Fans Bid Like Crazy On 'Britney's Chewed Gum'
POSTED: 7:40 am EDT September 3, 2004
NEW YORK -- Britney Spears must be spitting out gum left and right.
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More than two dozen auctions on eBay are selling what they claim to be Spears' used chewing gum. One auction had bidding that went as high as $14,000 -- until it was found to be driven up by one person bidding against himself.
Click here to see online gum auctions.
Another auction is selling gum that Spears spat out at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards in Miami -- which is pretty amazing, given that Spears didn't go to the awards this year. The ad says the gum "still has her teeth marks in it."
Though there is no way to verify the authenticity of the various wads, many postings include photos of a small piece of chewed gum, a copy of a ticket stub from the place of finding and a personal story of procurement.
One posting claiming to be the originator of the craze said the gum for sale was spat out in anger by Spears outside her Los Angeles home in early August. A picture of the gum, now going for $26, accompanies the auction.
Why would someone pay money for a piece of used gum?
Psychologist Joyce Brothers is reminded of the prices that people paid for the clothes and possessions of President John F. Kennedy and actress Katharine Hepburn.
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