Blender Strikes First!
Filed under: Britney Spears
No, she didn't pose for that.
That shiz is Photoshopped!
Both Blender magazine and Rolling Stone had Britney covers planned, but Blender was the first to hit newsstands.
We hear the Rolling Stone Brit issue won't hit newsstands for at least another week.
And, PerezHilton.com has an exclusive preview of the Blender cover story.
Pay special note to the passages about Osama Lutfi, Spears' new "manager."
Enjoy it below!
"Britney Spears has lost her kids, her fans, her underwear and her mind," reads the strikingly honest cover line on the March issue of Blender magazine, on sale nationwide February 12. The cover image is a composite photo (by Michael Elins), featuring doe-eyed, fresh-faced Spears, wrapped in white silk sheets, that reminds us of her potential. For the article, The Road to Ruin, writer Michael Joseph Gross spent a month interviewing dozens of sources and trailing Britney with the ever-present paparazzo to tell the inside story on all that went wrong-her missteps, her meltdowns, and what friends say may be her last hope for rescue. Those closest to her speak out:
On being a child star: "She was the bread winner in her family," says one former manager. "And when you know everyone's living off you, you learn not to trust." Moreover, again like most child stars, "she was never really taught how to live. Basic things: how to balance a checkbook, how things get done."
On her breakup with Justin: The breakup, according to those closest to Spears, began her personal collapse. "Ever since then," says one friend, "she's been mad at the world."
On Chaotic and her relationship with Kevin: "Chaotic destroyed the image that we had worked so carefully to create," says one of her advisers at the time, who opposed the project. "She thought that if she showed the world everything, everyone would love her for it. What it did, instead, was make her look like white trash - and that is not what she is. She's better than that. It created an appetite for this wild and crazy girl and created this spiral where nothing can satisfy that appetite."
On her brief time in rehab: She ended her rehabilitation early "because that would have required her to admit, in front of the world, that she had problems. That was the one thing she couldn't do," says one of Britney's closest companions at this time, sounding eaten by frustration. "Is there anyone on the planet, except Britney Spears, who cannot see that Britney has a problem? After that, she pushed her family, literally everyone, away."
What will it take to save her? Her former manager Johnny Wright says "I'm not pointing fingers, but I can't believe that she woke up one morning and said, 'I don't want my family, or anyone else I knew, to be in touch with me anymore.' "People say she needs to go to rehab. I think she just needs a friend - somebody not caught up in Hollywood, not looking for a paycheck. Somebody she trusts has to step up and break it down for her."
Among the most shocking revelations in Gross' s article comes from an exclusive interview with Danny Haines, an vulnerable 29-year-old man who met Britney Spear-de facto manager/publicist/confidante Sam Lutfi, over MySpace in the fall of 2005. Haines divulges shocking details about Lutfi's dark past (including at least three outstanding restraining orders and a violent temper) and how he may be a driving force behind Britney's actions.
On their relationship: To Haines's fractured ego, Lutfi's social skills and emotional intelligence were magnetic. He encouraged Haines to "stand up for himself" and at the same time worked to become indispensable to him. Lutfi ingratiated himself with Haines's family, acting as a go-between and informal counselor. Haines says that their relationship was not romantic or sexual but that Lufti was more jealous than a lover. He could be supportive one day and vicious the next, leaving voicemails tracing extremes from "You're a worthless motherfucker" to "I love you, man. I love you to death." He says that…Lutfi reserved most of his energy for emotional blackmail and extortion. "Everybody hates you," he wrote to Haines, suggesting that Haines should just kill himself: "Seriously, sleeping pills, LOTS of them…"
The threats: When Haines finally cut the cord, Lutfi humiliated him. He e-mailed naked photographs of Haines to his family, friends, colleagues and employer. He texted and called incessantly, telling Haines he hoped his sister would be "raped to death" according to the restraining order…such communications moved Haines to seek the restraining order, which also protects his mother from being contacted by Lutfi.
Haines, whose relationship with Lutfi was the subject of a few obscure blog comments after Lutfi's other restraining orders wre reported in December, says that he subsequently received an e-mail from Lutfi's sister's address, which he read as a warning: "One of your friends is writing to some magazines about your history with my brother…I don't think that's wise for him to do." The warning came with what sounded like a threat: "Those pictures and your history isn't so positive either and I'm sure you wouldn't want that to be public as well."
"If Sam's not doing anything wrong with Britney, if he's not worried about being exposed," Haines asks, "why would his sister be saying, Don't talk about my brother and his past?"
Britney's parents weigh in: Informed of the details of Haines' relationship with Lutfi, Jamie and Lynne Spears, who declined to discuss Lutfi on the record, both expressed grave concern to Blender about his ongoing involvement in their daughter's life and have encouraged Haines to go public with the story.
FIRST BITCHES!
What a lunatic
poor girl, she's going down….
Should be on "Blunder" magazine…what a trainwreck.
hahahahah oh the power of photoshop!
FIRST
lollll wish she did look like that
adnans such a freak with that accent… I can't get over it, you sure he's english?
nice touch with the cigs in the mickey mouse hat
wow, that's intense…
2nd MF'ers
That's a bad photoshop job… Really bad.
That's a bad photoshop job… Really bad.
second?
what with all the first comments…post something productive…britney needs help!!
Poor little Brit is such a mess. I used to feel bad for her, but she's really bringing this on herself. She needs to go to the mountains or something and just hide for like 10 years.
check out britney's chin, its a straight line!! she is such a dick!!
I really feel sorry for her now. She is such a mess and so unaware that she is such a mess. I would have never thought in a million years that if you asked 100 young girls if they would like to switch places with Britney Spears that 99.9% of them would say NO WAY! I can't recall anyone falling so far, so fast and so hard.
8th!
u can tell it's photoshopped
FIRST
she has not lost her fans! silly magazine
JONAS BROTHERS ON THE FRONT! YEEAHH!
britney looks so hot, i love britney
What a creep!
second?
2nd
Re: Sarah – BIG DEAL!!
sad. I pray s brit-brit! SECOND
KLASSY as always…
poor britney
i knew he could be trusted…shady stuff
britney is the best
It's about time the mainstream media started writing about this situation. Not to knock daily bloggers like Perez, but it's time some actual journalists started looking into what is going on. I think we all tend to forget that at one time, Britney was a beautiful, talented entertainer who actually came across as relatively intelligent and well-spoken in interviews. She has fallen far - to the point that she no longer even seems like the same person. Perhaps some good investigative journalism will reveal all the bottom-feeders for what they really are, and Britney, for once, will start reading the stories and will begin to see the situation with a clearer head.
WOW……….
Seriously though, Brit really is very pitiful.
SECOND FUCKERS!!!
This whole Britney drama thing has gone way beyond entertaining! It's just sad now. I work in the music industry (thank god NOT in L.A. and not in the pop world) and these people have way too many "yes men" around them! I'm honestly shocked that any of them make it passed 25!
WOW, crazinesssss. so lutfi and haines are gay obvi.
no first but close!! haha funny cover
people really need to leave her alone. she obviously has a drug problem and that crazy man isn't helping her any. she'll come around. she hasn't hit her rock bottom yet…she will soon and then she'll realize. i still love her!
whoa! get him out dude..i think britney secretly wants to be best friends with Perez and she should because i think that would do her a world of goood.
Well I guess people need to do this as the only way to get to her. If she can't be in touch with people I mean she needs to hear these things that are going on around her and the type of people she is hanging out with. I am watching the view right now and they were just talking about her apparently she is getting the help she needs and she is not with the Adnan anymore although I don't know if we can believe that or not. I guess we will have to see .. But if Babwa says it it must be true.
ewwwww….that hat's full of BUTTS!!!!!!
as much as ya'll don't like her, she's still getting paid!
120 MILLION TO BE EXACT a year. and plus her fan base is too big, for her to fail in her music career!
hate her or love her, she still making money, just like Perez on how many hits he gets on this site…
”””””””””””zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”””””””””””””
U know damn well that ain't her treetrunk boybody
”””””'zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”””””””””””'
hey….ted kennedy….luv the gangztaz, but U zuckazzholez…vote Hilary.
I love britney some1 please help her.
Look at the magazine bottom left hand corner… it says its not her that posed.. and that its not her body… hilarious!
Ugh, so people still have nothing better to say than "First." Eh, I guess there's no helping that. I however, have something to say about the nature of the post…Lufti is trouble. We've already known this for a long time, I just wish Lynn and Jamie Lynn would stop relying on other people to help Britney/expose others as frauds.. It's obvious she needs a friend..it's really sad to watch her slip further into oblivion…SOMEONE BEFRIEND BRITNEY ASAP. and by "friend" I don't mean a pap or a crazed Britney fan. I don't know this is tough though, normal people don't want to hang out with Britney, jesus, this is a vicious cycle…
hollyscoop is reporting that Mama Lynne flew in to LA late last night. Could she be here because of the revelations about Sam? Or could her appearance just lead to bigger fireworks than we have already seen.
she is no longer loved…she's UROTRASH LIKE MADONNA…
LEAVE U FATTFUCKER LEAVE..LET ENGLAND HAVE YOUR
AND I MEAN THIS ONE..”””””” BLOODY AZZHOLE ”””””””””””””'
"Britney Spears has lost her kids, her fans, her underwear and her mind,"
I love how that starts!!!! Hahahahaha!!!
Unfitney is a sad sad person and she needs some serious help. she doesn't even care she doesn't have her children and this adnan character is so shady. i mean why does she think someone who photographs her for a living is about to be someone who really cares about her. she is in trouble and people need to help her! i feel sorry for her and her 5 personalities!
she looks hot there
I'd help her… shes too sweet to be going through what she is going through
You're ”””””””' bloodly right ”””””””””””' we hate U….
go zuck englandz azzholez… did U know that enland
iz full of Muzlimz unfitney? You'll fit right in over there…
I feel bad for Britney. I couldn't imagine a life in which I couldn't trust anyone. I had a bad childhood and it wasn't until I went forward without blaming my past for my problems that I finally became balanced and well. I see great things for her but she has to want it. I think even with everyone knocking her down and getting great joy out of her craziness, that everyone would love to see her well and get her shit together.
I believe she can be the come back kid, get her kids back and have a wonderful life.
If she has bipolar disease she still can have a wonderful life and be a great parent. I wish her well and for those who use her ……..well Karma is a reality and Karma is truly a bitch.
Stop the madness Britney……get your shit together(I say that with love).
so who is the genius that said Britney is not "white trash"……cause I'm pretty sure she is the epitome of white trash
WOW!!!
wait. if Danny and Sam relationship wasnt sexual or romantic how the hell did Osama have access to nude pictures of him?
atleast she looks fairly skinny..
Re: Scott – and by working in the music industry you mean you mop the floors at a Clear Channel radio station? RIGHT!!!
Shame the article starts with an incorrect statement. She hasn't lost her fans. Well, not ALL of them.
'wrapped in white silk sheets reminding us of her lost potential'
Sheets wrapped around a naked body generally indicate the possibility of sex. Is that the potential she's lost? The ability to turn the weak-minded into drooling idiots who want to have sex with her?
Its this kind of thinking that pushed her to where she is. People constantly wanting, wanting, wanting something from her. Without selfless support from someone she loves, she's being weakened and emptied by the hoard of leeches around her. And we're supposed to think its a shame that to some she's not as desirable in bed?
The CRAZY thing is that Blender thinks that's what sad about this whole heartbreaking situation.
So how did Sam and Britney meet? And if she can't admit that she has a drug problem, then why are her tests always clean?
SHE HAS LOTS OF FANS!
Sounds like Brit and Sam are the ultimate Hollywood power couple…
…both emotiionally vicious and ruthless sociopaths
TIME FOR THIS HOMEWRECKING SKANK TO GROW THE HELL UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: milly – are you a moron??? 120 million a year???!!! dumbass!!! she is not getting paid that much you dumb shit. she might generate that much revenue for all the magazines and photographers that use her, but she does not make that much a year herself. she only (and i say only relative to your stupid comment) makes about $700,000 per month. that's not even 12 million a year, much less 120 million you dumb cunt!!!
why cant i dump britney off the site anymore
dont feel sorry for her anymore. brings it on herself.
Wait Hold up…Lufti became Brit Brits manager thru MYSPACE?????. we are talking about MYSPACE ?..MYSPACE??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.OHHH GOT 2 BE KIDDING ME??? lmao am i the only good looking guy u cant meet or hasnt met anyone thru FUCKING MYSPACE???? LOL PLEASE TELL ME HOW ITS DONE?????
Cigarettes in the mouse ears! That's fucking GREAT!!!!