No Dice for Dr. Phil This Time Around

Dr. Phil McGraw says that the Spears family hasn't contacted him after Brit's latest 5150 -- shocker! --, and he says that her second trip to the hospital isn't a surprise.

Still on his tour-of-regret on TV talk shows, Dr. Phil remained uncharacteristically tight-lipped about this morning's action while on "The View," except to say that it "could be a good thing." Then he continued to blather on about how he shouldn't have talked about Britney in the first place.

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1. What a chump.

Thanks

Posted at 12:54PM on Jan 31st 2008 by Conky

2. Anyone seen the just relased footage of Heath snorting coke and Talking about how Michelle would kille him if she knew??


Looks like sadly the rumors about Heath were true. The vieo link is below
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23137533-5012990,00.html?from=mostpop

Posted at 12:58PM on Jan 31st 2008 by old story

3. Dr. Phil is such a tool!

btw, that 'alleged' film of Heath is 2 years old

Posted at 1:00PM on Jan 31st 2008 by lawitch

4. TMZ, we get that you and some others don't like Dr. Phil, and that is fine and your choice. TMZ exploits Britney more than anyone else. So you shouldn't be talking. Dr. Phil is NOT EXPLOITING Britney during this interview. I watched the WHOLE INTERVIEW which was not only about Britney since he was scheduled to be there just for his show.

REMEMBER, BRITNEY'S PARENTS WERE THE ONES WHO INITIALLY CALLED AND ASKED HIM TO VISIT BRITNEY. As a family friend, he did and then got criticized for it. Regarding the public statement, he explained why he made it...so leave him alone now. He did not exploit the girl, so enough with the Dr. Phil bashing already.

Dr. Phil has EVERY RIGHT to go out to the media to defend his name after all the false speculations out there about him. You would do so too!

Dr. Phil's shows have been very helpful to thousands of people watching and the way the world is going, it's good to have people like him on a show trying to do some good.

Oh, you think Dr. Phil is exploiting Britney? How about Dr. Drew of Celebrity Rehab? He's made comments about Britney in the media. NBC Today Show, Good Morning America, The View, CNN and FOX have all had professionals and media persons talking about Britney. If you are going to criticize Dr. Phil, criticize them too.....and TMZ! You guys are worse than Dr. Phil. Everyday you are posting something about Britney and a lot of it is not nice. So think twice about who really is doing the exploiting.

Posted at 1:02PM on Jan 31st 2008 by Leave Dr. Phil alone

5. Oh pul-LEEEEEEEEZE. When will this guy give up? What a bozo he is for taking up more airtime to keep repeating the same old tired crapola about how he shouldnt have talked. Why do the talk shows even waste time with this guy? This is now a non-story. How many times can he say "I should have kept my mouth shut" ??

YA THINK???

He is simply repeating over and over what we knew weeks ago. It's time to drop it.

Please, Phil, do us all a favor and SHUT UP.

Posted at 1:05PM on Jan 31st 2008 by Major Annoyed

6. Dr. Phil needs an a$$ beating, he needs to mind his own business and people who actually watch his show need to be deported out of the country!

Posted at 1:06PM on Jan 31st 2008 by Jizy

7. Of course he's not exploiting Brithey. It's all about HIM and his career.


Posted at 1:09PM on Jan 31st 2008 by barney fife

8. TMZ can post about nothing else besides Britney...I mean every little thing she does. Sites like these are reasons why this world has gone so crazy. But they want to bash Dr. Phil for making a statement? I am not a Dr. Phil fan, but I think it's lame that they do that and how Spears parents reacted to it. They come out of the hospital this time and THEY make a statement after bashing him for doing so?
Why not just one post, she's in the hospital for treatment. Why the obsessive posting? The live feeds? It's insane.

Posted at 1:11PM on Jan 31st 2008 by Donovan

9. This man needs to keep his mouth shut about anything regarding Britney. It is not necessary to do his "regret tour" nor does he need to comment on Britney every time something new happens. Plan and simple, he is seeking the media's attention almost as much as Britney does (did?).

Dr. Phil - just go back to doing your crappy television show and say no more about Britney.

Posted at 1:13PM on Jan 31st 2008 by sanityrules

10. Donovan #9: EXACTLY! I cannot believe all of these BLIND PEOPLE posting on here can't see it. How about TMZ & others exploiting Britney? Why point the finger to just Dr. Phil?? I just don't get it. Dr. Phil didn't ask to be put into the Britney situation. Her parents asked him. Britney's on TMZ's site every single day.

Posted at 1:21PM on Jan 31st 2008 by Exactly!

11. He got full of himself. Thought he could just get involved and everybody would care what he had to said. Must be humbling to realize that nobody cares what he has to say.

Posted at 1:22PM on Jan 31st 2008 by VOR

12. TMZ - stop posting about him and maybe he'll stop blabing about her shouldn't have blabed. You are as bad as he is!

Posted at 1:23PM on Jan 31st 2008 by W T F ?

13. Ok - So, I keep seeing television programs speak about Dr. Phil and they are so wrong on their information. I too was blown away that Dr. Phil got involved. I always liked him because I too am a Texan but I did not love him nor watched his show religiously - I did see it on occassion. My first reaction was to think "Who does he think he is?" The furthest thing she needed to do was be attached to a "Hollywood" Dr. She needs to be away from the entire scene and should probably not even be in a hospital in this location. However, after listening to him - I can totally understand. He and primarily his wife were friends or acquaintances with Lynne Spears - who doesn't want to help Britney? We all are freaked out and don't know what to do to reach out to her - it's just painful to watch! First of all Chelsey Handler (love you!!) but you had someone on your show recently that was so wrong about licenses, psychology, Dr. Phil, etc.. Dr. Phil is a Dr. He is educated. He does not hold a license to have a PRIVATE PRACTICE in California. He is a Dr. Her parents reached out and he attempted to help in the meantime, the papz saw him, invaded him and he briefly spoke. BIG DEAL!

Lay off him - he obviiously regrets speaking the few words he did. At this point, Hollywood is disgusting. It just seems so dirty and desperate. Britney is in her place because she got caught up. I hope that she can remove herself from the entire environment.

Dr. Phil, it's ok. You do not have to keep apologizing. People lay off him. Get a freaking life!!!

Posted at 1:25PM on Jan 31st 2008 by PRIVATE

14. This guy just doesn't get it. It's not that he visited Britney at the request of her family, IT'S THAT HE WENT PUBLIC WITH A STATEMENT ABOUT HER CONDITION AFTERWARDS. "Real" doctors don't do stuff like that.

Posted at 1:29PM on Jan 31st 2008 by procter3

15. I would hardly call Dr. Phil's input 'blather'. I would sooner listen to what he has to say about her continued care, with his extensive experience with similarly troubled people, than I would to listen to 99% of anybody else on the topic. Dr. Phil backed up graciously on this, and at least willingly ate a bit of humble pie when it hit him. He's been a media personality for a few years now, and got shocked back into his former medical persona like a well meaning dog that ran out of tether line. It was an understandable error that can happen when you've been wearing a different career hat for a while; but he IS a very well meaning dog, lol. Of that I am sure.

Posted at 1:30PM on Jan 31st 2008 by Lightbulb

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