Britney Spears' electricity meter is going to clocking up some serious numbers this holiday season.
The singer, who recently returned from a romantic Mexican getaway with her boyfriend Jason Trawick,
is clearly full of the Christmas spirit this year - lighting-up her multi-million dollar home like Santa's Grotto.
Britney has decorated the Calabasas mansion and it's surrounding grounds with thousands of fairy lights and assorted Christmas related decorations.
The single mother of two has even hung a huge, colourful, decorative helicopter with Santa at the wheel from the roof.
Every tree on the property is strung with fairy lights and the steps leading up to the Britney's sweeping driveway is festooned with lights.
In addition, many features of the huge home are illuminated in bright colourful light, making for an over- all effect of a little Las Vegas.
It makes for a truly festive sight, but not all Britney's neighbours in the mega-exclusive private gated community are pleased with the spectacle.
'It looks pretty trashy all in all,' one displeased neighbour sniffed. 'I mean, it's one thing to hang some
lights up and to mark the season but the giant inflatable Father Christmas statues and the huge trumpet playing angels on the roof are taking it all to a whole new level.'
Another wasn't quite so overtly critical, commenting: ' Britney was the first to put her lights up this year.
By the look of things she's certainly feeling extremely festive this year.'
It seems that many don't see the 29-year-old as the perfect next door neighbour. When Britney sold her old house in Beverly Hills two years ago it was reported that the locals sighed a huge sigh of relief.
Veteran TV personality, Ed Mc McMahon, for one, publicly cited Spears as one of the reasons why in two years he had not received a single offer on his 7,000-square-foot home that eventually sold for more than $3 million less than its original asking price.
'In the midst of trying to sell this property, there were a lot of distractions,' Johnny Carson's former sidekick said, citing paparazzi who had converged around the nearby home of Spears.
'When we were trying to sell the house one time, there were about 100 paparazzi there,' he said.
Meantime TMZ report that Britney will soon have one new neighbour who is most certainly used to the flashing bulbs and constant attention of the world's press.
The U.S. based website says that Katherine Jackson has moved into a home just one block from Britney.