Today’s headlines and Twitter trending topics felt like a warm hug and made me nostalgic for 2006. And by now, we all know the sad tale of Spears who suffered a nervous breakdown and was put under a 13-year conservatorship that sparked the #FreeBritney movement. She found herself making a mint as an overseas DJ with a string of tourist trap clubs and endorsement deals- while fading dangerously close to the D-list on our shores.Ī troubled Lohan was dogged by reports of difficult behavior, moved overseas and adopted a strange accent. Paris’s popularity was usurped by her stylist best friend - a little unknown by the name of Kim Kardashian - who went on to edge her out with her own sex tape and a fuller rump. FilmMagicīritney Spears thanks fans for conservatorship’s end in emotional Instagram post Britney Spears’ conservatorship ended Friday. Soon after the fact, Newsweek conducted a poll which said 77 percent of American adults thought the trio had too much influence on the younger generation.Īnd oh, times changed. These hard-partying chicks were also avatars for the Hollywood club-going, swag hoarding, paparazzi-drenched culture that defined the era - before that old paradigm-shifting recession that made their frivolity and consumption seem a tad tasteless. Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton on the evening of the “Bimbo Summit” in 2006. It felt like a tsunami produced by the tabloid gods. All three were luminaries in their respective fields - pop star, actress and heiress - in one place at one time. The night is now etched in pop culture lore: Hilton, Spears and Lohan emerged, unsteady from the Beverly Hilton, sparking a paparazzi feeding frenzy. It is almost 15 years to the day when the once naughty trinity who was among the early aughts’ most celebrated boldfacers were photographed piling into a car in what would come to be known by historians (or brilliant New York Post headline writers) as the “Bimbo Summit.” In one holy, auspicious 24-hour period, Paris Hilton tied the knot, Britney Spears was officially freed from her conservatorship and Lindsay Lohan, it was announced, would be making her comeback with a Netflix rom-com.įor lack of a better sentiment: “That’s hot.” Inside Paris Hilton and Carter Reum’s emotional, romantic wedding
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