{"id":2416970,"date":"2026-05-14T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2416970"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:03:43","slug":"britney-spears-rep-addresses-singer-barking-wielding-knife-at-la-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/britney-spears-rep-addresses-singer-barking-wielding-knife-at-la-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears&#8217; rep addresses singer barking, wielding knife at LA restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Britney Spears\u2019 rep is shutting down claims that the Princess of Pop potentially posed any danger during <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/14\/celebrity-news\/britney-spears-barks-yells-wields-knife-at-la-restaurant-after-rehab\/\">her bizarre restaurant scene<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is completely blown out of proportion. Britney was enjoying a quiet dinner with her assistant and bodyguard. She was simply telling the story about how her dog was barking at the neighbors,\u201d her rep said in a statement to Page Six Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt no point did she put anyone in danger with a knife,\u201d they continued. \u201cShe was cutting her hamburger in half.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Britney Spears\u2019 rep shut down reports that the singer put restaurant goers  at Blue Dog Tavern \u201cin danger\u201d with her bizarre knife-wielding behavior on Wednesday night. (Seen above is the singer at the Sherman Oaks restaurant Wednesday night).  <span class=\"credit\">TMZ<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThis is completely blown out of proportion. Britney was enjoying a quiet dinner with her assistant and bodyguard,\u201d the statement reads.  <span class=\"credit\">TMZ<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Reports surfaced Thursday morning that the 44-year-old singer \u201cwas raising her voice, screaming and even barking at times\u201d in a \u201cchaotic\u201d scene during her Wednesday night visit to Blue Dog Tavern in Sherman Oaks neighborhood of LA.<\/p>\n<p>Spears reportedly dined at the restaurant with a woman and a man. At one point, a restaurant patron told TMZ the singer walked by their table with a knife, prompting fears that she might harm someone with the sharp utensil.<\/p>\n<p>The man with Spears was also said to have lit up a cigarette near the door, prompting staff to ask him to put it out. <\/p>\n<p>By the end of the scene, an eyewitness said the singer\u2019s table looked \u201clike a toddler had been there.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>On Thursday, sources claimed the singer was \u201craising her voice, screaming and even barking at times\u201d during her Wednesday night visit and left her table looking \u201clike a toddler had been there.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">TMZ<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The reports come just a month after the \u201cToxic\u201d singer (pictured above posing for a photo in a brown top and black choker) checked herself into a rehab facility following her March DUI arrest.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@britneyspears<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The update comes just a month after Spears\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/12\/celebrity-news\/britney-spears-checks-into-rehab-for-substance-abuse-weeks-after-dui-arrest\/\">checked herself into a rehab facility<\/a> following\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/05\/celebrity-news\/britney-spears-arrested-for-dui\/\">her March DUI arrest<\/a>. She was\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/30\/celebrity-news\/britney-spears-spotted-for-first-time-since-finishing-rehab-following-dui-charge\/\">seen for the first time<\/a>\u00a0on April 30 after completing her rehab stay.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, an insider close to the pop star told Page Six that\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/30\/celebrity-news\/inside-britney-spears-fresh-start-after-rehab-release\/\">Spears was \u201cdoing really well\u201d\u00a0<\/a>and \u201cexcited to start afresh\u201d after her rehab stint. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cRehab was a great opportunity for her to ground herself,\u201d the source shared.<\/p>\n<p>A second source told us that the singer \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/15\/celebrity-news\/how-britney-spears-sons-helped-her-come-out-of-spiral-and-enter-rehab\/\">whose sons reportedly pushed her to enter rehab <\/a>\u2014\u00a0is \u201ccontinuing counseling remotely.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Spears (seen above posing in an orange dress) was first seen out in public after her rehab stint on April 30.   <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@britneyspears<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>At the time, a source told Page Six that Spears (seen above dancing with knives in a photo from a September 2023 video) was doing \u201creally well\u201d after her stay.  <span class=\"credit\">britney spears\/ instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this month, the \u201cGimme More\u201d hitmaker\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/04\/celebrity-news\/britney-spears-pleads-guilty-in-dui-case-days-after-leaving-rehab\/\">pleaded guilty<\/a>\u00a0to a charge from her DUI arrest on May 4. Though, she did not attend the court hearing. <\/p>\n<p>Her attorney took a deal in exchange for her charge to be reduced to \u201cwet reckless,\u201d which is common in cases for first-time offenders with a low blood alcohol count and no prior crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The judge ordered Spears to a one-year informal probationary grant and to complete a three-month alcohol school. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britney Spears\u2019 rep is shutting down claims that the Princess of Pop potentially posed any danger during her bizarre restaurant scene on Wednesday night. \u201cThis is completely blown out of proportion. Britney was enjoying a quiet dinner with her assistant and bodyguard. She was simply telling the story about how her dog was barking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2416971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[21966,24003,21800],"class_list":["post-2416970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-britney-spears","tag-celebrity-news","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Britney-Spears-rep-addresses-singer-barking-wielding-knife-at-LA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416972,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416970\/revisions\/2416972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}