![]() If you don't want a camera following your every move, go back to Louisiana."Īway from the madness of LA, residents in Britney's home town of Kentwood, Louisiana aren't quite so deluded. Sheeraz agrees the stalking of Britney made her personal problems worse, but adds. The Britney boom appears to be over and the circus is moving on to its next victim. "It was getting that bad," reveals Bruce.īut the singer has ruined the story by regaining her health and putting her life back on track. ![]() Some of the paparazzi openly admitted they were after the really big money shot - the last picture of Britney before she died. It's about the ordinary people whose lives became intertwined in this woman's breakdown." But I would differentiate myself from that in the sense it's not a programme about Britney. "And fair enough, if you make a programme about Britney, more people are going to watch it. "Obviously that crossed my mind," he replies. Does that not make them part of the same industry? "If people stopped buying those magazines and watching those shows, people will not be sitting on Britney Spears - it's only because she makes everybody money," he insists.īruce, 34, and his cameraman also filmed Britney during the making of their documentary. On his return, he put his paparazzi team on constant Britney watch. He was on a holy pilgrimage to Mecca when he had a revelation that she would change his life. ![]() Sheeraz Hasan, the British-born founder of, made a fortune from Britney breakdown videos. The fact that she looked bewildered or terrified in many of the pictures didn't seem to bother those behind the lens.Īt the height of the feeding frenzy, the Britney breakdown economy was said to be worth £120m. "He admitted he wanted a TV or radio show out of it."īritney, 26, plunged into a paparazzi nightmare with an entire industry springing up to exploit her descent from pop idol to human train wreck. "His campaign to rescue Britney is more about him getting more exposure for himself," says Bruce. Then there's self-styled Archbishop Don Magic Juan, a former pimp who now claims to save celebrity souls. I feel I know Britney better than I know, maybe, the people that I really know." So Britney could be my new Princess Diana. "In the end, she dies in an accident that involves the paparazzi. "She was fractured, and you could see it," she says of the late Princess. You may not be surprised to learn that Kristi also loved Diana. There will always be someone."Īlong the way Bruce met housewife Kristi, who runs a Poor Britney blog and claims to be her "virtual mother" - even though they have never met. It could be Amy Winehouse or Lindsay Lohan. ![]() It's about the breakdown she was going through. He adds: "The film isn't about Britney at all, really. "When I began, I thought, `This is going to be a battle between the paparazzi who are making money out of her breakdown and the people who are trying to save her.' But I found that they're actually not that different." There were shades of Diana in the sense that people seemed to be drawn to this tragedy in her life. "I quite like Britney and I found the coverage of her breakdown quite compelling but also a bit creepy. And her story seemed a good way of doing that," he explains. "I was interested in looking at why people were drawn to celebrity tragedy. Manchester-raised producer and director Bruce Fletcher took a road trip across America to meet those who cashed in on the misery of a former pop princess. Is a fascinating film about the Britney breakdown economy and the people who made her pain their gain. Saving Britney Spears (Channel 4, tonight, 7.30pm) One photographer recalls: "You went to bed at night thinking, `I wonder if Britney will be alive in the morning?'" ![]() CELEBRITY meltdown became live TV news when Britney Spears was stretchered out of her Los Angeles home earlier this year. ![]()
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