Poor Sam Lutfi - he's spent his entire life trying to help Britney Spears by cack-handedly assisting her slide into troubling mental illness, and this is how he's thanked?

The restraining order that Britney Spears' mother took out on Britney's former manager Sam Lutfi has been extended until at least the middle of next month, meaning that Lutfi is still not allowed within 250 yards of Britney Spears at any point in time.

The restraining order sounds like the most helpful thing to do in Britney's current situation, but they'll be sorry. When Britney Spears freaks her trip because her food doesn't taste quite as much like anti-psychotic medication as it used to, who's she going to run to? That's right - Sam Lutfi.

So Britney Spears is locked away in a psychiatric hospital and Britney's Dad is officially her conservator - that's everything all cleaned up, right?

Oh goodness, no. Haven't you people learnt that this Britney Spears malarkey is going to go on forever yet? Forever. Mark these weary words.

Anyway, the new piece of Britney Spears nonsense is that Britney's mother Lynne Spears claims that Britney's manager Sam Lutfi used to grind up drugs and mash them into Britney Spears' food. Plus he hid her dog once, the big bloody bastard.

As if you needed reminding, Britney Spears had a full-on kerb-sitting dog-clutching sobbing meltdown on Monday night after a fight with her manager Sam Lutfi.

Nothing particularly unusual about that - Britney Spears seems to be contractually obliged to have a weird public meltdown every couple of weeks these days - but is Sam Lutfi really the steady hand that he's claimed to be?

Apparently not - it turns out that Sam Lutfi might be a weirdo with a bunch of restraining orders against him and a history of urging people to kill themselves. Which is, you know, inevitable.