Eleven months after her disastrous functioning at the MTV Video Music Awards, pop principal Britney Spears is back up to promote this year�s show - appearing in a series of ads shot with an elephant in the room.
The tenner to 30-second promos were recorded earlier this week on the Paramount studio lot in Hollywood, web site of this year's show, featuring Spears giving jokingly advice to the novel emcee, British comedian Russell Brand from the recent film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
An MTV spokeswoman says the mostly ad-libbed spots, in which the elephant poses in the background, will begin airing in America this coming weekend.
"Britney looked really good," a source told People.com.
"Russell joked about there existence sexual tensity, and Britney shot indorse, 'I don't feel the tension'. The other
