Tabloid Hell: Britney Spears 'heavy petting' session

Britney Spears' rollercoaster battle with dignity continues at speed with this morning’s (August 8) redtops splashing (sorry – pun ed) snaps of the pop princess “frolicking” in a pool across their pages.

It seems the singer can't even get on with mounting a singing comeback without tabloid infamy lurking beneath the surface.

Apparently “onlookers watched in shock” – then no doubt took the rather lucrative pictures that appear in today’s papers – as Spears romped with “a complete stranger”, having just filmed a new music video.

The stranger actually turned out to be video extra Mike Encinias, who seems only too happy to share the intimate details about his brush with fame, telling The Sun “Britney was drinking Mojitos and she’d been drinking some Jack Daniel’s, suddenly she shocked everyone by just stripping out of her top”.

She didn’t shock our intrepid kiss-and-teller though, who was allegedly summoned by an assistant to "make out" with the singer – and they say romance is dead.

Without a gentlemanly bone in his body, the student is happy to inform the world the singer’s “body is very nice… she is a great kisser – I’d actually say a phenomenal kisser”. High praise indeed.

So why has this story leaked out on a mere Wednesday and not been plastered across one of the Sunday tabs with headlines like “We did it ten times in a night”?

Well it seems Mr Encinias failed to seal the deal, as it were.

Apparently one of his friends got too drunk and naturally he had to take him home… not that the millionaire singer got bored of her plaything and decided to go home, oh no.