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Britney Spears -- who once placed second on "Star Search" -- just issued a sweet statement about Ed McMahon, saying "He is responsible for giving so many artists their first shot including myself."
Here's the ironic part. The insanity surrounding one Britney Spears may have contributed to the foreclosure of Ed's house.
Britney used to live around the corner from Ed in Bev Hills. Ed's house sat like a white elephant for several years, partly because of the mold problem but partly -- according to his realtor -- because of the paparazzi frenzy at Britney's pad. The realtor told us buyers were being scared away.
Eventually Ed's house went into foreclosure.
Britney called Ed "a wonderful man who will be greatly missed."
6/23/2009 5:57 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
Britney's Ironic Message to Ed
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Really TMZ? It was only Britney's fault there was paparazzi? Or was it in part due to the gossip sites/mags that have those paps follow her? Nice pot calling the kettle black, huh....
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With that logic TMZ is partly responsible for ED Mac.'s foreclosure. No your right it's Britney's fault. SARCASM.
R.I.P Ed.
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RiP Ed McMahon. Always been a fan of The Johnny Carson Show. Celebs like Spears, Timberlake, Usher, Rosie O'Donnell, Drew Carey, among many others owe him mad respects for launching their careers via Star Search.
I never understood the spoke model competition. Has anyone launched their careers and become famous or infamous from that category?
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Brit, you remembered who gave you your big break!!! Kudos to you for that!!!
RIP Ed!!!!
Semper Fi!
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THe house hd TOXIC mold (pardon the pun), Britney and her paparazzi i doubt were NOT the reason that house did not sell. Shame on that realitor for stating otherwise.
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are you guys serious???tmz you guys are just plain criminal,shes mourning the death of a friend and your doing mathamatic calculations that equal shes responsible for his troubles...you guys gonna get lumped up like that other gossip queen
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I want to start a petition....anyway we can get TMZ to stop posting any pictures of that camera whore Kim Kardashian and start posting pictures of her ridiculously hot sister Kourtney? Im beggin you, I saw some pics of her the other day and she is way hotter and so much more level headed and down to earth.
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