We knew Britney had spent a lot of dough getting her affairs in order after a troubled couple of years, but it's still a shock to learn that she has spent close to £800,000 on legal help with her 'conservatorship'.

Basically, any young people reading this should stop filling in those X Factor application forms right now, put them in the bin and sign up to study law instead.

A court order has revealed that Britney spent that vast sum in just seven months, paying lawyers to represent her conservatorship - the group of people effectively stopping her spending all her cash - and it also makes clear that more fees are to follow.

US gossip site TMZ, which revealed the payments, also claimed that Britney spent roughly $280,000 in lawyer's fees to keep Adnan Ghalib, Sam Lutfi and Jon Eardley away from her.

Looks like Britney might need to dust off her freeloading skills, if she's going to keep spending at that rate...