Britney Spears and Sam Asghari pictured together in 2019

Sam Asghari is taking time to reflect on his seven-year relationship with ex Britney Spears with the benefit of hindsight.

Appearing on Monday’s episode of Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, the actor, model and Traitors US contestant described his romance with Britney as “a crash course in Hollywood”, and recalled meeting the pop icon for the first time in 2016 while on the set of her Slumber Party music video.

Though Sam was early in his acting career at the time, he said he was eager to delve into more “serious” projects when was first asked to appear in the video, and was kept unaware of who the recording artist would be.

“A friend of mine was doing make-up and hair and said, ‘Oh, you know, my friend Colin Tilley was the director, he is a really amazing director for music videos and feature films now’,” Sam recalled.

“He said, ‘My friend’s doing it, and they want to cast you. You should come because I’m working in it and, you know, we’ll make some good friends and you should just do it’. So I said, ‘OK’.”

And while Sam viewed the actual two-day filming experience as “just another job,” he formed a bond with Britney: “We were both single, and we figured we’ll grab some........

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