'I was asked to visit Britney': Dr Phil

TV therapist Dr Phil McGraw has dismissed accusations he tried to profit from Britney Spears' breakdown by visiting the troubled singer in hospital.

McGraw went to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Saturday, where Spears was being held following a stand-off with police at her Beverly Hills mansion when she refused to hand over her boys to ex-husband Kevin Federline after a scheduled visit.