There’s no word on whether the parakeet is for the star, or her chum. But Brit certainly looked chuffed when she was snapped on the way to the parking lot.

Perhaps the bird will be groomed to sing back up on the star’s forthcoming comeback album, which is currently being put together in top secret.

Or perhaps after a quickie Las Vegas marriage and a divorce from Kevin Federline, Brit simply prefers the company of animals to the company of men these days.


Britney’s bald anger - June 20 2007
Britney is not happy after a Florida radio station used pictures of her bald noggin to plug one of their shows, it seems.

The star’s lawyers sent a letter to Clear Channel Communications Inc, who own WLFZ FM, saying that they are were guilty of "offensive, unauthorised commercial exploitation" of the singer, in their ads for The MJ Morning Show.

The billboards showed Britney and host Todd Schnitt alongside slogans like "Shock Therapy" and "Total But Jobs".

As a result of the threatened legal action, the posters were taken down.

However, the DJ was angry at the decision, telling a local newspaper: "Clear Channel has removed the billboards and I’m not happy with that."

There’s been no official comment from the Britney about her bald head’s unscheduled appearances.

The star is still staying pretty low-key and continuing to work on her comeback album, as well as performing the odd intimate gig.


Britney: I hit rock bottom - May 30 2007
Britney Spears says she "hit rock bottom" in a message posted on her website about the end of her marriage.

Britney calls rehab "a very humbling place" and denies it was alcohol or depression that sent her there.

"I truly hit rock bottom," the 25-year-old pop star writes. "I was like a bad kid running around with ADD," referring to attention deficit disorder.

She completed a month-long stay at a luxury Malibu rehab centre in March after a series of run-ins with the paps that included a stop at a San Fernando Valley hair salon where she was caught on video hacking off her own locks. Other photos splashed across the internet showed Britney out partying wearing nothing underneath her short skirts.

She was seen going out with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan after filing for divorce from aspiring rapper Kevin Federline last November, just two months after giving birth to their second child, Jayden James. The pair also have an older son, Sean Preston, now 20 months.

The couple reached a divorce settlement in March.

"I had a manager from a long time ago come in and try to direct me and my life after I got my divorce," writes Britney. "I was so overwhelmed I think that I was in a little shock too. I didn’t know who to go to."

"I realised how much energy and love I had put into my past relationship when it was gone because I genuinely did not know what to do with myself, and it made me so sad. I confess, I was so lost," she writes.

Explaining her recent behaviour, she says: "I think it is actually normal for a young girl to go out after a huge divorce."

Britney also says she is "having to face a lot of things" as she raises her two young sons.

"A lot of insecurities from when I was little are coming up again," she writes. "It is like we are never good enough."

But she says she’s no longer "angry at the tabloids" and now tries to "be numb to what I see".