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February 28, 2001 - The Enquirer reports Britney Spears has hired Brazilian look-alike Renata Barros to serve as her decoy for her public appearances. Renata admits, "O have not had my first sexual experience yet."

February 27, 2001 - A website in the Netherlands is reporting Britney Spears will begin a 61 date 2001 World Tour beginning April 2nd in Florida and international dates beginning in August. Read more.

February 25, 2001 - An insider tells The New York Post that Britney Spears is "trying to line up her own clothing line but hasn't inked anything yet."

February 25, 2001 - A candid shot of Britney in a bikini is bidding on ebay. The 2 4x6 photos taken from her Hawaii trip last summer, item #1412541066, are bid at $2.00 and the auction ends March 6th.

February 24, 2001 - Bob Dole told Conan O'Brien this week, "I'm still quite busy. I'm in good health. I'd like to do a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears."

February 23, 2001 - An emailer going by 'Summer B' was featured in Ted Casablanca's column this week where she complained that while meeting Britney in Orlando she "refused to pose for photos or sign autographs. However, she got majorly ticked off when two girls asked the girls from Innosence for photos and autographs, but not her."

February 22, 2001 - The Scottish Daily Record reports Britney Spears' record producer Rodney Jerkins has asked her to sing a duet with Justin Timberlake on her next album. Jerkins also praised Britney saying, "You didn't hear her saying, 'I need a break,' She just went into the booth and didn't leave until we finished."

February 22, 2001 - A funny look at Britney Spears in the year 2032 is running on Warnerbros.com. The writer and director of the piece, Marc Sedaka told Worldpop that haters rather than Britney fans will probably be more pleased with the skit which features boyfriend Justin Timberlake.

February 22, 2001 - The Star profiles outraged PTA groups who are denouncing the fashion phenomenon known as "The Britney Effect" which is characterized by tube tops, hip-huggers, short skirts, belly shirts, and glitter makeup. Dr. Myrna Shure, author of Raising A Thinking Pre-Teen, complains, "She's corrupting our kids. It's not just teenagers we're talking about. Little girls are emulating Britney too. I believe she's an awful role model."

February 21, 2001 - Entertainment Tonight reports that Britney Spears most likely won't make it to the Grammy awards Wednesday. Britney is still in Sweden working on her next album.

February 21, 2001 - Planethollywood.com is profiling the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance category and some of the requirements to vote in the awards. Read more.

February 20, 2001 - From last night's Entertainment Tonight Insider: "Who says diamonds are a girl's best friend? For Britney, it's roses. The "insider" has learned, boyfriend Justin Timberlake treated the pop princess like a queen for her 19th birthday. He decorated this $2,400-a-night suite at the La Quinta resort with 26 dozen roses with an additional ten dozen rose petals spread around the bedroom. Now that's a happy birthday."

February 20, 2001 - Dave Grohl said he was going for Britney to win best pop performance, saying "I got 2 good reasons", referencing her breasts.

February 20, 2001 - Worldpop reports Georgia University has denied speculation that Britney Spears is enrolling at the college this fall. Speculation started after a local weekly newspaper in Watkinsville, Georgia quoted an unnamed real estate source saying Britney had bought a $1.8 million mansion under the name Joe Crump.

February 20, 2001 - The New York Post reports Madonna, Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez will all receive beaded bags from handbag designer Roni Brunn in their Grammy giftbaskets.

February 18, 2001 - PlanetHollywood.com has more details on the Britney and Madonna duet as well as her film debut. Read more.

February 18, 2001 - An autographed candid photo of Britney Spears is up for auction on ebay. The 8x10 photo, item #1113142552, is unbid at $19.99 and ends February 23rd.

February 17, 2001 - Metal-Sludge.com has WOLFPAC's Daddy Long Legs commenting on whether he preferred Britney or Christina had a disturbing reply, "Oh so hard, Christina Aquilera probably, she looks like she knows how to get naughty and dirty. Britney is hot but if I had my choice of any of those bubble gum pop chicks I would have to go with Mandy Moore over all of them. Mainly because you know she has never seen a penis and secondly because she is 16 years old and I am a pedophile!" He also rated Britney an '8'.

February 17, 2001 - Jay Leno was joking that GM announced their suing Britney Spears because she copied the idea of the plastic front bumper on their Corvette, while motioning to his chest.

February 17, 2001 - Check out Planet Hollywood.com's profile of Britney Spears' yet to be titled movie here.

February 17, 2001 - The Sun reports Britney Spears is a big user of Bath & Body Works Vanilla Bean Body Cream.

February 16, 2001 - Madonna talks a bit about Britney Spears in the March issue of Interview magazine "Even though she's terribly successful, I think of her as the underdog."

February 16, 2001 - E! Online's Ted Casablanca is dishing on Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears and the two's treatment of their fans saying, "It's uncontested that Miss Aguilera is the more sensitive of the two. No matter how much some of you refuse to believe it, someone as talented as Christina can have major 'tude." Read more.

February 16, 2001 - Britney Spears was 2000's biggest earning female artist raking in $162 million in U.S. album sales and $40.5 million in tour revenues.

November 16, 2001 - Britney Spears told a Swedish tabloid that in addition to wanting to do a duet with Madonna, she'd also consider duets with Michael Jackson or his sister Janet Jackson. Read more.

February 15, 2001 - UK celebrity magazine Star conducted a poll on which celebrity was the idea Valentine snog and Britney Spears winded up on top of the list for females. Britney's reaction was mixed due to the position of boyfriend Justin Timberlake. Read more.

February 14, 2001 - Planet Hollywood reports on a 10-year-old's love ballad for Justin Timberlake and how she feels his current girlfriend, Britney Spears will react to her song, Dear Justin. Read more.

February 14, 2001 - The New York post reports Jennifer Lopez and Britney Spears will be amongst the A-List celebrities at Allure's 10th anniversary held Thursday at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York for Fashion Week.

February 13, 2001 - MTVasia.com reports a Britannica.com story about Britney Spears' navel caused so much traffic, the site had to be shut down after receiving more than 17 million hits in a month.

February 13, 2001 - Billboard reports Britney is currently in Stockholm to start working on her third album with Max Martin.

February 12, 2001 - Entertainment Weekly reports Britney Spears arm sock is causing a fashion commotion. The look emerged from Japan and France and has since been seen in urban dance clubs and bars. Urban Outfitters will soon begin selling the sock-band.

February 10, 2001 - Megastar reports following earlier reports that Britney's new movie under development included a topless scene, the singer, according to a source, "went ballistic. She loved the script, but she was very unhappy with the scene." The scene now will only have Spears strip to her underwear, but no more.

February 10, 2001 - Craig Kilborn joked on the Late Show Friday that after her new endorsement deal, in honor of Britney, Pepsi is increasing the size of their cans.

February 10, 2001 - Jimmy Fallon joked about Britney's Pepsi deal on Thursday's special Weekend Update saying they're both "sweet, bubbly, and have an instantly recognizable can."

February 10, 2001 - A duet with Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake on Spears' next album? That's what fan site Britney Spears Forever is claiming as they've posted an exclusive unofficial track listing. Read more.

February 10, 2001 - The New York Daily News reports portions of the script in Britney Spears upcoming movie are in Jane magazine's March issue. Britney's character is named Lucy and one scene reads, "The bathroom door opens. Lucy stands in the door, sexy in a short robe. She's nervous but manages to strut across the room towards Henry in beat to the music. She stands in front of him, takes a deep breath and drops her robe. (She) reaches up to unhook her bra. Then she stops."

February 9, 2001 - Britney Spears was at her Pepsi endorsement press conference making funny faces as usual.

February 9, 2001 - Those remembering the earlier report from The Smoking Gun may recall on of Britney's tour demands was for a 6-pack of Coke for her appearances. This relevation is coming back to haunt Spears after she signed an endorsement deal with Pepsi Wednesday.

February 9, 2001 - Britney Spears told the press at her press conference anouncing her endorsement deal with Pepsi that she felt "blessed," she said, to be offered the chance to "follow some of my heroes ... and create something new with the innovative people at Pepsi. It's such an honor. I'm a big fan of Pepsi products and Pepsi commercials."

February 9, 2001 - Salon.com's Janelle Brown is blasting Britney Spears in an extensive analysis of teen pop stars. Brown says Spears "struts through her new video, 'Stronger,' in a slit black lace dress looking like a deranged streetwalker, and who has a disturbing habit of ripping off her ball gown during music award performances to reveal two strategically placed band-aids cut out of someone's chintz curtains." Read more.

February 8, 2001 - Reuters reports Britney Spears has reached a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Pepsi-Cola, which will include global sponsorship and advertising, as well as a co-sponsorship of Spears' upcoming world tour. Read more.

February 8, 2001 - News of the World's Rav Singh reports he hears Britney and Justin plan on celebrating her new Pepsi contract by going out on the town in New York.

February 6, 2001 - The Sun reports Madonna has turned down an offer to perform at the Brit awards worried that she'll be upstaged by Britney Spears and Eminem.

February 6, 2001 - The Enquirer reports Britney Spears has bought two German sheperd attack dogs to protect her against crazy fans and stalkers. The dogs are currently undergoing training at the California Canine Academy, where Britney will attend some sessions.

February 6, 2001 - The Star is reporting Britney Spears is getting the blame for putting *NSYNC on the verge of breakup.

February 4, 2001 - Flotsam And Jetsam bass player Jason Ward commenting to Metal-Sludge.com about whether he'd prefer Britney or Christina replied, "Ok I'll let them both do me if you insist."

February 4, 2001 - A very elaborate Flash Anti-Britney Spears site featuring audio clips from her Rio swearing incident was recently created here.

February 4, 2001 - Britney Spears is featured in an autographed photo auction on ebay. The old school photo, item #1407927535, which is unbid at only $9.99 and ends Monday.

February 4, 2001 - Entertainment Weekly surveyed Grammy voters for an indication of who'd win Best Female Pop Performance, and voters agreed that Britney and Christina would cancel each other out leaving Madonna and Macy Gray to fight over the award.

February 4, 2001 - MTV aired the Making of the Super Bowl Halftime show Saturday. Britney missed the first day of rehearsal but no reason was given. Click the photo to enter the gallery.

February 2, 2001 - The New York Post reports Britney Spears and Madonna may do their much hyped duet live at the Grammys, though Madonna's rep Liz Rosenberg insisted no duet would be happening.

February 2, 2001 - Peoplenews.com reports Madonna's rep Liz Rosenberg is putting the brakes on the rumored duet of her client and Britney saying, There was a brief discussion or two between Madonna and Britney's manager about a possibility of them going into the studio together. It didn't work out. End of story. I'm certainly not denying that Madonna likes Britney and thinks she doesn't deserve to be trashed in the press, but that's about it."

February 2, 2001 - MTVasia.com reports Britney Spears used the talents of photographer Herb Ritts in her upcoming video Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know. Ritts commented on the video saying, "She just wanted to do something fresh. There was one outfit, no dancing, and that meant that it boiled down to her. She really had to to act the song, and she was very impressive."

February 1, 2001 - Was Britney conspiring to cheat on Justin? USA Today's Jeannie Williams reports Spears seemed to be taken with the love interest in her latest music video partner, model Brice Durance, 23, of Paris. The two took part in heavy kissing during filming and Britney later questioned the producer of the Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know video, David Hofflich, about his dating status. Spears was upset to learn Durance was engaged. The video debuts on Valentine's Day.

February 1, 2001 - CDNow reports Aerosmith brought their young relatives and kids backstage to meet Britney and *NSYNC at the Super Bowl and accused the rockers of going soft.

February 1, 2001 - US dermatologist Vail Reese on Britney Spears' cysts, "Despite heavy makeup and a winning smile, Spears' inflamed cysts draw our eyes," says Reese. "Like the traffic accident pulled to the side of the freeway of love, we cannot look away." More celebrity skin comments are at Reese's website, Skinema.com.

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