Kidnapper Britney Spears has fired her new assistant, Shannon Funk after just three weeks on the job.

“Britney felt a lot of her recent troubles started and stopped with Shannon,” a Britney insider tells L&S. “Britney thought she was talking badly about her. She was very rude and Britney felt she was letting business emails fall by the wayside.”

Shannon was the replacement for Britney’s ousted cuz, and former flunky, Allie Simms.

“They have agreed to move forward as friends,” a mole says of the country cousins.