Last year alone saw the breakups of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, and Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.

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As a Lancastrian, too, I am proud to see Kanye and Kim emulating Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, who named their son Sean Preston.

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Consider the divorce settlement between one-time pop tartlet Britney Spears and her ex Kevin Federline, a backup dancer.

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Other stars the public would supposedly like to see less of include Tom Cruise, Anna Nicole Smith and both Britney Spears and her husband Kevin Federline.

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That may have partly contributed to the demise of Britney Spears' ill-fated union with backup dancer Kevin Federline. (She was 22 and he was 26 when they wed.) Spears tried to bolster Federline's nascent music career when she helped finance and even appeared on her husband's doomed debut album, Playing With Fire, released last year to dismal reviews.

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