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BREAKING: Britney Partied Till 6 a.m. Before VMA Performance
Thursday September 13, 2007

Britney Spears
Saturday night Britney Spears at Treasure Island in Las Vegas, NV on September 8, 2007.
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Britney Spears put partying ahead of preparation on her list of priorities the weekend of the MTV Video Music Awards. On September 4, with the singer's scheduled opening performance right around the corner, Spears was four hours late for rehearsal, says a source, then skipped the next night’s scheduled run-through.

And after touching down in Vegas on September 7, she immediately latched on to Sean "Diddy" Combs as her entrée to the VMA party scene. “She wanted to go out to the ‘in places,’” a Diddy pal tells Us.

Mission accomplished. After her dancers rehearsed without her for three hours September 7, Spears hit the clubs hard and partied with Diddy until 3 a.m.

The next night – on the eve of the most important show of her life – Spears club-hopped again, hitting Body English, Tao and Jet, where Diddy ordered shots for the table.

“Britney was throwing them back and asking for more,” says a Jet source.

The crew headed on to Diddy’s Palms suite, and Spears, 25, did not return to her room until 6 a.m. – just 12 hours before she took the stage.

In total, Spears had rehearsed “only two or three times,” says an insider. “She didn’t take it seriously.”

For more details on Britney's VMA weekend, check out the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands this week.

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