Britney mimes again
Updated on 03 December 2008
Britney Spears tried to put her widely-criticised appearance on X Factor behind her as she celebrated her 27th birthday with a special show on US television.
The troubled pop star continued the launch of her sixth studio album, Circus - her first since her attempted comeback with Blackout last year - during the tribute on Good Morning America.
But she mimed the lyrics and even the show's co-host Diane Sawyer referred to how she wished the troubled pop star would "sit and talk to us".
Instead, Spears gave almost one-word answers to a couple of questions after her performance and even appeared to struggle to answer where her concert tour kicks off, eventually saying "America".
It was left to the breakfast programme hosts to clarify that it begins in New Orleans on March 3.
Wearing a ringmaster's costume, Spears was accompanied by clowns, jugglers and performers dressed as circus animals for the title song of her new CD.
She then jumped though a fiery hoop for her performance of her current single Womanizer inside the Big Apple Circus tent at the Lincoln Centre in New York.
Her US TV appearance also came after she was widely criticised in the UK at the weekend for struggling to synch her lips in time to the music on X Factor.
It was also reported she travelled with a 45-strong entourage of stylists and security for the show, banned contestants and judges from approaching her, and, unlike previous guests including Mariah Carey, Take That and Girls Aloud, did not coach the contestants.
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