Britney Spears has responded furiously to accusations that she’s Lebanese and has issued a statement categorically denying rumours that she spends her times watching Lebanese videos.

‘This whole thing has been blown out of all proportion just because I’ve got a map of the Lebanon tattooed on my inner thigh,’ she said. ‘The truth is that I’ve never been anywhere in the Middle East and I’ve not even been to that county at all.’

For months the gossip in LA has been about rumours that Spears’ home is full of tapes, books, videos, and DVDs depicting people engaged in Lebanese acts. Some have even suggested that Spears herself is actually Lebanese and enjoys nothing more than spending a night with five or six of her Lebanese girlfriends.

‘I might have some videos,’ she admits, ‘but they were promotional material I picked up when I thought about going on holiday. In the end we went to the Caribbean. I suppose I should have had a tattoo of Bermuda put on my thigh instead but the Lebanon just happened to be exactly the same shape as a birthmark I’ve always wanted disguising.’

Those close to the singer suggest that the rumours are part of a carefully staged campaign by her husband, who she is in the process of divorcing. Yet the whole event has clearly not dented the singer’s sense of humour. ‘They can carry on saying that I’m Lebanese,’ she said ruefully, ‘but they can’t change the truth that my family is of Greek extraction and I’m really from the isle of Lesbos.’

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