It was the first day of auditions for X Factor yesterday with judge Britney Spears. TMZ reported that she lost her sh-t over a contestant singing Hold It Against Me and took off, leaving the other 3 on the panel to continue during her “break”. Britney’s people insist that that’s all it was: a break. Full Story

Best relief after 13 hours of flying, no sleep, and someone with stank feet sitting in the next aisle?(Other than a bleary-eyed Joshua Jackson on the same flight?) Mimi!And not just regular Mimi, which is its own standard of solid gold amazingness, but Mimi being pissy about being asked about anyone but Mimi. Full Story

How do you walk away from $15 million? The thing is, it’s not like Britney Spears has never seen $15 million. She should have $15 million several times over by now. The problem is that it’s never enough. Even when she can barely function without pharmaceutical assistance, and the governance of both her father and her fiancé, it’s still never enough. Full Story

As you may have heard, Britney Spears is having her fiancé Jason Trawick added to her conservatorship situation. PEOPLE reported that:Trawick will only have shared legal control over Spears's general well being – not her finances, a source tells PEOPLE. Full Story

God, how long has it been since I wrote about Britney? A while. Is it possible to have lost interest in Britney? I never thought I’d lose interest in Britney. But Britney’s last tour, the going through the motions of the obvious money grab... if there’s no passion from the performer, how can there be passion in the admirer? I need to believe that you want it if you expect me to care about it. Full Story

Does the first one count as an engagement? Or did they just go straight to wedding and then annulment? Let’s call it a second engagement then. Britney Spears is engaged to marry Jason Trawick who proposed in Vegas on his 40th birthday. Britney just turned 30 earlier this month. Jason used to be her agent. Full Story

There’s a new video for Criminal. Have you seen it? They’re pulling this down all over the place, they already pulled down the link I originally watched it off of this morning and I got this one from Dlisted so it’s best to do it before it’s gone. We open on an episode of Gossip Girl. Full Story

Fried Chicken managed to pull together a decent weave last night for a change. How sad is it that this happens with such infrequency, we almost feel compelled to compliment her when it’s not falling out in clumps at the back of her head? It’s not just snark. In many ways, the weave, and whether or not she’s able to keep that sh-t clean, is a reflection of our lowered expectations. Full Story

Click here if you missed the original post about the Britney Spears Tribute that’s to take place at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 28th. She’s only 29. And it seems her best VMA days are behind her. But, to fuel the Britney Money Machine, many of you are still paying a lot of money to see her on tour, not even half the performer she once was. Full Story

Please save this article to read when you have more time. Not because I’m about to drop something amazing of my own, but because these videos, they take some time to enjoy. And you will enjoy. Corelli and Eleni, I KNOW you will enjoy. And replay. And replay. And replay. That’s how I spent my afternoon. Full Story

I was prepared to hate the new Justin Timberlake Playboy interview. The writer opens the piece by calling him the “coolest dude on the planet”, on par with George Clooney and Keith Richards. Sit DOWN. Then he compares Timberlake to Frank Sinatra and Young Elvis. WHAT????????????????? To be fair, those words come from the journalist. Full Story

Britney Spears’s new video for Till The World Ends just dropped. Check it out here if you’ve yet to see it: Like most of the album, it’s a good but generic dance track with a running beat – gets you hype for a night out, or on the treadmill, but will you remember it next year? Will you always be able to, no matter where you are, no matter what time, throw down the chorus even if you can’t remember the last time you heard it? I say no. Full Story

I always like dropping the little factoid that Beyonce and Britney Spears are the same age, and that’s about all when it comes to similarities. You will never see a doped up Beysus halfheartedly staggering her way through her promotional performances. And while some of you may insist it’s not a fair comparison because Britney has emotional problems, how fair is it for you, as a consumer, to be sold something from someone with emotional problems who can’t hold her sh-t together? The media isn’t at fault here. Full Story

Britney Spears appeared on Kimmel last night and, well, I guess it was a little better than Vegas and Good Morning America, she seemed somewhat more alert than the previous two occasions, but still… almost everything feels like it’s on delay, Chicken Fried slow motion, so obvious that it almost becomes more entertaining watching everyone try not to point out the obvious. Full Story