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May 2,
2002
Oops . . . Britney Caught in the Act!
STEPHEN M. SILVERMAN
| A press photo showing Britney Spears, 20, smoking,
has surfaced in Thursday's New York Post. In the
photo, the pop princess, wearing a pink tank top
and scanty short shorts, is standing on a balcony
of her hotel room in Sydney, Australia -- with a
cigarette in her right hand. The Post reports
that minutes before the camera's shutter clicked,
Spears attempted to dash inside to hide her butt,
but it was too late. Is this the image that
Spears wishes to promote to her impressionable
young fans? Contacted by the Post about the
incident and the evidence, Spears's spokeswoman
declined comment. Two years ago, notes the Post,
Spears told the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel,
"I don't believe in drugs or even smoking."
Spears, one of this year's 50 Most Beautiful
People in the new issue of PEOPLE, has long
preached clean living to her fans, insisting that
she is still a virgin and never drinks or smokes.
The Rev. David Kelly, pastor of the Louisiana
church where the Spears family used to worship,
granted an interview to Heat magazine, notes the
Post, in which he said, "Smoking and
drinking isn't what Christ wanted. It is
disobedient." In reference to Spears, he
added, "She is such a well-known person that
we want her to continue being a good example of
what it is to be a Baptist." |
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