Monday 7 January 2008

Britney Hauled up with the Paparazzi

BRITNEY SPEARS was last night being comforted by the man she regards as her ONLY true friend — a paparazzi snapper from Birmingham.
The troubled superstar was in hiding with ADNAN GHALIB and THREE of his fellow photographers after fleeing the hospital she was taken to on Friday strapped to a stretcher.

Britney, 26 — who ripped an IV drip from her arm and refused further treatment — bizarrely told loved ones the paparazzi are now the only people she trusts.
She said of new love Ghalib, whose Brummie dad used to run a clothing business: “He’s my only friend in the world.”

Last night she was holed up with her “chums” in a rented Hollywood mansion.
Family and friends begged Britney — whose latest single Piece Of Me went up from 46 to 19 in yesterday’s UK chart — to seek medical help amid renewed fears for her mental state.

A source close to a long-time pal said: “Britney is on the edge. It’s worrying — and ironic — that the only person she feels she can turn to is a paparazzo.
“It’s like the lamb going to stay with the wolfpack. Britney knows Adnan because he has followed her relentlessly for months.
“Her family are astonished a photographer is the person Britney turns to when she needs to step out of the media storm. She seems to think he’s her only friend in the world.


Cruise Head of Scientology

TOM CRUISE has become second-in-command of the alien-obsessed Scientology cult, a new book claims.
And author ANDREW MORTON says some followers have speculated that his daughter Suri may have been fathered using FROZEN SPERM from its founder L RON HUBBARD.
Mission: Impossible actor Tom has rubbished the book by Brit Morton, who wrote Princess Diana’s biography Her True Story.
Tom, 45, also denies claims that his ex NICOLE KIDMAN was told her sex secrets would be leaked if she criticised the “church”, and that he aims to convert pals DAVID and VICTORIA BECKHAM.

He is set to launch a £50million lawsuit when the unauthorised biography goes on sale in the US on January 15.
Morton interviewed high-ranking Scientologists, or Sea Orgs — led by the mysterious David Miscavige.




In Other News

St Trinian's star Gemma Arterton has been cast as a Bond girl in the latest 007 film.

Sam Riley, star of recent film Control, is one of 10 candidates in the running for the South Bank Award, in the Breakthrough category

Medway Town has toppled Ilford as the luckiest postcorde for Lottery windfalls

The Church Of England is launching an unprecedented campaign of practical and spiritual help for anyone in the grip of post Christmas financial difficulties

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