Britney Spears Strips for PETA

BRITNEY Spears will bare her bodacious bod for animal rights in an upcoming PETA campaign. PAGE SIX has learned the songstress has agreed to peel down for a PETA poster that should be available by Christmas.

"It's very exciting news," said PETA mouthpiece Dan Mathews. "We are really thrilled to have Britney join our new crop of fur-fighters."

It's an animal-rights about-face for Spears, who was slammed by PETA for performing at the MTV Awards with a caged tiger on stage.

Mathews, who at the time begged Britney to consider "the plight of captive wild animals caged and forced to tolerate bright lights, crowds and frightening levels of noise," says the songbird has changed her tune.

"A few weeks after we wrote her, we were sent a letter saying Britney had abandoned using animals on tour," Mathews said.

"She took our message to heart. There's so many different animal issues, and you can't expect that everyone is born Ghandi. We think Britney has set a great example of someone who listened to what we had to say and made a change."

Britney has also signed on to model faux-leather duds on PETA's pleatheryourself.com Web site. "It's a lot of fetish wear but also non-leather shoes, belts and bags," Mathews said. "Patricia Field is designing some outfits for the site."

PETA's current "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" poster girl is actress Dominique Swain, who was snapped nude writing "I Will Not Wear Fur" on a blackboard - a sly reference to her role as a jailbait seductress in "Lolita."

But one of PETA's original pin-ups, Naomi Campbell, has continued her fall from grace in the eyes of animal rights activists. Campbell, who was fired from the campaign after she wore fur on the catwalk, was stopped from entering Spa the other night when she showed up wearing a fur coat.

When the doorman informed her of the nightclub's no-fur policy, Campbell argued with him and pointed out he was wearing leather. Eventually, Campbell agreed to leave her fur outside and was allowed in. She sat with pal Sean "Puffy" Combs, who wears fur and designs with fur, and his now-friendly ex, Kim Porter.

Informed of Campbell's latest fur-paux, Mathews bared his fangs. "I think anybody who knows Naomi knows she is a problem and is often incoherent," he said. "We're just glad we've got so many other people that have hearts and have souls, really." Meow-ouch!

Next month, Spa and Centro-Fly - which has also adopted a no-fur policy - are throwing parties for PETA to coincide with Spears' and Swain's eye-catching campaigns.

From E! Online Gossip

edited for content

by Ted Casablanca

Hip Nip
Got some big-guns chitchat fer ya, but foist, let's feast our mice and eyes on my fave young 'n' endowed gal, Britney Spears. Okay by you, feisty folks?

While everybody and his hormone-conscious mother are furiously discussing whether or not Britney will marry Justin (oh, whatever) or whether Brit-hon was lip-synching for her HBO Vegas concert (oh, please), I've got some infinitely more lip-smacking stuff we can savor. Together.

Know the fab poster of Britney as Elvis that accompanied her Sin City performance? Sure ya do. (By the way, that glittering, Presley-inspired, slit-to-the-navel-ring outfit Britney's wearing was dubbed the "Bombshellvis" by its designers. Love it!)

Well, my strut-smart snoopers, here's a little background from the photo shoot for that poster with pizzazz:

Location: Smashbox Studios, Hollywood, USA (Culver City, if I'm telling the truth).

Temperature: Red-hot. (Not only was Spears' presence heating things up, Salma Hayek was next door doing her own shoot and, of course, dropped by to kiss B.S.'s Elvis ring. Not kidding.)

Chaperone: Britney's omnipresent (and rather savvy) mother, Lynne.

Mood: Wild.

Result: Luscious girl-woman B.S., according to lucky onlookers, was "falling out of her outfit" and so hell-bent on grinding her booty for the camera, Elvis-style, that the photographer actually had to ask Britney to stop.

Problem: The 20-year-old's private parts--which Justin's g-f kept reaching down and grabbing, much to the lensman's dismay. Hey, sounds pretty kinky to moi. You go, girl!

Irony: Mama Spears chatted nonstop through the shoot about what "a fine example" her daughter was setting with her "clean living" and "chaste image." (Future irony, of course, will be provided by Brit's upcoming movie, Crossroads, which deals heavily with teen pregnancy.)

Compliance: Total. "She may have showed off her a** a little too much," said one of the many highly paid staffers, "but I've never seen anybody work her a** off harder than Britney did. Never complained; did everything she was asked."

Or was asked not to, as it were.

Oh, my. Now all that gossip about a male stripper being at the Louisiana babe's recent B-day pah-tay in New Jersey doesn't seem so out of whack. (Kindasortamaybe.)

Besides, just because a gal knows how to get down (and then some) doesn't mean she's necessarily that way when the cameras are covered up.

You'll just have to ponder that pi**y little puzzle while we check in on another star who's been takin' it off as of late.

We need to get over it... brittany is very talented, so are madonna and cher. We may not approve of their lack of clothing... or the way they wiggle their thoraxic structures in performing "oops I did it again," but they never claimed to be "church ladies"... Screaming "untalented slut" as so many will on this thread makes no difference... it is also a lie. Spears was HOT vocally LONG before anybody got a gander at her cleavage... so was cher, and so was madonna.

Trashing a person's ability because we don't think they are good "christian girls" is much like the taliban who hindered women from nursing, doctoring and professional careers in Afghanistan, because they were acting immoral in public by THEIR RELIGIOUS definition of morality. There are good reasons why there is no allowance for a prescribed moral/religious code in our very first amendment... to end the tendency of mankind to form their own talibanist cultures withing public life and governance.

We can call them "trashy sluts" all we want, they are good at their music... good looking in and out of their clothes and successful because of those facts... Its not just a skimpy see-through halter top that makes them rich... It is because they are rich and successful that they can act, dress and think as they please... decadent as that may be to some of us.

Some folks hate decadence in others, because they secretly resent the success and pleasureable lifestyles that it engenders. If a person was a nun, perhaps its okay to be that way. If one is not, but still thinks that way, they should consider leaving husband, wife or children and joining an "strict" ascetic order along with the rest of the folks who think that way.

I have NOTHING against a person excercising their own moral convictions in their own lives... but I do have something against "slandering" and "slutizing" folks who are talented, good-looking and very sexually attractive, using morality as a pretense for their hatred of others.

We have to get rid of the "taleban" attitudes here in the USA, before we can succeed at ridding the world of it abroad. (Even if they are covered in the morality of a "christian" burqua)The talebanists of the world all agree, "britney is a whore" but I don't think so... she is an adult, not a child... and certainly NOT a role model for young girls, UNLESS mom and dad approve of her demeanor and career behaviors.. which I do.

We need a whole lot more of "mind your own business" in america than we currently have... a fitting result of 80 years of activist and interventionist government... has turned us all into a bunch of busybodies. That goes FAR beyond the "common defense" postulates of the founding fathers laid out in the Constitution.

We are the weaker and more vulnerable for it as a Nation.

People who have "faith" and "convictions" need to keep them to themselves instead of projecting their "I am the judge of your morality" attitudes upon others... Good fences make good neighbors. rom 14:22

this reply is NOT for you specifically... just a general thought that emerges on every similar thread... FWIW

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