Dr. Phil scraps show on Britney Spears

Published: January 7, 2008, 6:02 pm

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. television personality and psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw on Monday scrapped plans to air a show about Britney Spears after he was criticized for a visit to the troubled pop star in hospital on the weekend.McGraw went to see Spears at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where the 26-year-old was admitted last week in a fit of hysterics over the handover of her two young sons to her ex-husband Kevin Federline.McGraw, who counsels people on his popular TV program "The Dr. Phil Show," has been accused of breaching Spears' privacy by other counselors on various media after he visited the pop star on Saturday morning just before she was released.In an interview on the CBS network's "The Early Show" on Monday, McGraw said he went to see Spears "at the request of her family." He said Spears' mother, sister and brother "were very frustrated that she apparently wasn't going to be held (in hospital) for a longer period of time."McGraw said he had planned to tape a

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