Britney And The Paparazzo.... A Movie In The Making

Britney Spears is so lonely that she's taken to hanging out with the photographers who follow her every move. And now she's become close friends with one of them. On Saturday night, the pop tart took things one step further with a videographer named Adnan Ghalib, and until now, no one has known what went on when the 26-year-old mother-of-two spent hours locked in her suite at the Peninsula hotel in L.A. with the swarthy, tattooed 35-year-old. A close friend of the married videographer has spilled the beans to PageSix.com.

"Britney just wanted to get things off of her chest," the pal told PageSix.com. "She rambled on and on — he couldn't get a word in edgewise, which is pretty unusual for him because he loves to talk. She was bouncing from one subject to another, yapping about everything from what was on television to her issues with her mom. She was all over the place, like someone with severe ADD."

The adventure began in the early hours of Sunday morning when Britney hopped out of her car and jumped into Adnan's Mercedes. After trips to a pharmacy and gas station, they ended up at the five-star hotel. The pop wreck confided in the tall, thin former boxer, who sat solo in a chair in Britney's suite for seven hours until almost 10 a.m., listening, because "she feels like she's been abandoned and deceived by everyone around her lately, and she doesn't really have anyone in her life and she's scared," the friend said. "He doesn't want to betray her too, especially because this is the first time they've really been alone together."

The paparazzo (who used to manage a strip club) developed a more intimate relationship with Britney about three months ago, when he started covering her exclusively. "She would answer his questions and give him little sound bites — and she refused to do the same for the others who were following her," the pal revealed. "So in return, he began to help Britney out with little things, such as getting her Starbucks or pumping her gas when she was overwhelmed by the paparazzi."

Although Adnan quickly graduated from at-hand helper to hardcore hand holder, the friend tells PageSix.com that Adnan — who was born in Afghanistan, raised in London and bears the scars from having fought in three wars — hasn't taken the relationship further than friendship (although another insider tells PageSix.com that Britney is telling pals that they did). "They absolutely did not hook up," said the pal. "But that's not to say that they don't have little crushes on one another."

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