I meet Christina Aguilera in a vast hotel suite that overlooks the rooftops of central London — she floats into the room, her hair wet, wearing nothing but a fluffy white dressing gown and red lipstick. She shakes my hand with a firm grip that instantly becomes a floppy, loose one. My God, I think, if she gets bored of a handshake before it’s finished, how is she going to do a whole interview?
Then she starts to talk, and I’m gripped. We discuss how she presented Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club alongside Britney Spears in the 1990s, before they both went on to become world-famous pop stars in their late teens. The week we meet, Spears had a court hearing about the future of her
