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Spears’ “Circus” Tour Picks Up Madonna Choreographer As Father’s Financial Hold Grows Stronger

12/23/08, 11:15 am EST

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Is the Britney Spears Circus tour in trouble before it even starts? According to reports, the show’s original director and lead choreographer, Wade Robson and Andre Fuentes, have both left “The Circus Starring Britney Spears” tour, which is expected to embark March 3rd in New Orleans. The official reason for their departure hasn’t been revealed, but according to Brit fan site Breathe Heavy, Robson simply said he “had it.” Stepping in for Robson will be Jamie King, who is responsible for Madonna’s massively successful Sticky & Sweet Tour and worked with Spears during her Oops… I Did It Again trek. The hire was confirmed by King’s reps at the MSA Agency, who added that Simon Ellis is the tour’s new musical director. Ellis previously worked with the Spice Girls and was dubbed a “genius” by American Idol mastermind Simon Fuller.

In other Spears news, a judge increased the monthly pay Spears’ father Jamie receives for his role as Britney’s conservator, upping his salary from $10,000 to $16,125 a month. “He has been working extra hours related to various activities related to her music and her tour and activities necessary to the conservatorship,” the L.A. judge in the case said. Additionally, Britney will also pay brother Bryan $200,000 for “for services he rendered prior to the time the conservatorship was established.” But the leeching doesn’t stop there, as Brit’s legal fees have escalated to over a million dollars.

Rolling Stone writer Jenny Eliscu discussed Jamie Spears’ odd conservatorship role as a postscript to her interview with Spears, saying, “It’s a problem for her now. And the commissioner recently granted their request to make it permanent. If something doesn’t change — if somebody doesn’t contest it — it would theoretically remain in effect until her father dies. So far, Britney has failed in her attempts to hire her own lawyer.” Click here for more from that interview with Eliscu, and check out the Britney Spears’ most recent Rolling Stone cover story here.

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Schultz | 12/23/2008, 5:39 pm EST

I am crying real tears…NOT

Anonymous | 12/23/2008, 7:48 pm EST

♥britney spears!♥

heeeellllooooo | 12/24/2008, 1:41 pm EST

Rolling Stone, you crack me up. I can not believe the hipocrisy here, this is the same magazine that chastised, and drug through the mud, Kurt Cobains management, assistants and handlers back in 94. I can remember reading in this very magazine, why did no one help this man?? why did they not grab him and force him to get help??. Jamie has come in and saved his daughters life, and you find it necessary in this article to blast him, and call him a leech. This writer obviously does not know what this man has accomplished in such little time. I would bet my left nut that if He didn’t take over when he did that the last issue you had with her on the cover would have been saying RIP next to her name. I would be reading another article from you saying where was everybody, why didnt anyone help her. This magazine has become a joke over the years, and I still wonder why I come here for any objective journalism. I know her Dad sounds like a leech, but its worth it to see this girl making the comeback she is right now, and its because of her Dad shes here.

bev | 12/24/2008, 9:45 pm EST

Her dad deserves every penny and more because her career picked up when he took control of it.

Danielle | 12/25/2008, 8:14 am EST

Good luck to Britney! No one cares about magazine past. It has it’s place, just not on the internet. I hope the best for Britney and that her family and her get it together alot longer this time. But I think all fans of hers need to realize money is going to be an issue for the tour with both the economy and conservatorship. Also, her album is just amazing. GO BRITNEY! GOOD LUCK BRITNEY!

Danielle | 12/25/2008, 8:14 am EST

Good luck to Britney! No one cares about magazine past. It has it’s place, just not on the internet. I hope the best for Britney and that her family and her get it together alot longer this time. But I think all fans of hers need to realize money is going to be an issue for the tour with both the economy and conservatorship. Also, her album is just amazing. GO BRITNEY! GOOD LUCK BRITNEY!

Danielle | 12/25/2008, 8:14 am EST

Good luck to Britney! No one cares about magazine past. It has it’s place, just not on the internet. I hope the best for Britney and that her family and her get it together alot longer this time. But I think all fans of hers need to realize money is going to be an issue for the tour with both the economy and conservatorship. Also, her album is just amazing. GO BRITNEY! GOOD LUCK BRITNEY!

Danielle | 12/25/2008, 8:16 am EST

Go Britney, excuse me for the triple post. Hacked wireless, but I have that on my to do list. Anyways, good luck to Britney and stop picking on Britney’s father and the magazine people just doing their job.

Makram | 12/25/2008, 10:17 am EST

I LLLLLOOOOOOOOVVEEEEEE HER
Wish 4 her the best

Go BRit

DJ Stephen V | 12/26/2008, 1:44 am EST

Brit is good, but Madonna RULEZZ :)

timmaayyyy | 12/26/2008, 2:50 pm EST

After years now of failure to understand 3 things: 1.what is the appeal of Britney Spears other than for young girls to live vicariously through her/young boys to masturbate to her pictures 2.why do so many crash her pity party that is her dysfunctional life and 3 how did a reputable magazine like Rolling Stone ever succumb to this kind of fodder for stories (let alone HOW many cover stories?) Did the Spears corp.buy Jann Wenner a house in the Hamptons for this coverage? I’m dumbfounded

therealthing | 12/26/2008, 11:19 pm EST

I agree with hellloooo, Britney’s father is Jamie Spears is actually doing something to save his daughter’s life and her career. She has children to think about now and that may be another reason why he is doing what he is doing. There was no one else who could do what he did (it seems like all the people around her wanted to use her). Its hard for a parent to sit there and watch their child crash and burn so in reality he wasn’t going to just sit there. He helped get her together, put her on a curfew, and guess what it is working? 10,000 for services rendered….that is low pay…. 16,000 that is still low if you ask me…..he deserves much more than that.

therealthing | 12/26/2008, 11:19 pm EST

I agree with hellloooo, Britney’s father is Jamie Spears is actually doing something to save his daughter’s life and her career. She has children to think about now and that may be another reason why he is doing what he is doing. There was no one else who could do what he did (it seems like all the people around her wanted to use her). Its hard for a parent to sit there and watch their child crash and burn so in reality he wasn’t going to just sit there. He helped get her together, put her on a curfew, and guess what it is working. 10,000 for services rendered….that is low pay…. 16,000 that is still low if you ask me…..he deserves much more than that.

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