Kelly Clarkson vs Art of Play: TMZ shares new details

All right, we want to take you to some news we talked about a little bit on yesterday. Kelly Clarkson, we did talk about the incident where she walked into the store and didn't get what she wanted. It was a parrot. It was a one-of-a-kind kind of mascot for the store, so to speak. And now we've seen the video. I've seen the video since then, and a lot has changed. We've got Jonah Eatman from TNZ joining us live right now. Jonah, what is the latest juice? Yeah, I mean, as you said, we've got some receipts now, right? We've got video. So, you know, this whole thing has been back and forth. He said, she said, was the bird for sale, was it not? Well, now we have video inside the store. You see Kelly Clarkson there, she's in the yellow t-shirt. You can't hear, there's no audio on this, and it's obviously not a very close shot, so you can't really see what was going on behind those hazel eyes. But you see her standing with what looks like a salesman at a wall where the bird was mounted. You can start, you know, they're talking back and forth. eventually she points at it and then you know they talked a little more and then she walks away you can see her yeah so here's a new camera angle there she's looking at it up and down points at it and then as the video goes on you see her kind of start yeah she's making her way out of the store and then she stops at the front door and she seems very animated right like she's kind of at the front door she's gesticulating a lot just kind of doing some sort of like defensive motion here and eventually she you know the guy she's talking to in the blue shirt he moves on to another customer and then she's uh she's talking to like a storekeeper someone at the front desk um seems pretty exasperated um and then she walks out again we don't know what she said um but you know we're kind of starting to see what went on inside the store and as you can see it's really crowded right there's a lot of people there um and she blends in right she's dressed pretty down um you know they may not have recognized her as as miss independent but um yeah i mean it was pretty tense and we were also hearing from the one of the owners of the store we actually sent a camera down to the store yesterday in Brooklyn um and he you know he told us his side he said that she and her following i looked up her on twitter alone X where she where she first complained about this she has 8.8 million followers so he says that her following has unleashed a barrage on their small business right um he said a couple of pretty incredible soundbites here he said that um she's put them all in danger that her complaint launched a molotov cocktail into the store um and he even said that like her fans have unleashed on neighbors of the store people who live next next to it and near it even wishing cancer on the cat of someone who lives near the store it's like what i mean people i don't know how i don't know how familiar you are with like stan culture so to speak but they're pretty unhinged right i I mean, these like people who are militantly, you know, supportive of their favorite artists. I actually looked up the name of Kelly Clarkson stans. I mean, you know, like Beyonce has the Beehive, Rihanna has the Navy. It's not as good. They're the Celebrities. I don't think that one really took on. By the way, there is a whole Wikipedia page devoted to the names of like celebrity stan groups. So this is very much a part of the culture. I didn't know there was a whole Wikipedia page until I looked it up. Um, but you know, I don't think the celebrities, I don't know if they have as much, you know, like cultural pull as, as the Navy or the Swifties, for example, I think they're probably a minority party in the, in the chamber of Stan legislature. Um, but I will add, I will add that the owner of the store, he did tell us that, you know, he empathizes with Kelly Clarkson, you know, and the attention she gets being a celebrity even invited her to clear the air at a, at a magic show that they hold at the, at the store. No word on if she's going to attend, but I will also add, you know, there's been all this back and forth about whether or not it's for sale well now he's saying it is for sale there's a catch it's for 15 million dollars not 15 000 and he says that if he if he if someone were to buy it at that price he would give the artist a million dollars and then he'd pay people in his store i believe 15 000 a piece and then he'd buy more unique sculptures so if this sale were to happen you get a bird you get a bird you get a bird um and you know we'll see if any if anyone ponies up by the way kelly clarkson i don't know how deep her pockets are but i don't think it's out of the question that she could do the funniest thing ever and buy this thing for 15 million dollars but i'm not sure if her financial advisor would uh would okay that i have a couple of thoughts first of all the celebrities it's kind of like you can't make fetch happen you know it's kind of one of those things i don't think it's hitting the right way and then it doesn't go ahead and also everything is for sale maybe at the end of the day right okay you want it? Fifteen million dollars. The price is right. If the price is right. But, you know, and I don't see Kelly being that type of person like, oh, I'm going to prove a point. I'm going to go and get that. I mean, something funny might be to go buy another bird. Oh, I decided to go with this or something. But that just does not seem her style. But we're seeing something else that doesn't kind of fit her character. We know it. Yeah. I mean, she's known for being pretty, you know, down to earth, low key, not so much a diva. You know, this could just be a whole misunderstanding that she thinks she got pretty womaned and maybe that isn't what happened um you know i don't know i don't i wasn't there and i can't hear the video it looks like it got tense maybe maybe they were smug in their in their rejection of her of her offer i don't you know there's there's two sides every story right but this is i think the bar for kelly clarkson to make a public stink about something like this and again it's a small business she says she supports small businesses you know i i think her bar is pretty high so you know i don't think this is ending anytime soon so we'll see what comes out but yeah it is remarkable for someone like kelly clarkson who's known for not being you know like a difficult celebrity yeah as a texas girl i would expect her to be like guys be nice to this business it was a misunderstanding even if it didn't work out please don't attack the business you know what i mean that would be kelly clarkson i mean when i saw it when i saw it on my timeline i did a double take i was like there's no way this is the real kelly clarkson like you know going full karen on a small business but uh it was very much real and not just accused being a Karen, you know, maybe she's justified. But, you know, on first glance, it was very out of character and very odd to see from Kelly Clarkson. Do you expect this more from like D-list celebrities who were on a TV show in the 90s who, you know, maybe like their first class ticket doesn't get honored or something? This is not like Kelly Clarkson level stuff typically, but who knows? Maybe it's Kelly 2.0. We're hoping not. She doesn't have the talk show anymore. There you go. Now she's got her audience back. All right. Thank you so much, Jonah. We appreciate Appreciate you, TMZ, giving us all the latest and the greatest. Let us know when anything else pops up. Y'all can be right back. You know where to find me. All right. Thank you.