Reports that Britney Spears' ex Adnan Ghalib inspired her new material are completely false - according to a co-writer on her upcoming Circus album.

The singer was rumoured to have written a track called Mmm Papi for her former paparazzo lover.

The song begins:

But songwriter Nicole Morier has gone on record to dismiss claims that Britney still harbours feelings for Adnan.

Nicole told gossip blogger Perez Hilton, "The song is definitely not about Adnan and in the whole time I worked with her last spring and summer I never once saw that guy.

"We strictly wrote the song for fun. The Mmm Papi part came out of Mmm Papa Luv U and I came up with it because the track was a fun up beat track and we wanted to do something crazy like mmmpapamowow."

See why Britney regrets her marriage to Kevin Federline here