NO! Oh, Dear God in Heaven above, NO! Oh GOD! Dr. Phil cancels his "Britney Intervention Special"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Dr. Phil Pulls Plug on Britney Show

Posted Jan 7th 2008 1:00PM by TMZ Staff

Bending to public pressure over his Britney Spears intervention show, Dr. Phil has canceled the program scheduled for tomorrow.

http://www.tmz.com/2008/01/07/dr-phil-pulls-the-plug-on-britney-show/



In a statement on his site, the good doc says, "As was widely reported this weekend, at the request of concerned family members, I visited Britney Spears in the hospital. The details of that visit will, of course, remain private. We had planned to tape a Dr. Phil Now show today, focusing not on the tabloid side of Britney's latest problems, but instead on the very serious issues surrounding this case."

The statement goes on, "Clearly, it is not just Britney's family struggling to find a way to protect adult children who cannot be ordered or compelled to seek help. Because the Spears situation is too intense at this time, and out of consideration to the family, I have made the decision not to move forward with the taping at this particular time. Britney and her family are in our prayers, and we ask that they be in yours."

TMZ's poll (Total Votes: 51,223):

Dr. Phil is ...

Doing the right thing, 30%

Saving his own ass, 70%

[JVS]

1. Good

[LynneSin]

2. Dr Phil is the biggest Tool there is

:grr:

He's doing it on request of the family - BULLSHIT. Ok, perhaps Lynne SPears asked Dr. Phil to check in on her daughter - that's not a shocker to me. BUt I'm sure Lynne Spears didn't ask Dr. Phil the Tool to promote his bloated ego on the back of her stability challenged daughter.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Supposedly the father requested the visit...

...because the mother and underage pregnant sister were both out of town in Louisiana.

Everyone who's watched an old vampire movie knows that you have to invite them in...they can't just fly in through the window.

Phil's a bottom feeder and an asshole, but Mr. Spears invited him in.

[underpants]

6. Yeah but he saved Oprah all kinds of money with the Beef people

:bounce:

[AlCzervik]

3. bleh, Dr. Phil is a dbag.

if he really wanted to help people he'd do it off camera---hopefully forever.

[Dangerously Amused]

4. Translation:

"Being advised by my lawyers of the fact that I could be sued up the arse for invasion of privacy and negligent infliction of emotional distress, not to mention quite possibly arrested and prosecuted for violating patient confidentiality rules as well as harassment (among other things), I have reluctantly decided against an attempt to personally profit off someone's mental illness by holding her up to public scrutiny and ridicule. For now."


"Dr." Phil = absolute and total fuckwit.

:puke:

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. I feel sorry for all of them

yet cannot help to hear carnival music in the background.

[Arugula Latte]

8. How will we go on?

It all seems so ... pointless ... now, somehow.

[Cleita]

9. Could it be that the product (Britney) refused to cooperate and

be exploited for ratings for Dr. Phil? If she did, I'm on her side.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. Supposedly...

...when he showed up unannounced, she simply walked out of the room. He later issued a press release stating that he'd talked with her for an hour, which in reality was more like 15 minutes.

She does need help...no doubt about it. But she needs REAL help, and she's not going to get it from being exploited for ratings on Dr. Phil's show.

Her mom and dad?

WORST PARENTS EVER.

[Ilsa]

12. He's just going to charge her for the hour.

What an unethical putz this guy is, going in to try and treat her without her permission. I wished she had called security to have his ass tossed out.

[sakabatou]

10. O NOES!

:eyes:

[hisownpetard]

He got so much bad press that he was forced to cancel his $how. What a POS he is!

:hi:

[hisownpetard]

13. Delete-dupe

[VenusRising]

14. Instead, it will be about the girl who hung herself

because of the mother of a friend that tormented her on MySpace.