Britney Spears‘ former bodyguard Tony Barretto has claimed that Britney’s current penchant for wearing skimpy, revealing outfits is a deliberate plan to make people feel uneasy around her.

Since separating from now ex-husband Kevin Federline last November, Britney has been spotted wearing a succession of see-through tops, bottom-skimming dresses and going out in little more than underwear — and of course, at other times, not wearing underwear at all.

Tony, who is the ’surprise witness’ in the couple’s ongoing custody battle, told the News of the World: “It’s the strangest thing, she likes to expose herself. I think part of it is she likes to embarrass people and make them feel uneasy.”

“Before I even started working for her, I was warned about her stripping. I must have seen her naked dozens of times and each time I’ve been extremely embarrassed.”

“She strips off anywhere - at home, recording studios and clubs. Even at the dance rehearsals, she took all her clothes off in front of me and then bent over, not even to pick anything up. I felt my ears burning and turned my head to the wall.”

“Another time, she came running to the guardroom. All she had on was a pair of skimpy shorts. One hand was covering one breast but the other was exposed. I didn’t know where to look.”

Kid Rock has said he was just doing “what any man would have done” when he punched Tommy Lee at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this month.

Kid, who married then divorced Pamela Anderson last year, claims Tommy, the father of Pamela’s two sons, sent him “really inappropriate” emails from her Blackberry during one of their son’s birthday parties a few months earlier.

He explained to the Sun: “I just emailed Tommy back and said: ‘You know, I will see you again.’”

“MTV put the three of us in a room probably hoping something would happen, so they got what they wanted. I came back from the bathroom and the guy was sitting pretty much in my seat. That was it.”

“Tommy was always just a pain in the ass. There was a lot of years of disrespect but I was a part of his kids’ lives. So I wasn’t going to be disrespectful about him around his kids.”

Kid, real name Robert Ritchie, has his own son, Robert Jnr, as well as briefly being a step-dad to Pamela and Tommy’s sons, Brandon and Dylan. Kid insists that when children are involved, celebrity parents need to keep their private lives out of the limelight as much as possible.

He insists he tried to do that when he split from Pamela last year: “I kind of stay out of that whole scene, I just really don’t want any part of that world.”
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Jessica Alba has said she always knew she wanted to act but if that hadn’t panned out for her, she’d have probably have been a scientist.

She told the Associated Press recently: “I kind of always had [acting] in my mind. I’ve always loved entertaining.”

“It’s kind of in my blood. My grandmother and grandfather were dancing and singing when they met each other. There’s a bunch of theater actors and artists, painters, sculptors in my family. So it’s all kind of just been what I’ve always been around.”

“I’ve always really enjoyed it. I’ve always loved watching movies, the idea of being able to entertain the masses, the power of that. It’s just incredible.”

“I’ve always loved to make people laugh and it was the way that I sort of broke the ice when I was a kid with my friends. I’d always do little skits or do little things, do anything really, to make people laugh.”

But her interest in life sciences hasn’t waned: “I love science. I’ve always loved biology, like I’m almost a little obsessed with it. It’s kind of unhealthy. Science Daily is one of my bookmarks. I’m super dorky.”

Gabriel Aubry has said he is enjoying pampering girlfriend Halle Berry during her pregnancy - but can’t wait for the baby to be born.

Halle confirmed her much rumoured pregnancy earlier this month and speaking at The World of Calvin Klein event in New York on Monday night, model Gabriel told people magazine that Halle is currently craving pickles: “She does crave pickles. Any bread. Doesn’t matter, as long as it’s salt and pickles.”

“She loves foot massages [too] … I do all of that stuff.”

He added that he “can’t wait to be a daddy. Just a new baby and a child in our lives is going to be amazing.”

The baby is due early next year.

• Notorious womaniser James Blunt tried to chat up Ellen DeGeneres when he appeared on her chat show recently. Not knowing that Ellen lives with Arrested Development star Portia De Rossi, James asked the chat show host if she was seeing anyone then added: “I’ll give you my phone number afterwards. I am actually very effeminate.” Ellen turned down the offer, saying: “It’s not going to work. But thanks for trying.”
• Superman Returns star Brandon Routh has reportedly set a date with fiancee Courtney Ford. According to In Touch magazine, the couple are set to marry in Santa Barbara, California in November. They’ve booked the Bacara Resort & Spa for the event on 24th November and an inside source revealed: “It’s going to be an old-fashioned ceremony, on the beach at sundown.” The couple got engaged in August 2006.

Hairspray star Brittany Snow has spoken out about developed an eating disorder after landing her first big role.

Now 21 years old, Brittany first started watching her weight at 12 when she scored a part in US soap Guiding Light. She told MTVU.com recently: “I remember looking around at all these women who were on the soap opera who were working out and dieting.”

She started dieting herself but “took it to the extreme” and just “lived on pineapple” for two months. But as she lost weight, she received compliments from those around her and it reinforced the habit: “It kind of progressed into this thing where I needed to always be dieting and losing weight and more weight.”

“It became my life and I didn’t have any friends and this was definitely my best friend and I held on to it really tight.”

By 15, she was obsessed with weighing herself multiple times a day, with the scales reading just 85lbs: “I knew that was a really low number and I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin.”

“My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. But I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn’t good enough. I wanted to be lower.”

She checked into treatment for the eating disorder two years ago but still feels the pressure of Hollywood: “The eating stuff is still really hard to deal with. It’s still a struggle.”

She added if other girls find themselves in a similar position, “it’s very important to talk to [somebody,] anybody. Maybe the first step is just to talk to a friend about it. Probably they’ll relate in some way.”