Count Simon Cowell among the astute celebrity watchers who are no longer buying Britney Spears's crazy act.
"Everyone thinks it's breakdown this and breakdown that," Simon told PageSix.com "From the kind of stunts she's pulling now, I think she is the puppet master and completely in control.
"I really felt for her at one point, I thought she was heading for a meltdown and everything was out of control, but, especially over the past week, I thought she was honestly in control and, more to the point, wants to be in control.
"If you don't want to get any press attention, just keep your head down, don't drive yourself anywhere and sit in the back of a blacked-out limousine. But if she thinks she knows what she is doing, then good luck to her."
I went back and forth on whether Britney was fucking with us or was honestly that nuts for awhile, but now I think it's mostly an act. Maybe 90% phony and 10% honest insanity. Clearly, Britney gets off on messing with people's heads, as Adnan Ghalib found out first-hand. Of course, when you play with fire, you get burned now and then. She clearly went too far the night she got hauled off to the hospital. That's when I think she slips over the line into something real and scary. But most of the time, it's all a childish game.(source)
