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Perhaps the biggest grin to come from the recent K-Fed’s non-Broadway Legally Blonde casting non-news is the connection made by Village Voice columnist Michael Musto which links K-Fed’s ex Brittney Spears and Legally Blonde star Laura Bell Bundy back to an Off-Broadway musical-spoof production called Ruthless! in 1992. His connection is all based in fact. The off-Broadway musical spoof featured a “bad seed” inspired teen heroine named Tina Denmark who Dave Richards of the New York Times described as: “Tina is what you’d get were you to cross a cherub with a shark — a cloud of fluffy blond hair, smooth skin, sharp teeth and beady eyes that just dare you to move.”

Well, as Michael Musto reports in his Village Voice blog La Daily Musto, current Legally Blonde star Laura Bell Bundy starred in that production, and her understudy was the young Brittney Spears! (other understudy was Natalie Portman). Could there be a larger Legally Blonde conspiracy-ish story here? K-Fed playing on Britney’s “understudy complex” while playing on-stage with her former rival (though rumor had him as the UPS guy with Orfeh)? Hmmmm…The rest of Michael Musto’s posting makes for fun Broadway reading too. Click here: Legally Bland K-Fed Fails Upward To Broadway .

Also, you can watch the video feature of Laura Bell Bundy from Legally Blonde right here.

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Tags: Britney Spears, K-Fed, Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde, Michael Musto, Village Voice

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