Britney Spears: Police check on singer after singer posts video of herself dancing with knives
Authorities have reportedly carried out a welfare check on Britney Spears after the popstar shared a video of herself dancing with knives at home.
The footage showed the 41-year-old singer dancing around the property while holding large knives.
The alarm was raised after Britney Spears shared a clip of herself dancing with knives
Police visited Spears after fans expressed concerns about the clip, a source close to the star told NBC News on Thursday.
The Toxic singer is “fine,” the source told the broadcaster, Sky News’ US partner network.
“This is overblown. She was expressing her freedom as she continues to do,” they added.
In the Instagram post of the video, which she posted earlier this week, Spears wrote: “I started playing in the kitchen with knives today!!! Don’t worry they are NOT real knives!!! Halloween is soon!!!”
She shared another choreographed clip on Friday, and claimed she was simply copying Shakira, who danced with knives during her MTV Video Music Awards performance earlier this month.
Spears insisted the knives were fake
Spears wrote: “I know I spooked everyone with the last post, but these are fake knives that my team rented from Hand Prop shop in LA.
“These are not real knives. No one needs to worry or call the police.
“I’m trying to imitate one of my favorite (sic) performers Shakira… a performance I was inspired by!!!”
She added: “Cheers to us bad girls who aren’t afraid to push boundaries and take risks.”
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It is not the first time fans have asked the police to check on Spears.
In January, they raised the alarm after she deleted her Instagram account.
At the time, Spears said she loved and adored her fans “but this time things went a little too far”.
“The police never entered my home and when they came to my gate they quickly realized (sic) there was no issue and left immediately,” she wrote.
“This felt like I was being gaslit and bullied once the incident made it to the news and being portrayed once again in a poor and unfair light by the media.”
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Spears later said she temporarily left the social media platform because people were making fun of her dancing videos.
The latest incident comes weeks after Sam Asghari, 29, filed for divorce from the singer.
Spears told her 42 million Instagram followers she was “a little shocked” but had no intention of explaining the split and called it “nobody’s business”.
They pair married in June 2022, the same year Spears’ controversial conservatorship – a legal agreement which had controlled her life since 2008 – came to an end, putting her in charge of her estate, estimated at $60m (about £45m) at the time.
A small plane which crashed in western Alaska with 10 people on board has been found and the US Coast Guard (USCG) says there were no survivors.
The Bering Air flight left Unalakleet at 2.38pm on Thursday but contact was lost less than an hour later, the firm’s operations director David Olson said.
On Saturday, in a post on X, the coastguard said: “USCG has ended its search for the missing plane after the aircraft was located approx 34 miles southeast of Nome. 3 individuals were found inside and reported to be deceased.
“The remaining 7 people are believed to be inside the aircraft but are currently inaccessible due to the condition of the plane. Our heartfelt condolences are with those affected by this tragic incident.”
The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan – carrying a pilot and nine adult passengers – was flying across Norton Sound when tracking site Flightradar24 reported it at 5,300ft before contact was lost.
It was travelling from Unalakleet, a community of about 690 people in western Alaska, to Nome, a gold rush town just south of the Arctic Circle.
The flight time is normally just under an hour.
Mike Salerno, a spokesperson for the US Coast Guard, said rescuers were searching the aircraft’s last known location by helicopter when they spotted the wreckage. They lowered two rescue swimmers to investigate.
The plane was heading to Nome, just south of the Arctic Circle. Pic: AP
In a post on Facebook, Nome’s fire department issued an update: “The Nome Search and Rescue Team is spooling up with assistance from the Alaska Air National Guard with recovery efforts.
“From reports we have received, the crash was not survivable. Our thoughts are with the families at this time.”
On Friday, Lieutenant Benjamin McIntyre-Coble, from the Alaskan coastguard, explained that the plane suffered a rapid loss of altitude and speed, according to radar data, but did not expand on the potential cause.
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Weather in Unalakleet at take-off time was -8.3C (17F) with fog and light snow, according to the US National Weather Service.
Bering Air serves 32 villages in western Alaska and air travel is often the only option of travelling long distances in rural parts of the US state, especially in winter.
It comes soon after two major air accidents in the US in recent weeks.
Sixty-seven people were killed when a jet and helicopter collided in Washington DC and seven died when a medical plane crashed in Philadelphia.
A search for a missing plane carrying 10 people is under way in Alaska.
The Bering Air flight left Unalakleet at 2.38pm on Thursday but contact was lost less than an hour later, the firm’s operations director David Olson said.
Officials are trying to work out its last-known position but the coastguard said the Cessna Grand Caravan was 12 miles offshore as it flew across Norton Sound.
Tracking site Flightradar24 reported it at 5,300ft before contact was lost.
It was travelling from Unalakleet, a community of about 690 people in western Alaska, to Nome, a gold rush town just south of the Arctic Circle.
The flight time is normally just under an hour.
In a post on Facebook, Nome’s fire department said: “We are currently doing an active ground search from Nome and from White Mountain.”
It added: “We ask the public to please think of those who may be missing at this time, but due to weather and safety concerns please do not form individual search parties.”
Weather in Unalakleet at take-off time was -8.3C (17F) with fog and light snow, according to the US National Weather Service.
Bering Air serves 32 villages in western Alaska and air travel is often the only option of travelling long distances in rural parts of the US state, especially in winter.
“Staff at Bering Air is working hard to gather details, get emergency assistance, search and rescue going,” said Mr Olson.
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The plane was heading to Nome, just south of the Arctic Circle. Pic: AP
It comes soon after two major air accidents in the US in recent weeks.
Sixty-seven people were killed when a jet and helicopter collided in Washington DC and seven died when a medical plane crashed in Philadelphia.
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