Episode 75:
Banking on Britney
(Originally released on February 22, 2021)
There’s a newish Britney merch deal with The Hundreds. (And here’s Britney Brands paperwork showing Lou replacing Britney Federline in 2011.)
Lou Taylor demanded Breathe Heavy retract information related to Courtney Love’s accusations about Lou posted on Instagram (here's Jordan's apology video).
We appreciated this appreciation for Anticipating!
Sam had Covid in December.
Jason Alexander was at the coup attempt on Jan 6th.
It was the 20th anniversary of the Britney/Justin denim AMA look (& Young JL posted a comment: “My parents. Divorce is hard.”)
“Jamie Lynn Spears Swears She Didn't Run Over a Cat, But If She Had, It Would Be Elon Musk's Fault”
Britney danced to another Justin song on her Instagram:
Britney also told us that her resolutions are to 1. Meditate more 2. Take a cooking class 3. Take a Pilates class (& actually follow through with the class) 4. She’s got to try this ice cream diet:
Judge Brenda Penny is the mother of Prentice Penny, showrunner of Insecure.
Here is E!’s coverage of Lynne traveling to LAX on 2/18.
Near the holidays, there was an OK! Exclusive: Britney Spears Looking To Terminate Conservatorship & Retire From The Music Biz that Jaclyn broke down on Twitter:
Britney celebrated with the boys early according to TMZ & then spends Christmas Eve with Sam, where we got some Brad Pitt content (“I only know where he lives you don’t know where he lives”).
Cassie Petrey from Crowd Surf made an Instagram post talking about being Britney's social media manager.
Justin’s PR did quite the journey from Monday OK! Exclusive ('It Has Been Rough': Justin Timberlake Won't 'Respond' To Allegedly 'Throwing' Ex Britney Spears 'Under The Bus' After Their Split, Insider Reveals) to the Notes app apology they wrote for him.
The reception has been so poor that his team then had to do Page Six exclusive telling ppl to take it seriously.
There also was an UsWeekly exclusive on Saturday right after the doc: Britney Spears ‘Does Not Hold a Grudge’ Against Ex-Boyfriend Justin Timberlake.
We also heard from Janet making on Twitter talking about Control going to #1 on its 35 anniversary and thanking her fans.
Here’s a sampling of some of the coverage of the doc:
Opening topic on The View!
NPR: The Legality Around Britney Spears' Conservatorship And The #FreeBritney Movement
CNN: Love for Britney Spears is late in coming, but powerful
CNN: 'Framing Britney Spears' is as much about the singer's fans as her legal woes
LX: Everyone Is Mad at Diane Sawyer Over a 20-Year-Old Britney Spears Interview
IndieWire: ‘Framing Britney Spears’ Doesn’t Bring Up Disability and That’s a Problem
NY Times: Britney Spears Conservatorship Case Heads Back to Court
The Cut: The Biggest Takeaways From the ‘Free Britney’ Documentary
LA Times: The #FreeBritney movement is bigger than Spears. A new doc shows why it’s so powerful
NBC: 'Framing Britney Spears' on FX shows how the singer gets used for everyone else's purposes
Daily Beast: The #FreeBritney Movement Is About to Become a War: “Framing Britney Spears” provides a much-needed crash course in the saga of Spears’ controversial conservatorship. So effective, it could also be a #FreeBritney recruitment tool.
And here are some of the interviews with makers of the doc:
Variety interview with Samantha Stark (Elizabeth Wagmeister was on the same Reality Life ep as us!)
Tamron Hall interviewing Samantha Stark & Kevin Wu, Junior Olivas, and Leanne Simmons
And here’s a rundown of some of the think pieces that have come out in the last two weeks:
The Atlantic: Why Were We So Cruel to Britney Spears?
BBC News: Will Framing Britney Spears be a moment of reckoning for the celebrity media?
CNN: Britney fans angry at Justin Timberlake have a point
Rolling Stone: Freeing Britney Spears: The Most Persecuted Pop Star in the World Just Wants to Dance
Esquire: The New York Times Britney Spears Documentary Serves as a Searing Indictment of Misogynistic Media
Bustle: We Were Never Listening To Britney Spears
LA Times: I was an MTV VJ during peak Britney. ‘Framing Britney Spears’ made me ashamed ... and hopeful
Vulture: Failing Britney Spears
Daily Beast: How the Media Smeared Britney Spears as ‘White Trash’
NME: ‘Framing Britney Spears’: when will female stars get the duty of care they deserve?
Here is a roundup of celeb reactions.
We didn’t have a chance to get into this, but here is Chris Crocker’s statement related to the doc.
We also didn’t get into this, but Claude Kelly (wrote & produced the songs Circus and Shattered Glass) gave an exclusive to the Sun criticizing the conservatorship.
Here’s the NY Post article with the very interesting headline, “Inside Britney Spears’ $7.4M house she’s fighting conservatorship from.”
And here’s the NYTimes article on 2/11 after hearing by Joe Coscarelli & Louis Keene that described the hearing as “focused on the minutiae of estate management, legal representation and scheduling. Despite the fanfare around the case, it was business as usual in a Los Angeles courthouse as the judge, Brenda Penny, did not order any substantial changes to the conservatorship that has overseen much of Spears’s existence since 2008.”
Netflix is working on a Britney doc directed by Erin Lee Carr, How to Fix a Drug Scandal and Mommy Dead and Dearest that is rumored to get into Lou?
Tess and Babs are going to be making a documentary series podcast with Witness Podcasts from Stitcher (here’s their announcement) & an LA Times profile of them!
There was an UsWeekly exclusive on Mon the 8th about how Jamie “doesn’t need the money and could be exploiting her for millions of dollars but he has never done that.”
Forbes had a recent article about how Britney Spears’ net worth is “shockingly low compared to her pop peers.”
Also Monday the 8th, People has an exclusive with Sam: “Sam Asghari Breaks Silence on Britney Spears: I'm 'Looking Forward' to a 'Normal, Amazing Future' Together”
Tuesday, Sam posts an Instagram story calling Jamie a dick and then the same morning, TMZ finds him: “What I said is what I said. I think he’s a dick, that’s just my opinion. I’m not going to go into details. [Can you ever be on good terms?] I hope so. Once he starts treating his daughter right, then we can be on good terms.”
Also Tuesday, there is an UsWeekly exclusive about how Sam has “‘Proven to Be a Solid, Dependable Man’ After 4 Years of Dating.”
And let’s not forget Sam is an actor: there is an UsWeekly exclusive from 2/17 about how Britney Spears Is ‘Very Supportive’ of Boyfriend Sam Asghari’s Acting Career.
ET ran a story on 2/8 about how “Britney Spears 'Is Aware' of New Unauthorized Documentary About Her Life, Source Says.”
Page Six ran an exclusive on Tues the 9th first thing about how “Britney Spears hasn’t seen documentary, ‘fed up with conservatorship’” and then runs ANOTHER Page Six exclusive on that night at 7pm about how she was “left ‘emotional’ but ‘hopeful’ after new documentary.”
People then runs an exclusive contradicting the second Page Six exclusive saying that Britney is not working on her own documentary.
Page Six then runs an exclusive interview from KFed’s attorney also on the 9th.
UsWeekly runs an exclusive on the 10th describing how Britney Spears’ family “really feels” about the doc.
UsWeekly runs an exclusive on the 11th from Fe talking about Sam being a ‘Wonderful Guy.’ They the run another exclusive on the 12th from Fe talking about how close she is with Lynne.
Check Britney’s Gram on Twitter about the 2/11 hearing.
Here’s NBC News coverage of the hearing.
Cousin Alli resurfaced (!!!!) in an exclusive with NBC News.
Here is how Alli is related to Britney.
Deux Moi is the Instagram account that you should definitely be following for celeb gossip/industry DMs.
We were recently on the Reality Life with Kate Casey and the Gossip with Celebitchy podcasts!
You should also check out Dunzo’s Britney-related episodes.
I Care A Lot just premiered on Netflix. And here’s more about why the Guardians Inc. episode of Dirty Money was removed.
Thank you for listening!