Britney Spears confirms UK dates

BRITNEY SPEARS has announced that she will play two dates at London's O2 arena next June.

The pop princess will play the 3rd and 4th of June 2009 at the Docklands venue and tickets go on sale on December 5th. Fans who register with her website can buy them 24 hours earlier.

Rob Hallet, spokesman for tour promoter AEG said the concerts would take the theme from Spears's latest album The Circus, which is released next week.
He said: "It's going to be very special. We're creating a musical circus. Expect to see jugglers, dancers, tattooed ladies and acrobats."

But he added that the O2 dates will be the only European shows on her forthcoming world tour "for the foreseeable future".
Spears last performed in the UK in 2004 when her Onyx Hotel tour visited Birmingham, Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester and Wembley Arena in London.

The 26-year-old will be in London this weekend for a special appearance on ITV1 talent show The X Factor and a performance at G.A.Y.

Yesterday she arrived in Dusseldorf, Germany to attend the annual Bambi entertainment awards where she will be named Best International Pop Star, after achieving what organisers have called a "stunning comeback from an absolute low point".