Spears’ TV wardrobe to be auctioned

Los Angeles – It seems almost everybody wants a piece of Britney Spears, and at least six pieces are officially for sale.

Spears’ wardrobe from her guest-starring stint on CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother” will be sold at an online auction to benefit the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization.

The weeklong auction begins tonight, just after the episode featuring the pop star is set to air. Spears plays a flirty receptionist who falls for the show’s main character.

A half-dozen Spears-worn items will be available, including a navy print Juicy Couture dress, a yellow Nannette Lepore dress and a cream Nannette Lepore cardigan with blue flower details.

CBS and 20th Century Fox Television, which produces the show, are sponsoring the auction.

‘Hairspray’ star was hot to foxtrot

Los Angeles – Marissa Jaret Winokur didn’t have to be swayed into being on “Dancing with the Stars.”

“I keep hearing these stories how people turned it down a few times,” Winokur said at the William S. Paley Television Festival on Friday. “I banged on their doors. ‘Please let me do this show. Please! Please! Please!’ It’s lived up to all my expectations.”

The 35-year-old actress, who won a Tony Award in 2003 for playing Tracy Turnblad in Broadway’s “Hairspray,” strained to speak during the panel because she said she’s beginning to lose her voice.

“I just talk too much,” joked Winokur, who’s partnered with professional dancer Tony Dovolani on the show.

Winokur and husband Judah Miller are expecting their first child. Winokur, who had cervical cancer seven years ago, said the baby is being carried by a surrogate mother and is due in four months.

B.B. King buys landmark juke joint

Indianola, Miss. – B.B. King is the new owner of a juke joint in his Mississippi Delta hometown.

Mary Shepard has owned Club Ebony in Indianola for the past three decades. King and other artists have played there throughout the years.

A Mississippi Delta Blues Trail Marker outside Club Ebony says Count Basie, Ray Charles, James Brown and Ike Turner are among the musicians who have played there since 1945.

Shepard says she sold the club to the bluesman because she wants to relax and spend time with her family.