Was a controversy involving Britney Spears a few months earlier also an ethical lapse?
Maybe Britney Spears a few years back?
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The pregnancy of the Republican vice presidential nominee's daughter is only the latest of a number of highly visible teen pregnancies, ranging from celebrities such as Jamie Lynn Spears to a group of teens in Gloucester, Mass.
Last year, Spears suffered a mental breakdown and was taken to a Los Angeles psychiatric ward strapped to a gurney.
Competitors threw long spears at a distant post, each strike greeted with wild drumming, dancing and cheers from the crowd.
Britney Spears, a repeat offender of lip-syncing crime, made her fake vocals so obvious during an Australian concert that fans walked out.
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People Managing Editor Larry Hackett says Spears is a case of editors going to the well too often without much new to say.
Although I had talked them through it, the thought of my pals swimming behind me with six-foot sharp-tipped spears was a bit unsettling.
Mr. Spears, a young, New York-based postminimalist composer, matches the spareness of Ms. Moshiri's text with luminous, pointillistic writing for his five-piece chamber orchestra.
Even Britney Spears snagged a spot on our list, though she toured minimally, lip-synching her way through a handful on House of Blues clubs last spring.
Instead, they seem to have wrestled large prey down by stabbing them with 15-foot spears in a kind of savage version of pin the tail on the bison.
But for a megawatt star like Britney Spears, who already experienced a comeback of sorts in 2008 with the release of "Circus" not long after her fall from grace, a judging and mentoring gig on "The X Factor" isn't needed to sell albums.
Last month, a judge said Ms Spears, 25, showed "a habitual, frequent and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol".
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The rest of the festive top five was filled by American artists - although Britney Spears does attempt a British accent in her duet with Will.i.am, Scream And Shout, which was at number three.
Virginia Judge, the minister for fair trading for the Australian state of New South Wales, announced this week that she was considering requiring artists such as Spears to include a disclaimer on tickets if parts of their show would be pre-taped.
He marked 30 years in showbusiness in 2001 with a huge concert, starring Britney Spears, N'Sync, and a reunion of the Jackson Five.
But if they want to build a brand that lasts, Spears and Lopez eventually will have to embrace a new philosophy: Less is more.
In 2009, following a very public emotional breakdown, Britney Spears fled her Beverly Hills abode for a break from the entertainment industry and all that pesky paparazzi.
Teens and young men choose such games as a Pepsi racing challenge that features a Britney Spears lookalike.
Chart-topping singer Britney Spears is to take a break from the music business, following her recent world tour.
Sorry to break it to her fans, but reading her twitter feed, I think Spears may have hired a six-year-old to ghost-tweet for her.
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Francois Navarre, who as the owner of X17 agency employs teams to trail a cadre of A-listers (think Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan) almost 24 hours a day, says this kind of extreme surveillance is necessary to beat the competition.
One such celebrity is Britney Spears, who spends nearly half a million dollars a year for security, according to accounting information filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court by Spears' father, Jamie Spears, who manages her estate.
In one section, long ear-lobed Khmer soldiers bearing spears and shields march over a battlefield under the command of their larger-than-life-sized king.
Two years earlier, pop star Britney Spears gave the finger to a group of photographers in Mexico who she complained had been chasing her.
To me, Sheen came across not so much as the typical celebrity having a meltdown moment a la Britney Spears or Mel Gibson, but as someone severely disturbed.
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For Britney Spears, 2007 was not a good year.
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Her UK number one hits include Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Kylie Minogue), Toxic (Britney Spears), I Kissed A Girl (Katy Perry), About You Now (Sugababes) and Anything Is Possible (Will Young).
Spears' high ranking is a testament to commercially shrewd deals with companies such as PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ) rather than to her record sales--which actually have fallen off this year.
"I'll always adore him and we will remain great friends, " Spears, 31, said in a statement.
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