Friends of magician Criss Angel tell Page Six that reports of the Long Island illusionist organizing a killer MTV VMA opener for embattled star Britney Spears are false, “She is just doing a straight-up performance of her new single, ‘Gimme More,’ ” a spy says. Instead NYP spywitness claim Criss is a “press whore” who’s just “using” Britney Spears.

The two “hooked up the night they met” and Angel has been “using her to get press ever since,” a snitch gushes. A Vegas spy tells the Post, “He doesn’t even really talk to her when they go out. This weekend at [club] LAX, they weren’t seated at the same table, but when the paparazzi were around he jumped in all the pictures. . . . The paparazzi all have his number.”