Nothing seems to be going right for Britney Spears anymore, though that’s pretty much her own doing. It seems the soon-to-be-former singer had a pretty hectic schedule in the days prior to her VMA performance, despite being told by MTV to lay low, not to party, to get her rest, and to practice, practice, practice! Page Six has some interesting information today about what went on behind the scenes before Britney’s shiteous performance.

“Britney Spears has no one to blame but herself for her disastrous performance at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night. The lip-synching pop tart showed up for her big comeback late, unprepared and with a drink in her hand.

“On Saturday, the day before the VMAs, Spears was scheduled to arrive at rehearsal at around 1 p.m. Our spy said, ‘She didn’t even get to Las Vegas until 4:30 p.m. It was ridiculous . . . The production people at MTV were freaking out . . . Nobody can tell Britney what to do anymore. No one can control her. She is a mess.’ To make matters worse, when she arrived in Vegas, Spears didn’t go straight to rehearsals. ‘She went to her hotel room and ordered a bunch of food and some frozen margaritas,’ the spy said. ‘She came down, like, an hour later with a frozen margarita in her hand.’

“‘The dance number was spectacular – without her,’ said our spy at rehearsal. ‘When the stand-in was rehearsing with the dancers, in the hours they were all waiting for her, it was amazing. Then Britney showed up and refused to do anything. The dancers were supposed to lift and twirl her in the air a few times, and that just wasn’t going to happen. The more complicated dance moves had to be erased because she couldn’t do them.’

“Meanwhile, Spears was agitated because she didn’t like the outfit MTV had selected for her. ‘MTV wanted her to wear a corset outfit. It would have looked great and covered a lot of things up, but she hated it and didn’t think it was sexy enough.’ Instead, Spears changed into a spangly bra-and-underwear outfit she’d brought with her that emphasized her weight gain over the last year.”

[From Page Six]

While I think it’s totally unnecessary to insult Britney’s physique (she still looks better than most of the general population) – you do have to highlight your assets and do your best to minimize your problem areas. That’s true for every performer. Britney knows what she used to look like, and according to reports of things she said when she was heavier a few months ago, she’s well aware that she doesn’t look like 16-year-old Britney anymore. So what is with her delusional critique that outfits aren’t “sexy enough.” We heard this same complaint from Brit at her disastrous “OK” photo shoot when they wanted to dress her in Gucci and Chanel – the outfits weren’t sexy enough. The girl is seriously confusing the words “sexy” and “slutty.”

If you were wondering why Brit’s hair looked so terrible, we’ve got an interesting story behind that. According to E! News, Britney got into a fight with her hairstylist right before her performance. The stylist was so pissed that she cut all of Brit’s extensions before she stormed off. That’s my new fantasy.

“Just when you thought Britney Spears’ hair situation couldn’t get any worse after her disastrous head shaving, I hear things got just as ugly right before her MTV VMAs performance yesterday. An insider tells me that shortly before Spears was to go onstage at the Palms Hotel & Casino’s Pearl Theater, she had some sort of disagreement with her hairstylist.

“And, I’m told, said hair guru quit on the spot. But before leaving, my source reports, the disgruntled stylist cut up all of the extensions Spears was planning on wearing for her big number. Meanwhile, I also hear that Britney, at one point during the days leading up to the awards, threw a fit because her name wasn’t on the marquee at the Palms. She calmed down once it was added.”

[From E! News]

So that explains why Brit’s hair looked so weird and uneven. I didn’t notice it during the original viewing of her performance… as it was hard to think about anything but the disaster unfolding before my eyes. But going back, you can see that her hair and her extensions are two distinctly different shades of blond, and it makes her look like a messed up My Little Pony. I’m a natural blond so I know that light hair can look darker on top, but it doesn’t look like that. That is the look of an angry stylist.

Update: “Entertainment Tonight” just reported that the hairstylist in question was Jessica Simpson’s BFF, Ken Paves.

“‘Celebrity stylist Ken Paves, who traveled to Las Vegas for VMA weekend to do Britney Spears’ hair, is speaking out.

“After Britney’s underwhelming VMA performance, reports surfaced that she had canceled her stylist before going onstage.

“A rep for Ken tells ET: ‘Ken Paves did go to Las Vegas to work with Britney Spears; however, once there he made the professional decision not to do her hair for the VMAs.'”

[From Entertainment Tonight]