Bryan Spears

Bryan James Spears (born April 19, 1977) is an American film and television producer. He is the older brother of singer Britney Spears and actress Jamie Spears, and was co-manager of Britney's conservatorship. He was also a co-producer of Nickelodeon's teen sitcom Zoey 101, which starred Jamie Lynn. Spears was born to James Parnell Spears and Lynne Irene Spears (née Bridges) on April 19, 1977, in McComb, Mississippi. He was born with a bacterial lung infection and had to be hooked to an IV before overcoming the infection about a week later. In Lynne's book, Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World, she recalls how she thought Spears was going to die and pleaded with God to let him live. He is of Irish, Maltese, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, French, and Welsh ancestry.Spears’s father worked as a construction contractor and his mother worked as a second-grade teacher. The family attended First Baptist Church in Kentwood, Louisiana.Spears attended Parklane Academy in McComb, a private Christian school that serves grades K-12. After graduating high school, Spears attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, his mother's alma mater. While attending university, he majored in kinesiology. In 2000, he studied sports administration at Southwest Mississippi Community College.