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The ‘Hold it Against Me’ hitmaker – who has sons Sean Preston, five, and Jayden James, four, with ex-husband Kevin Federline – insists she is not upset about leaving her 20s behind and is excited to see what the next decade in her life will bring her, with a big party to kick things off.

She said: “I think the older you get, the wiser you get. I can’t wait.

“I’m really excited and I am definitely going to celebrate and do something spectacular. I’m going to be in South America so I’ll have to do something pretty fun. A carnival of Britney? I don’t think I’ll be doing that. It’ll be something a little bit more low key.

The blonde star is also excited about the forthcoming US version of ‘X Factor’, and is particularly looking forward to seeing music mogul Simon Cowell dish out his put-downs.

She said: “I’ll definitely watch it. I respect Simon’s honesty. It’s refreshing. But I couldn’t be that honest.”

Despite turning 30, Britney – who is in a relationship with her former agent Jason Trawick – continues to be under the conservatorship of her father Jamie Spears, which has been in place since a highly-visible public meltdown in 2008, and he is likely to retain control of her affairs for the foreseeable future.

A source said recently: “The conservatorship won’t be ending this year because everything is going well.
“Britney is on tour again, which she truly loves. This would be the worst time to make a change, while she is on the road, and is in unfamiliar surroundings.”

Britney Spears is to marry for a third time.

The 29-year-old singer – who has two sons, Sean Preston, five, and Jayden James, four, with second husband Kevin Federline – got secretly engaged to long-term boyfriend Jason Trawick when the 39-year-old talent manager popped the question by writing the pop star a romantic poem.

After filling the ground floor of the couple’s Los Angeles mansion with roses and candles, Jason reportedly presented Britney with a flower-shaped diamond ring, according to The Sun newspaper.
An insider said: “She’s on cloud nine.”

The ‘Toxic’ hitmaker is also said to be keen to have another child, her first with Jason, but only wanted to do it once she had tied the knot again.

The source added: “Britney is desperate to settle down again and have more children. But she is very traditional and didn’t want to start a family with Jason until they’d tie the knot.”

Britney – whose first marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander was annulled just 55 hours after they said, ‘I do’ in Las Vegas in 2004 – is now said to be planning a “low-key” ceremony in Hawaii once she has completed her upcoming world tour.

Britney Spears may be required to undergo a psychiatric examination after her parents claimed she was ‘mentally incapable’ of testifying in a court case.

The star’s mother Lynne is being sued for defamation by Spears’s ex-manager Sam Lufti over claims made about him in her tell-all memoir, Through The Storm.

She alleged that he regularly drugged Spears and harassed her following her well-publicized breakdown.
But Lufti claims the allegations are false and has requested that Spears be called as a witness to testify in the case.

The singer remains under the conservatorship of her father, Jamie Spears, and her lawyer, Andrew Wallet.
Both are reported to be unwilling to let Lufti have contact with the 29-year-old, who was in a fragile mental state when she last had dealing with him.

But Lufti has rejected their claims, arguing that Britney is now back in control of her mental health.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lufti has had an expert in psychiatry analyze a recent video interview with Britney in support of his argument.

UCLA Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Joshua Pretsky, concluded that Britney was able to testify and had shown evidence of ‘coherent and logical thinking, responsiveness to questions, and mental competence’.

‘In the Ryan Seacrest interview, which was recorded approximately two months ago, Britney Spears is interviewed at length, and she responds logically and coherently to questions, evidencing logical thinking and mental competency,’ he told the court.

‘In my opinion, there is good cause to conduct an Independent medical examination to investigate the Conservators’ claim that Ms Spears is not mentally capable of testifying, and the claim that she was not mentally competent to enter into a binding contract.’

Supporting Lufti’s claims are the changes in Britney’s circumstances since her break-down.

She has now regained custody of her two young sons, is about to embark on a world tour, and is in a stable relationship.