Adnan Ghalib was famous for being the only man alive who could make Kevin Federline seem sort of decent.

The past tense was correct, by the way. An LA judge has just granted Britney Spears and her family a longterm restraining order from Britney’s ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib – leading to fears that, without Britney Spears to piggyback around on, Adnan will fold up neatly, slot into his disgusting beard-slug and crawl away never to be heard of again.

So Adnan Ghalib, it was nice knowing you. Even though we didn’t actually know you. And it was the scientific opposite of nice.

Some people say that Britney Spears constantly needs a man in her life. They point out that Britney Spears only officially started going shitpot barmy once she split up with her husband, and that she’s so easily led astray because all the inappropriate men she’s ever been linked to are a substitute for the emotional stability she missed growing up as a showbusiness child.

But to this we say pah. Britney Spears is a strong, independent woman. And nobody demonstrates this more than Britney’s ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. A married paparazzo, Adnan Ghalib not only convinced Britney Spears to be with him – and pose for semi-naked pictures – at the height of her mental illness, but he also managed to squeeze in a tell-all interview about her on TV hours after she dumped him.

How does Adnan Ghalib’s manipulation of Britney Spears demonstrate her strength? Simple, because he wasn’t manipulating her at all. Look, Britney Spears and Adnan Ghalib haven’t been together for months, and Britney is still shrieking about her genitals in public. She’s always been mental! In your face, Ghalib!

And now it’s been proven that Britney Spears can get along without Adnan Ghalib very well, it’s time for him to be banished from her until the distant future. Reuters reports:

Britney Spears’ former boyfriend, photographer Adnan Ghalib, was ordered on Wednesday to stay away from the singer and her family for three years. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aviva Bobb imposed a restraining order on Ghalib until March 2012. Bobb also extended a temporary stay away order against the singer’s former self-styled manager, Sam Lutfi, until April 1.

Add this restraining order to the assualt charge that he currently faces and it doesn’t paint a pretty future for Adnan Ghalib. The best-case scenario is that all the paparazzi pictures he takes of Britney Spears will now have to be shot from at least 250 yards away from her, and the worst-case scenario involves him being deported back to the UK.

By which we obviously mean that it’ll be the worst-case scenario for us, because he’d almost definitely try and shack up with Kerry Katona right from the get-go, and semi-naked photos of Kerry Katona are literally the last thing we’d ever want to see.

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