Paparazzi staking out the Mississippi hospital at which Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth last week were sent on a wild goose chase when the 17-year-old TV star’s mother and fiancé stuck a sheet-covered dummy in the back of an SUV. The new mother’s family and their police escort led photographers to the Spears family home in Louisiana, while Jamie Lynn quietly took newborn Maddie Briann in the opposite direction, to her new home in Liberty, Miss.
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