Britney Spears

The job opportunities keep coming in for Britney Spears.

Yesterday, we reported that Britney's father and guardian, Jamie Spears, wants her to continue working in TV to keep her pants-hating ass out of trouble.

This followed a successful stint on How I Met Your Mother and a comment from 30 Rock star Tina Fey that she'd welcome Britney on that series.

Well, it turns out the President of PETA - yes, the ca-razzzy animal rights peeps - was so impressed with Britney's role as a receptionist on How I Met Your Mother that she wants her to be a PETA receptionist for just one hour.

The group wrote an open letter to Britney Spears, stating:

"We have criticized you in the past for contributing to the dog overpopulation crisis and wearing real fur, but perhaps now that your own crisis has abated, a new day calls for a new relationship, a new outlook, and a new understanding."

The always-entertaining group says it will donate $1,000 to a children's charity of her choice should Britney Spears take them up on their offer.

Hopefully this is just a ploy by PETA to abduct and free Britney's poor Yorkshire terrier, London. Poor son of a bitch looks pretty desperate these days.

Troubled pop star Britney Spears might be rethinking her day job, if only because she is crazy and can't sing to keep her from getting into trouble.

The New York Post reports that Britney's dad, Jamie, wants her to do more TV because it's a "normal 9-to-5 job," or something sort of like that.

It will "keep her working and out of trouble," Jamie Spears thinks. Given her track record of clubbing with no underwear on, it's hard to argue with him.

Britney Spears' guest role on How I Met Your Mother, in which she played a dorky, bubbly and cute receptionist, was considered an image-building success.

Jamie has looking around for more TV work for Britney, and is "exploring several offers for Britney to have her own show." Ummmm, okay.

In any event, Tina Fey - writer, creator and star of NBC's hit comedy 30 Rock - said that she would welcome the singer for a guest spot on her show.

That is, if only she could get in touch with her.

Chris Crocker, she's not.

Thank heaven above for that.

But Madonna says the media needs to "step off" Britney Spears.

"For real... Let's go save her," she told an E! satellite radio show.

Madonna, 49, said 11-year-old daughter Lourdes "gets the drift of what's going on, and I think she feels very protective of Britney Spears."

Fortunately for Britney, so does father Jamie Spears.

On Thursday, Madonna said she enjoys listening to Britney Spears' Blackout album while exercising. That "Piece of Me" really is a cult classic, no?
But she and Britney are forever linked in a different way, one that will go down in the legendary history of the girl-on-girl action hall of fame.

The two singers famously locked lips, you may recall, on the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards and collaborated on the song "Me Against the Music."

After Britney Spears' not entirely terrible, image-boosting appearance helped CBS' How I Met Your Mother earn its highest ratings of all time Monday, another hit sitcom reportedly has its sights set on a guest role for the pop singer.

Executive producer, creator and star Tina Fey says she wouldn't mind if Britney Spears popped up on her hilarious, hit NBC series 30 Rock.

"We would love to work with Britney Spears," Fey said. "I've worked with her twice on Saturday Night Live and she was very professional and nice."

Britney Spears would be on 30 Rock if Tina Fey had her way. Of course, that would require them not to mock Spears (a la South Park) ... which may be a tall order.

Fey also has her eyes set on another A-lister: Oprah.

"I want Oprah to play my best friend," Fey said. "I want to spend time with Oprah Winfrey, and I don't know what I need to do to make it happen."

30 Rock returns April 10 with new episodes following the writers' strike. Getting back to work wasn't easy, Tina Fey admitted.

"The strike was a bit like the maternity leave that I didn't have, except for my duties on the union line," said Fey, who has a daughter Alice, 2. "Now my daughter is old enough to say, ‘You don't go to work, you stay inside.' That breaks my heart."

Britney Spears' turn as a ditzy love-struck receptionist on How I Met Your Mother is being touted as a breakthrough of sorts by the press: Not only did the show earn its best ratings ever last night, but Britney didn't even melt down!

Yes, for the first time in recent memory, Britney Spears appeared before a camera and didn't display any of the worrisome, tragic behavior (clubbing, British accent, crying, pink wig, no pants) that have become the status quo for her.

Was the How I Met Your Mother guest spot a controlled one to help Spears' image? Yes. Will the public be seeing more of the same? Not likely.

A source close to Britney Spears stated that the HIMYM role was carefully chosen, and if the production and people involved hadn't agreed to be sensitive toward Spears and avoid "trigger" topics, the Spears camp would have backed out.

Britney Spears now (2008) and then (2007) ... a study in contrasts.

"The folks on set knew that they weren't to bring up anything about her music career, for example," the source told MSNBC.

"They weren't supposed to start conversations about her kids. That said, they just wanted her to be treated normally, but obviously this wasn't a normal situation."

Spears spent two days on How I Met Your Mother and the cast said she was great to work with. just don't expect to see her regularly on TV.

"Acting won't be a usual thing for Britney," said the source. "She really needed this, though. For Britney it was like a taste of her old life, but it was a taste that was very carefully planned. This wasn't about her career, it was about her health."

Here's hoping her health continues to improve. Maybe now that Jamie Lynn Spears has gotten engaged, she'll have something else positive to look forward to.

A California Court of Appeals judge rejected an attorney's bid to remove Britney Spears' father, Jamie Spears, as her co-conservator on Monday.

Attorney Jon Eardley claimed to represent Britney Spears, but we believe he was hired by Sam Lutfi to thwart her parents' efforts to ostracize him.

Eardley filed an appeal March 11 claiming the singer's civil rights were being violated because she was being held against her will by her dad.

Justice Roger Boren, however wrote in a ruling that a federal court has absolutely no jurisdiction to grant an appeal, the Associated Press reports.

Jamie's co-conservatorship over Britney Spears - which allows him control over her financial, legal and medical affairs, was recently extended to July 31.

One of his present goals, besides underwear checks and making sure Sam Lutfi doesn't get within 250 yards of Britney, is cutting corners to save some cash.

Socked with over a million bucks in legal bills from multiple attorneys, Jamie has decided to sell off some of Britney Spears' fleet of cars to reduce expenses.

In case you didn't see it 30 times while watching the NCAA basketball tournament action in the last four days, here's the ad CBS has been showing during games to promote Britney Spears' guest appearance on How I Met Your Mother:

We know we're in the gossip business, but this seems harmless enough, right? Well it's not alright with columnist Michael McCarthy of USA Today, who writes:

Who's the genius behind the lame promo during CBS' coverage of the tournament Saturday and Sunday about Britney Spears' appearance on How I Met Your Mother? In the clip from tonight's episode, Spears' flirty receptionist asks Neil Patrick Harris' character if they can have sex, then go shopping. Cute. We know Hollywood loves to outrage the squares in Middle America. But there are kids watching these games.

Come on USA Today. We see your point, but Hollywood trying to outrage middle America with HIMYM promos? That's a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

The only thing bad about this commercial is Britney Spears' acting. Which is pretty darn awful. If this is a career "comeback," we shudder to think what's next.

Looks like Britney Spears' "return to TV" doesn't end with How I Met Your Mother - the troubled singer was also featured on Wednesday night's South Park!

Okay, sort of.

On the episode, Britney Spears escapes to South Park, Colorado, to go camping to get away from everything. The celebrity news media follows her there, and when the boys sneak into her room, disguised as Sean and Jayden, to take a picture of Britney, she can't handle it anymore and blows off her own head with a shotgun.

It was basically an episode stating that the celebrity gossip media is killing Britney Spears slowly, something we all know at this point, right?

Here's a clip from the episode, taking place after Britney Spears has blown off her head. It's pretty disturbing even by South Park standards ...

CBS has released some clips of Britney Spears on this coming Monday's episode of How I Met Your Mother on CBS. They are nothing special, but in case any of you out there care, we posted one below, with another one after the jump.

To be honest, Britney Spears' comedic timing is perhaps even more dreadful than her recent music, but she actually looks pretty cute and drug-free, and it beats trolling around Hollywood in no pants with Sam Lutfi at 4 a.m., so it's a start.

Thanks, as always, to People magazine for this great collection from the week in celebrity quotes. Here are some highlights ...

"He's really big."
- Kimora Lee Simmons, on boyfriend Djimon Hounsou's Hong Kong billboard

"I'll go to a soccer game or whatever the girls are doing, then go home, have dinner with my wife [Demi Moore], watch a little A&E."
- Ashton Kutcher, on his typical day

"Sometimes you just do really feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it."
- Mariah Carey, on fame

"She's got a potty mouth."
- Dancing with the Stars pro Fabian Sanchez, on Marlee Matlin

"Can we have sex and then go shopping?"
- Britney Spears' first line on How I Met Your Mother

"Let me think about it."
- Carrie Underwood, after learning she would be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry

"If he had asked me to make peanut-butter sandwiches for the catering, I would have said, 'Crunchy or smooth?'"
- Renée Zellweger, on what she'd do to work with George Clooney

"Sometimes you just do really feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it."
- Mariah Carey, on fame

"It's kind of like finding a winning lottery ticket in the cushions of your couch."
- Joe Francis, on discovering old footage of Ashley Alexandra Dupre

"I have a deeper agenda in this life than to make people giggle at breaking bones and shoving things up my butt."
- Steve-O