Britney Spears Sue’s WFLZ
Britney Spears is threatening legal action against Clear Channel’s WFLZ/Tampa over billboards for the MJ Morning Show that features a picture of Spears with a shaved head. The MJ Morning Show airs on several stations across Florida, and the billboards, which first appeared in May, advertised the program in Tampa, Jacksonville and Clearwater.
Spears’ lawyers demanded on Monday that Clear Channel remove billboard ads for WFLZ, which use an image of irate and bald Spears alongside the show’s host Todd Schnitt with bold phrases.
In a letter obtained by website TheSmokingGun.com and sent to the legal department of Clear Channel, which owns WFLZ, Spears’ attorney protests the decision to link the singer’s image with mental illness and for allegedly failing to remove the billboards nearly two weeks ago.
The letter reads: “It was outrageous in the extreme that Clear Channel created and displayed the billboards in the first place. That Clear Channel then had the unabashed temerity to lie about their removal shocks the conscience.
The billboards utilize a rather unflattering paparazzi photo of the bald singer along with a picture of the morning show host, and they are headlined, “Total Nut Jobs,” “Shock Therapy” and “Certifiable.”