what she wants. Sometimes she doesn't know best."

Uh, sometimes? A rep for Britney Spears, shockingly, didn't return e-mails.

Meanwhile, another source, who's not affiliated with Britney Spears or her label that there are "four definite hits on her next album. It's amazing."

Well, that seals the deal, then. The Britney comeback is sooooo on! Whether she actually sings or lip-synchs on the record, however, was not specified.

Many are asking the following hot-button question in Hollywood: Is Britney Spears falling back into bad habits?

Uhh, is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear $h!t in the woods? Is Tom Cruise insane? Have we had a hard time tracking down Jayden James pictures?

Come on, people. What do you think.

The "singer," who has repeatedly denied having a problem with alcohol (which is like Jill Nicolini denying being nude) was seen throwing back rounds of cocktails on June 15.

This, less than 90 days after leaving rehab.

Britney Spears, 25, hit West Hollywood hot spot Lola's and hung out with four pals at a private table on the bar's back patio.

"[Britney Spears] had two Jack Daniels and Cokes as well as an orange-flavored martini," said Lola's manager, Sylvie Haines.

Rehab can only do so much. The girl loves clubbing almost as much as she enjoys feuding with her mother, Lynne Spears, and anyone else who confronts her about her issues.

However, in Brit's slight defense, the manager tells Us Weekly that Britney was tame, and that the party's "whole visit was pretty low-key and she didn't seem drunk."

Meanwhile, one reminder of Britney Spears' pre-rehab meltdown may soon be up in smoke. Literally.

Esther Tognozzi, owner of Esther's Haircutting Studio - the Tarzana, Ca., salon where the troubled star famously shaved her head February 16 - says has abandoned efforts to pawn the locks online.

"We just decided the whole thing had to stop," she says.

"The hair's not in my shop, but it's in a safe place. I have no intention of doing anything with it... except maybe burning it."

While you're at it, can you burn Britney's entire wardrobe?

Move over, Shar Jackson. You're not the only one with close ties to Lynne Spears who's reportedly taking legal action over something nonsensical today.

According to TMZ, Britney Spears' attorneys are officially on the attack over some funny billboards... which, ironically, show their famous, once-sexy client on the attack!

What it boils down to is rather simple. Britney Spears is raging (mad) over a series of ads for an off-the-wall morning radio DJ in Florida. See below:

As you can see, the billboards in question use the image of an insane and bald Britney with the headlines: Certifiable, Shock Therapy, and Total Nut Jobs.

Apparently, Britney Spears is still a little sensitive about her recent spiral into career oblivion and her current mental condition.

A letter addressed to a lawyer for Clear Channel Communications, filed by Britney Spears' lawyer, Lynda Goldman, says it's "outrageous" that the company didn't take the billboards down weeks ago - when she says they promised they would.

Goldman says Britney Spears' "likeness has a multi-million-dollar value for authorized commercial exploitations" and she would be entitled to "very substantial damages."

Not sure how a freshly-shorn, umbrella-attacking, angry Britney Spears (hours away from rehab at that) is of million-dollar value to anyone. But hey.

In any case, Britney's legal team is demanding photo evidence that the billboards are removed and threatening Clear Channel to ignore their demands "at its peril."

Ooooooh. In their defense, at least they stopped short of asserting that Jayden James Federline would suffer great emotional trauma due to the billboards.

In other Britney Spears news, the paparazzi that tails the nipple slip diva around to her tanning appointments, manicures, dance classes, clubbing and... whatever the hell else she does with her life ... caused a huge traffic jam in Malibu.

One photographer, riding in front of the bleach blonde "singer," stopped his car in the middle of the street and jumped out to take pictures of Britney Spears, causing a big backup behind.

Now that's taking the hunt for celebrity gossip too far.

Seeing Britney Spears nude is hardly a rarity any more.

But our supposedly rehabbed girl surprised even us the other night. According to the Superficial, Britney changed outfits... while partying with friends at hot Club Winston.

Instead of staying home with little Jayden James (heaven forbid) Friday, our girl was spotted at the club... where she ended up switching clothes with a girlfriend midway through the night.

At least there was no crotch shot or nipple slip. So you can consider this spectacle a success. Anyway, check out the magical Britney Spears outfit swap below ...

That's the kind of stuff you have to deal with when you're Britney Spears' friend... one that looks like a trashier (if that's possible) Paris Hilton clone.

This girl (who, surprisingly, is not Brit's cousin Alli Sims) should just be thankful that Britney Spears wasn't wearing a worse outfit. It's not like you can say no to her when she pouts.We know how it is. What Britney Spears wants, Britney Spears gets.

Just ask J.R. Rotem.

The Hollywood Gossip has no frickin' idea.

Why is Britney Spears unable to keep the straps of her top on the way they are supposed to fit? Why does she flash her bad ass and cup her breasts with such regularity? When did getting dressed become so hard for 25-year-olds? We may never know.

This not your standard wardrobe malfunction, folks. The only malfunctioning here is taking place in the vortex that was once the mind of a once-idolized pop star and sexual icon. The result, Britney Spears nipple slip, Take 423, is pictured below ….

At this point, Jayden James Federline probably has an easier time putting clothes on than does his insane, train wreck mom. Which can be seen as both good and bad.

We hate to say it, but this is getting a tad old. Just for a change of pace, Britney, can you and your cute cousin, Alli Sims, both show some skin next time? She's a cutie!

After taking most of Sunday off, The Hollywood Gossip staff is pleased to learn, upon its return to the office, that Britney Spears remains a beacon of sanity, class and maturity.

The troubled pop princess popped into a Beverly Hills salon to get a French-tipped manciure to complement her trashy bleach blonde hair extensions, reports TMZ. Upon leaving the premises, Britney Spears showed off her hot new nails… one of them in particular.

PHOTO CREDIT: Ramey / TMZ

No word on why the photographer who got this money shot of Britney was saluted in such a manner. Maybe he tried to snap some Jayden James pictures? Or made a wise crack about Spears getting the wheelbarrow treatment from the great J.R. Rotem?

In any case, we can only wonder why Brit so adores her Tom Cruise style shades… or whether she is wearing any panties at the time this picture was snapped, yo.

That pathetic loser Candy Spelling is at it again.

The senile old bag has been in the news lately for shafting daughter Tori Spelling and for writing letters to new daddy Larry Birkhead and the jail-bound Paris Hilton. Now she's desperate for attention again and picking yet another fight via TMZ.com.

Of course, she's lambasting Britney Spears.

As if getting the revelation that she got railed wheelbarrow style by J.R. Rotem weren't humiliating enough for one 24-hour period, Britney now finds herself the subject of a worthless, way-too-much-time-on-her-hands Candy Spelling tirade.

One in which, ironically, the shriveled snob rips the pop star's crotch shots and nipple slip tendencies, then goes on to - really - criticize Britney Spears' "sorry grabs for attention." 

** ring ** Hello? Kettle? Hi! What's up. This is the pot calling. You're black!

She also references Britney's wigs, which makes us wonder if Candy has read much celebrity gossip of late. Her wigs were sooo two months ago. Trashy bleach blonde hair extensions are her signature look these days. Stay on your medication, lady.

Anyway, here's Candy Spelling's letter to Britney Spears, via TMZ ...

Dear Britney Spears:

You made me do it. I didn't plan to write another letter. I took two weeks off from TMZ because I didn't feel strongly about what anyone was doing - or couldn't decide which side to believe.

You've driven me back to my laptop to ask why, if you have to slither in and out of cars, do clumsy imitations of gymnasts and wear clothes that are just too tight, trashy or skimpy, do you have to pose in front of photographers all the time?

Quote-unquote music producer J.R. Rotem had massive amounts of sex with Britney Spears.

Kind of makes the usual news about Britney Spears - the nipple slip, the crotch shots, the fashion faux pas, the floundering career, the kids, the ongoing feud with Lynne Spears - seem dull.

According to J.R. Rotem, he and Britney Spears had a heck of a good time back during their brief fling, which lasted between one sexual encounter and a few weeks, depending on who you believe.

So what did they do, exactly?

"I f**ked Britney wheelbarrow style!" J.R. Rotem tells Blender, before amending that.

"Just kidding," he says. "It was tractor style."

Tractor style? The Hollywood Gossip's research department has uncovered no evidence of such a position existing, so it's clear that J.R. Rotem either made up a special new move or is making some kind of white trash joke at Britney's expense.

As far as the wheelbarrow goes, UrbanDictionary.com describes it as intercourse, up against the wall, in which the male (J.R. Rotem) holds the legs of the woman (Britney Spears) apart, like a wheelbarrow, as he leans against the wall and thrusts feverishly.

Sounds like something Kendra Jade would be familiar with. See illustration below, along with a picture of the greasy, Spencer Pratt-like Jonathan "J.R." Rotem with Spears last year.

All his wheelbarrow fun wasn't without consequences for Rotem, who says that after his affair with Brit became public, he was nixed from Kevin Federline's MySpace friends. Bummer.

In the end, Britney and J.R. "decided for both our careers that it would not be cool to have a romantic relationship," says he. Or one based on hard core sex, more accurately.

In the past, Rotem has boasted of other conquests - Bai Ling, Hayden Panettiere, Mya and Meagan Good, among others - though he didn't divulge specific details, other than to say that none of those young ladies "got him as far" as Britney.

Britney soon moved on to Isaac Cohen, who, oddly enough, also divulged details of making sweet love to her in an extensive interview after their brief relationship ended in February.

Although the rift between Britney Spears and her mother, Lynne Spears, has been growing for quite some time, it was Lynne's budding relationship with Kevin Federline's previous ex, Shar Jackson, that pushed it over the edge.

While Britney Spears, 25, was at Promises Center in Malibu following her nutso head-shaving incident and umbrella rage, Lynne was getting to know "the other woman."

That's what she considered Shar Jackson, K-Fed's original source of baby mama drama, to be. But the two soon got, like, real close.

It all started when Lynne dropped grandsons Sean Preston, 21 months, and Jayden James, 9 months, at the Tarzana, Calif., home of their dad, Kevin Federline.

Shar Jackson, 30, who also has two children with Kevin Federline, 29, was there as well, and ended up watching Spears' sons in addition to her kids.

After meeting, Lynne Spears and Shar "started talking all the time," a pal of Shar says. As a result, when she learned of this, Britney Spears became enraged.

"She decided she had to cut out everyone who she thought was using her, and that included her parents," says a source close to the crotch shot and nipple slip queen.

Jackson confirmed the friendship this week, saying, Lynne Spears is "a really nice lady... It was easy for us to get along once we met."

She also thinks it's time for Lynne and Britney Spears to work it out.

"They are mother and daughter. They need to talk already."

Well put, Shar. Well put. T.H. Gossip's only other question? Has Lynne Spears ever chilled with Dina Lohan? No one compares to that self-promoting, pastic train wreck, but there could be a potential BFF-ship there. Just a thought.

Heck, Britney might even name her new album after Lindsay Lohan! OMG!

Thanks to People for this great compilation of celebrity quotes ...

"It was uncomfortable, like wearing pantyhose everywhere."
- Jessica Alba, on her Fantastic Four costume, to the July issue of Elle magazine

• Dignity
• Down boy
• Integrity
• What if the Joke is on You
• OMG is Like Lindsay Lohan Like Okay Like

- Possible title choices for Britney Spears' next album, as posted by the troubled singer on her official site

"I can't stand pretty boys. The guys I date are the just-rolled-out-of-bed, scruffy type. Baseball cap, flannel shirt. Like Luke on Gilmore Girls."
- Kelly Clarkson, on her type of guy

"It was itchy and scratchy and I couldn't eat anything that would stain it. So no chili or tomato soup. You're not going to eat tuna salad in one of those beards because that just ends up being a disgusting day. Then again, who would wanna eat tuna salad anyway!?"
- Steve Carrell, on the challenges of wearing a biblical beard for Evan Almighty

"About a year ago I called him on his tour bus and heard giggling voices in the background. After that I said, 'No more girls on the bus.' "
- Katherine Heigl (below, right) on her no-groupies policy for musician fiancé Josh Kelley

"I'm thinking Tony is a good name."
- Liev Schreiber, joking about what he and Naomi Watts would name their unborn child, at the Tony Awards

"We're like the Addams family or the Munsters, living sort of an odd, nocturnal life."
- John Travolta, describing (in a 2 a.m. interview) to Parade on his private life

"Well, my star will be next to you, Ryan, on one side and next to Destiny's Child on the other side. I thought that made me very hot."
- Barbara Walters, on getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, to Ryan Seacrest

"No one was trying to be audacious, honest to God. We did what we thought we had to do. No one was trying to blow people's minds or thinking, 'Wow, this'll (tick) them off.'"
- Sopranos creator David Chase, on the controversial series finale

"Within our private life and within certain other parts of our life we want to be as normal as possible. ... It's hard, because to a certain respect we never will be normal."
- Prince Harry (below, left, with Prince William) to NBC's sexy beast and talk show host Matt Lauer, on the constraints of being part of the royal family