Britney SpearsBritney Spears has reportedly hired boyfling Adnan Ghalib to be her personal assistant and bodyguard as she believes he’s the only person that she can trust at the moment.

The British-born former paparazzo has barely left her side for the last two weeks and an inside source has explained that Britney is keen to keep it that way, hiring him so he doesn’t have to work elsewhere to survive.

The source told the Daily Mail: “Britney is also showering Adnan with gifts because she’s desperate to hang on to him.”

“She sees him as the one constant in her life right now.”

Adnan reportedly worked his way into Britney’s good books by repeatedly helping her while he followed her as a paparazzo and a source at the Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday explained that he has turned against his former fellow photographers in favour of protecting himself and Britney.

An onlooker claims: “He came out spitting bullets and started demanding respect. He said he had seen people hiding in bushes by his house and told them they had better stop or they’d be sorry.”

“Adnan said if he wasn’t given some privacy with Britney then he would make sure none of the group got any pictures. The snappers were all laughing their heads off at him - after all this is the man who stalked Britney for years.”

After Britney refused to stay at the courthouse for the custody hearing that would indefinitely extend the temporary ban on her visitation rights, the pair briefly went to the Little Brown Church in Studio City then onto lunch at the Gaucho Grill in Beverly Hills.

A staff member at the restaurant revealed that she was “very quiet” throughout the meal with Adnan, friend Sam Lufti and a third man, believed to be a friend of Sam’s: “she seemed sad and upset. She wore her sunglasses inside … She seemed drained.”

Another customer at the restaurant added: “She had cried all of her makeup off. She needed help walking and standing.”

The group then returned to Britney’s Beverly Hills home to await Court Commissioner Scott Gordon’s ruling, preventing the singer from seeing her two sons Sean and Jayden until at least the next hearing on the 19th February.

Speaking after the ruling, Kevin Federline’s lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan said that while they agree with the court’s decision, “the word ‘victory’ is not something Mr Federline or his counsel would ascribe to this situation. His hope is that he will be able to parent the children at some point in the future with participation from the mother.”