Bette Midler slams 'wild and woolly slut' Britney
Last updated at 12:24pm on 8th December 2006

After fifty years in showbusiness, Bette Midler probably felt that she had seen and done it all.

Until, that is, she was confronted with the brazenly obscene antics of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.

So, in a scathing, no holds barred attack, the 61-year-old actress has branded the pair 'wild and woolly sluts'.

The singer turned Oscar-nominated actress hit out at the duo who have been repeatedly photographed enjoying a string of wild nights out - missing their underwear.

'I've been on the other side to these wild and woolly sluts that we are seeing around our lives these days and I've taken the other side,' she said.

'I started my life out as pretty wild but I have decided, after much growing and living, that it's time that we got nicer.'

Talking about the pair's headline-grabbing decision to be snapped minus any underwear, she joked: 'I'm wearing underwear, in fact a lot of underwear.

'In fact I'm wearing all the underwear that those girls are not wearing - at least two bras and several pairs of panties.'

When asked on the US TV show Extra if she had a message for the American socialites, she replied: 'Get a life, get a grip. I mean someone should sit those ladies down.'

Her tirade comes after Miss Spears, 25, and 20-year-old Miss Lohan, together with heiress Paris Hilton, have been photographed drinking and partying virtually non-stop over the past six weeks.

Their antics followed Britney's announcement last month that she was divorcing her second husband, Kevin Federline.

Of course, Miss Midler, who is married to her husband of 22 years, producer Martin von Haselberg, is not the first celebrity to have frowned on mother-of-two Miss Spears' recent behaviour.

Troubled singer Courtney Love suggested that she should stay at home more to look after her children while former supermodel Janice Dickinson claimed that Britney's would be wise to 'buckle down and become a parent'.

This latest criticism comes just 24 hours after it was reported that the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services planned to investigate the singer about concerns over the welfare of her two children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

Similarly, it has been an unfortunate week for Mean Girls star, Lindsay Lohan. The brunette actress, who recently joined Alcoholics Anonymous, has reportedly sent a second rambling, semi-literate e-mail to her friends - less than two weeks after making an incoherent tribute to late director Robert Altman.

In a letter obtained by the New York Post, she claimed that she planned to take on gossip columns with the help of former Vice President Al Gore.

'Al Gore will help me,' she wrote. 'He came up to me last night and said he would be very happy to have a conversation with me.

'If he is willing to help me, let's find out. Hilary (sic) Clinton, Bill Clinton and Evan Metroplis (sic) and John Daur who works with them would be willing, if we just ask. If we just ASK.'

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its always funny to me when people who became notorious from scandalous beginnings turn around and call out the new kids for being scandalous. bette was rauncy in her day even if she had a wicked sense of humor. prince, too...he and his g string need to act like they know.

great, now that you're old and boring you can call out younger people for being wild.

I hope Britney realizes she is doing major damage to her career.

She's just mad her don't look like that.

sallysassalot said:

Bette is anything but boring

sallysassalot said:

bet is still very blue in concert

Bette has talent

Britney just has a schick.

lazycrockett said:

I'm sorry, a schtick?

CinisterCee said:

i dunno cinnie
i saw those pictures and one word comes to mind
MEATFLAPS...

CinisterCee said:

No a Schick.

CinisterCee said:

I know I don't want my to look like that. I saw that C-section scar and that's not cute...not cute at all. But, hey, I was grossed out by the video for "Thank You" by Alanis Morrissette. The whole video I was like this , saying to myself, "Why are you sitting on a nasty public bus seat without drawers on?! No Alanis, NOOO!" I don't like sitting on the seat in a public bathroom, let alone bare-assed on a city bus. I doubt they bleach those seats very often. If you're going to go commando, at least wear pants for a more "sanitary you" reason. I just hope that all the chairs these three (Britney, Lindsay, and Paris) sat on were cleaned with Lysol, because I wouldn't want their lady juices on my pants.

estelle81 said:

believe it or not
the ass is one of the cleanest places on the human body

EmbattledWarrior said:

Yeah right! Kiss my anus!

EmbattledWarrior said:

Really? I guess that's good in the toilet department, but when a girl sits down on a regular chair, more than just her ass is touching the seat, unfortunately.... ewwww, bad visual.

estelle81 said:

so thats why my best friend likes to sniff the toilet after a female been on it...

VoicesCarry said:

her schtick is older than God.

lazycrockett said:

So Bette has the schtick.

CinisterCee said:

No Bette is the shit, take a big whiff!

lazycrockett said:

as an aside I will say this, shes the only Diva that the "community" adores that I give cred to.

continue

lazycrockett said:

You know damn well you love Roseanne.

CinisterCee said:

Third n Delaware baby!

Lohan said:

Man, when even Courtney f**king Love is dogging your parenting skills...

Britney Spears has ruined whats left of her commercial career.

who is this Bette Midler?

I don't know the woman, but she sure says some great stuff!

This reminds me a bit of Joan Rivers' comment when asked about Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie. She said something to the effect of, "These girls are so low-rent, I don't pay them any attention." (I read this in the Detroit Free Press).