Never before aired comments of Britney Spears discussing her conservatorship have made it to screens years later. The US pop queen, 42, who was catapulted to stardom in the 1990s, was under a 13-year conservatorship until it was terminated by a judge in Los Angeles in November 2021.

Eight years after censoring it, ITV has released footage of Britney Spears talking about her conservatorship on The Jonathan Ross Show. In the clip — from an interview in 2016, eight years into Spears' conservatorship — Ross asks the pop star about her "being more in control" of her music "than before.