TMZ's crew and veteran cameraman Josh Levine were all over Hollywood last night, doing what they do best; catching all the action!
We started the night at Hollywood hotspot Area, where the girls were at it again. New BFFs Britney, Paris and Lindsay all showed up at the swanky L.A. club, setting the paparazzi into a frenzy with each arrival. Britney, who showed up with a few of her backup dancers, caught up with her past inside the club: our cameras spotted ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake entering just minutes before Britney!
Also soaking up the moonlight; birthday boy Tom Green, "The Hills" star LC (Lauren Conrad), comedian Jamie Kennedy, rocker Dave Navarro, Greasy Bear Brandon Davis, CaCee Cobb, former Laker Rick Fox, platinum-selling artist T.I., and Bruce Willis -- who was spotted having dinner with friends at Koi.
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Nirvana's breakthrough single smells like teen spirit is the best pop song of the last 20 years, according to British magazine Q. The seminal song beat efforts by Madonna, U2 and Britney Spears to top the list. Q's deputy editor, Gareth Grundy, explains, "The thing about Smells Like Teen Spirit, it was a watershed moment in rock music. It changed everything. "It put heavy music back on the map in the early 1990s, really, that combination of punk-rock anger and the heavy Black Sabbath 1970s metal. "It was something new. Sulky kids everywhere loved Nirvana and continue to do so." The top twenty is as follows:

Nirvana's song "Smells like Teen Spirit" is still breaking billboard charts 20 years past as the best pop song. The song even beat Madonna, U2 and Britney Spears.

THE TOP 20:

1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
2. "Hey Ya!" - Outkast
3. "Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns N' Roses
4. "Unfinished Symphony" - Massive Attack
5. "One" - U2
6. "Live Forever" - Oasis
7. "Bitter Sweet Symphony" - The Verve
8. "Common People" - Pulp
9. "There She Goes" - The LA's
10. "7 Nnation Army" - The White Stripes
11. "Song 2" - Blur
12. "Crazy" - Gnarls Barkley
13. "Angels" - Robbie Williams
14. "… Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears
15. "Personal Jesus" - Depeche Mode
16. "Like A Prayer" - Madonna
17. "Firestarter" - The Pprodigy
18. "Brimful Of Asha" - Cornershop
19. "Stan" - Eminem
20. "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" - Arctic Monkeys

-contactmusic.com

Britney Spears will host New Year's Eve at the nightclub Pure in Las Vegas. "She's going to do the countdown, a champagne toast and watch the fireworks from the terrace," a club rep said. Nick Lachey will be holding the mic at Pure the night before to host a "goodbye 2006" party. Cheers. ... And while conflicting reports suggested Spears and Paris Hilton were in line to co-host the 2006 Billboard Music Awards, the show's spokesperson said late Wednesday (November 29) that neither is confirmed. In the meantime, however, Pharrell and Young Jeezy will join previously announced performers Gwen Stefani, Ludacris and the Killers for the ceremony, set to air Monday at 8 p.m. on Fox. ...

Britney Spears and Paris Hilton may have spent the holiday weekend together, but hours after it was revealed the pop star would not be co-hosting the Billboard Music Awards with the heiress, the two partied for the second night in Hollywood, but separately.
While Paris chummed it up and chowed down with Nicole Richie at The Beverly Hills Grill, Britney emerged from Hollywood Roosevelt hotel celeb-bar Teddy's… with a man in tow -- oil heir Brandon Davis.
If his name sounds familiar, it is because the tall, dark, twenty-something found himself courting internet infamy after being caught on camera in May, branding Lindsay Lohan "fire-crotch" while Paris giggled at his side. The former beau of ex-"O.C." babe, actress Mischa Barton, reportedly spent a stint in rehab in July of this year.
After leaving the club, Britney and Brandon hopped in a driven car, which took them to a party in the Hollywood Hills. Brit's occasionally-underwear-free buddy, Lindsay Lohan, turned up too, following the actresses' appearance at the GQ Men of the Year dinner.
Paris ended up catching a late-night movie at The Grove shopping center with on-again/off-again boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos. Paris later met up with Nicole again at a different party from Brit – this party was at Benny Medina's (Nicole's manager) house.

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America has given new best pals Paris Hilton and Britney Spears their blessing to party - readers of top magazine In Touch like the pop pair together. Despite fears that hotel heiress Hilton is a bad influence on the young single mum, fans want the media to give the girls a break after they spent the Thanksgiving weekend (ends26NOV06) partying around Hollywood. Of those polled, 68 per cent felt Britney and Paris should be given a pass to party, while 32 per cent felt Spears should be more choosy about her pals.
- contactmusic.com

Britney Spears has reportedly infuriated rapper Pharrell Williams by missing a meeting with him.
According to The Sun, the pop star was supposed to be meeting with the Neptunes producer to discuss forthcoming projects.
A source told the paper: "Pharrell takes this as a diss. It' s bad. Pharrell even had a basket of gourmet cupcakes sent to the Marlin Recording Studio where they were to work on the album together."
The snub by Spears comes at the end of a week spent partying with new friend Paris Hilton.
- digitalspy.co.uk

Britney Spears has sensationally pulled out of co-hosting the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Monday, just hours after show bosses boasted she'd appear onstage with new best pal Paris Hilton. The pair was billed to host the star-studded show together, but Spears has now withdrawn.
A source says, "We really don't know the reason. But we're disappointed she backed out."
But Vegas fans hoping to catch a glimpse of the pop princess, who once wed in Sin City, won't have to wait too long for a Spears sighting - she will host a New Year's Eve party on December 31 at Pure nightclub, where her estranged husband Kevin Federline shot his video for debut single "Lose Control" earlier this year.
- starpulse.com

Paris Hilton and Britney Spears went from near strangers to inseparable over the week of Thanksgiving, when they spent almost every day together.
"I love her," Hilton gushed to Us while shopping in Malibu, California, November 27. "She is the sweetest girl I know. She’s so down-to-earth. I just want her to smile and be happy."
And Hilton, 25, is doing her best to make that happen, taking Spears, 24, shopping and agreeing to give her a complete makeover.
In fact, as the pair party all over L.A. (they've hit Hyde, Les Deux, and Teddy's) they have been locking themselves in bathrooms all over town to make sure that they’re camera ready.
After a meal at the Venetian's Tao Asian Bistro in Las Vegas, Spears and Hilton retreated to the ladies' room, where they locked themselves in a bathroom stall to primp for 20 minutes (In the process, Spears lost her black tie).
Spears may be a single woman now, but be careful about dissing Kevin Federline in her presence. She may have smiled at the American Music Awards, but she was furious about host Jimmy Kimmel’s skit featuring a Federline impersonator.
First, when an announcer joked that Federline was there, "she freaked out," a Spears pal says. "But when she found out it was a joke on him, she was really upset. He's a d-ck, but he is the father of her kids."
Another backstage source says Spears was convinced it was really her ex in the skit: "She kept insisting it was him and that she knew what he looked like."
- eviewweek.com

After proclaiming that they are like sisters socialite Paris Hilton and her new best friend Britney Spears were recently spotted in matching T-shirts.
After covering up in their car in LA, new "best" pals Paris Hilton and Britney Spears stepped out in tops which said: "I'm Paris Hilton I Can Do Whatever I Want..."
The pair, who have become inseparable of late, were snapped leaving Paris's LA pad at 7am, reports the Mirror.
And if you thought that this new found friendship is just a passing fad for Paris like her fetish for exotic pets, think again, for Hilton’s rep Elliott Mintz has reealed that the bond between the two goes much deeper.
Mintz said that the pair are "really forming a bond" and that they're "becoming like sisters."
The 24-year-old Spears "looks up to" the 25-year-old Paris and she's "extremely grateful" that Paris has taken her under her wing.
Britney's new post-K-Fed look -- the barely-there skirts, the cleavage-baring tops -- has been "inspired" by Paris, added Mintz.
Brit and Paris are now comfortably ensconced at Britney's house in Malibu, so they can have more quality time while Britney looks after her two boys.
Paris acted like a seasoned pro as she maneuvered Brit through the paparazzi at a Hollywood Hills party recently. Rumours are also abuzz that Paris and Britney along with Linsay Lohan have formed a trio that is set to rule the party circuit.
"What I've observed is that we have three extraordinarily powerful women who generate a tremendous amount of attention, money, and adulation and they're tired of other people trying to ride on their coattails and creating false dramas," Mintz said.
- zeenews.com

Britney Spears' wild ways have led to some very risqué pictures appearing all over the Internet.
While partying with Paris Hilton, the paparazzi caught Britney Spears without panties and now the pictures are all over the Internet.
"She's a beautiful girl and now that she's single and she's having fun, I think she's just trying to express herself," said New York-based celebrity image consultant, Amanda Sanders, according to the Associated Press. "Unfortunately, it's the wrong message that's coming across. And the shame is, she was really such a role model."
Hilton and Spears have been inseparable, appearing at several Los Angeles hot spots together. People magazine also reported the two will host the Billboard Music Awards together.
However, the new Britney has garnered her fair share of critics.
Rosie O’Donnell said Wednesday, on The View, that Spears should stop bonding with Hilton and move in with her, her partner Kelli and their kids, so she could have a "stable family around her,” the AP reported.
- thecelebritycafe.com

Britney Spears and Paris Hilton have been buddies for weeks, but interestingly the two new best pals are now displaying increasing levels of intimacy.
Rumors are circulating around Hollywood that the heiress has been giving her new BF Spears lessons in 'pole dancing'.
"Paris took Britney upstairs in her house where she fitted her in a blue tu-tu, and then Paris put on a matching tu-tu," the Sun quoted a source, as saying.
"They then went downstairs and danced at Paris's in-house stripper pole," the source added.
Meanwhile, it has also surfaced that Paris Hilton might actually be a bad influence on her newest hanger-on, as the Toxic singer has allegedly become way too interested in clubbing lately to work on her much-anticipated new album.
Sources claim that rap star Pharrell Williams is furious with Britney for snubbing a music meeting with him.
"Pharrell takes this as a diss. It's bad. Pharrell even had a basket of gourmet cupcaes sent to the Marlin Recording Studio where they were to work on the album together!" said a source.
- news.sawf.org

Fear not, Britney fans, Britney Spears does have panties to wear.
Despite persistent sightings of Brit's bare bits, she just spent more than $3000 on thongs and other fancy underthings at trendy Le Bra Lingerie boutique in West Hollywood, the place where Katie Holmes picked up her honeymoon unmentionables.
Spears charged up a camisole and thong for $1315, a bustier and thong for $510, a black corset and matching red thong for $300, and a yellow bra and thong for $333, among other things. So many thongs, so little time!
Britney, who's a 36C, came in with a female friend, tried on everything she bought and was overheard saying "I could live here." Perhaps she should.
To get a glimpse of Britney's purchases, you'll have to wait until the next time she hops out of a car ... then again, you might see something else.
- tmz.com

His claim to fame is being married to Britney Spears for less than three days.
But Jason Alexander, childhood sweetheart and first husband of the once squeaky-clean pop princess, knows her inside out.
And for the first time, in an exclusive interview with The Sun, he spills the beans on her broken marriage to Kevin Federline and her tormented love life.
In an amazing outburst he claims K-Fed, or Fed-Ex as he has been dubbed, is now trying to get what he can from the marriage.
He also claims that Britney has had surgery after having two kids.
Jason, 25, and Britney, 24, tied the knot in January 2004 — and annulled the marriage 55 hours later.
Yet Jason said: “I have always loved her and I always will. It’s best for everyone that Kevin and her have split. She is much more confident now.
“I was really shocked when she married Kevin. I figured it was a fling that would fly over. I never thought she’d marry him. He always seemed so negative.
“I am really surprised at the speed at which they had kids — but it has always been a matter of time.
“From what I understand, with all the stuff that’s gone on, the marriage has been unstable for some time.
“It’s been going downhill for a while. Nothing has changed or got better. They had problems before which they tried to work out but now it’s like they can’t sort it out.
“Their problems were because she had kids and that he wanted to pursue a career and was just never home.”
Jason spoke to his old flame last week after she rang to compliment him on a TV interview he gave about her latest marriage woes.
And he has backed Britney, claiming Kevin, 28, is only making a bid for custody of their two children, 14-month-old Sean Preston and ten-week-old Jayden James, as another means to get under her skin.

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If only reports on Kevin Federline cheats on Britney Spears with an "exotic dancer" and former porn star a full month before she filed for divorce are proven true, the singer has made the right decision then.
Talk is heating up that K-Fed was having an affair with a former porn star Kendra Jade. He reportedly met Kendra in Las Vegas in December 2005 while his wife was visiting her family in Kentwood, Louisiana. Since then on, the two got close.
"Kev and Kendra had sex at their friends' apartment multiple times, starting in early October," Star magazine quoted a source as saying. "Their friend would phone Kendra and a few other girls to come hang out, and it would always end up with Kevin and Kendra heading off to the spare bedroom!"
Nevertheless, the fact that K-Fed is now a single man doesn't mean that he and Kendra would become a couple. "They're just friends who have sex," the source explained.
- chinadaily.com.cn

After a week of hanging out with Paris Hilton, Britney Spears' outfits are looking more and more like she's been shopping in Hilton's closet. Then on November 26, the duo were seen sporting matching tees reading I'm Paris Hilton I can do whatever I want. You tell Us: Is Paris controlling Britney?
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