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AP Video: Britney's new look
Britney's partying turns off fans
Bald Britney gets tattoos
Britney Spears shaves her head
Spears says partying went "too far"
In defence of the ex-Mrs. Federline
Bald-headed Spears and her party girl cohorts don't impress young fans
Feb 20, 2007 04:30 AM Lee-Anne Goodman Canadian Press
It was dubbed "the buzz cut heard 'round the world."
An allegedly drug-addled Britney Spears's decision to shave her head in full view of a horde of paparazzi on the weekend is just the latest example of disturbing behaviour from young Hollywood women seemingly bent on destroying themselves with drugs and alcohol.
According to a recent Newsweek magazine poll, 77 per cent of respondents said hard-partying celebrities like Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan have too much influence over young girls.
But in the wake of Spears's latest antics, some Canadian teens said yesterday just the opposite is true.
"When they do stuff like that they just look really lame, and like they're just doing anything for attention," Danielle McNally, 17, said as she ate lunch with her friends near Jarvis Collegiate Institute.
"It doesn't make you want to go out and party. It makes you realize how drugs and drinking can make you look really stupid and make you do really crazy and stupid things."
Until the one-time pop star shaved her head bald on Friday, Spears was most notorious for flashing her genitalia to the paparazzi while out with Hilton late last year.
The mother of two boys, one of them just 5 months old, has been in hard-core party mode in the aftermath of her separation from Kevin Federline.
She reportedly went to a rehab centre in Antigua last week at the urging of her family, spent one day there before checking out, flew back to Los Angeles, shaved her head bald at a low-rent salon in the San Fernando Valley while the paparazzi snapped away – and was out partying the next night wearing a blond wig.
Kate Bowers, 15, a Grade 10 student in Calgary, says she can't believe how young Hollywood celebrities like Spears, Lohan, Hilton and Nicole Richie are wasting their lives.
"It's just so stupid that they're spending all their money on partying all the time and that they want to get photographed doing it," Bowers said. "And it doesn't seem very fun to be out and falling all over the place really drunk and out of it. Now it's just like: `Why would I ever want to do that?"'
While Spears has certainly outshone her cohorts in the bad behaviour sweepstakes recently, Lohan is sure to give her a run for her money.
After spending a month at a walk-in rehab centre for her own drug and alcohol problems and high-profile public meltdowns, Lohan checked herself out of rehab late last week and has been spotted and photographed at clubs every night since.
Richie is going to trial for driving under the influence of marijuana and the powerful painkiller Vicodin, and could face a jail term since it's her second offence. Hilton recently pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge amid stories of her own hard partying.
"It totally turns me off," says Lindsay Saye, 18, a Grade 12 student in east-end Toronto.
"I look at the way they behave and some of the stupid things they do, and then seeing Britney shave her head – I just find it really ridiculous. For me, anyway, it doesn't make partying seem very appealing."
Saye acknowledges, however, that there may be some misguided girls who idolize Hollywood celebrities and want to emulate their outrageous behaviour.
"I guess for the girls who want to copy them and be like them and look up to them, they might be tempted to try some of that stuff. For me, though, it's just a big turn-off."
It's good to see Students are not affected by the media and POP Stars.
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