Or we could go with the easiest option and listen to Durstyboy himself…

On Saturday 27th June 2009, @freddurst said:

Facts- Limp Bizkit did NOT, in any way, cancel the UFC100 concert in Las Vegas. Truth is UFC and Interscope records could not come to an agreement on certain DVD rights. With all respect to Mandalay Bay, The UFC were also unhappy with LB’s decision of wanting to switch the performance from the Beach at Mandalay Bay with its inappropriate layout for a heavy rock concert with Limp Bizkit, basically a stage in front of a pool, to a more standard concert venue also located at the mandalay Bay which was the House Of Blues. The UFC expressed they wanted a “party vibe” for this event and would not settle for any venue besides the Beach for this and other reasons. First, LB would like to confirm we are HUGE UFC fans and will always be, but feel it is unfair for UFC to falsely confirm and advertise that Limp Bizkit will be performing to only change their minds after many people have rearranged their lives and bought tickets to be in Vegas for this special concert. On that note we are proud to announce that we will still be performing on the same night out of respect for our fans. The details of when and where will follow shortly after this post. Again, all respect to UFC for inviting us in the first place. We will continue to support the UFC because it is our favorite MMA event. Stay tuned.

Sincerely,
Limp Bizkit

So, what you’re saying is…

- UFC offered you a place to perform and you jumped at the chance, because it’s violent and aggressive and you (despite claiming the contrary) & your fans love that… and you’re desperate for attention.
- Upon working out the details, UFC stated that it would be better for their broadcast and the taping of the performance if you performed at a specific venue.
- Rather than concede to this, you threw a tantrum and demanded a change of venues, even though the venue you’re demanding to use is already contracted to a show that night with other performers that has nothing to do with the UFC event.
- You probably want more money than you’re worth, since that’s usually what is involved when any sort of publishing “rights” disagreement occurs.
- UFC said thanks, but no thanks.

Well, Fred, if you wanted to play a “rock show” at a “rock venue” then you should have booked a concert yourself in the first place and not agreed to play at a televised sporting event that is based around the SPORT and NOT YOUR BAND. Way to go, Diva Durst.

Fred’s tweet a few minutes before the interview said, “what a good thing to embrace on an afternoon of love” …no love here, buddyboy… no love here. Durst claims he enjoys Morrissey and The Smiths, but cannot name one single song, after audibly fumbling for a few seconds. Mat asks him about the juxtaposition of Durst claiming that he put Limp Bizkit on the back-burner because it was fueling bullies* and Limp Bizkit’s ONE performance in the United States being at UFC 100 in Las Vegas, to which Fred responds that he thinks it was a good quote. No real answer, though. Huh? Fred also managed to bite the hands that fed him by dissing TRL. Nice job, fatty.

The interview, which mainly relied on subdued jabs, ended with 91X’s Mat Diablo scoring a definitive TKO. Fred got knocked down once early on, when a no-no word from his everyday vernacular slipped into his verbal spewage, causing the show to use a delay to their advantage. Once Mat took his final uppercut to ol’ fatty’s pathetic ego, the low-rent Bruce Willis lookalike had to be dumped completely for letting some choice curses fly. Victory goes, once again, to those with good taste!

* Note: Which Fred also claims in an interview, that connects him to Miley Cyrus, in that they were both “beaten up” in high school here – the comments are deliciously entertaining and one commentator claims she went to school with him and he was NOT bullied. Another Miley Cyrus comparison for you, while we’re on the topic, recently Miley’s been getting some flack for her handlers hanging up during radio interviews or ending them early – Fred’s handler interjected into the interview this morning, twice. Redcap needs a babysitter… awwww! Are you going Disney, Dursty?

UPDATE…

Looks like someone got his widdle feewings hurtededed… d’aaaaaaaaaawwww :(

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Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst has been given a suspended 120-day jail sentence after he allegedly hit two people with his car on purpose.

Durst, 37, pleaded no contest to seven charges, including assault, battery and reckless driving, at a court hearing in Los Angeles last month.

He was also ordered to perform 20 hours of community service and fined $1,500 (£750), according to court documents. The incident took place in Los Angeles during October last year.

Misdemeanour charges filed in January included two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, three counts of battery, one count of making a criminal threat and one count of reckless driving.

Durst, who entered the no contest plea on 16 August, was slapped with a restraining order saying he cannot “annoy, harass, strike, threaten or otherwise disturb the peace” of the two victims, whose names were not disclosed.

The singer was told he must stay at least 100 yards away from the victims and that he cannot possess a firearm.

A telephone message left after office hours on Friday with The Firm, the Beverly Hills representatives for Durst and Limp Bizkit, was not immediately returned, the Associated Press news agency said.

A criminal complaint filed in L.A. Superior Court on January 1, 2007, charges Durst with seven misdemeanor counts in total for the 2006 incident, including: two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, three counts of battery, one count of making a criminal threat and one charge of reckless driving on the highway.

Contained within the August 16 documents is a restraining order that instructs Durst not to “annoy, harass, strike, threaten…or otherwise disturb the peace of the [victims].”

The singer, 37, is also ordered to surrender or sell to a licensed gun dealer any firearms in his possession and not come within 100 yards of the two alleged victims.

The particular charges against Durst include two counts of “assault…with a deadly weapon, to wit, VEHICLE, and by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury.”

Documents obtained only by CelebTV.com show that on August 16, Durst pleaded no contest to the seven misdemeanor counts, thereby avoiding a possible jail sentence and a $1,000 fine.

Instead, the singer received a suspended jail term of 120 days in exchange for agreeing to 20 hours of community service with Hollywood Beautification Team, a local community cleanup program, to be completed within 36 months.

Durst also has to pay almost $1,500 in fines and penalties and keep his nose clean by not using or possessing “dangerous or deadly weapons” or “threaten[ing] the use of force or violence against any person.”

From TMZ:

William Fredrick Durst aka “Fred Durst” was arrested earlier this year for assault with a deadly weapon and for ramming his car into a pedestrian.

TMZ has learned that in Oct. 2006 Freddie was involved in a collision with the pedestrian on Outpost Drive in Hollywood. Problem is: Durst allegedly didn’t stop! Mr. Limp Bizkit himself reportedly left the scene of the accident. He was later charged with assault with a deadly weapon, battery, criminal threats and reckless driving.

Durst had his day in court last month, where he accepted a plea deal that allowed for 3 years probation, fines and a small payment to the victim in return for no jail time.

Fred must also refrain from “Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’” near the victim’s home

Fred Durst has copped to rollin’ in an urban assault vehicle.

The Limp Bizkit frontman pleaded no contest to seven misdemeanors, including assault, battery and reckless driving, for intentionally hitting two people with his car, court documents show.

Durst, 37, entered the pleas Aug. 16. He was given a 120-day suspended sentence, ordered to perform 20 hours of community service and fined $1,500.

The rocker was also ordered to abide by the terms of a restraining order commanding him to stay at least 100 yards away from the victims and not to possess a firearm.

Under the terms of the order, Durst cannot “annoy, harass, strike, threaten or otherwise disturb the peace” of the two victims, whose identities were not released.

Durst’s smash hit took place on Oct. 26, 2006, according to court documents. Details of the accident were scarce.

In January, he was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, three counts of battery, one count of making a criminal threat and one count of reckless driving.

Limp Bizkit could have to cough up some serious bread if the band’s insurance company gets its way.

United National Insurance Company, whose Pennsylvania-based subsidiary Diamond State Insurance was the provider for Limp Bizkit in 2000-01, is trying to back out of liability in the case surrounding the death of a teen fan at a 2001 concert.

Though the band was cleared of wrongdoing in the melee at Australia’s Big Day Out festival, where 15-year-old Jessica Michalik was killed and several other concertgoers were injured, the rap-rock outfit did incur some hefty legal fees battling separate wrongful-death claims filed by the girl’s parents. The band was dropped as defendants from the lawsuits, but other defendants eventually settled.

United National, however, filed a lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court saying it shouldn’t have to cover the band’s court costs. Reps for the company claim that Michalik “was either crushed or trampled to death as the crowd, allegedly incited by frontman Fred Durst’s comments, surged toward the stage where Limp Bizkit was performing.”

While the band was never criminally charged, the coroner who led the inquest did release a statement saying that Durst’s words were “inflammatory.”

The insurer claims that Durst’s actions provoked the incident and therefore nullified the band’s coverage. The company is seeking a court order to confirm that it does not have to indemnify the band.

Limp lawyers dispute the contention.

“[United National] has been completely unresponsive and now [has] decided to resolve it by suing their own insured,” band attorney Ed McPherson told Reuters. “I guess that’s what happens when you buy insurance nowadays.”

Michalik’s parents, meanwhile, are taking the band’s side on this battle.

“The insurer wants to wipe their hands of what? I consider it peanuts what I received,” George Michalik told United Press International. “There is no way they should be running away from their responsibility especially since the band was cleared of any wrongdoing at Jessica’s inquest.”

While there was no immediate comment from the band, Durst has said in the past that he is still haunted by Jessica’s death.

While Bizkit hasn’t made much noise on the charts of late, the band has kept its lawyers plenty busy. Aside from the lingering Big Day Out mess, Durst was cleared in a lawsuit brought by security guard who claimed the singer kicked him in the head during a 1999 show in Minneapolis and the band is also fighting a suit filed by Chicago fans after Durst & Co. stormed off the stage midset during a 2003 concert. Most recently, Durst made headlines when a sex video was stolen off his computer, prompting a lawsuit against Websites that made the footage available.

Fred Durst did it all for the “Nookie”–and now the entire world must suffer his naked body thanks to a leaked sex tape currently making the Internet rounds.

In the grand tradition of Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson, the Limp Bizkit frontman’s romp with an anonymous woman has been on the Web since late Tuesday for anyone’s viewing pleasure…or displeasure, as several disappointed female fans have been dishing on message boards (”poor, poor man” mused one fan on LimpBizkit.com).

Initial reports linked Durst’s caught-on-tape tryst with the recent hacking of Hilton’s Sidekick since many of the hardcore clips of Durst getting down have been imprinted with the graphic “T-Mobile Terrorist.”

Although he was apparently “friendly” with Hilton–a 2004 text message to her said, “You are my heart,” per computer transcripts of her Sidekick–Durst came out Friday and asserted his Internet leak had nothing to do with Hilton’s.

“Somebody that was repairing my computer was smart enough to go through anything he could [and found the movie]. What can I say? I’m not proud of it,” the 33-year-old told MTV News late Friday.

Durst also told MTV that his message to Hilton “is just old, years old.”

“If you look on Paris’ thing [her address book/phone numbers now widely available online], I don’t use T-Mobile,” he added.

A T-Mobile spokesman also confirmed that it was highly unlikely the Durst video was somehow downloaded from the rocker’s cell phone because of the Hilton hijacking.

“Fred Durst is not a T-Mobile subscriber,” spokesman Bryan Zidar told CNET.com. “The video in question could not have originated from a Sidekick; the device does not have video capability. The video is also of a resolution not available on a wireless handset.”

Despite the denials from Durst and T-Mobile, one source is still claiming a strong connection between Durst and Hilton. David Hans Schmidt, a former publicist turned celebrity sex-tape broker, says he was approached by the so-called T-Mobile Terrorist months ago about a deal to sell the Durst romp.

Schmidt, who resides in Arizona, says the Durst opus didn’t surface online until after the collective billing itself as the T-Mobile Terrorist bailed on negotiations to release the tape commercially.

Schmidt says the T-Mobile Terrorist is actually a seven-person group of hackers “up and down the West Coast.” Although Schmidt was working with them to release the tape, which they apparently obtained from Durst’s laptop (perhaps from Durst’s repairman suspect), a deal was not reached between the parties.

After the porn deal went sour, the hackers posted some of Schmidt’s personal information online, including his IP address and phone number.

Now, Schmidt says he will have his revenge–and soon.

“Talks broke down, and now the little bastards are going to pay,” he told E! Online.

Schmidt says he is currently working with law officials who are investigating the Hilton theft in order to identify the hackers, whom Schmidt says are all in their “early twenties.”

“We’re very close to finding these bastards and they are going to go to prison,” he says.

Schmidt, who once spent some quality time in Arizona’s Maricopa County Towers jail on charges of aggravated harassment, says he is confident there is indeed a link between the Hilton sidekick hacking and the theft of Durst’s laptop hardrive.

“It’s the same group of guys,” he insists.

The 44-year-old former flack has repped everyone from Paula Jones to Tonya Harding, and may be best known for procuring nude pictures of Scott Peterson’s mistress, Amber Frey–which he attempted to sell to Hustler magazine in 2003. He eventually posted the pics on his Website that same year and was sued by Frey in October 2003 over his claim he had a signed release allowing him to sell the pictures.

Meanwhile, Durst, who’s no stranger to sex scandals (see his he-said-she-said battle with Britney Spears), is trying to focus on a new LB album. He recently recorded vocals in Prague for the new studio set.

“This album is dark musically already,” he said in a Feb. 6 posting on LimpBizkit.com. “But when mixed with the tone in the air of Prague it becomes somewhat horrifying.”

Not unlike a certain video we just saw.

A security company is crying “foul” over Fred Durst’s illegal footwork.

The Limp Bizkit singer is being sued by St. Paul-based security company Azzone Security-Investigation Agency Inc. for kicking one of its guards in the head during a 1999 concert in the Twin Cities.

ASIA filed suit on Monday against the frontman, his production companies and his record labels in Ramsey County, Minnesota.

The security company wants to recoup the $49,663 in worker’s comp it claims to have laid out so far plus have the “Nookie” singer foot the bill for any future payments.

Trouble-prone Durst booted security guard Patrick Estes in the noggin (twice) during the band’s July 12 performance at Roy Wilkins Auditorium and then, according to witnesses, allegedly bragged about it on stage, saying he “kicked that punk-ass security guard in the head.”

The 33-year-old singer was arrested after the show and remained in police custody until 4:30 a.m., when a “somewhat apologetic” Durst was released on $50,000 bail. “It seems to be a case of mistaken identity. Durst thought his guy was getting beat up by two fans, and that’s when he kicked the guy,” police told the Associated Press at the time.

According to the rocker, two of the venue’s security guards tried to throw one of Durst’s bodyguards offstage under the mistaken assumption that he was a fan, at which point Durst placed his painful punt to Estes’ head.

Durst was charged with fifth-degree assault and disorderly conduct–both misdemeanors–but the assault charge was later dismissed.

Estes slapped his own civil suit on the musician, resulting in an April 2000 settlement as part of which Durst and the other defendants paid the security guard $100,000 in compensation.

Just a few days later, Limp Bizkit’s incendiary performance at Woodstock ‘99 prompted a riot when Durst told festival-goers “there are no rules” during a performance of the band’s song “Break Stuff.”

Cars were trashed, vendors looted and fires started on the final night of the three-day festival. At least forty arrests were made and close to 90 other crimes investigated, including an alleged mosh-pit rape during Limp Bizkit’s performance.

Also in 2001, Limp Bizkit was criticized, though ultimately exonerated, in the death of a young fan at the Big Day Out Festival in Sydney, Australia. A judge rapped the testosterone-fueled frontman for not stopping his band’s set as concert organizers tried to aid victims crushed in a mosh pit stampede.

This summer doesn’t seem have gotten any better for the rap-rock outfit from Jacksonville, Florida. On July 28, Durst & Co. were booed offstage during the Summer Sanitarium show outside Chicago.

According to a Chicago Tribune review, Durst was pelted with plastic bottles, booed mercilessly and subjected to chants of “F— Fred Durst” from the moment he walked onstage. A long-running feud with a local radio jockey is thought to have provoked the animosity.

Durst gave as good as he got, pelting the audience with profanities and anti-gay slurs, calling the troublemakers “f—ing pu—-s” and daring them to come up and fight between performances of “My Generation” and “Faith”. But after six songs and relentless heckling, the under-siege singer called it quits and stormed backstage where he continued to insult the audience members.

Fred Durst took his own advice at Saturday night’s Summer Sanitarium show outside Chicago. When fans wouldn’t do things his way, the Limp Bizkit singer hit the highway.

After suffering through an abbreviated half-hour set in which he was pelted with plastic bottles, boos and chants of “F— Fred Durst,” the head Bizkit exploded in a torrent of profanity and stormed off the stage.

The animosity toward Limp Bizkit among the estimated 40,000 fans at the Hawthorne Racetrack had been building all day, according to Bob Gendron, who reviewed the show for the Chicago Tribune. “From the very beginning of the show, there were people in the crowd with ‘Fred Sucks’ banners, and every time one of the other bands mentioned Limp Bizkit, [the audience] booed,” said Gendron.

According to Gendron and fan reports on Limp Bizkit’s Web site, Durst was hit with a shower of bottles, change and other projectiles from the moment he walked onstage around 7 p.m. The singer crouched down at first and tried to weather the storm, but he was soon calling the haters “f—ing pu—-s.” The boos kept coming, and during “My Generation” Durst insulted the crowd and the city with more curses and anti-gay slurs, then he dared audience members to come up and fight him.

“His first response was like, ‘Bring it on!,’ ” said Anders Smith Lindall, who reviewed the show for the Chicago Sun-Times. “It was that thing of, ‘We’re Limp Bizkit and we love it when you hate us.’ But then he started getting frustrated and saying things like, ‘This is why your baseball teams suck. None of you are good pitchers. You can’t hit me with your garbage.’ ”

Durst’s foul mood continued through “Break Stuff,” a cover of Metallica’s “Sanitarium” and “My Way.” After Bizkit blitzed through their cover of George Michael’s “Faith,” the singer walked off the stage, just six songs into what was supposed to be an hour-long set. He continued his profanity-laced tirade from offstage, with shouts about how the band would be back and boasts that, “We are the greatest band in the world!” The abbreviated performance caused a 90-minute delay between Bizkit and headliners Metallica.

Limp Bizkit’s label had no comment on the incident.

The bad vibes continued when Metallica later thanked the bands on the bill, with all of the groups drawing loud applause except Bizkit, Gendron said. Lindall said the animosity might have stemmed from a long-running feud between Bizkit and popular Chicago radio personality “Mancow” Mueller, who had been slagging Durst on-air for several days leading up the concert.

Though Bizkit fared better on Sunday at Minneapolis’ Metrodome, that show did not go off without a hitch. Mudvayne played to a practically empty house when they hit the stage 10 minutes early, and the Deftones had to cancel due to an undisclosed illness affecting frontman Chino Moreno, according to a report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The metaphorical fireworks started much earlier, however, when heckling fans induced a profane tantrum from Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and the band quit playing after just 20 minutes.

It was easy to predict a rough reception for the rap-rock has-beens when a significant segment of the crowd booed a mention of the band by previous openers Linkin Park. When Limp Bizkit actually appeared around 7 o’clock, the boos intensified, and some fans pelted the stage with garbage.

The famously brainless Durst only fanned the flames, first encouraging the catcalls and flying trash, then swerving into a bizarre tirade against the crowd and city. Ranting that he’d fight anyone in earshot and spluttering explicit sexual putdowns, uncreative curses and ludicrous homophobic slurs, Durst simply self-destructed. Had the villain in “The Wizard of Oz” been a vile little boob like Durst rather than a snarly old lady in greenface, the movie’s “I’m melting!” scene might have looked like this.

The crowd, perhaps stunned, calmed down, and Limp Bizkit played a few more songs (including a sarcastic, gay-bashing cover of George Michael’s “Faith” with potty-mouth lyrics that would embarrass a fourth-grader). But then the band left the stage and Durst resumed his vulgar invective from the wings until, mercifully, he was relieved of the microphone.

Fred Sets His Sights on Angelina

“It would pretty much be a show of me courting Angelina Jolie everyday,” revealed Durst. “It would be an ongoing thing with me courting her and finally ending up with a proposal and with marriage, kids, movies and collaborations. The show would be Fred and Ang or Fred and Angelina.”

LIMP BIZKIT’s DURST Working On Solo Project – May 11, 2003

The original plan called for the album to be released in time for the July 4 kickoff of the Summer Sanitarium tour, which features LIMP BIZKIT alongside METALLICA, LINKIN PARK, DEFTONES and MUDVAYNE. Durst now insists an as-yet-unnamed single will be issued beforehand.

Oxford Editor: Fred Durst’s Use Of ‘Agreeance’ Was Right; Dictionary Says Word Is Obsolete

Whether you agree or not, the North American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary says Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst’s use of the word “agreeance” was correct at the Grammys last month.

Durst was widely mocked and criticized by major media outlets for his apparent lack of grammatical skills when he said onstage, “I just hope we are in agreeance that this war should go away as soon as possible.”

Jesse Sheidlower told the New York Observer that “agreeance” is a word and Durst used it correctly. Sheidlower told the Observer that the dictionary defines “agreeance” as “the act of agreeing; agreement.”

The editor did, however, say, that the word is not in heavy circulation. According to the Observer, the earliest Oxford English Dictionary example of the word is circa 1540, and that the latest example of its usage dates back to 1714.

The dictionary now says the word is obsolete.

“This is not a current word,” Sheidlower told the paper. And it is “not a common word.”

Now that Sheidlower has shed light on Durst’s correct usage of the word, the singer said in the Observer, “I’m glad someone took the time to find out the truth.”

The Observer said the word is still widely used in Australia, and that it pops up in legal documents here from time to time. The paper also said former Sen. Bob Kerry, D-Neb., included it in testimony about the IRS in 1997 before the House Ways and Means Committee.

“We are encouraged by the administration’s agreeance that the IRS must change,” Kerry testified, according to the Observer.

[Note: Firefox's spellcheck function says that "agreeance" is not a word.]

FRED TELLS ALL!

Fred Durst, who in recent weeks has been denying that he and Britney Spears dated (”Hell no,” he said in one TV interview), changed his tune Thursday, telling Howard Stern that his brief fling with Spears was not that innocent. The Limp Bizkit frontman said he was compelled by Spears’ recent statements that she barely knew him to set the record straight. ”This [relationship] went on for a little while, that’s what’s pretty unbelievable about this crap she’s talking.”

According to Durst, who was producing some tracks for Spears in January, he developed a crush on her and slipped her a love note. She responded by returning to the studio late at night in a ‘’see-through shirt with no bra” and invited him back to her house. As for what happened next, he quoted a lyric from one of his upcoming songs: ”Ain’t it funny, scared to admit it/ Very first night made the Limp dog hit it.” Durst even blabbed about Britney’s fabled endowments; in the words of ”Seinfeld,” they’re real, and they’re spectacular.

On Monday, Spears appeared on MTV’s ”TRL,” and when asked by Carson Daly if she was dating Durst, she scowled and said, ”No, he’s not my type.” In another recent interview, she said of Durst, ”We worked together for three days and he’s a really cool guy, but there’s no relationship.” Durst’s response to such denials has been to release a new Limp Bizkit song, ”Just Drop Dead,” on the band’s website, in which the singer disses a woman who left him for another guy. Talking to Stern on Thursday, Durst said this song was not specifically about her but that she was a partial inspiration.

Responding to Durst’s latest dish, Spears’ spokesperson told the New York Post, ”Once again it’s Fred playing kiss and tell. Only Fred’s doing a lot more talking than he ever did kissing. This whole stuation is very junior high school.” As for Spears, she’s dropped the three Durst-produced tracks from her forthcoming album, MTV News reports.

Thanks,
Chris

He said it better than I could. So I’ll just leave it to that email and continue laughing my ass off.

Apparently, he did not do it all for the nookie. In fact, he never did it at all. That’s what Fred Durst said about his purported dalliance with Britney Spears. Despite the Limp Bizkit frontman’s frequent recent postings about his feelings for Spears, he told TV’s ”Extra” that the two were never a couple. When asked if he and Spears had ever dated, he replied, ”No. Hell no.”

Durst has been producing Spears’ recording sessions, but when they were seen together in nightclubs and at her home last month, it was rumored that they were an item, rumors Durst fueled with Web postings to the effect that Spears ”just happens to be a person that I would [not] have thought could make me feel this way. And believe that I have never felt this way, so there.” Now, however, Durst tells ”Extra,” ”She’s got a great a–. That’s all.” He adds, ”I’m in love with Angelina Jolie. Angelina, if you’re watching…”

In another interview, however, Durst suggested that the two did hook up, albeit briefly. ”We were good for a minute, but it’s just too crazy,” he told TV’s ”Access Hollywood.” ”She has a life like Michael Jackson, it’s like out of control… The people around her, pulling at her, people around her that are full of s—, just agreeing with her, like, it’s kind of crazy. She almost can’t see what’s real and what’s not.” Durst, whose label just announced that tickets for Limp Bizkit’s summer tour with Linkin Park and Metallica go on sale in two weeks, added, ”I feel bad for Justin man, that he has to see his ex-girlfriend just jumping from guy to guy. I kind of feel bad for him, he’s a cool guy. And she’s a cool chick. I just think she’s got some issues, man.”

So who IS Britney dating? She was spotted last week with self-proclaimed casual sex enthusiast Colin Farrell at the Hollywood premiere of his movie ”The Recruit.” But the pairing appeared to be a publicity stunt. ”Recruit” costar Bridget Moynahan told Conan O’Brien on ”Late Night” last week that Spears ducked out of the theater as soon as the paparazzi were gone. Even Farrell denies they’re a couple, telling reporters this week, ”We’re not dating. She’s a sweet, sweet girl. There’s nothing going on — just mates.” (Just for good measure, Farrell also denied rumors that he’s dating Demi Moore.)

So that leaves ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake, with whom she was spotted, um, reconciling after last month’s American Music Awards. Are they truly back together? ”That I can’t tell you,” Spears’ publicist, Lisa Kasteler , told USA Today last week. (At press time, Kasteler had yet to respond to EW.com’s request for a comment.) ”She’s young, she’s single, she’s beautiful. What guy in his right mind wouldn’t want to date her?”

Not Speared

Spears, 21, has never acknowledged a relationship with Durst. Her spokeswoman had no comment on his remarks Friday.

-Long Beach Press Telegram – Sunday, February 9, 2003

Pop beauty Britney Spears didn’t just split up with Limp Bizkit rocker Fred Durst – she dumped him.

Durst also has his sights set on another woman – he has since posted an item on his website talking about his dreams of Angelina Jolie.

Singer Sick Of News Hype Over Dating Spears – Durst Says Media Is Trying To Create Controversy

Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst is sounding off over all the media hype over his new relationship with pop star Britney Spears.

On the group’s Web site, Durst asks, “Isn’t it amazing how something very simple, pure, sweet, and innocent can be blown so far out of proportion? Who really gives a s— that i wanna be with Britney Spears? It seems as if everyone does. The only person that should give a s— is Britney.”

In his post, Durst said that the media is “trying to create a lot of controversy.”

“To them, it’s just more interesting to make up lies and crazy dramatic s—,” Durst wrote. “I’ve heard and seen some unbelievable things since i’ve been liking her.”

The singer assured in his post that the only thing that’s true is that his feelings for Spears are “simple, honest, and pure.”

Durst added that he’s “dropping a sick and heavy album in a couple months and we don’t need to be wasting our time worrying about some birds and bees s—.” He also wrote, “Next time I’ll fall in love with a tree.”

Talk about publicity stunt relationships. Sheesh. Fred, I know you read this… so here’s my opinion on your next career move: Really LOVE a tree. Y’know that guy in Santa Wherever that climbed that huge oak tree or whatever? Go be like him. Climb up into an endangered tree and stay there until they have to forcefully remove you. Man, SCREW PHISH! You can totally corner their market! Go on dude, nature needs you! I promise we’ll take care of Brit for ya and finish your album in time. What are you waiting for?!