Britney spends weekend with paparazzo

Despite a swarm of photographers outside her Beverly Hills home, Britney Spears escaped unnoticed — to the Daily Grill restaurant in Palm Desert with her photographer beau Adnan Ghalib. According to a report in Norm Clarke's Vegas Confidential column, the pop singer, 26 and Ghalib, 35, shared an hour-long breakfast at 11 a.m. this morning. Spears was seen "celebrating her [hospital] release with a mimosa champagne" cocktail during the meal, and even "went to the restroom with her champagne flute while [Ghalib] stood outside the door," Clarke writes. X17online.com says the couple is currently holed up together at Shutters Hotel in Santa Monica, California. This isn't the first time Spears, 26, has gone to a hotel with Ghalib. On Dec. 23, she spent the night with him at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. "We are just friends," he told Usmagazine.com then. "She was just a little upset, pretty much about everything." On Jan. 2, the pair also checked into the Parker Hotel in Palm Springs from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. Earlier today Spears' pal Sam Lutfi told x17online that "he is worried about Adnan's influence over Britney" and that "he firmly believes Adnan has ulterior financial motives."

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