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"Paparazzo quits in protest at Britney 'hounding'"
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Paparazzo quits in protest at Britney 'hounding'
When paparazzi have a crisis of conscience over the wellbeing of their celebrity prey, events have clearly reached a serious level. So it is with Britney Spears, the troubled pop star and America's favourite tabloid fodder, who was back under psychiatric evaluation in a Los Angeles hospital last night after the latest in a series of highly publicised meltdowns.
As the singer's family and manager bickered over the right to direct her treatment after a court-ordered commitment into mental health care, a British photographer who has quit the chasing media pack warned the hounding could kill her.
Nick Stern has resigned from Splash, a Los Angeles-based, British-owned celebrity picture agency, in protest at the "aggressive" tactics employed in pursuing Spears, and predicted tragedy.
"Directly or indirectly, Britney is going to come to some horrific end, or a member of the public will," he said. "It's not what's being done, it's the way it's being done. As she continues to deteriorate psychologically, I just can't see a positive way out."
The biggest threat, Stern said, came from the high-speed convoy of photographers' cars and motorcycles that follow Spears' every move through Los Angeles. The pursuit reached a new frenzy in the early hours of yesterday when the paparazzi tailed an ambulance and police escort taking the 26-year-old singer to hospital for the second time this month.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the trail of emergency vehicles that took Spears to the UCLA Medical Centre stretched longer than a football field. In an operation conducted with military precision, police and medical crews spoke secretively of "delivering the package", in a failed attempt to throw photographers off the scent.
"The paps are completely out of control," said Stern, 43. "It's not unusual to have 20 or 30 cars pursuing her at any one time. It's become acceptable to drive at 80mph down the wrong side of the street into oncoming traffic. I was horrified at what goes on. It's so aggressive, there are fights and crashes and slashed tyres. I felt I needed to say something."
Spears has exhibited increasingly bizarre behaviour in the past 12 months and has lost visitation rights to her two children, Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, one, fathered by her estranged husband, Kevin Federline. The two are engaged in a custody battle.
After the singer's admission to hospital yesterday, a judge at the Los Angeles county superior court signed an order committing her to a mandatory three-day evaluation, after which the stay could be extended to 14 days.
According to sources, Spears' family had planned the intervention for two weeks with the cooperation of the police and hospital but against the wishes of the singer's manager, Sam Lutfi. In recent weeks, friends and family have said they believe she is suffering from bipolar disorder, which is characterised by abrupt mood swings, or other psychiatric problems.
The circus continued in the hospital corridor early yesterday with a heated argument between Lutfi and Lynne and Jamie Spears. According to the celebrity website tmz.com, doctors are now "cooperating fully" with the singer's parents.
In London, meanwhile, the Rambert Dance Company has produced a music and dance interpretation of Spears' troubles, Meltdown, that it intends to perform tonight at the Southbank Centre. The show ends with her carried off by dancers dressed as doctors in white coats.
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hope she gets the medical attention she needs, she has to go far, far away from all this
yayyyyyy i really was!! BRITNEY IS SO FUCKED Y DOES SHE NOT CARE BOUT GETTIN BETTER?!?!?
let her be crazy in peace!
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I hope someone that Britney trusts/ respects can help her understand the profound effect she has on her millions of fans and supporters who watch her so closely everyday. Perhaps there is a REASON this attention won't go away - maybe this woman is supposed to help spread GOOD in the world, compassion, and light. So instead of turning inward and trying to ignore her high profile position, she should use it to help clean up the emotional imbalance/hapless lives of mixed-up young girls so desperate to justify her selfish behaviour. So, become a humanitarian of some kind, or this fame is such a waste!!!
First…. GO Hillary!!!
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first! get well brit.
FIRRRST IS ME BNSAIHS
Gee, Nick Stern is such a fucking humanitarian. I guess he will have to go find a new job flipping burgers or whatever paps are qualified to do. Or perhaps this is a attempt to start his own "caring" pap company. Asshole.
yay
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i love britney spears!!!!
How SAD For Her….
yeah i'm # 1!!!!!
get well brit brit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST
Wow…
wish the others would follow suit
first? what a shame.
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Perez, answer my email suggestions ho!!
poor thing……
enough with britney. no one fucking cares anymore.
YAY!!
i think she will die this year….im serious :[
Pap dude, good for you.
Now take it a step further and get a lawmaker on it.
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FUCK SHES 1 WACK JOB
In da first placesssss
Perez, go wax your testies you hairy sonna bitch.
LOOK! EHHHH! DUHHHHHH!!!!
STUPID FUCKS! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT? SHE IS SICK AND YOU ALL WANT TO FUCKIN MAKE MONEY OFF OF IT. I KNEW THIS FOR THREE YEARS + AND SO DID SO MANY OTHERS BUT YOU ALL JUST HOUNDED THE FUCK OUTTA HER! IDIOTS!
Its about time one of these assholes stepped up. They're helping to kill the poor girl.
Oh, and I just ran into Pink tonight in Atlanta. She was smoking so much weed in the kitchen of this trashy bar down the road that I love.
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It's about time someone speak up about how out of control the media is that follows Brit around. The situation needs to be corrected, and quickly too! Hopefully she'll get the help she needs.
Good On You Mate! Great decision! leave poor britney to recover and come back and wow her fans!
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BOUT FREAKIN TIME… VERY BIG OF THIS GUY TO DO THIS!
Finally, a flash of ethics from among the vultures. Refreshing.
Hope she gets better!
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BOTTLED WATER IS NOT REGULATED..U COULD BE DRINKING WATER FROM THE TOILET AND YOU'D NEVER KNOW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope Brit gets well!
BOTTLED WATER IS NOT REGULATED..U COULD BE DRINKING WATER FROM THE TOILET AND YOU'D NEVER KNOW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thankfully, someone with some sense!
BOTTLED WATER IS NOT REGULATED..U COULD BE DRINKING WATER FROM THE TOILET AND YOU'D NEVER KNOW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good. they are so mean
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I agree. Britney's spiral is a coming together of so many variables, a huge one of which is the Papparazzi. Thank God this man had the decency to speak up, I hope many more follow him.
Good, finally some morals being shown!!
for real?
Thats just too precious for words
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mmmmmmm crazyy brit!
but wow, good for this guy if only they would all follow suit.
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Yiiiikessss.
THAT MUSLIM BITCH OSAMA LUFTI SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND DEPORTED TO A PIG FARM.
I'd like to ask one of the photographers this question: When you were a young photographer, was it your dream to one day spend your days and nights following a troubled young girl around LA? Your parents must be so proud.
Finally !! A pap with a sense os decency! It was going to be Princess Di all over again…good for you Mr. Stern!
They need to leave that poor girl alone…………they paporazzo are going to end up killing her !!!!!!! I hate Brit-Brit, but I also have what they are putting her thought….It's just NOT right!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow…. a paparazzo with a conscience thats new…
Wow this has been a very tragic story for Britney. She obviously is very ill, and when someone is ill mentally, they deserve treatment and respect. I mean, you wouldn't want to make fun of a mentally retarded child, right? I hope she gets well and the public should respect that.
Re: MEL – She has a mental illness…a serious one. It is sad.
great for him…if it wasnt for the constant paparazzi taking pics of britney …SHE WOULDNT BE ANYONE …they should leave her alone in order to get the help she needs!!! i am rooting for her but i cant say that i would be any better than she is with the craziness that surrounds her life!
good for him.
i wish others would follow suit, but somehow i doubt they will. at least, not until the law demands it, which it should. paparazzi have become such immoral parasites, that i really do believe most of them will stop at nothing to get that one shot of britney crying her eyes out. so sad. i would love to see these assholes get arrested and prosecuted when they step over the line, and they have been doing with her.
I think they should all give her a break…we really don't care if we see her in her car anymore going to the grocery store or getting lost while driving…if that's news…what the heck is going on here…shouldn't we focus on something a little more worth while…like what brad pitt is doing for new orleans…or hey…my favorite…avril
i first want to say tht i love you perez!!!!
and i want to say that britney is amazing and i love her. i think if she gets herself together i think she can make a comeback. When we hear about her lashing out on paparazzi and "getting fat" which is a joke, i think its because of the paparazzi and peoples perseption of fat is hilarious. she looks amazing i dont care what people say. its horrible that she lost custody of her children but yelling at her, calling her names, saying shes going down isnt helping at all and she doesnt deserve it. it think it just drives her to do other things and shes just trying to live. ithink that society drives britney and these people really need to stop and stop putting her down shes just trying to live.
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I wonder which one it was. The one she invited into the bathroom? The ones she partied with? Or was it the ones she drove around in her car?
Stupid bitch. Get a fucken clue.
SHE IS NOT A VICTIM!
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I hope Britney gets well. Even if she never does music again I hope she makes herself better. Both for her and her family.
All the best,
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does anyone else think she looks like the guy from Korn…?
All I have to say is I hope she realize she has the power. I don't think she is Bi-polar. I think honestly she was trying to stand on her. She is worth so much money and who wouldn't be distrusting and who the hell wouldn't feel paranoid or on edge when you are followed every where. She can't step outside with out us calling her names or saying she's trying to get attention all because she went to starbucks or got gas? She is a distraction from our every day life. She makes event his blog more popular. I think any one of us would have a panic attack. She lives in a cage and all these "caring parents and managers and lawyers all make money off her. It's disgusting, disturbing that there trying to lock her up? Why so they can conserver her and control her money. Kevin used her, her mom lives like a queen and in a house Brit bought her. Her manager. Every mag and rag has a cover pic of her. I'd start suing and firing and getting restraining order. I think she is stronger then we give her credit and I hope and believe she will come out the winner and on top.
good for him! I hope that more follow in his footsteps! that would probably be the best thing for her…so she doesn't feel like she has to put on a show for everyone and she can get better in peace!!
Re: jessica –
OMG. I thought I was the only one that thought that! Hilarious!
That sh*t is fucking ridiculous. If I was Britney's personal assistant or friend, I'd be all over people's asses dude. Seriously, give her a fucking break. Jesus.
Re: Elena – are you serious, she now needs to be a role model why cuz she is famous? I think we need to be the role model and stop buy and reading this crap
where is madonna? I bet britney will listen to her…
reply to #13 grd.
It not about being a humanitarian, it about having morals and being a good journalist. Journalist should be impartial observers. The story has shifted from Britney to the media madness. Not journalism by any stretch of the imagination. I guess a photographer with Sterns attitude and morals will gain respect and have no problem finding work with quality news organization. I doubt flipping burgers will be an option.
You have hit the nail on the head, most of these paps chasing Britney are completely untrained have no-idea about journalistic values and prepared to take unreasonable risks in order to get pictures.
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Yes the paps are disgusting but she had a hand in it calling them every single day to say where she was going so they could follow her. Furthermore, Britney is NOT mentally ill, she is a METH addict who chose drugs over her kids so there goes my sympathy. Read all about it on idontlikeyouinthatwaydotcom
YOU KNOW WHAT IS FUNNY, OH THIS GUY NOW FEELS BAD, YEAH RIGHT GIVE ME A BREAK. LOOK AT THE PICTURE OF BRITNEY WITH THIS STORY "GET WELL" WHAT HAPPEN TO TRAINWRECK, CRAZY, AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU CALLED HER. WHAT DID YOU NOT BELIEVE SHE WAS SICK DID IT JUST SINK IN YOUR FAT HEAD. YOU THE SAD THING WHEN BRITNEY GETS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL ALL THE PAPS WILL BE THERE AND PEREZ WILL BE THE BIG FAT ONE WITH THE YELLOW SHIRT ON YELLING HER NAME LIKE HE DID BEFORE. YOU SICK BASTARDS NEED TO LEAVE HER THE HELL ALONE BEFORE SHE IS DEAD. IT BRIT WAS STANDING IN THE STREET AND YOU SEEN A CAR WAS ABOUT TO HIT HER WOULD YOU PUSH HER OUT OF THE WAY OR WOULD YOU SAY OH PHOTO OP. BURN IN