Kelly Clarkson bird feud takes uglier turn, store visit camera footage released, price soars to $15 million

THE DAILY BS: HOW MUCH CAN YOU HANDLE?

SPARE ME THE BS (I’ve got things to do).

Kelly Clarkson’s dispute with a Brooklyn curiosity shop has escalated, with co-owner Adam Rubin alleging threats, harassment and doxxing after the singer publicly criticized his business.
Rubin says Clarkson’s massive social media audience has put his employees and business at risk. He accuses the star of turning an ordinary shopping disagreement into a campaign against a small business.
The mechanical singing bird at the center of the feud now sports a $15 million price tag — 1,000 times the original $15,000 figure. Security footage has also surfaced, although it doesn’t settle what was said.

LAY IT ON ME (I’ve got time).

Kelly Clarkson’s feud with a small Brooklyn shop has gone from a dispute over customer service to allegations of threats, harassment and a mechanical bird with a price tag that could buy a very nice mansion.

And the shop’s owner says the consequences are no laughing matter.

Adam Rubin, co-owner of Art of Play, told Fox News Digital that Clarkson’s public criticism of his business has unleashed a wave of hostility from people who have never set foot inside the store.

“Kelly Clarkson has put us in danger,” Rubin said.

The singer’s original complaint concerned Molly, a mechanical singing and dancing bird displayed inside the Brooklyn curiosity shop. Clarkson said a store employee treated her condescendingly when she asked about buying it, making her feel like Julia Roberts’ character in the movie “Pretty Woman.”

But the latest development isn’t about whether Clarkson could afford a $15,000 bird. It’s about what happens when a celebrity with millions of followers publicly singles out a small business.

Rubin told Fox News that people associated with the store have been threatened and doxxed. He said the backlash has created genuine safety concerns for employees and others connected to the business. In a separate interview with Business Insider, Rubin compared the effect of Clarkson’s post to having a Molotov cocktail thrown at his shop.

EXCLUSIVE: Security footage shows Kelly Clarkson’s $15,000 mechanical-bird encounter — and what happened on her way out of the tiny Brooklyn shop.

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The New York Post also reported Rubin’s claim that the store had been flooded with threats, hostile messages and negative reviews.

Those are Rubin’s allegations about the backlash, not evidence that Clarkson personally threatened anyone or instructed her fans to do so. Rubin has argued that Clarkson was upset because she was treated like an ordinary customer rather than receiving special consideration as a celebrity.

Clarkson tells a very different story. She maintains that an employee looked her over, suggested she couldn’t afford the merchandise and offered to find something comparable. She later accused the store of lying when it said Molly wasn’t for sale.

Now the bird itself has become part of the spectacle.

A new sign photographed by Fox News Digital lists Molly’s price at an astonishing $15 million. That’s a thousandfold increase over the $15,000 price that helped ignite the controversy.

Rubin told USA Today that the price had been raised because of popular demand. Given the extraordinary figure and the shop’s insistence that Molly is its mascot, the new tag appears to be a tongue-in-cheek response to the attention rather than an ordinary retail offer.

The bird was created by automaton artist Bliss Kolb. The store says Molly is permanently attached to its wall and is used in performances, while a nearly identical bird owned by the artist had been available for $15,000.

Clarkson disputes the shop’s explanation, insisting that she saw a price tag and was told the bird was available to buy.

Security footage of the visit has also surfaced.

Video shared by journalist Pablo Torre shows Clarkson browsing the store with her children, approaching the bird and interacting with an employee.

But the footage does not capture the conversation clearly enough to establish which version of the exchange is accurate.

So the central customer-service argument remains unresolved.

Rubin has also described the personal toll of the controversy. The Daily Mail reported that he was recovering from skin cancer removal surgery when the backlash forced him to return to the shop to deal with the situation.

For Clarkson, the dispute began as a complaint about being treated rudely in a store.

For Rubin, it has become a warning about the enormous imbalance between a celebrity’s social media reach and a small business’s ability to defend itself.

There is plenty of room to disagree about what happened at the counter. Customers are entitled to complain about bad service, and businesses are entitled to defend their employees.

But when a $15,000 bird dispute generates threats against people who weren’t part of the argument, the whole thing has flown well beyond the original disagreement.

And Molly? She’s apparently worth $15 million now.

At that price, perhaps the bird should start singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.