Britney SpearsSimon Cowell has said he thinks Britney Spears needs to go “somewhere quiet” for six months to get her life back in order.

He told the Sun recently: “From where I sit, you could see this coming a long time ago. I said six months ago that she should go home.”

“[If I’d have been her manager] I’d have said, ‘Stay with your mum, don’t go out with your stupid friends, just live normally.’ You’d be amazed - you live normally, and suddenly everything becomes normal.”

“All that craziness, being followed around and all that stuff, it’s going to do your head in. But you can get away from it if you want to. I would have taken her somewhere quiet for six months.”

“The problem with Britney is that I don’t think there’s anyone in her life that she listens to. Someone should have said to her, ‘Right, enough. You can see where this is heading, you’re not going to cope with it yourself’.”

“I do feel bad for Britney. But having said that, then I see the real world where people really are struggling - haven’t got enough money, haven’t got enough whatever - and you have to temper that with, ‘Stop being stupid, go home. Life ain’t that bad’.