Discovery

Britney Spears showed up to the set of her new “Piece of Me” video 12 hours late on Tuesday. So what? Step off! It’s Britney, bitch! Us Weekly reports

Despite an 8 a.m. call time, Spears, 25, didn’t leave her Beverly Hills home until after 7 p.m. She arrived on set around 8:35 p.m. In the video, Spears and four look-alikes — dressed in black newsboy caps, sunglasses, black trench coats and short blond wigs — try to trick the paparazzi.Spears used a “body double to shoot all the scenes that don’t require her face,” an on-set source tells Us.

Look, it’s her video anyway. If she wants to do absolutely no promotion for the album whatsoever and then show up for a video shoot 12 hours late, that’s her prerogative. If she wants to roll around on the floor while men in gimp masks suspended from ceiling fans try to squirt Hershey’s syrup and Cheez Whiz into her open mouth and then make that her video, so be it. There’s a word for those who attempt to quash artistic visions with their conformist ways, and that word is “Philistine.” Britney might have said “Philly cheese steak,” but I know that’s what she really meant.

Britney shopping in pajamas (?) yesterday: