Britney checks into hotel with photographer

Usmagazine.com has learned the pop star, wearing a black wig and dark sunglasses, and photographer Adnan Ghalib, 35, checked into the Parker Hotel in Palm Springs around 2 a.m. on Jan. 2 – and then checked out around 7 a.m.

This isn’t the first time 26-year-old Spears has spent time in a hotel with Ghalib – Spears has developed an intimate relationship with the photographer (who told Us in September, “I’ll get her sooner or later”). Last week, Ghalib comforted her at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. He told Us at the time, “We are just friends. She was just a little upset, pretty much about everything.