Britney Spears cancelled a booking for a top Dublin hotel because they |refused to co-operate with her demands for a stripper pole, it has emerged.

The 27-year-old Womanizer star requested that an exclusive hotel on the Dublin southside install a steel pole during her brief stay in the city for her sell-out Circus tour.

But when the venue declined, her minders promptly booked into the apparently more accommodating Four Seasons Hotel instead.

A source revealed the mum-of-two is a keen pole dancer, as it apparently helps her keep in shape.

The source said: “She adores working out on a pole as it helps her keep toned.

“She has had to work very hard to squeeze back into those tiny stage costumes and she knows she has to stay on top of her regime. Britney can’t let her weight creep back up as this is the most important tour of her career and she has to stay in peak physical condition.”