Britney bugged

Britney, we have been reliably informed by psychologists in the last few days, shaved her head because the hair "represented those stylists and managers who attempt to control her career." Or as a cry for help. Or something.

So far, we've not heard what Britney herself says was her justification:

Britney complained to friends of a "strange itching" on her scalp before running out of Eric Clapton's Crossroads clinic last week on Caribbean isle Antigua The 25-year-old said the bugs "totally freaked me out" and she had no choice but to lose her locks.

Leaving LA's Mondrian hotel, Brit was heard shuddering: "I had to get rid of the lice. They were horrible."

Well, she has been hanging out with Paris Hilton a lot, so it's possible, but... the sense of insects crawling over her skin, thousands and thousands, itching, scratching... who else has symptoms like that?

Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake is being the gentleman about the woman he left behind, sounding for all the world like someone who's just been asked by a terrible-artist friend "what do you think of my latest painting?":

"It was a smart choice, she is starting over, cleaning herself up. It was something you wouldn't expect most people to do, so she is taking a chance."

Yes... some other things you wouldn't expect most people to do include writing "GOD WILL JUDGE" in shit on a hotel wall, holding Al Gore hostage inside a 7/11 or refusing to use forks and eating only with coffee-stirrers. It doesn't actually mean that those would be good ideas, either.