Thursday September 13, 2007
Britney Spears performs at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards at the Palms Casino Resort on September 9, 2007 in LasVegas, NV.
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Could Britney Spears have avoided the public embarrassment of her September 9 VMA performance? Yes, according to a report in the The New York Times, which claims that the singer’s record label Jive was reluctant to sign her on to do the show, until her entertainment lawyer Gary Stiffelman advised otherwise.
The paper says that Stiffelman thought the VMA idea would be great exposure for the star as she prepares to release her upcoming album November 13. He
also pressed Spears to hire manager Jeff Kwatinetz, who Kelly Clarkson fired back in June when the American Idol winner had her own career crisis.
It probably sounded like a good idea at the time. Under the supervision of her new management team, Spears, 25, began to get in shape for the show last
spring, hitting the Millennium Dance Studio in North Hollywood, California for choreography training. MTV and Jive received updates on her progress, but Spears fired Stiffelman shortly after the VMA prepartions began, according to the Times.
Of course, all that hard work was for naught when Spears’ poor habits got the best of her, resulting in a lackluster performance at the VMAs. Adding insult to injury was Sarah Silverman, who joked during the telecast that Spears’s sons Jayden, 1, and Sean, 2, were “adorable mistakes.”
But Jive wasn’t laughing at Silverman. The Times also reports that the record label sent a harsh note to MTV, bashing them for letting the comedienne deliver those low blows. At least there's someone still in Spears' corner!
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Posted by Alissa R at 2:40 pm ET
