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Under the ever-expanding heading of "Failed Career Attempts of the Men in Britney Spears' Life" comes news that JJ Chill, the Venice smoothie shop (tagline: "Think outside the cone") purchased by her dad Jamie in an attempt at getting his life back together after his post-divorce alcoholic tailspin and subsequent rehab stint, will be shuttering its frozen delicacy-dispensing doors:

JJ Chill the Venice, Calif., restaurant Britney Spears' dad Jamie purchased in Nov. 2004 has closed, the owner and landlord of the property where the small eatery was housed, Mark Wurm, has exclusively revealed to Star.


"Jamie served a lot of icies cups of flavored ice and people don't eat icies when it's cold," Wurm tells Star. So when the weather turned chilly recently people stopped going there.

Hardest hit by the news was Britney herself, who was a regular customer and instrumental in many aspects of her father's business, from successfuly convincing him to reconsider his "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy, to suggesting he dedicate smoothies to celebrities, beginning of course with "the Britney," which was basically a vanilla ice blended garnished with a Marlboro Light.