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Britney Spears allowed weekly visits with sons

Los Angeles – A court commissioner granted Britney Spears three monitored visits a week with her two small sons while ordering the pop star to childproof her house and work out a schedule for the visits with her ex-husband Kevin Federline, according to Tuesday’s ruling.

Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon also required that Spears undergo random weekly drug and alcohol tests.

Spears, 25, also must continue meeting with a court-appointed parenting coach, and the youngsters must be in car seats when they are being driven, the ruling states.

Calls to lawyers representing Spears and Federline weren’t immediately returned.

The nine-page ruling said Spears could have overnight visits with her kids – something she had been seeking. She will get two visits a week from noon to 7 p.m. and one from noon to 10 a.m. the next morning.

Seinfeld: Wife isn’t guilty of ‘vegetable plagiarism’

New York – Jerry Seinfeld says his wife isn’t guilty of “vegetable plagiarism.”

Jessica Seinfeld’s “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food,” published this month by HarperCollins, explains how to hide nutritious vegetables in traditional recipes so children will eat them.

The couple have three children.

“So there’s another woman who had another cookbook – and it was a similar kind of thing, with the food and the vegetables in the food – and my wife never saw the book, read the book, used the book,” the 53-year-old comedian said Monday on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman.”

“But the books came out at the same time. So this woman says, ‘I sense this could be my wacko moment.’ So she comes out … and she accuses my wife. She says, ‘You stole my mushed-up carrots. You can’t put mushed-up carrots in a casserole. I put mushed-up carrots in a casserole. It’s vegetable plagiarism,”‘ Seinfeld joked.