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Britney Spears left 'extremely upset' after Australian fans
walk out of live show over lip-syncing
Britney Spears' Australian promoter has called her shows an incredible spectacle.
But not everyone is convinced --including trading standards officers.
Fans - who have paid up to £800 for tickets - have walked out of her two-hour 'Circus Tour' shows and demanded their money back because of disappointment over her lip-synching and because her dancing failed to make up for the lack of words.
And the claims have left the singer distraught.
Britney, 27, is 'extremely upset' over the backlash, her promoter admitted, because 'she's a human being'.
Fans who walked out of her Circus tour performance last week because she was miming during segments of the two-hour show said they wanted their money back as her dancing had failed to make up for the lack of words.
One entertainment writer described Miss Spears as looking 'horrifically out of place, like she'd rather be anywhere else but on stage in front of 17,000 fans.
'We were led to believe the lip-syncing was necessary because her dancing was so good, so rigorous, she couldn't possibly sing. But her moves were sloppy and stiff, as well as out of time.'
This came as the embattled singer raised eyebrows for leaving her hotel in Perth, Western Australia, wearing a top that left no-one in any doubt that she was bra-less.
One entertainment writer described Miss Spears as looking 'horrifically out of place, like she'd rather be anywhere else but on stage in front of 17,000 fans.
'We were led to believe the lip-syncing was necessary because her dancing was so good, so rigorous, she couldn't possibly sing. But her moves were sloppy and stiff, as well as out of time.'
This came as the embattled singer raised eyebrows for leaving her hotel in Perth, Western Australia, wearing a top that left no-one in any doubt that she was bra-less.
Miss Devlin declared 'Don't call me a liar' while Miss Spears' Australian promoter, Paul Dainty, claimed the report about fans walking out was 'the biggest lie I've ever heard'.
The writer said she had personally spoken to 25 people who walked out of the Perth performance - some as early as the third song - and while she was speaking to disgruntled fans, more and more people walked past.
She added that a security guard had commented that he had never seen so many people walk out.
Miss Devlin said that while the staging was spectacular, the dancers and acrobats incredible, in the midst of it all there was Britney 'prancing and dancing awkwardly on the stage, moving her lips with nothing coming out.'
Mr Dainty said: 'I'm so angry. We can take heat if there's something wrong and people can review shows badly - that's something you have to live with - but to say people stormed out of the show was an absolute fabrication.'
Thousands of Perth fans have written in to Miss Spears' personal website and to Twitter to congratulate her on her comeback, some describing the Perth performance as 'awesome', 'brilliant' and 'amazing'.
The revelation, before her tour began, that Miss Spears would be miming her songs has led to politicians in three Australian states calling for new laws to force music promoters to disclose whether a concert will be live or lip-synced.
One suggestion has been that a warning should be printed on tickets.
Miss Spears, who is travelling with her father, will perform in Melbourne on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week before flying to Sydney.
The 14-concert Australian tour finishes in Adelaide on November 29.