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We're All Guilty Of Fueling The "Britney Economy"
It started with a song, "...Baby One More Time." In the last ten years, Britney Spears has gone from a shooting star to a fallen one. And while her rise to fame made the pop singer lots of money, the cash right now is in covering the fast-moving trainwreck-esque soap opera her personal life as become. The facts and figures in a detailed AP story by Jeremy Herron may not surprise you, but it's interesting to see them tallied: Britney is the number one celebrity in a multibillion dollar celebrity news industry. Her picture has been on 54 out of 103 covers of OK! magazine. The magazine, in fact, has a 10-person team in Los Angeles devoted to Spears coverage. "We're on constant Britney alert," editor Sarah Ivens says. In addition, according to a piece in the new issue of Blender, 15 photographers are on constant Britney stakeout. "Spears is the only celebrity in the world under photographers' 24-hour watch, a surveillance mode usually reserved for prisoners and suicides," writes Michael Joseph Gross. More »
Loose Lips
Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester is not a bitch, she just she just plays one on TV. "It's pretty funny how many people say they are surprised that I am not a total bitch," says the brilliant brunette. • Fergie was named Blender's woman of the year. Is this for her "music" or for her incontinence advocacy? • Do you prefer Rihanna's precision bob or her long, wavy mane? [A Socialite's Life, Hollywood Rag, People]








