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Another couple falling apart at the seams this month is Britney Spears and Kevin Federline. Whoops she’s done it again. Poor old Britney, her marriage success rate has to date been pretty poor, and the lamb’s only 24! Well we all do silly things in our youth after all. Let’s face it, how many of us haven’t got steaming drunk and married one of our mates in Vegas...?! So you wake up with a sore head, realise it might not have been the best idea you ever had and get an annulment sharpish. Well you have to admit, the girl does getting bladdered in style. For most of us a beer-goggle induced snog or an impromptu heart-felt karaoke rendition at the work Christmas do would be embarrassing enough, and that’s not in the full glare of the world’s prying media! You’ve got to feel a little sorry for Britney (haven’t you?!).

Following her annulment to childhood pal (probably not so much of a "pal" any more) Jason Alexander, Britters found love with wannabe rapper and chav Kevin Federline, charmingly nicknamed "K-Fed", who had one child already and another on the way when they met ... her mother must have been delighted! Britney wasn’t going to be left out of the K-Fed Daddies & Mummies Club for long though, and popped out a couple of sprogs in almost no time.

Ahh, how the days of writhing around in skin-tight PVC or "sexy" school girl uniform (a whole other hornet’s nest that we’ll leave undisturbed for now) warbling "you know that I’m toxic", seemed long gone when the pictures of a new chubby-chav Britney with un-brushed, roots-showing hair and a baby perched precariously on top of a car nearby (well, almost) started to emerge. Yes Britney, you really were beginning to look a little toxic. What’s that dear? Hit you one more time? Well, if you insist. But only to bring you to your senses and get you rid of that grubby looking Kevin chap.

And come to her senses she did. Britney recently filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences (that US celeb fave in divorce papers, which seems to mean: "probably shouldn’t have got married in the first place") from her partying hubbie, who seemed more intent on pursuing a rap career off the back of his wife’s name than looking after his various children. And from the cocoon of a failed marriage has emerged the butterfly that is a scrubbed up new Britney. Hair cut and dyed and ready to face the world, Britney looks positively glowing now that she’s kicked the boy to the kerb.

All is not peachy just yet however. K-fed is claiming he will battle for custody of the children; not a battle he is likely to win due to the fact that he has no permanent job or steady income. Mind you, he’s bound to get a fair whack from the divorce settlement after signing a pre-nuptial agreement before he wed Britney... clever boy. Just how much remains to be seen but it goes to show that it’s not just the ladies who like to make sure an insurance policy is in place ensuring they can continue in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed during their marriage to a famous and very rich partner. From Heather to Kevin; they all want a slice of the money pie if they can get it. And can many among us can honestly say that we wouldn’t do the same?