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Britney Spears has had her visitation rights to her two young sons suspended after failing to comply with a court order.

The new legal blow for the embattled star followed an emergency court hearing on Wednesday, the latest in her bitter custody battle with ex-husband, Kevin Federline over their children, Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, one.
Scott Gordon, the judge who earlier this month stripped Spears of custody, wrote in an order following the hearing: “”Petitioner’s (Spears’) visitation with the minor children is suspended pending the petitioner’s compliance with the court orders.”

The order did not detail how she had failed to comply with the court’s directives but celebrity news website TMZ.com claimed the pop star had failed to provide drug testers with information about her whereabouts, making it impossible for them to carry out random tests.

In September, Mr Gordon ruled Spears must undergo random weekly drug testing after he found there was evidence she engaged in “habitual, frequent and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol.”

He then took custody away from her after she failed to submit to the random testing.

Spears was also ordered to attend parenting classes and told she could not visit her children without a parenting coach present.

Both parents were also ordered to remain sober around their children.

Last week, Mr Gordon granted a request from the singer’s lawyers that she be allowed one overnight visit per week with the children provided a monitor was present.

All visits are now on hold until a new hearing next Friday.

The parenting coach has been instructed to submit a report to the court before the hearing.

Spears, who divorced Federline in July, had previously shared custody of the children with her ex-husband.

But Federline went to court to challenge the arrangement, accusing Spears of being an unfit mother.

The singer, who has been in and out of rehab, faces charges for a hit and run accident and is constantly photographed out at nightclubs, has been trying to get her career back on track with a new album due out next month.

Last month Spears’ lawyer, Laura Wasser, resigned and she parted ways with her management company, the Firm.

The singer, who shot to stardom a decade ago, has sold over 76 million records worldwide, according to Time magazine.

Peter Doherty and Amy Winehouse have confirmed that they are planning to record a track together.

Pete admitted these plans when he was interviewed by John Kennedy, Xfm presenter. Doherty was joined in his interview by Amy Winehouse and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

Since Pete left rehab in Wiltshire, he has been working on new material including a track titled ‘1939 Returning’.

Pete, who was reunited with his estranged father recently said of new track ‘1939 Returning’: “I’m going to try and get Miss Winehouse to help me with it, hopefully. They’re putting it up on the Internet next week, I suppose, but I don’t know.”

Lets hope both troubled stars can stay sober long enough to record this track.

If you are a celebrity with a nose for trouble, here’s some advice: Stay within city limits or risk having your mug shot broadcast around the world.Unlike Malibu, Santa Monica or Glendale, where law enforcement agencies release booking photos, the city of Los Angeles refuses to fork them over unless investigators decide a picture will help with a criminal investigation or they feel the public is in danger.

The latest celebrity to escape mug shot fallout was Britney Spears, who reported to a Los Angeles police station in suburban Van Nuys on Monday and was booked on charges of hit-and-run and driving without a valid license.

Stars accused of breaking the law in Los Angeles and some surrounding cities — including celebrity-rich Burbank and Beverly Hills — can consider themselves fortunate. Just ask Mel Gibson, Nick Nolte or Lindsay Lohan, who were caught in less-friendly precincts.

“There are certain photos that will follow them forever,” said veteran Hollywood publicist Stan Rosenfield. “The mug shot alone doesn’t get you the notoriety. It’s the bad mug shot that stays with you.”

Booking mugs have long been a standard for law enforcement agencies, and they become part of a person’s criminal record. The Pinkerton National Detective Agency said it created the mug shot concept back in the 1850s when the pictures were attached to wanted posters.

As recently as a decade ago, suspects would be snapped holding a tablet with the date of their arrest and an assigned booking number. Many law enforcement agencies have scrapped that format thanks to digital cameras that can be linked to computer databases.

There is no question that celebrity mug shots are some of the most identifiable and most-used photos today because of an insatiable appetite for entertainment news.

There are the embarrassing — Hugh Grant getting arrested for lewd conduct with a prostitute in 1995.

There are the somewhat glamorous — a well-groomed, slightly smiling Paris Hilton after she went to jail earlier this year for violating her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.

And then there is the downright bizarre — a disheveled Nolte in a Hawaiian shirt, hair askew, after he was stopped for driving erratically on Pacific Coast Highway in 2002.

The most infamous booking mug might be O.J. Simpson’s 1994 photo after he was arrested for investigation of murdering his former wife and her friend. He was later acquitted.

Grant’s photo was the last known celebrity mug shot released by Los Angeles police, Lt. Roger Mora said. One of Hilton’s booking shots taken by the LAPD was accidentally released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Mora said the LAPD wouldn’t rule out the release of a mug shot, but it would be at the department’s discretion based on a “particular crime.”

“Generally speaking, we don’t release mug shots,” Mora said. “We treat everyone equally.”

Sheriff’s officials release mug shots on a “case-by-case basis,” spokesman Steve Whitmore said. He cited a 2003 opinion by then-California Attorney General Bill Lockyer that said mug shots are part of the investigative record that can be made available to the public.

“If there is a request for a booking photo, we check to make sure it wouldn’t hurt an investigation,” Whitmore said. “If it doesn’t, we get approval and then release it.

“We don’t treat celebrity photos any different. We look at inmates with an equality, regardless of their standing.”

But do booking photos — both of celebrities and garden variety criminals — serve a higher purpose?

Rosenfield believes the release of the pictures “sensationalizes an arrest in most cases.”

“I think it would be great,” he said, “if booking photos weren’t released, across the board.”

Robbie Williams is close to a drink and drugs relapse just eight months after leaving rehab, according to a former lover.

He sought help for his addictions at a strict rehabilitation clinic in Tucson, Arizona earlier this year.

But despite intensive therapy for an addiction to painkillers, Williams remains plagued by his demons, according to ex-girlfriend Suzanne Coplin.

She tells British newspaper the News of the World: “His addictions are far from behind him. It is a struggle for him to stay out of trouble every second of his life.

“He is just so vulnerable and said to me: ‘When will I be free from this hell?”

Rapper Pharrell Williams was to forced to apologise to a reporter after he reacted to a tough question about working with Britney Spears.

Williams got edgy when Karen Koster asked him if he would ever work with Spears again, reports dailysnack.com. After taking offence at the question, Williams was taken away by his PR people. But later he apologised to Koster and even answered two more questions.

Williams had co-produced Spears’ hit “I’m A Slave 4 U” in 2001.

Koster said: “He was pretty annoyed when I asked the Britney question but then he softened a bit. Later, I thought we were all done, but he comes over, places his hand on my back and says that he still felt bad.”

Showbiz Spy can exclusively reveal that Jonathan Ross launched scathing attacks on a whole list of celebrities at the Q Awards last night, most notably Robbie Williams, Chris Langham and Amy Winehouse, who have all gone through troubled times in the last year.

The talk show host and Radio 2 DJ had a field day, seeing that Amy Winehouse failed to turn up at the event, commenting whilst reading her name out to receive her Best Album of the Year gong: “I was on a 3-1 bet that Amy would die before Pavarotti. I’m really annoyed with Amy that I lost.

Ross decided that he would continue by slating Robbie Williams for his invisible career in America: “The Q Hero award should really be deserved by superheroes. Robbie Williams should get a superhero award – for being invisible in America.”

The chat show host also attacked jailed actor Chris Langham, by joking about his past success at the British Comedy Awards.

Ross said: “They gave an award to Langham – a nine-year-old boy. Normally, they give a trophy.”

The TV star jibed veteran rockers Led Zeppelin about their recent reunion, telling the audience: “There were millions of hits on the website to register for tickets to their gig. It was probably all the pensioners suffering from Parkinson’s clicking the mouse more than they should.”

Christina Aguilera Registers For Baby Shower Gifts

She may not have confirmed her pregnancy publicly, but that didn’t stop pop singer Christina Aguilera from selecting a baby registry in West Hollywood on Saturday night.Aguilera and her husband, record executive Jordan Bratman visited Bel Bambini, a trendy baby boutique on the celeb-friendly Robertson Boulevard according to People.

Aguilera and Bratman were accompanied by Bratman’s mom and sister as they perused theshop’s shelves, picking out a host of items for the singer’s upcoming baby shower.

“They registered for all the accessories,” store sales employee Crysta Smith told People. “They were both picking out things together.”Among the items the couple reportedly selected? Blankets, bottles, clothes and diaper bags.
“She looked beautiful,” Smith told People of Aguilera. “She had a little bump. She said she was so excited.”