The release of Britney Spears' comeback album has been delayed until 2008. It was thought the new long player would be out by the end of this year, but now a publicist has confirmed that in actual fact, it won't. Leslie Sloane Zelnik explains: "I put her on hiatus. Brit's album is pushed until '08. If she has no album, there's no reason to do anything. I'm representing her in theory right now. I said that since the album is pushed back until '08, let's go on hiatus until we have a campaign to do".
Reports suggest that the reason for the delay is because the album is so far a bit rubbish, but of course that's just hearsay. Life & Style magazine quote a 'music industry insider' as saying: "I'm surprised the album has not been pushed back to '09. Jive [Spears' label] hated the songs Britney was coming up with, except a few. The executives are not happy".