Shia LaBeouf's daughter Isabel, one, flashes a sweet smile as he pushes her in a stroller through Pasadena Strictly Come Dancing's Ellie Leach andVito Coppola FURTHER fuel romance rumours as she drops hint with comment about her family The rollout this week of Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, seeks, among all the usual aspirations of the celebrity memoir, to execute a strange brief: to prove, finally and decisively, just how competent the 41-year-old is. Spears, who for 13 years toiled under the Grimms’ Fairy Tale-like curse of a conservatorship overseen by her father, has been legally in control of her life for 18 months. With the exaggerated care of someone trying to prove they’re not drunk, her appearances this week have seemed, at times, contrived to illustrate “independence”, “fun”, and an occasionally grim-looking levity in the service of convincing everyone she’s free and in charge. This would have an effect on anyone, as playing a role to receive love constantly is exhausting and likely one of the contributing factors for when she shaved her hair.

The thing I found myself thinking about this, and similar stories from the book, was: why did that Swat team show up? Why was everyone so complicit in the narrative around Spears? The truly weird and sinister thing about this history is that, with the exception of a hardcore of Britney’s fans, the story put out by Spears’s family was broadly, publicly accepted. A strange kind of birdcage is portrayed, a Las Vegas residency, which Spears’s father forced her to take up, generating millions for himself and his cronies and from which Spears herself was given a relatively small stipend. It made no sense whatsoever that someone capable of pulling off those performances was sufficiently impaired to require a conservatorship. And yet the picture as it most commonly clarified was: Britney’s nuts.

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