Tess Barker

Comedians, #freebritney activists, journalists, and podcastors Tess Barker & Babs Gray join Jameela this week to discuss all things Britney Spears and conservatorships. They discuss how having a fan-podcast about Britney’s instagram led them to learning more about Britney’s conservatorship, break down the details of the conservatorship and the consistently questionable methods which were used to keep Britney in it, explore what conservatorships are at large and why the system is so often problematic, cover why Keanu Reeves would be the perfect executor of a trust, and more. To learn more about Tess & Bab’s work reporting on Britney Spears’ conservatorship, listen to their podcast – Toxic: The Britney Spears Story. 

You can follow Tess Barker on Instagram and Twitter@tesstifybarker

You can follow Babs Gray on Instagram and Twitter@babsgray
And listen to Toxic: The Britney Spears Story here – https://www.stitcher.com/show/toxic-the-britney-spears-story

You can find transcripts for this episode on the Earwolf website. 

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What’s poppin con-gregation?This week, comedians Tess Barker and Babs Gray, hosts of the Toxic:The Britney Spears Story podcast, discuss the scam that is the Britney Spears’ Conservatorship. Plus, a Danish museum is duped by a concept artist, who literally took the money and ran!

Research By Kaelyn Brandt 

SOURCES

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Here is Toxic: The Britney Spears Story from our friends at Stitcher’s Witness Docs. Comedians and Hosts Tess Barker and Babs Gray lay out everything you need to know about Britney Spears, her controversial conservatorship, and the movement of fans trying to end it. They talk to exclusive sources, examine new sides of the story, and uncover disturbing truths about our legal system that go way beyond Britney. In this episode, the first of a 10 part documentary series, Britney Spears wants out of her conservatorship. But how did she wind up in it to begin with? And what will it take to #FreeBritney? Babs Gray and Tess Barker have been digging into questions like these for years.

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