NEWS ABOUT: Jamie Lynn Spears
Jamie Lynn Spears stories: 35 news briefs
GOSSIP ROUNDUP
Plus, Brangelina's bodyguard sparks Hollywood tell-all panic, and more
MSNBC Apr 28, 09 11:10 AM CDT
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Sex and the City fans, rejoice: Chris Noth, aka Mr. Big, has signed on for the sequel, Sarah Jessica Parker tells E! Elsewhere: Hollywood is panicking over news that the Jolie-Pitts’ ex-bodyguard might write a tell-all, MSNBC reports. “If this kind of thing can happen with Brad and Angie, it can happen to anyone,” says one publicist. “If Mickey isn’t stopped—even if it’s lies that he puts out there, it plants a seed.”
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People Apr 27, 09 9:56 AM CDT
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Casey Aldridge, father of Jamie Lynn Spears’ daughter, was hospitalized following a car crash early yesterday, People reports. The 19-year-old was charged with careless driving after flipping his truck during a Louisiana bachelor party. Police found no evidence of drugs or alcohol, TMZ notes, adding that three of the five passengers—including Aldridge—were ejected from the truck. No one else was seriously injured.
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OK! Mar 26, 09 3:32 PM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldridge are still very much together, but have called off a planned wedding, OK! reports. “Jamie Lynn has everything she wants and feels no need for a ring and piece of paper,” one insider said of Spears, 17, and Aldridge, 18. “She and Casey have weathered a lot in their young relationship already,” another said of the parents of 9-month-old Maddie Briann. They “don’t need the pressure of making wedding plans.”
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GOSSIP ROUNDUP
Also: Jamie Lynn goes country, more
Huffington Post Mar 10, 09 11:01 AM CDT
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Sean “Diddy” Combs tells the Huffington Post that, yes, that is the sound of the Notorious BIG receiving—ahem—oral sex during his Ready to Die track. “I think Big would be alright with it,” Combs said of his admission. Elsewhere: Britney Spears’ “beyond strict” handlers fired three of her dancers for suspected drug use, the Mirror reports.
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Teen sex is on a downswing
New York Times Jan 27, 09 1:29 PM CST
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Kids these days, with their sex, their sex, and all their sex. Just look at Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin—it’s getting worse all the time, right? Nope. The portion of high-schoolers who’d had sex in 2007 was 47.8%, reports the New York Times —down from 54.1% in 1991. And the infamous oral sex epidemic? Only 16% of teenagers have had oral sex but not intercourse.
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TMZ Dec 31, 08 10:00 AM CST
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Turns out that Jamie Lynn Spears' airport decoy wasn’t in on the plot and may sue, TMZ reports. Lookalike Adessa Eskridge happened to be on Spears’ Sept. 11 flight when she was grabbed by cops to "help us with something," and paraded in front of the paparazzi while Spears made her getaway. Eskridge claims she felt as if she was taken into custody and has filed a claim for money with the city of Los Angeles. If the claim is rejected, she will sue for false arrest and emotional distress, her lawyer says.
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Tells OK! she'll wait until baby is older
OK! Oct 9, 08 8:36 AM CDT
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Teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears has nixed plans to wed her babydaddy in the short term, reports the New York Daily News . "We both agree that we want Maddie to be a little bit older so that she can be a part of it," Britney Spears’ kid sis tells OK! "We are engaged…There is no rush for anything." She also called reports of Casey Aldridge’s womanizing “completely fabricated.”
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If you believe the Enquirer, anyway
National Enquirer Oct 8, 08 1:03 PM CDT
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Those scamps at the National Enquirer are reporting that Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant once again. It seems the young starlet believed she "couldn’t get pregnant while she was breastfeeding,” according to an anonymous “close source.” Spears and her mom are “hysterical” and desperate to keep the pregnancy a secret, the source said, while unidentified "insiders" say she's being urged to abort the roughly 8-week-old fetus.
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Underage breastfeeding pics could carry pornography charges
TMZ Sep 22, 08 10:04 AM CDT
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A stolen photo of teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears breastfeeding has turned what seemed to be a breach of Wal-Mart security into a federal case, TMZ reports. Copies of a dozen snapshots, allegedly purloined when baby daddy Casey Aldridge had legit copies made at a Louisiana store, could result in pornography charges because the underage mom’s breast is exposed. State and federal law enforcement are on the case.
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Her daughter, on other hand, was 'crucified'
Newsweek Sep 19, 08 3:00 PM CDT
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Lynne Spears has gone on the offensive, telling Newsweek that a "hypocritical" press and public "crucified" her family when Jamie Lynn got pregnant at 16, but "celebrated" Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin for her daughter Bristol's teen pregnancy. "It's a totally different reaction."
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ANALYSIS
Girls lust after
saucy look, but
not so hot for sex
Time Sep 14, 08 4:59 AM CDT
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High-profile pregnant teens like Bristol Palin and Jamie-Lynn Spears paint a picture of teenage girls run amok with lust, writes Belinda Luscombe in Time . But while “girls seem to have moved from Easy-Bake to easy virtue” in the last generation, Luscombe argues that the teens are often more interested in trying on the sexy rather than in having the sex implied in the pop culture images that bombard them.
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Teen mom sneaks out of LAX with some help from the cops
Associated Press Sep 12, 08 11:15 AM CDT
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Los Angeles airport police duped a crowd of paparazzi looking to get a shot of Britney Spears' little sister Wednesday by leading an unidentified woman—wearing sunglasses and looking away from cameras—down an escalator while the real 17-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears and her baby left the airport from another area.
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Jamie Lynn Spears sends bibs, tells fellow 17-year-old Bristol Palin to 'hang in there'
ABC News Sep 4, 08 12:43 PM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears, bumped from her perch as America’s most famous unwed teen mom, sent Sarah Palin’s daughter a note of support and a baby present, ABC reports. Spears sent the 5-months-pregnant Bristol, also 17, $60 burp cloths from a luxe Los Angeles baby shop, with a note that read “Dear Bristol, Hang in there! XXOO, Jamie Lynn Spears.”
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Spears' fiance had affair while she was pregnant
In Touch Aug 14, 08 11:31 AM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears has bigger problems than being an unwed teen mom. Her college dropout fiancé, Casey Aldridge, had a “hot and heavy” affair through the end of the 17-year-old's second trimester, reports In Touch. "He totally instigated it and pursued me,” revealed 28-year-old Kelli Dawson, who said the relationship started in the spring of 2007.
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Pop star gives first interview since breakdown
OK! Aug 13, 08 12:02 PM CDT
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In her first interview since her well-publicized breakdown, Britney Spears talks about her dark days over the last 2 years, and tells OK! magazine that she hopes her sons shun celebrity, and “have a more normal childhood.” She also says she's "writing every day," and calls her next album “my best work ever.”
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Britney's sis will wed at Miss. home
OK! Jul 31, 08 11:38 AM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears is planning a late-fall wedding at home, with sister Britney as maid of honor, OK! magazine reports. "Her own backyard with just the people who matter most is more Jamie Lynn's style,” said a friend. The 17-year-old ex-Nickelodeon star, fiance Casey Aldridge, and baby Maddie live in Liberty, Miss.
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OPINION
Description of motherhood, pregnancy as 'fun,' 'perfect' send wrong message
Infos Jeunes Jul 17, 08 12:23 PM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears’ gushing OK! magazine spread, with its poetic waxings about motherhood, sends the exact wrong message—telling teens it's “perfect” to have a baby, critics say. “There's no way I would describe caring for a new baby as “fun.” “Fulfilling,” maybe, but it's possible Jamie Lynn lacks the vocabulary to explain how she's feeling exactly,” writes the French Infos Jeunes.
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Photos, interview fulfill hefty deal for teen star
OK! Jul 9, 08 11:32 AM CDT
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Three weeks after giving birth, teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears debuted daughter Maddie Briann on the cover of OK!, gushing about her “perfect” delivery—"I was very blessed" —and her desire to be a soccer mom. The interview fulfills the agreement first hammered out when the 17-year-old former Nickelodeon star announced her unintended pregnancy on the weekly’s cover in December.
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Maddie Briann arrives via C-section just as Britney makes it to town
National Enquirer Jun 19, 08 11:10 AM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth via C-section this morning in Mississippi, the National Enquirer reports. The 17-year-old’s baby, Maddie Briann, weighs 6 pounds, 10 ounces. Sister Britney arrived in Louisiana yesterday to await the delivery. An ultrasound last week showed that there were possible complications with the baby's position.
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Troubled singer seeking more privacy
People Jun 18, 08 4:44 AM CDT
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Britney Spears' father has been given court permission to put the star's Los Angeles mansion up for sale. The singer is looking for a new home with more privacy and open space to raise her sons, a source told People. Spears and her dad are also planning a trip to Louisiana this week to be with Brit's pregnant sister as her due date nears.
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