Our suspicions have been confirmed: the Britney/Paris "friendship" is all a big a publicity stunt.
What other conclusion can we come to, now that we've learned Paris and Brit are scheduled to co-host next week's Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas?
Are we supposed to think the organizers of that awards presentation just decided, a week before their show, to have these two as hostesses? Or is it more likely that this was planned awhile ago, and in hopes of drumming up interest for what is at best an also-ran awards show, someone devised the clever scheme of having Paris and Britney do the NBF act, in public, with photographers present?
And of course it worked. There are pictures of Britney and Paris all over the web. Pictures of Britney's cooter. Britney's boobs. Britney and Paris teasing Lindsay Lohan by pretending to be friends with her. And who's going to complain, considering all the traffic this has generated (today alone, The Superficial, Perez Hilton and Dlisted have all suffered slow-downs; hell, Crabbie hasn't even hardly posted anything on the two skanks, and he's had his two biggest days ever)?
So it's a win-win - the Billboard people get their publicity, and we get our page views. And Britney and Paris get to be the talk of the nation for showing up at places with no underwear on.
And we wonder why the rest of the world hates America.
Update: It now appears that Britney has decided to pull out of the Billboard Music Awards gig (this link wasn't working earlier, then it was). Sources at US Weekly say Britney and Paris were in negotiations to share hostess duties when Britney abruptly changed her mind. There's still a chance Britney could change her mind back though. Goody-goody gumdrops.
