According to reports, doctors at the UCLA Medical Center's psychiatric hospital have decided to hold Britney Spears for another fourteen days. As previously reported, the singer was committed for seventy two hours last week to determine whether Spears is a danger to herself or others, and now, it seems, staff at the hospital have indeed decreed that the pop star needs further help.
Meanwhile, all of Britney's assets have been temporarily given into the care of her father. The court can create what's known as a conservatorship, which means that care of Spears' own body and welfare, plus care of her estate, have been handed over to another party, in this case her dad, James Spears. Court commissioner Reva Goetz made the order, saying that Spears would be under conservatorship until 4 Feb, meaning that a further hearing will be held today. The same court also placed a restraining order on the singer's sometime manager, Sam Lutfi (who had been claiming the singer had entrusted her affairs to him) and also gave the conservators permission to change the locks at her home, and remove anyone resident there.
Meanwhile, in the UK, Spears' troubles have been the focus of a one-off fourteen minute ballet performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday night. The performance, named 'Meltdown', was staged by the Rambert Dance Company, and portrayed Britney's relationship with the ever-present paparazzi, the time she shaved her hair, and culminated with her being carried off from her home in a stretcher, a representation of that incident earlier in the month when she refused to give her two sons back into the care of husband Kevin Federline. Choreographer Hubert Essakow, explaining why he chose Britney as his subject, explained that her life is "a modern day tragedy. You can't open a newspaper without her being in it. I became obsessed by every detail of her life".