The Paparazzi ‘Shutter” to lose Bread & butter LOS ANGELES - Look out, Britney!
With Paris Hilton heading for jail and Lindsay Lohan in rehab, the number of paparazzi on the trail of Britney Spears is going to soar.
The conversation among the 20 to 30 “paps” staking out Hilton last week has been what they will do while their two favorite subjects - and their biggest paydays - are forced out of action.
“Chase Britney,” said Josh, 26, a video camera guy with Phamousphotos.com who declined to give his last name. Josh figures the troubled pop princess’ second child is the longest unseen celebrity baby.
David Aguilera, at Celebritypuke.com, said he is also going to go after Spears, as well as Nicole Richie, and David and Victoria Beckham.
For a celebrity photographer, tailing Britney, Paris and Lindsay can be quite lucrative. For example, the rumor among the paps is that the pictures of Lohan running away from her car last Saturday night sold for more than $70,000. But Aguilera said reselling the photos can fetch up to $250,000.
For the paparazzi, losing Paris and Lindsay also means having to work harder. The hotel heirhead is known for “giving it up,” which in “pap” slang means posing and making it easy to shoot her.
“Those girls are the easy story,” said Jason Kirkland, 26.
The prime shot everyone guns for is of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie with their kids.
But the big three are the paparazzi mainstays. On Friday, the number of photographers who joined the Paris stakeout doubled because Britney left town.
In such an aggressive pack, the competition for the big-ticket shot is intense. It involves hours of waiting in a car, often requiring them to urinate into pop bottles, dubbed “pap” bottles.
One veteran of the hunt lamented the growing hordes of paparazzi and longed for the day of discreet stakeouts at celebrities’ houses in a car with a long lens. “If you’re in their face all day long, you become part of the story you’re trying to tell with pictures,” he said.
And with photo agencies specializing in celebrities flooding the streets with teams of shooters, the price of a photo can drop to as low as $100, he said.
But the more immediate problem facing the herd this week is what to do after Tuesday when Paris will be locked up.
“I am going to work Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise,” said Jose Souza, 39, a photographer with the X17 agency. “Maybe Nicole Richie.”
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I feel hurt and sorry for both David Beckham and Wayne Rooney who could only watch from the sidelines as their team lost against Portugal. David was in tears when he went off the field on the 52nd minute of the quarterfinal against Portugal after he got injured on his right ankle when defender Nuno Valente stepped on him.
I think Victoria is hotter than Becks in these pictures. Has she put on a few ounces? Looking much better.
Comment by Pin 04.17.07 @ 9:08 pm
WOW! By the sounds of those tattoos David is a tortured soul. I like that in a man. Come here, David. I will make you feel better but you must
not speak.
Comment by spinner 04.17.07 @ 9:43 pm
^hehe.
What a man… sigh. I love that quote! (I hope that’s the extent to his tattooing though!- I’m not too fond of sleaves on both arms)
Comment by Aysla 04.17.07 @ 9:47 pm
It will be soo fun for them to come to the USA.
Comment by TellMeMore 04.17.07 @ 10:39 pm
i love him. i actually like her too.
Comment by Anonymous 04.17.07 @ 10:48 pm
oh i think sleeves are so hot! i’m not one for ‘pretty’ guys but tatooed becks has my vote! and posh looks fantastic here as well. love them!
Comment by SAS 04.18.07 @ 12:35 am
I’m not too sure about whole arm tatoos…some guys can really pull them off though like Becks does! He would look hot no matter what! I like the meanings of his tatoos though, very cool.
They both look fantastic here, so crisp and perfect!! Love them!!
Comment by Stephi 04.18.07 @ 1:12 am
omg does D.B. need to get overhimself!!!!! Posh needs to GROW HER HAIR. She looks HORRIBLE. What a life to spend it not eating, afraid you’ll get ‘fat’, and knowing as each day goes by you grow older and look worse, as your husband only gets sexier because men age better. She needs the “I’m tormented” tatoos.
Comment by violet 04.18.07 @ 8:41 am