Britney Spears’ parents are advising the pop music icon to stay single and sex-free. Lynne and Jamie Spears has slapped Britney with a six-month sex ban to curb fears that the singer’s notorious bad taste in menfolk will rattle her still fragile sense of stability.

“Jamie and Lynne feel she’s so close to cracking the big time again that they don’t want anything to get in her way,” a friend of the family tells Mirror. “Their worst nightmare is that she gets involved with someone else who’s just trying to use her for her money or to further their own career.”