Drop me mommy, one more time
With questions being asked about her parenting skills, and reports circulating that her husband has walked out on her, Britney Spears could definitely use a man about the house right now.
So it is perhaps no surprise to find this newest staff member - a male nanny - on Miss Spears' payroll.
The 24-year-old pop star has hired the male nanny, or "manny" as American showbusiness observers are calling him, to carry out such tasks as lugging around her eight-month-old baby Sean Preston, unload the shopping and wheeling the pram. He is also a trained bodyguard and more than capable of fending off Britney's ever-present following of photographers.
In fact, the new recruit, who is named Perry, looks to have been drafted in to do all the things her husband Kevin Federline did before he reportedly flew the coup recently.
Miss Spears took Perry on amid intense speculation over her ability to be a good mother. Two weeks ago she almost dropped Sean Preston on the pavement when she tripped up in platform shoes.
Britney had been holding the baby in one hand - and a tumbler of drink in the other - when her flared jeans caught under her shoes making her stumble on a pavement in New York.
The child was thankfully caught by her bodyguards as he fell towards the pavement head first.
As they caught him, his head jerked violently back and his orange baseball cap fell off onto the street.
A week before that she was photographed driving with the baby apparently not properly restrained in his car seat.
In February, the US Department of Children and Family Services visited the star's Californian mansion after she was photographed driving a black jeep with him on her lap wearing no seatbelt.
The singer initially said she was frightened of photographers who were trying to take the baby's picture.
"I made a mistake, and so it is what it is, I guess," she said afterwards.
Then Miss Spears had a second visit from child services after Sean Preston was found to have a skull fracture.
His was reportedly sustained when the child fell from a high-chair under the supervision of the couple's nanny.
Following the visit Miss Spears, who announced she was pregnant again last month, issued a statement through her lawyer saying that the visit had been routine and that the department had "determined there was no problem and no reason to open a formal investigation".