Britney Spears On Her Family: “How Can I Mend This If I Don't Talk About It?”

“… Baby One More Time” being originally sung by anyone else. But if pop impresario Simon Cowell had gotten his way, those infamous lyrics would have been delivered by one of his former UK boy bands — and not One Direction, either.

Britney Spears could have been the future queen of England! In an interview from 2002, Spears told talk show host Frank Skinner that she and William had a "cyber relationship" and the pair communicated via email during their teenage years.The then 20-year-old pop star revealed that she invited the Prince of Wales to dinner while she was visiting London, but he never showed. "We exchanged e-mails for a little bit and he was supposed to come and see me somewhere but it didn't work out," she said at the time, per the Daily Mail.

Married At First Sight UK 's Thomas Hartley has bravely revealed that he has decided to go sober since filming the E4 dating show. Taking to Instagram on Tuesday night, the MAFS UK contestant and mental health care assistant, 31, said that the impact of mixing alcohol with his medication "f**ked him up".

Many of us may have dreamed of being a real life prince or princess at some point in our lives, but pop icon Britney Spears almost made it a reality as she struck up a cyber romance with Prince William at the height of her fame. The 40 year old singer, had aspirations to become a literal ‘princess of pop’ as she began chatting to the royal online when they were both teenagers, but sadly things fizzled out before they could make things official.

A BBC presenter has been mocked online after announcing that Paddington Bear is - in fact - not actually real.

Primetime Emmy Awards are set to take place this evening in the US, and you can find out all the info you need to know here.When is it happening?The Emmys will air on Monday, September 12, beginning at 8pm ET for US viewers.Where is it happening?The ceremony takes place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, returning to the venue for the first time since 2019.How can I watch it in the UK?The Emmys will be available to stream for UK viewers on the show’s official website, as well as YouTube and Facebook. The show will start at 1am GMT on Sunday, September 13.

The new Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate, joined Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for a walkabout outside Windsor - a welcome surprise for grievers paying their respects to Queen Elizabeth II, who sadly died aged 96 on the 8 of September. And as the Sussexes made their way up the queue of the eagerly awaiting public hoping to get a glimpse of a member of the Royal Family, one teenager was particularly awe-struck by Meghan Markle's presence.The Duchess of Sussex walked over to a section of the crowd and approached a teenager, who was seen putting her hand over her mouth in shock.

EVENTS & EDUCATIONThe UK’s Music Managers Forum has announced that it will hold a Managers Summit at Koko in London on 27 Sep. It will include a keynote interview with Attention Management’s Iain Watt and coincide with the release of new book ‘The Essentials Of Music Management’. Tickets and info here.Brian Eno will give a talk on his approach to sound at the Barbican on 23 Oct, as he unveils ‘Andevernomore: 1st Garden’, a sound installation in the Barbican Conservatory featuring music from his upcoming new album ‘Foreverandevernomore’, which is out on 14 Oct.

Sylvester Stallone is opening up about how he was almost a background extra in The Godfather.

Elton John has a lot to celebrate this week; not only has his new collaboration with Britney Spears, Hold Me Closer, clinched this week’s highest new entry on the Official Singles Chart (3) and landed the UK’s best-selling single of the week, but the Official Charts Company can reveal that his greatest hits collection Diamonds has now passed the impressive 1 million chart units mark in the UK too. 

Britney Spears‘ 15-year-old son Jayden James Federline is speaking out for the first time about his relationship with his famous mom.

Britney Spears has accused her family of having "literally killed" her by placing her under a restrictive conservatorship for more than a decade. In a 22-minute audio message published to her YouTube channel but subsequently deleted on Sunday, the Toxic singer slammed her dad Jamie and her mother Lynne for the legal arrangement brought in following her 2008 breakdown that lasted until November 2021. "How did they get away with it?" Spears, who recently returned to music with an Elton John duet on Hold Me Closer, asked.

eclectic duet “Hold Me Closer” on Friday — six years after the Princess of Pop last dropped music.The British musician, 75, shed some light on working with Spears, 40, as well as the grand finale of her conservatorship that she was forced to endure for 13 years.“It’s hard when you’re young. Britney was broken.