BRITNEY SPEARS

Born:Dec. 2, 1981
Kentwood, La.

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American pop singer. Spears has sold over 85 million albums worldwide. She released her debut album ...Baby One More Time in 1999, resulting in an international success.It spawned the Billboard magazine-topping single "…Baby One More Time".She released her second studio album Oops!... I Did It Again in 2000 with continued success.A third album, Britney, was released in 2001, followed by the release of her fourth album, In the Zone, in 2003. The album's single "Toxic" won Spears her first Grammy Award.After the release of a greatest hits collection, EP, and a remix album, she released her fifth album Blackout in 2007 which gave her her biggest U.S. hit since ...Baby One More Time, Gimme and more..

Spears's personal life began to gain more media attention after her marriage to Kevin Federline in 2004. Their marriage ended just two years later resulting in an ongoing custody battle. She gave birth to her first child in 2005 and to her second child in 2006

Childhood and discovery

Britney Spears was born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana as a Southern Baptist. Her parents are Lynne Irene (née Bridges), a former elementary school teacher, and Jamie Parnell Spears, a building contractor. Spears's brother Bryan works as a manager for the Spears family interests and her sister Jamie Lynn is an actress and singer. Her maternal grandmother Lillian Woolmore was an English war-bride, born in Tottenham, London who met Spears's grandfather Barnett O'Field Bridges in England during World War II. Her paternal grandparents were June Austin Spears and Emma Jean Forbes.
Spears was an accomplished gymnast, attending gymnastics classes until age nine and competing in state-level competitions. She performed in local dance revues and sang in her local Baptist church choir. At age eight she auditioned for the Disney Channel series The New Mickey Mouse Club. Although she was considered too young to join the series at the time, a producer on the show introduced her to a New York City agent. Spears subsequently spent three summers at NYC's Professional Performing Arts School and also appeared in a number of off-Broadway productions, including 1991's Ruthless!. In 1992, she landed a spot on the popular television show Star Search. She won the first round of competition, but ultimately lost. At age eleven, Spears returned to the Disney Channel for a spot on the The New Mickey Mouse Club in Lakeland, Florida. She was featured on the show from 1993 to 1994, until she was 13. After the show ended, Spears returned to Kentwood and attended high school for a year.
In 1997, Spears briefly joined the all-female pop group Innosense. Later that same year, she recorded a demo solo and was signed by Jive Records. She began a U.S. concert tour sponsored by American teen magazines, and eventually became an opening act for 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys.

Pop Tarts: Charlie Sheen Sorry for N-Word; Why No Man Will Date Denise Richards

LOS ANGELES — The tension between ex-spouses Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards reached another boiling point this week when a three-year-old voicemail of the "Two and a Half Men" star using the N-word against Richards emerged.
"I deeply apologize by my choice of words to all I have obviously offended; especially to Tony Todd, an African-American, who was my best man at my first two weddings," Sheen said in a statement on Wednesday.
"And for the record, my children did not show up today for a custodial visit without explanation. So three and one-half years later, the reasons that caused the anger and frustration displayed on that voicemail continue to be manifested on a daily basis."
Ever since their split in 2005, the former spouses have been squabbling over the custody rights regarding their two children, Lola and Sam. The case became particularly sour earlier this year when Sheen unsuccessfully turned to the courts in an attempt to stop their children from appearing on Denise's reality show, which he called an act of "exploitation.""I want people to see the show and all that stuff about me exploiting my children will be put to rest," Denise told Pop Tarts. "The reality is that I'm a single mom to two very young girls and I think that I would be manipulating the show if I didn't have them in it at all. If at any point my daughters said, 'I don't like these people around' or 'Why are they filming us?' it would be done."
Sheen recently re-married, but Richards remains loverless — and for a good reason. How many men out there are ready to run right into a relationship without as much as a date?
"I would much rather skip the whole dating process and be in a relationship. That's probably why I’m still single," the 37-year-old starlet said while promoting her new E! reality show, "It's Complicated," adding that she’s very uncomfortable and suffers from extreme nervousness at the mere thought of dating.
But while the "Drop Dead Gorgeous" glamour girl professes to be perfectly "happy being single," she wouldn’t mind a special somebody who is just a "good guy and a good dad."
Speaking of good guys, Richards also refuted her reputation that she has a thing only for bad boys.
"Everyone makes a point of saying that I like bad boys, and in my defense, Charlie was a reformed bad boy and Richie [Sambora] is not a bad boy," she said. "He's actually an amazing guy and a great dad."
Richards briefly dated the Bon Jovi guitarist after splitting from Sheen.
Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong Love Stuck
Forget being love struck, it seems new couple Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong are totally and utterly love stuck.
After spending Father's Day weekend schmoozing and moving through New York City, the actress and athlete were spotted together at the trendy STK restaurant on Tuesday evening.
We're told Hudson and Armstrong didn't let each other's hand go all night, even as they chatted to guests and noshed on hors d'oeuvres as they celebrated the launch of health and fitness social networking site, Livestrong.com.
Gisele Bundchen No Britney Spears
Gisele Bundchen clearly is in love with her quarterback beau, Tom Brady. But the folks at GQ magazine couldn't help but ask the supermodel if she really did cut her hair Britney Spears-style back in 2005 after splitting with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Bundchen dismissed the reports as "ridiculous" — just like the rumor that she boosted her bank balance by $35 million last year.
"Look, this is my job. I take pictures. There is no big deal. I would like to know who this reporter is finding out all of these amounts," she said. "I would like him to talk to my accountant and figure out where is the cash that's missing. Because I haven't seen it."
Porn Star Tera Patrick Turns to Clothes
We wouldn’t normally put clothes and porn in the same sentence, but when you’re talking about X-rated mogul Tera Patrick, it seems to work well.
The world’s No. 1 porn star hosted a big bash in Hollywood on Wednesday night to launch her T-shirt line with PJE Los Angeles. We’re told the casual yet sophisticated collection soon will be selling at numerous high-end boutiques, but it turns out Kitson won't be one of them.
Despite rumors that the porn princess' shirts will replace the space left from Victoria Beckham's dwindling denim line dVb, the store confirmed that this will not be the case as it "passed" on Patrick's line this time.
Meanwhile, at House of Blues in West Hollywood on Tuesday night, we couldn’t understand why there were dozens of busty beauties literally wearing next to nothing (fishnets and thongs don’t count) hanging around the Sunset Strip hotspot and posing for the paps in a very seductive manner.
It turned out that a lingerie-clad Patrick and her rocker husband, Evan Seinfeld, were launching their weekly Playboy channel SIRIUS radio show "Rockstar Pornstar."