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Britney dancers fired after drugs test

By Bo Wilson, London Lite Last updated at 12:41pm on 10.03.09

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Britney Spears's comeback tour has suffered a scandal after three dancers were fired for alleged drug use.

I'm number one: Britney Spears enjoying the sunshine in Miami and showing off her newly slim figure in a sexy turquoise bikini

They were caught when the singer's father, Jamie, and her manager Larry Rudolph carried out a random test. Jamie Spears has been "beyond strict" over drugs being anywhere near the star's 44-date run, in the wake of her breakdown two years ago. Spears, 27, herself insists on the tour being clean. She has ditched alcohol to demand only fruit juice backstage.

Smokin' hot: Spears banned drugs and booze... but not her cigarettes

Meanwhile, she took a break beside a hotel pool in Miami yesterday, showing off her newly slim figure in a turquoise bikini as she lay on a sunlounger sending text messages, and playing in the water with her sons Sean Preston, three, and Jayden James, two.