An A-Z look at Britney Spears

After a five-year absence, Britney Spears returns to Metro Detroit on Tuesday to bring her "Circus" tour to The Palace of Auburn Hills.

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So, what's our fair Britney been up to since we last saw her? Eh, not much, if you don't count shaving her head, derailing her career, bouncing back on the comeback trail and getting her life back in order.

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The nonstop sideshow is indicative of Spears, who has captivated pop culture since she first strutted across our TV screens 10 years ago in a Catholic school girl outfit in the "... Baby One More Time" video.

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The ensuing decade has been just a never-ending flurry of ups, downs, controversies, scandals and general craziness. There may have even been some music in there, too.

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Taking it all in, we've chronicled the career of Britney Spears from A-Z, from her marriage to Jason Alexander to her 2003 album "In the Zone."

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Russell Brand And pop Queen Britney Spears Flirt Telepathically In VMA Promo

In a new promo for the Video Music Awards, which air live from New York City on September 13, Spears longs to be Brand's date for the big night. Spears, clad in a white bikini and large black hat, thinks to herself,

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I wonder if he'll invite me. I mean, I can obviously get an invite, but it would be nice for Russell to invite me personally, now that we're friends and all.

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Brand then wonders to himself if he could have offended Spears somewhere along the way, so much so that perhaps she wouldn't want to see him at this year's show. "I hope I didn't balls it up with her last time," he thinks to himself. "Some of those things I said could have been construed as offensive. I hope she don't think ill of me."

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Then Spears thinks to herself that perhaps she may have done something to make Brand think she isn't interested. "Should I have played it up more when he was flirting with me last year? I have to admit, there is something sexy about his dangerous ways."

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The spot ends with Brand realizing that he can hear everything Spears is thinking and that maybe it works both ways. Of course, that leads Brand to think of only inappropriate ideas for the pop star.

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"Britney," he thinks, hoping she can hear him. "This is the voice of your mind. Go to Russell's hotel room and abandon yourself. Give yourself to him, Britney. Sleep with Russell!"

Pop Queen Britney Spears shows her new figure on Letterman

What would a President Spears administration be like? Apparently, very tasty.

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Britney Spears appeared on David Letterman's "Late Show" on Tuesday to deliver a Top Ten list of ways the country would be different if she were president.

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Free pie for everybody,

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For No. 10 on the list,she'd be "the first president since Nixon to wear eye shadow.

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The pop star appeared eager to show off her buff new body. She delivered the list in a bikini.

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