FROM POPOZAO TO PAPARAZZO? Britney Spears’ constant companion for the past few weeks has been Afghani-born Adnan Ghalib, the 35-year-old “photojournalist” who’s deeply “embedded” in his subject. Has the lensman turned wangsman (as is widely surmised)?

Ghalib, who is a married man, claims he and Britney are just friends—friends who have sleepovers at fancy hotels and hang out at her house. Guess Britney believes in keeping friends close and her enemies closer. Ghalib had been stalking Britney for the FinalPixx agency (and pulling in $200,000 a year) when she picked him out of the swarm of shutterbugs who feed off her night and day. A sybaritic, if symbotic, relationship.

“I think she’s a great person,” he told ABC’s 20/20. “It’s unfortunate that she’s the way she is, because of the people she surrounds herself with.” (See above. Shutterbugs, swarm of.)

Right now, the Adnan Affair is the talk of Hollywood and Bollywood blogs alike, but who knows how it’ll last? Remind us of another affair …. The one involving a princess, a guy named Dodi, and a pack of papparazzi.

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