The fake celebrity death circuit has returned to old territory with a new Britney Spears dead rumor doing the rounds today.

According to one version of the Britney Spears dead rumors doing the rounds, she was killed five years ago and is currently being played by a body double….yeah, we never said these rumors make sense.

The resurfacing of the Britney Spears dead rumors though may actually be related to other news: about a month ago Britney announced that when she died, she wanted her body cryogenically frozen, so she can be bought back to life when the technology is there to save her. OK, that’s nearly as nuts as the death rumor, but we can at least confirm this story.

We’re giving the Britney Spears died rumors a 4/10 for originality.

As always, for the record, Britney Spears has not died, Britney Spears is not dead. Nothing more to see here, move along.