True Romance: Britney Spears' casts boyfriend Jason as her lover for steamy sex scene in her music video
By Andrea Magrath
Last updated at 3:20 PM on 18th October 2011
Who needs a reality series when you can just make a music video?
Britney Spears and her boyfriend Jason Trawick have given her fans a steamy look at what goes on in their bedroom in the X-rated music video for her single Criminal.
The couple play a modern Bonnie and Clyde-style duo who play out their passions with little inhibition.
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X-rated: Britney Spears shares a steamy clinch with her real-life boyfriend Jason Trawick in the video for her single Criminal
Memorable debut: Jason, who used to be Britney's agent, gropes the naked singer in the video
Passionate: The couple spend most of the video in an embrace, even when their hideaway is being gunned down
Spears, 29, had a reality show with her ex-husband Kevin Federline, but has simply combined her personal professional lives this time round by casting her man in her music video.
Britney previously invited her former agent turned boyfriend Trawick onstage and gave him a lap dance during a concert in August.
And now Jason is taking centre stage in her music videos. He plays a bad boy who Britney falls for after he saves her from her abusive boyfriend.
The relationship soon heats up, and fans are treated to a hot and heavy sex scene which sees Jason groping his scantily-clad girlfriend before the pair fall into bed.
Knight in shining armour: Jason's character comes to Britney's rescue early in the video and the pair quickly fall for each other
Faking it: Jason also sports a dodgy fake tattoo visible in the couple's love scene
Revealing: The couple appear naked in the shower in another scene
In stages of undress Trawick displays a very fake-looking tattoo that covers his back as part of his 'bad boy' character.
At the beginning of the video Britney is in an unhappy relationship, and gets into a physical fight with her boyfriend at a fancy party.
First he yells at her in front of other guests and then she catches him chatting up another woman.
When she confronts him, he drags her outside and punches her.
On the run: The couple play a modern day Bonnie and Clyde in the music video
Bad boy: Jason's character drags Britney into a world of crime after they meet
Put 'em up! They hold up a grocery store in a scene filmed in London last month
Trawick appears as her knight in shining armour, knocking the boyfriend out before speeding off with Britney on his motorcycle.
The bad boy soon leads the pop star astray though, into a world of crime. The pair hold up a store with guns in scenes filmed in London last month.
They are chased down by the police to their hideaway. But the couple's passion can't be tamed even as the authorities gun down the walls.
Abusive: At the start of the video, Britney is in an unhappy relationship with an abusive partner
Violent: The confronting scenes show the man yelling at the singer
The embrace as bullets pierce the walls and their belongings are destroyed, before the pair make their getaway.
Britney and Jason began dating in early 2010, going public with the romance in May. a spokesperson confirmed at the time that they had 'decided to end their professional relationship in order to focus on their personal one'.
The risque nature of the video isn't the only controversy Criminal has caused.
Ugly: The altercation turns violent when the boyfriend drags Britney outside and punches her, before Jason appears to save the day
Hands up: The authorities chase the couple down at the end of the video
Controversy: Hackney council, where the video was filmed, have complained that Spears' has glamourised violence in an area where the riots in august took place
Hackney council officials were angered in September when Spears filmed the video, which they deemed to be glamourising violence, in one of the hotspots of the August riots.
After pictures emerged of Spears escaping Stoke Newington Town Hall with a replica gun in hand, MPs voiced their anger that they had not been informed of the nature of the video when they agreed to filming taking place.
A council spokesman said at the time: ‘While the agreement was for anonymous use of Stoke Newington Town Hall, we did not agree a replica gun could be used. We are disappointed the film crew made a last-minute change to the scene.’ The production company has apologised, she added.