Britney Spears has a supporter - Jason Donovan (Who?)

Britney Spears has got a supporter from all the way in Australia, as Jason Donovan has admitted he knows what it feels like to turn to drugs.

He did so, after he found fame in the late 1980s when he was in a soap which became popular in the UK as well as his home country Australia - Neighbours.

"Drugs are not cool. There's nothing cool about being in a box underground and that's where I was heading for a long time," Jason told The Mirror. "But a lot of what happened to me had to do with circumstance. I was only 17 when I walked into a television show that totally changed my life."

Asked to offer advice to Britney and Amy Winehouse, Donovan replied: "What can you say? I can't tell them what to do. People in the artistic world think that creativity can come from drug use and I think there is an element of truth in that.

"But Britney Spears is a classic example - a lot of money, became very famous very young and she just wants to rebel, she wants to f*** up the image, she wants to crash the car and become different, cool. I was exactly the same... but I can't tell Britney what to do."

He added: "You have to lie in the bed you've made. You court the media and the media turns on you. That's life. My advice to Amy or Britney would probably be, if you don't like it, become a plumber."

Donovan, who recently appeared on UK reality show 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' will launch his biography 'Between the Lines' on October 1, so if you've never heard of him, you will do after reading it, though it takes away the point of an autobiography.