Britney Spears is reportedly having a recording studio built in the Malibu home she shares with husband Kevin Federline. Britney's already put her career on hold to, as she put it, enjoy life.
But a source close to the singer told Life & Style Weekly that Brit is planning to help Kevin, a dancer by trade, break into music. I'm pretty sure she'll use it for herself a lot too.
This way, she'll be able to work on her music whenever she wants to. It'll also be a more calm and personal environment for recording/working.
Friends of Kevin Federline tell In Touch that wife Britney Spears seems to be grooming the dancer into the image of her superstar ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake. "I hope she's not doing it just because she wants another Justin," Kevin's pal confided. The friend added, "I just hope she loves Kevin for who he is, not for what she thinks she can make him into."
God knows if anyone needs an image makeover it's Kevin Federline. I think he kind of looks a bit like Justin anyway when he's clean shaven and not dressed like a tramp. I always thought she would end up with Justin or someone like him. It's inevitable IMO that she tries to change him. He's an idiot.
Just when we thought life couldn't get any wackier on Planet Spears, we hear Britney aims to turn pop svengali and transform ferret-faced hubby Kevin Federline into a hip-hop star.
Apparently Brit's former dancer sees himself as the new Vanilla Ice. We hope that doesn't mean he'll end up on a reality TV show arguing with Paul Daniels about the Iraq war as C-list stars lend a hand with the farm animals.
"Britney wants him to come out as a rapper - she says he can flow," a source tells the New York Daily News. The singer is now setting up a clothing line with the 26-year-old father-of-two - so you too can dress like Mr and Mrs Slob.
And she also revealed she treated her dogs to a special Christmas present - a chandelier and a chest of drawers. Busy Britney is also writing a musical, which she hopes to direct, that pokes fun at the Hollywood scene.
But is there a character who's a multi-millionaire celeb who got married in a tracksuit and treats her miniature mutts like little furry people? Barking.
KROQ's Kevin & Bean show talked about Britney Spears' hopes to get hubby Kevin Federline launched as a hip hop star. They got on the phone with a Federline impersonator who showed off his rhyming skills, talked about his plans for a K-Unit crew, and gave the station a "world premiere" of his first songs 'Britney, Sign This Check, *****' and 'My Penis Has A Mullet'.
Star Magazine: Kevin Federline has set his sights on becoming a singing, acting and dancing superstar -- and wife Britney Spears is ready to spend up to $1 million to help bankroll his dream, insiders say.
The plan calls for Kevin, an accomplished backup dancer who's performed with boy band LFO and with Britney's former flame Justin Timberlake, to study with some of the best performance coaches and experts money can buy.
"Kevin claims that when they [singing, acting and dancing coaches] have worked their magic on him, he'll be in a touring and co-starring role with Britney," says a source close to the couple, who adds that they are both eyeing a Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson-style reality show if his career blooms.
"Everyone agrees that while Kevin looks like a laid-back, cool dude just willing to ride Britney's gravy train, nothing could be farther from the truth," the source said. "The fact is he's a very ambitious guy who not only loves her for being Britney but also worships her for what she can do for him."
A friend of Britney, 23, agrees that career plans for Kevin, 26, are heating up.
"I'm told the [lessons] will last for at least the first six months of the new year, taking place in both New York and L.A.," the friend says. "They don't want people knowing about it, but it will be hard to keep quiet."
The friend added: "She's told him to go for it -- that she'll bankroll him up to a million bucks for singing, dancing and drama coaches. She really wants him to succeed. Kevin's already a good dancer, but the other stuff is going to be relatively new to him."
Both sources say that as a former dancer, Kevin is eager to make his own name for himself on stage. And they agree that he doesn't want to be viewed by the public as just Mr. Britney Spears --or worse, as someone out to spend her money.
Further branching out in his career, Kevin recently modeled clothing for a spread in an upcoming issue of the trendy men's magazine Details, and he is reportedly interested in possibly starting his own clothing line one day.
Britney and Kevin's rep, Leslie Sloane, told Star: "Britney supports Kevin in everything and anything he wants to do."
She dismissed the idea that Nick and Jessica are professional role models for the couple, but as for taking lessons, or Britney bankrolling them, she said, "I don't know anything about it. Kevin didn't say anything. But it wouldn't be anything new for him. He was a dancer before. He's modeled. I can't say it's not true."
"I really don't know if he wants to act," she added. "Justin Timberlake and Usher did it, so if they can do it, why can't he?"
I think if you gave any person on the Earth a million dollars worth of singing and acting lessons then they could have a successful career. Plus being maried to Britney Spears is always going to give Kevin a leg-up.
If he needs that much help, then he can't have much natural talent.
Britney Spears' hip-hop hubby, Kevin Federline, is getting a metrosexual makeover courtesy of Details magazine. The gay-friendly glossy's editor in chief, Dan Peres, hired fashion photographer Steven Klein to shoot a cover photo of Federline to accompany Peres' interview of the former back up dancer.
We're told that Spears, with her tiny pup Bit-bit in tow, was on hand to direct Federline in the shoot, in which he swapped his wifebeater shirt and baggy jeans for more dapper duds. Spears even convinced Klein, who has shot the A-list likes of Brad Pitt and Madonna, to snap Federline for the April issue of L'Uomo Vogue. Credit: Bryan-Morgan.
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