Britney Spears's dad seems to be using Michael Lohan as his role model and making BFF with the gossip columns. We'd watch out if we were you, Jamie, because the last we heard Britney was still speaking to you and you weren't a recent convict. Although we haven't been keeping up with our subscription to Lives of Lesser Spearses Monthly, so maybe we missed something.
While Britney may want you to believe otherwise, Daddy Jamie is taking a stand and saying, "It's not my fault the girl's crazy; I'm just her father." Per Page Six:
BRITNEY Spears has no one to blame but herself if she loses custody of her two sons and ruins her career, according to her father, Jamie Spears.In a statement to Page Six yesterday, Jamie sticks up for Britney's manager Larry Rudolph – who was fired by Britney last Friday, as we first reported.
Britney was furious with Rudolph for forcing her into the Promises rehab clinic in February after she went out almost every night for a month, posed for photos in her underwear with New York dancers and shaved her head.
Jamie Spears told us in an e-mail: "When Larry Rudolph talked Britney into going into rehab, he was doing what her mother, father and team of professionals with over 100 years of experience knew needed to be done. She was out of control. Larry was the one chosen by the team to roll up his sleeves and deliver the message, to help save her life.
"The Spears family would like to publicly apologize to Larry for our daughter's statements about him over the past few weeks. Unfortunately, she blames him and her family for where she is at today with her kids and career. Larry has always been there for Britney. For this, we will forever be grateful to him."
Britney told us via her rep, "I am praying for my father. We have never had a good relationship. It's sad that all the men that have been in my life do not know how to accept a real woman's love. I am concentrating on my work and my life right now."
A pal of Britney said the pop tart "had no drugs in her system when she was admitted to Promises – they [tested her] and there was nothing. She was embarrassed she had to go in there when she knew she was suffering from postpartum depression, not a drug or alcohol problem."
As for the bizarre head-shaving incident, the pal continued, "Britney's aunt had just died of cancer. She was feeling very guilty because she hadn't been there with her, she was overwhelmingly depressed and she shaved her head in solidarity."
A friend of Rudolph, who's hired high-powered p.r. man Allan Mayer, said, "Britney obviously has a lot of issues . . . Larry's trying to lay low and letting her act out, but . . . he doesn't want to see her wind up like Anna Nicole Smith. He won't get into a public fight with her – yet. This is about saving her from herself." Mayer had no comment.
When Britney ditched her 140 pounds of wigger barnacle, everyone sang the praises of the returning Larry Rudolph, saying he would save Britney's career, make her hot again, make cute baby pandas shoot out of her ass whenever she farted. But has any of that happened? No. Since Larry's been back on the scene Britney has become a labia-flashing, hard-partying, head-shaving, rehab-quitting, baby-ignoring mess. Sure, she wasn't exactly Princess Grace before Larry came back around–she always had ketchup stains on her clothes, her weave was always unbrushed, she had trouble keeping track of her kid's proximity to the pavement–but she was a loveable mess. So in conclusion, we disagree with you, Jamie Spears. If the past five and a half months have shown us a Britney being unwillingly restrained by Larry Rudolph, what the hell would she have done without him? Broken Charles Manson out of prison and helped him to disembowel Paris and Lindsay and the whole Hollywood Hyde clique?
Remember Britney the way she was at MrSkin.com.
