55 hours later, Britney unties knot

Her marriage lasted exactly 55 hours. Even as the world was waking up to pop icon Britney Spears' shock marriage to childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander, came the annulment.

It seems that Spears married Alexander on a whim. "Plaintiff Spears lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to the marriage," the annulment petition said.

Clark County Family Court judge Lisa M Brown took just two hours to act on the 'complaint for annulment'. "There is no marriage now," said Spears' attorney, David Chesnoff of Las Vegas. "Jason agreed to this completely. They've made a wise decision. I know they care about each other. They are friends."

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The pop superstar married Alexander, who like Spears hails from Kentwood, Louisiana, on Saturday at a Las Vegas wedding chapel. Many reports claimed that she was drunk when she got married.

But Chesnoff denied such reports and said, "Absolutely not." Alexander said he and Spears hatched the idea to get hitched on Saturday morning. "It was just crazy, man," he told Access Hollywood in an interview. "And we were just looking at each other and said, 'Let's do something wild, crazy. Let's go get married, just for the hell of it.'"

A friend of Spears said the popstar woke up that morning a 'little stunned' that she tied the knot.

Agencies