Beleaguered pop diva Britney Spears has turned to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for protection against an alleged stalker, who she said threatened to kill her. Britney requested the agency for protection after she reportedly received a number of letters, including one on how to make a bomb. Besides this, the singer was delivered several packages that contained sex toys, and notes on the Middle East and Israel.

“We have been looking at allegations that have cropped up in the past couple of months,” Contactmusic quoted a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman, as saying. A FBI spokesman said: “We cannot comment on ongoing investigations.”

Pussycat Dolls singer Carmit Bachar has confirmed she’s left the girl group. Bachar was the only original member of the Los Angeles-based burlesque dance troupe from which the band was formed.

She writes on the Pussycat Dolls’ website: “I wanted to be the first to tell you that I’m no longer with the Pussycat Dolls but we will always be sisters forever.”

Pussycat Dolls have no plans to replace Bachar and will carry on as a five-piece.

Justin Timberlake is looking to bring viewers back to NBC.

The pop star is teaming with Reveille, the production company behind Ugly Betty and The Office, to bring the hit Peruvian comedy My Problem with Women to the Peacock net, NBC confirmed Friday.

Timberlake will serve as an executive producer on the project, which is based on Peru’s Mi Problema con las Mujeres, a show that launched in July and has since been sold in 20 countries.

“I am very excited to be collaborating with Reveille to bring this hugely successful format to NBC,” the singer said in a statement.

In other Timberlake news, Mr. SexyBack will be inducting none other than Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday. The duo recently collaborated on the Queen of Pop’s upcoming album, Hard Candy, which is due out on Apr. 28.

Up ahead, Timberlake stars in the comedy The Love Guru, opposite Mike Myers and Jessica Alba. The film is slated for a June 20 release.

He is currently filming the drama The Open Road, opposite Jeff Bridges and Kate Mara.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner ruled Wednesday that Britney Spears’ father would retain control of his daughter’s finances and estate for five more months.

Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz extended James Spears’ control until July 31, said court spokesman Alan Parachini. Parachini wasn’t immediately able to provide more information.

Spears was named co-conservator of the pop star’s estate after she was hospitalized twice in January. His temporary authority was to continue until Monday.

the year leading up to the hospitalizations, Spears had been caught on camera by paparazzi engaging in increasingly bizarre behavior. She shaved her head, beat a vehicle with an umbrella, wore skirts sans underwear and left her car on a busy street with a flat tire.

There may be many advantages to being Elvis Presley’s daughter, but at times your genetic inheritance may not be one of them.

 The Daily Mail reports that at a New York homeless charity event this month Lisa Marie, who has in the past tended to take after her still-youthful mother Priscilla - star of the Naked Gun series of films - appeared “bloated”.

Her father Elvis famously died of a suspected heart attack in 1977, when weighing as much as 250lb (18 stone).

While a long-standing amphetamines and painkillers habit are reported to have contributed to his untimely death - he was just 42 - his penchant for snacks such as the bacon, peanut butter and banana deep-fried sandwich was well-documented.

It is reported that he would eat one made from a hollowed-out loaf intended to feed eight people at a single sitting.

Miss Presley’s appearance is in stark contrast to last summer, when a trim Lisa-Marie appeared in a virtual-reality duet with her late father.

The singer-songwriter, who counts Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson among her three ex-husbands, is currently married to Michael Lockwood, her guitarist and producer. She has released two platinum-selling albums, and in August 2007 her duet with Elvis on his 1968 single “In The Ghetto” reached number one on the iTunes video sales chart in the first week of its release.

A third album, as yet unnamed, is due to be released at some stage in 2008.