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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Hadley Freeman

Britney now auditioning for Mommie Dearest, the sequel

Thank GOD. That can be the only reaction to news that the mother of Britney - and Jamie-Lynn! Don't forget Jamie-Lynn! - is at last stepping up to the plate and holding her own against Dina Lohan, la mere de Lindsay, whose noble efforts at spotlight hogging had pushed her daughter slightly ahead in the "child star whose inevitable fucked up descent had origins so obvious she should have been taken into custody at birth" stakes.

Apparently Mrs Spears - Lynne to you and me - has been in secret talks with the self-dubbed K-Fed for reasons we hardly dare to speculate about. Oh no no no, don't even say the words "reverse Oedipal syndrome", please! So anyways, Britney responded in the way only Britney can: she compiled a CD of poems and "private thoughts" which she then gave to her mother on the set of Jamie-Lynn's TV show (Newsnight, be scared.)

"Hey, Momma, I just wanted to see your face," our Brit is said to have sneered before driving off while Lynn, according to the American tabloids, "went into the trailer and broke down in tears." Yes, there is something inevitable about how Lynn would naturally be drawn to her comfort zone of a trailer in times of need, isn't it? Spears ladies, well played, we say.

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