I'm not normally too interested in the lives of celebrities, and the up's and (more significantly) down's of Britney Spears' life has quite happily passed me by. Recently however, it has started to catch my eye. Over the last couple of years, she has gone from one minor disaster to the next, with the media/paparazzi lapping it up - always there with cameras followed by the inevitable negative press reports. I have always felt little bit sorry for Britney. The life of a celebrity can't be an easy one - especially for people like Britney who get thrust to fame so rapidly at such a young age. How can these people be expected to know how to deal with it all - the sudden press attention, following and scrutinizing their every move; not to mention the vast sums of money (and all the temptations that go with it)?
In my mind, the responsibility is with the managers of these celebrities. It is up to them to manage the media and help the person live a sustainable life. In the case of Britney, it seems that her manger, Sam Lutfi, has not been doing this. The BBC quotes her mother as saying "He yells at her. He claims to control everything - Britney's business manager, her attorneys and the security guards at the gate". From the rest of this report, and others, it sounds very much like this man in particular is ruining her life. But her parents are trying to take action - they have succeeded in getting a restraining order against Mr Lutfi, and now her "father has been given the power to fire her business manager [Howard Grossman]" (BBC). We can only hope that her parents, over time, are able to remove the people from Britney's life that are causing harm, separate her from the negative publicity and media scrums that surround her, and get her the treatment she needs.
Good luck to the Spears' family!
In my mind, the responsibility is with the managers of these celebrities. It is up to them to manage the media and help the person live a sustainable life. In the case of Britney, it seems that her manger, Sam Lutfi, has not been doing this. The BBC quotes her mother as saying "He yells at her. He claims to control everything - Britney's business manager, her attorneys and the security guards at the gate". From the rest of this report, and others, it sounds very much like this man in particular is ruining her life. But her parents are trying to take action - they have succeeded in getting a restraining order against Mr Lutfi, and now her "father has been given the power to fire her business manager [Howard Grossman]" (BBC). We can only hope that her parents, over time, are able to remove the people from Britney's life that are causing harm, separate her from the negative publicity and media scrums that surround her, and get her the treatment she needs.
Good luck to the Spears' family!
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