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Kevin Federline

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Kevin Federline
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Background information
OriginFresno County, California
Years active2006–present (singer)

Kevin Earl Federline (born March 21, 1978, in Fresno County, California, USA) is an American celebrity. Often referred to as "K-Fed", his most well known endeavours include dancing and rapping. He is also the husband of pop singer Britney Spears, with whom he fathered a child, Sean Preston Federline. Federline has two children with actress Shar Jackson: daughter Kori (b. July 31, 2002) and son Kaleb (b. July 20, 2004). Federline was the former co-star with Spears of the reality television show Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, which consisted of home videos shot by the couple.

Relationship with Britney Spears

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Federline and Spears on the cover of People

Before meeting Spears, Federline worked as a back-up dancer for Spears' ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, and the band LFO, Spears' opening act. Federline also appeared as a dancer in the film You Got Served.

The relationship between Spears and Federline, chronicled in Chaotic, began with their meeting at a Hollywood club called Joseph's. Spears soon invited him on her European tour, The Onyx Hotel Tour, and she proposed to Federline on the plane ride back from the tour.

On the night of September 18, 2004, two months after his second child was born to actress Shar Jackson, Federline and Spears engaged in a surprise wedding ceremony at a private home in Studio City, California. Although not legally binding, this "faux wedding" allowed the couple to finalize legal details of their marriage without the pressure of an upcoming ceremony. Such details were reported by The Smoking Gun website to have been the legal minutia of a prenuptial agreement, although the terms of this agreement have been disputed in the tabloid press and the Internet, and no evidence of the existence of such documents has emerged. On April 12, 2005, Spears announced through her official website that she was expecting her first child with Federline. Their son, Sean Preston Federline, was born on September 14, 2005 in Santa Monica, California.

However, in early April 2006, Britney was spotted without her wedding ring. Kevin Federline and Britney Spears had broken up and possibly divorced.[citation needed]

Musical career

Federline's first studio album, Playing with Fire, is due out mid-August, Federline and his representative Marylin Lopez confirmed. A minute-long clip from the track "Y'all Ain't Ready" circulated on the Internet in November 2005 to parody and ridicule. Interestingly, in the song Federline refers to the paparazzi that follow him and Spears as "Pavarottis". Opinions vary as to whether this was intentional. Federline released his first single, "PopoZão", on New Year's Day, 2006, which was met with similar reception. The song is a re-imagining of a Brazilian dance track, whose title, PopoZão, is Brazilian slang roughly translated as "big or nice ass". After the song received a poor reception from the general public Kevin scrapped the song.

On March 18, 2006, a track titled "America's Most Hated" was released on Kevin's official MySpace page. This clip was later pulled after the story broke that Federline had used an uncleared sample from Thomas Dolby, which had been used previously, and legally, by Mobb Deep. Federline also released a clip of an upcoming single called "For Real." He confirmed on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 that he will perform a promotional club tour in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles. Federline reported that he will not be performing on the tour but rather he will be observing fans' reactions to tracks played by a DJ.

Public reception

Federline has been the subject of ongoing ridicule on television and the World Wide Web, stemming from the apparent perception that he does not have a career of his own, and is living off his wife's accomplishments, a perception often spotlighted, for example, in the opening monologue of the late-night talk show Late Night With Conan O'Brien. On the sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live, host Ashton Kutcher starred in a commercial parody as Federline for "Federline Briefs" — tight brief-style underwear with the tagline "Man panties for wiggers." In the parody, Kutcher repeats "Federline, yo" several times. Kutcher then says, "I look like I might stink, yo", and after assessing his personal odor, continues, "but I don't." This parody is a reference to Kutcher's own previous career as an underwear model.

In an episode of the animated series Family Guy, a fantasy sequence features Federline asking a magic mirror how he can "look like a douchebag today." The mirror tells him to not shave, shower, or change clothing, and to "walk around with an undeserved sense of accomplishment." The website Fark.com has repeatedly referred to Federline and Spears as Cletus and Brandine, the "slack-jawed yokels" from The Simpsons.

Trivia

Federline and Spears began dating while Jackson was still pregnant with Kaleb, and Jackson reportedly learned of their relationship through the tabloid press.

Federline has become notorious in the media for his heavy smoking, and was criticized in the media for continuing to smoke around his pregnant wife early on in her pregnancy. He is often photographed with a cigarette in hand.


Discography

Albums

Singles

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