Britney Spears is decade's search queen

Britney Spears has beaten David Beckham, Tony Blair and Simon Cowell to take the crown of the most-searched for celebrity of the Noughties.

Spears has had an up-and-down decade emcompassing smash hit records, the birth of two children, divorces and a high-profile breakdown.

Ask Jeeves said it got an average of 20 million Britney-related searches every month for the past decade.

In second place was the decade's most sought-after man - Osama bin Laden. David Beckham was third and Princess Diana, perhaps surprisingly considering she died in 1997, was fourth.

Ask Jeeves spokeswoman Nadia Kelly said: "Some names are popular searches for a year or two and then no more but a select few have been topping our search lists for up to a whole decade.

"Britney Spears began the decade as a fresh faced new superstar on the block and has remained as high profile ever since - which is no mean achievement when so many other people have been and gone," she continued.


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