Pop star Britney Spears opens up about dancing with a giant albino snake in her new memoir, “The Woman In Me.”
The Pop princess famously danced with a giant albino snake on her shoulder at the 2001 Video Music Awards during her performance of “I’m A Slave 4 U.”
The viral moment has become enshrined in pop culture history and will be discussed in her new memoir, “The Woman In Me,” which hits bookshelves in October.
Britney Spears Will Discuss Snake’s 2001 VMA Performance in Upcoming Memoir ‘The Woman In Me’
One of my favorite performances was with an albino python ???? … I still remember how scared I was when I was handed this snake and went on stage !!! I talk more about this show and other favorites in my book #TheWomanInMe … I can’t wait for you to read it… pic.twitter.com/tXQpq7v3RV
— Britney Spears ?? (@britneyspears) September 6, 2023
On Wednesday night, the pop star shared a video of her dancing with a large snake from her 2001 VMA performance “I’m A Slave 4 U.” Inside captionhe wrote, “One of my favorite performances was with an albino python … I still remember how scared I was when I was handed this snake and went on stage !!! I talk more about this performance and other favorites in my book # TheWomanInMe.”
“I can’t wait for you to read it on October 24,” he added, though the book is now available for pre-order. Many fans expressed their excitement to learn about the pivotal moment in pop culture.
The Snake Handler Reveals That It Wasn’t Actually an Albino Snake
22 years ago. Life has changed. History is made. I have never been the same since. pic.twitter.com/7Ln4QWbYk1
— Love, Danny ? (@DannyWxo) September 6, 2023
In 2021, just in time for the show’s twentieth anniversary, snake handler Michael Hano admitted that he “barely knows who Britney Spears is” in an interview with the TODAY show. “I’m not really interested in pop culture and stuff like that. I mean, I’ve worked with some of the most famous models or people in the world and I didn’t know who they were until afterwards.”
“I had heard of him because you went to the supermarket in those days, and you waited in the checkout line and they had all those tabloid magazines,” he said. “This was before the internet really existed, so I knew he was like a teen pop star or something, but like I said, I wouldn’t know any of his songs or anything.”
He was hired for the event by an agent and explained that he didn’t actually own the question that Britney held on stage that night. Although fans often hear that Britney is holding an albino Burmese python named Banana, Hano insists that neither is true.
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“It’s an amelanistic Burmese python, not an albino, because albino lacks all pigments and that type only lacks black pigment, so it’s amelanistic,” explained Hano. “All albino will be all white.” He also can’t remember the snake’s name, but admits that people “like to make things up”.
“All these people are sitting in their cars, they’re reading the newspaper and I see on the front page they’ve got a picture of Britney Spears with a dead snake,” he said. “So like, I saw, I said, holy s—, you know, this is on the front page of a couple of different important newspapers. Wow. And then, I think for a few days there was a big buzz about this and then 9/11 hit just a few days later.
Snake Handler Says It’s ‘Very Good’ Working With Britney Spears
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When asked what it was like working with the pop star, she said that it was “really good,” adding, “He’s very focused and at first he was scared of the snake, but you can see that he’s able to focus and push yourself to be able to work with that and seemed comfortable doing it.”
He also revealed that he had to convince producers that he needed time to work with Britney one-on-one to help her become more comfortable with the snake.
“After a few little mistakes because these people are on television … sometimes they just don’t want to listen, then they realize that they better listen to the guy with the snake,” he said. “I finally had to be alone with him for a few minutes so he would understand. At one point, he said, ‘He’s not going to bite me, is he?’ And my answer is always, and my agent hates me for this, ‘Probably not.’”
“You’re crazy Britney Spears, you know, if this thing bites you, I think my career is over,” he joked, saying it helped him become more comfortable with the snake, which can weigh up to 200 pounds and grow to be 20 feet long.
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“She realized that I was completely honest with her, which is the route I like to take with these celebrities,” he added, noting when he realized that Britney was not just any celebrity, but a hard worker who wanted to. to make sure to perfect his craft as well.
“This was on stage at the Metropolitan Opera House and when I first appeared, they made me sit in the audience while the band practiced their choreography,” he said. “I sat there for quite a while until they got ready for the snake to be brought in. All the dancers and Britney were rehearsing and even though the director said, ‘OK, take five,’ and everyone left the stage. to take a break, she kept rehearsing.”
“There’s no music playing and you can see him counting, you know, 2, 3, 4 or whatever, and practicing his own dance steps. I said, ‘Oh wow. Look at this. He is really a hard worker. Same thing with snakes. At first, he was scared and uncomfortable with it, but he forced himself with it and did very well, I must say.”
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