Sarah Ditum

Who’s to blame if Britney Spears has been ‘devoured’ by celebrity?

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike presents Britney as both a unique genius of show business and as an exemplary victim of the age

Britney Spears in 2013, promoting her documentary I Am Britney Jean. [Getty Images]
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