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Britney Spears' 'Toxic' behavior let down 'X-Factor' boss Simon Cowell

‘The X Factor’ judge Simon Cowell, contestant Carly Rose Sonenclar, and judge Britney Spears attend the season finale news conference on Dec. 17. Cowell wanted "crazy Britney, but he got boring Britney," one source reportedly said.

‘The X Factor’ judge Simon Cowell, contestant Carly Rose Sonenclar, and judge Britney Spears attend the season finale news conference on Dec. 17. Cowell wanted "crazy Britney, but he got boring Britney," one source reportedly said.

Britney Spears has been for months exhibiting signs of her old, not-so-stable behavior behind the scenes at "The X Factor" and during a commercial she filmed for her new perfume, Fantasy Twist.
"She acts like she has a different contract than everyone else," a source tells Confidenti@l. "She shows up late, she wanders around aimlessly and she is in her own world. She wasn't ready for this responsibility."
 
The source adds that the "Toxic" singer, who earned $15 million for her single-season run as a talent judge, reportedly let down her boss, Simon Cowell. He expected Spears, who's on the verge of being canned, to draw huge ratings for his show, which debuted in the fall of 2011.
 
Spears seemed to begin spiraling downward — but not yet close to her infamous 2007 head-shaving night — months ago on the set of her perfume ad, where the source said she had a series of bizarre requests for the theme of the shoot.
 
"First, she wanted the producers to fly Vanilla Ice in to duet with her, which was just weird. They called him and he wanted $500,000, so that wasn't going to work," says the source. "Then, she demanded that exotic animals be flown in to be in the video and they had to tell her that that wasn't going to work for legal reasons and insurance reasons. She wanted to do her own makeup and when she would get it done, she would just mess it up on top of what they did."
 
What seemed to be holding the pop star together for some time was her on-again, off-again fiancé Jason Trawick, 41, who put a ring on it one year ago after dating for over three years. But that relationship seems to have cooled, and the duo have failed to set a wedding date.
 
Spears' most recent hiccup was when she showed up to an "X Factor" press conference on Dec. 17 looking like her old self: disheveled.
 
A rep for Spears did not get back to Confidenti@l by deadline. 
 
Sofia's fiancé a real buzzkill
 
Bombshell actress Sofia Vergara hurled curses at her short-fused fiancé at a New Year's Eve bash when he got booted from a Miami nightclub for bad behavior.
 
But the curvy "Modern Family" star later posted a Twitter photo of lover Nick Loeb with her mother, hinting at a New Year's Day reconciliation.
 
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Sofia Vergara strikes a sexy pose as she welcomed in the new year at Delano's poolside bash.

 
After hosting a swanky party at the Delano Hotel where she counted down the New Year in Spanish, Vegara and her guests headed to the nearby Story nightclub around 1:30am. By 3 am, the New Year took a foul turn causing guards at that club to haul Loeb away from the VIP section. According to a partygoer there, the trouble started after Loeb flipped out on a male guest who’d knocked into Vergara.
 
"A dude bumped into Sofia and she spilled her drink all over," the eyewitness dished.
 
"Nick got upset at the guy and was trying to get him to say sorry to Sofia — and she was screaming at him to stop causing a scene because they were in public."
 
The comely Colombian and her mate then began to bicker, and Loeb blew his top at Vergara after she agreed to take a flirty photo with the same guest who bumped her, the source said.
 
When the spat escalated, muscle-bound guards removed Loeb while Vergara yelled "F--- you!" at him, the witness said.
 
The drama unfolded just a few hours after Vergara and her future husband shared a romantic kiss as the clock struck midnight. Apparently, all was well in paradise again Tuesday night, when Loeb beamed in a photo Vergara tweeted with the caption: "Chinese food night in Miami!"
 
Real Housedog: Spaghetti, set, go!
 
Her "Vanderpump Rules" spinoff reality show doesn't air until Monday, yet Lisa Vanderpump's career has already gone to the dogs. Confidenti@l has the first photos of InTouch magazine's "Lady and the Tramp"-inspired shoot with the "Real Housewife" of Beverly Hills and her dog Giggy. In the mag, which hits newsstands Wednesday, Vanderpump assures fans she's still an RHOBH and says "being an actual housewife has always been my life's ambition."
 
Rodman ‘out of it' at gay club 
 
Cross-dressing, NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman made quite a spectacle when he strolled into the gay club Swinging Richards in North Miami over the weekend looking not so great. "He looked out of it," said a fellow partygoer. The club promotes itself as "all male, all nude, all night." Before retiring in 2006, Rodman, now 51, was as well known for his crazy on-and-off-court antics as he was for his five championship rings.
 
Check out the skinny on Karina
 
There's only room for one Skinnygirl! "Dancing With the Stars" hottie Karina Smirnoff hit Harry Morton's Pink Taco Century City in L.A. for an early birthday celebration with friends and family over the weekend, where she was overheard renaming her Skinnygirl margarita "The Karina." She was also calorie-counting, ordering a protein-filled meal.
 
Gaga gains some brain power
 
Lady Gaga has brought Yale researcher Marc Brackett onto her anti-bullying campaign. Got a problem with that? The New Haven Register reported on Monday that the Connecticut resident has signed onto the seven-person board of Gaga's Born This Way Foundation. Bullies beware – in case brains aren't enough, Brackett's Wikipedia page says he also holds a fifth-degree black belt in martial arts. Lady Gaga just announced that fans at her upcoming concerts will have access to on-site counselors.
 
‘Shark' bite on the has-beens
 
With 2012 in the rear view mirror we turned to Howard Stern producer and author Jon Hein, the man who literally wrote the book on "Jumping the Shark," to ask who and what passed its expiration date in 2012. Among those things Hein lists are Mitt Romney, Clint Eastwood, Netflix, Instagram and the National Hockey League, which he calls "A league that simply cannot afford to have a lockout." Hein also cuts Dirty Harry some slack for his odd chair speech, saying "he's earned the right to jump at this point."
 
YOLO?! Yo, No, Drake
 
According to the 38th annual "List of Words to be Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness," YOLO is out. If so, it may cost Drake a fortune. Last week, the singer posted on Instagram that companies using the uibiquitous abbreviation for "you only live once" in their ads should pay him for popularizing the motto on his 2011 album "Take Care."
 
Singer's glory of Vanderbilt
 
Dance music singer Consuelo Costin broke in the new year by performing under what she says is her famous (secret) name — Vanderbilt. Before being introduced onstage as a Vanderbilt for the first time at XL nightclub, the singer who claims to be eight generations removed from Cornelius Vanderbilt told Confidenti@l she was first inspired to use the family name after her great grandmother, for whom she says she was named, died at 107 in 2011. 
 
 
Backstreeter keeps it light
 
Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough knocked back a few after his boy, er, man band wrapped up a show at MGM Foxwoods, but still watched his weight. "He drank Grey Goose, sugar-free Red Bull and Coors Light," said a source at the resort's Shrine nightclub. "He said the light beer was to keep his ‘slim figure.'" Band mate A.J. McLean — who's reportedly struggled with sobriety — joined Dorough at the afterparty where our spy says Dorough drank a few shots and the boys sprayed each other with the bar's C02 gun.
 
Rosie's un-hearty meal
 
Rosie O'Donnell chowed down with her hot new wife Michelle Rounds and four kids this week at Rosa Mexicano on Lincoln Road in Miami. The comedian, who suffered a heart attack last year and vowed to change hear eating habits to be more health concious, seemed to drop her promise for the meal. "There was no healhty food in sight," says an eyewitness. Perhaps she'll stick to it in the New Year?