{"id":266939,"date":"2026-10-05T03:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/its-been-25yr-since-britney-spears-danced-with-a-snake-on-live-television\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:31:33","slug":"its-been-25yr-since-britney-spears-danced-with-a-snake-on-live-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/its-been-25yr-since-britney-spears-danced-with-a-snake-on-live-television\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been 25yr since Britney Spears danced with a snake on live television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1791187200%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262188377%26%26%26youtube%26VfobOesEpfE%3A30a90ff66cb55c2534329913c2d9573c31e54a8b&amp;moduleid=2188377&amp;preview=&amp;source=youtube&amp;noads=&amp;vid=VfobOesEpfE&amp;journalid=3616053\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2188377\"><\/iframe><br \/>On 06 Sept 2001 Britney Spears stood in a cage with a live tiger and danced with a young yellow snake named Banana. Britney performed her iconic single &#8220;I&#8217;m a Slave 4 U&#8221; the first track of the legendary Britney album. This was also right around OP&#8217;s start of senior year high school, birthday and 9\/11 (the latter which are the same day) [I&#8217;m including bc I forgot they were less than a week apart].<\/p>\n<p>There are oral histories from the reptile trainer about Britney being nervous but ultimately handling it like a pro (as she always does!). Banana weighed approximately 20lb at the time. <br \/><span class=\"lj-spoiler\"><span class=\"lj-spoiler-head\"><span class=\"lj-spoiler-leftbracket\">[<\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/javascript:void(0)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"18\" height=\"12\" class=\"flaticon flaticon--eye lj-spoiler-icon\" style=\"display: none; fill: currentColor\"><use xlink:href=\"#flaticon--eye\"\/><\/svg>Spoiler (click to open)<\/a><\/b><span class=\"lj-spoiler-rightbracket\">]<\/span><\/span><span class=\"lj-spoiler-body\"><br \/>Steve Hano gave an interview regarding Banana in 2016, &#8220;Sometimes, when I come to these jobs, if people ask me if the animal has a name, usually it doesn\u2019t have a name, so they just make up a name. And then for the rest of the job, they refer to it using that name\u2026 I don\u2019t recall the name Banana.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I guess we were all wrong! As for the snake formerly known as Banana? Hano continues, &#8220;It\u2019s a lot bigger now,\u201d he said, estimating it was 20\u201325 pounds in 2001, and is roughly 100 pounds and around 14 feet today. &#8220;It was young then.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These snakes live for on average 20-25 years. I have no idea if not Banana Banana is still around!<\/p>\n<p><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ibb.co\/VpknDn4c\/britsnakr2.webp\" alt=\"britsnakr2\" border=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>where were you when this aired? i was in my parent&#8217;s bedroom because they had a tv and i was enraptured<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VfobOesEpfE?si=jWFlIIK-uwZhp4Xo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">youtube<\/a><br \/>quotes and pictures found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.co.uk\/showbiz\/britney-spears-snake-dance-real-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/mtvnews\/chasing-banana-one-girls-quest-to-find-britney-spears-s-2001-vma-snake-6d41d792967e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132964708.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 06 Sept 2001 Britney Spears stood in a cage with a live tiger and danced with a young yellow snake named Banana. Britney performed her iconic single &#8220;I&#8217;m a Slave 4 U&#8221; the first track of the legendary Britney album. This was also right around OP&#8217;s start of senior year high school, birthday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}