People Magazine reported yesterday that Daddy Spears has put daughter Britney on financial restriction — the courts decreed that Britney would receive a weekly allowance of only $1500, which barely even covers her frappuccino expenditures. How is she going to make the rounds to the Phillips 66 and the Citgo on that kind of change? Especially with gas nearing $5 a gallon? Don’t let’s forget the impulse wig shopping and bi-weekly hotel stays! It’s madness, I tell ya!

Anyway, there’s one bit of good news for Britney in all this: Daddy let her get a job. People Magazine goes on to say

The pop star is returning to TV, scoring a guest role on CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, a rep for the show [can] confirm. The news comes after Spears’s father and conservator, Jamie, gave his daughter permission to appear on the sitcom.

I’ll just add that to the list of reasons not to watch “How I Met Your Mother,” right next to “On same station as ‘Survivor,’ ‘Big Brother 8,’ and ‘The Ghost Whisperer.’”

On her way to — guess what! — eat: