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A group of disgruntled former members of BRITNEY SPEARS’ entourage have joined forces in a bid to turn her latest album into a huge flop.
A bodyguard, a dancer and a make-up artist, who once worked for the Toxic singer, have created the Be Proactive To Help website, which encourages fans to boycott Spears’ upcoming Blackout album - until she changes her wild ways.
A spokesman for the site says, "Our message is simple - don’t buy her stuff until she’s better." The website also offers fans ideas about how they can get their message to Spears - from petitioning her record label bosses to help her to writing to her management.

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Model/activist HEATHER MILLS braved her way through U.S. TV show DANCING WITH THE STARS with a broken pelvis.
The one-legged former wife of Sir Paul McCartney has revealed she has been suffering with a broken plate for years - and her will was really tested on the last season of the reality dancing show.
She says, "I had a broken pelvis when I danced in Dancing With The Stars.
I’ve had a broken plate for a few years now and it just pops out now and again." The injury forced Mills into a wheelchair, but now she’s walking again after her hip was "realigned and cracked back into place by a chiropractor".
Mills now has to find time in her busy schedule to undergo surgery.
She adds, "I just can’t take four months out right now." The model lost a leg when she was hit by a speeding police motorcycle in a London street in 1993.

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Singer MARIAH CAREY has ruled out having kids until she’s in a steady relationship.
The R&B superstar grew up in a broken home and is determined to raise any kids of her own in a happy, loving environment.
She says, "If I were to have a child, I would want to be married with a stable family environment.
"Not to say that that’s how everybody has to do it, because not everybody can do it the same way, but just because my parents were divorced. I’m not saying my childhood was unstable but there were (bad) times."

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Funnyman STEVE MARTIN is following in the footsteps of stars including MADONNA and JAMIE LEE CURTIS - he’s written his own children’s book.
The veteran comedian, who has no kids of his own, has teamed up with cartoonist Roz Chast on The Alphabet From A To Y With Bonus Letter Z!, which was released in American on Tuesday (23Oct07).
The book features illustrations by Chast, accompanied by amusing couplets for each letter of the alphabet - written by Martin.
He says, "I’m not sure why I did this. I don’t know why an alphabet book popped into my head.
"My idea was to write these rhyming couplets with the craziest images I could possibly think up, and then have Roz illustrate them."

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The stars of U.S. TV show THE VIEW were literally left mopping up on Tuesday (23Oct07) when a pregnant audience member’s waters broke.
Ironically, the pregnancy emergency came during host Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s last day on the show before taking maternity leave.
A show source, "It happened just before the show went live, Elisabeth and (co-host) Barbara Walters were out there mopping up the mess."

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Producers for hit drama CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION have been forced to postpone a series of shoots because of the wildfires eating up huge areas of California.
The cast and crew of the show were told filming in Santa Clarita had been postponed indefinitely, following an area evacuation on Monday (22Oct07).
Production on another TV drama hit, 24, in Irvine, California was cancelled on Monday (22Oct07) and Tuesday (23Oct07) "due to nearby fires".
Several wildfires, which started over the weekend (20-21Oct07), have prompted Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency in seven Southern California counties.

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LARRY DAVID has dismissed speculation his onscreen marital breakdown in Sunday (21Oct07) night’s episode of U.S. TV show CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM deliberately mirrored his real life offscreen.
The comedian’s wife of 14 years, Laurie David, filed for divorce in July (07). The couple had announced their separation in June (07).
But David insists Sunday’s episode - in which his onscreen wife, played by Cheryl Hines, walked out on him - was just a "very weird" coincidence, adding he had written the scene long before his marriage disintegrated.
He says, "This was all written before any of my marriage problems. I knew when we were filming what was going on. Obviously, it didn’t just happen overnight."

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A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION star GARRISON KEILLOR has won a restraining order against a woman who sent him bizarre gifts, like a petrified alligator foot and dead beetles.
The beloved radio presenter and actor alleged he received unwelcome phone calls and disturbing emails from Andrea Campbell, 43, of Hawkinsville, Georgia.
In the petition, filed earlier this month (Oct07), Keillor, 65, claimed the harassment started in April (07), after Campbell attended a live performance of his public radio show, A Prairie Home Companion in Georgia.
In the documents, Keillor revealed he was most shocked by one letter Campbell sent him, in which she "graphically described making love to me".
Keillor also claims Campbell startled his wife when she turned up at the family home in St. Paul, Minnesota in July (07).
But Campbell believes Keillor has misunderstood the letters, emails, packages and phone calls, and insists she was never closer to his house than the sidewalk.
In an interview with a Minnesota newspaper, she says, "I believe that he’s paranoid."

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Actress JANE SEYMOUR is facing another tragedy just weeks after the death of her mother - she stands to lose everything in the Malibu, California wildfires.
The British star and her young children have been evacuated from her California beach house, but her husband has opted to stay behind to rescue what he can if the out-of-control blaze becomes more than a distant threat.
Seymour, who is currently competing on U.S. reality show Dancing With The Stars, admits she’s terrified of losing a home full of memorabilia and keepsakes.
She says, "I don’t want to even consider what I would lose; I would lose all my families memorabilia, I’d lose all my oil paintings, I’d lose, oh gosh, every costume from every movie. There is so much.
"When I was running out of the house I didn’t know what to take.
"My husband is there. He was supposed to leave. There was a mandatory evacuation two days ago. I ran out of there and we got he kids out this morning, but he is determined to support the firemen and he is determined to fight that blaze.
"It’s very, very scary." More than 700 homes and businesses have been destroyed by the out-of-control fire, which started early on Sunday morning (21Oct07) and hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes.

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LATEST: Two co-defendants in the O.J. SIMPSON armed robbery case have pleaded guilty to reduced charges, agreeing to testify against the sports star-turned-actor and three others.
Walter Alexander and Charles Cashmore appeared in a Las Vegas court in separate arraignments on Tuesday (23Oct07) - to confirm they’ll be testifying against the fallen American football star.
Alexander pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy to commit robbery, while Cashmore pleaded guilty to felony accessory to robbery in the alleged hotel suite theft of sports collectibles.
In return for their testimony, Clark County District Attorney David Roger has agreed to drop charges including kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon against both men, who are now free on bail pending sentencing.
Both Alexander and Cashmore are expected to testify that guns were involved in the September (07) raid that landed Simpson in jail.
According to reports, Cashmore will testify that two of the men in Simpson’s posse were carrying guns.
Simpson spent three days in a Las Vegas jail following the incident. He was then released on bail and allowed to return home to Florida.

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Fabled former punk venue CBGB in New York’s Bowery district is set to re-open as a JOHN VARVATOS boutique.
The space that housed the club until it was closed last year (Oct06) has been revamped as part of a major renovation of the area.
Designer Varvatos, who has styled punk icon Iggy Pop and rockers Alice Cooper and Slash, hopes to move into the space next March (08).

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Former ‘N SYNC star LANCE BASS knew he was a homosexual at the age of five.
Bass struggled to keep his sexuality hidden for years during his tenure in the boyband, before finally ‘coming out’ last year (06), aged 27.
He says, "At five years old, I knew that I liked boys."

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LATEST: MARIE OSMOND’s DANCING WITH THE STARS partner JONATHAN ROBERTS has blamed the Malibu wildfires on the singer’s fainting spell on Monday night’s (22Oct07) show.
Osmond collapsed in the middle of a grilling from judges on the U.S. reality show after performing a samba routine with Roberts.
Show host Tom Bergeron immediately cut to a long commercial break, allowing Osmond, 48, time to recover.
And now Roberts has revealed what happened after cameras cut away from the live show.
He says, "The paramedics were taking her pulse and she wasn’t moving." The professional dancer adds, "I think it’s a little bit of her asthma and all the fires here in Malibu (that sparked it)." Former Dancing With The Stars contestant Heather Mills, who was in the audience when Osmond passed out, admits she initially thought the singer was joking.
She explains, "It was such a theatrical drop. I thought, ‘Wow, that’s fantastic.’ Then it was like, ‘No, that is not a joke and she’s not moving.’ Everyone’s heart stopped for a second." Mills was Roberts’ partner in the last season of the hit show.

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WU-TANG CLAN star RZA has started urging his rap peers to show more respect for the police after playing a cop in his new movie AMERICAN GANGSTER.
The rapper - real name Robert Diggs - spent time with ‘New York’s finest’ researching his role opposite Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in the film, and now he has a new-found respect for cops.
And he wants his peers to do the same.
He says, "When they did this movie they hired New York City policemen to help us with the lingo and I would hang around with them. We would drink together.
"Even after the film was over I became friends with a few of them.
"I was at an event and I had a few rappers with me who got on stage, rapping, ‘F**k the police, f**k the police,’ and I was like, ‘Hold on yo!’ I had to stop ‘em and these are my people saying that.
"I said, ‘I want to apologise to the policemen,’ and I wanted the crowd to root for the police. I had them cheering for the police. Policeman are our cousins, our brothers and we got to respect them.
"Some of them are still stuck in their old mentality of looking at black people like criminals, but, on a whole level, I think there’s a lot of policemen that are really good for the community just trying to do their part."

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Music producer PHIL SPECTOR was back in court on Monday (22Oct07) to tell a judge he’s still searching for a new lead lawyer to defend him at his retrial for the murder of actress LANA CLARKSON.
The 67-year-old appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court with his attorney Christopher Plourd - the only member of his legal team left after Spector dismissed his defence.
Judge Larry Paul Fidler set a 6 November (07) hearing for Spector to confirm who his new attorney is. He added it would probably take a further 60 days for a new lawyer to prepare for the retrial.
Judge Fidler told the hearing, "I want Mr. Spector to be comfortable with this attorney." Spector’s original murder trial was ruled a mistrial last month (Sep07) when jurors couldn’t agree unanimously on a guilty verdict.
He still stands accused of murdering Clarkson at his Alhambra, California mansion in 2003.
During the trial, Spector’s legal team maintained Clarkson was depressed and suicidal and shot herself.
The producer used three legal teams during the five-month trial. He fired his first attorney and New York lawyer Bruce Cutler quit as lead counsel after disagreeing with his client.

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Veteran singer/actor ROBERT GOULET has been hospitalised with lung disease Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis.
The 73-year-old was taken to a Las Vegas hospital on 30 September (07), after feeling increasingly weak and suffering from a shortage of breath.
After being diagnosed with the rare and potentially fatal disorder, he was transferred to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on 13 October (07) to undergo an emergency lung transplant, where doctors are awaiting a donated lung. He is said to be in a critical condition.
Goulet’s third wife, Vera, says, "Our friends have been incredibly supportive through these crucial times. My Robert has given tremendous joy to the world for six decades and he is loved by many people who are praying for him.
"He is a strong, positive man, full of life. I know if he is given the transplant he will pull through this.
"There are still many unsung songs for him to sing and, in my heart, I know it is not his time to go." Goulet began his career as a DJ in Canada, but became a Broadway sensation in the early 1960s after landing the role as Lancelot in hit musical Camelot, opposite Richard Burton and Julie Andrews. He went on to claim a Tony Award in 1968 for his role in Happy Time.
Goulet also became a regular on U.S. TV shows, playing cameos in The Jackie Gleason Show, Cannon, Police Woman and Fantasy Island, and he enjoyed great success as a crooner. He also provided the voice for Wheezy The Penguin in Toy Story 2.

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TOM CRUISE, JOHN TRAVOLTA and BRITNEY SPEARS have spoken of their sadness over the raging wildfire which has swept through California.
The fires, which have seen a quarter of a million people evacuated from their homes, has seen California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declare a state of emergency in seven southern California counties.
Spears admits she feared for her Californian home after hearing news of the fires on Monday (22Oct07).
She says, "I don’t think it touched my house. I’m real scared." Travolta admits he was forced to fly his helicopter over the region to ensure his family were safe.
He says, "All I know is the people I know are safe and I’m glad.
"I flew over that today and it’s always a dramatic impression you get from this." Cruise - who is currently in London to promote new movie Lions for Lambs adds, "It’s unfortunate it really is. I wish everybody well back there." The coastal area is home to many celebrities, including Mel Gibson, Barbra Streisand, Richard Gere, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Newton-John and director James Cameron.

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Singer/actress MARIANNE FAITHFULL credits her recent battle with breast cancer for making her feel ‘even sexier’.
The 60-year-old was diagnosed with the disease last year (06) and was forced to undergo emergency surgery to remove a lump.
Faithful admits she was shocked by the experience but remains optimistic about her future - and her prowess with the opposite sex.
She says, "I haven’t lost my sex appeal, thank God. Getting ill came out of the left field. I didn’t expect that. Now I have a completely different attitude. So now I understand."

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