Britney Spears has been court-ordered to pay her father $10,000 for quitting his job as a private chef to baby-sit her for the last three months. The Daily Mail says

An LA court has approved his application for compensation of $2,500 a week for loss of earnings [dating] back to the start of February, when Jamie was made a conservator of Britney’s estate. The court papers say: “As a result of the responsibilities Mr Spears has assumed as Temporary Conservator of the Person and Temporary Co-Conservator of the Estate, he has been unable to continue his prior employment and thus no longer has the source of income he previously had in order to pay his expenses and bills.

So, ten grand’s the going rate for two months of grounding your daughter, getting her back on her meds, kicking her loser boyfriend to the curb and making her show up in court? Well, by my calculations — not counting those ambulance rides from Bonnaroo while I was still on his insurance and the fire in the basement that began as a do-it-yourself gravity bong — I owe my dad somewhere in the neighborhood of $798,000. Plus interest. Of course, I didn’t factor in all those ties I got him for Father’s Day over the years. A couple of them were art silk and rayon blends. That’s got to be ten or twelve bucks at least.

Sugarbaby at Il Sole last night: