If you think that Britney Spears needed help to look as trashy and unkempt as she did during her Dateline interview, you're wrong. Her publicists recognized a lost cause when they saw one and stayed away. They were probably devoting their time to a more achievable goal than making Britney pretty–like breaking our Most Consecutive Hours of Masturbation World Record. We hope they're not as committed as we were, cause we worked really hard to earn that title and don't want it taken away.
We're not really shocked by this news, as paying someone to dress you up like a pregnant teenage hooker from 1994 would be a bigger waste of money than paying to hear Paris Hilton sing. Page Six reports:
Britney Spears needs guidance. "Dateline" staffers were shocked when they showed up with Matt Lauer to interview Spears last week and found the pop star alone in her Malibu manse. "Neither of her publicists, Leslie Sloane Zelnick or Nanci Ryder, showed up," said our source. Spears insisted on doing her own hair and makeup – a regrettable decision. Web sites derided her hair as a "rat's nest" and, when she started crying during the interview, one of her fake eyelashes fell off. "When [the NBC crew] got there, they thought they had the wrong day . . . During the interview, no one was there to rein things in," we're told. Spears, when asked about Kevin Federline being with a pregnant Shar Jackson when they first met, shot back, "Julia Roberts' husband had a pregnant wife when he hooked up with Julia, but no one ever talked about that!" Spears wore flip-flops, a see-through tank and micro-mini jeans. Reps tried to control the damage on Friday. "They asked NBC not to release footage to places like E!," said a source. Asked why Spears was on her own for the interview, Sloane Zelnick said, "Britney is a grown-up and makes her own decisions."
(That bit about Julia, btw, is not true.) They didn't even mention the things that most infuriated us during the interview: Britney's incessant gum chewing and Matt Lauer's own misguided sartorial choices. Perhaps his choice of the supremely un-hip jeans and navy sport coat combo paired with loafers AND NO SOCKS!!!! was just an attempt to distract from the fact that he was trying to ask a big ol' pregnant lady in a dangerously close to clam revealing mini skirt serious questions and all he was getting was a series of air quotes and an insight into her unhealthy Goldie Hawn obsession.
Take a crack at breaking our record yourself by looking at vintage pics of Britney at MrSkin.com.
