--- title: Watch Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres at the Mall VIDEO description: Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres experiment with what they can get away with as celebrities during a day at the shopping mall. canonical: https://time.com/4482145/ellen-show-britney-spears-mall/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-07T16:32:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:15.361Z og:title: Watch Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres Get Silly at the Mall og:description: Just a casual day at the mall og:url: https://time.com/4482145/ellen-show-britney-spears-mall/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc13621838abf8be5/6988a5185f570fb3fbb22722/britney-spears-ellen-degeneres-mall.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 2016 MTV Video Music Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres Get Silly at the Mall twitter:description: Just a casual day at the mall twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc13621838abf8be5/6988a5185f570fb3fbb22722/britney-spears-ellen-degeneres-mall.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres Get Into Trouble at the Mall > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Allen Berezovsky/WireImage) Allen Berezovsky—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 7, 2016 4:32 PM UTC [Britney Spears](http://time.com/4468932/vmas-2016-mtv-britney-spears-video/) and [Ellen DeGeneres](http://time.com/4456515/ellen-degeneres-is-not-racist/) tested the [limits of their celebrity](http://time.com/4455110/britney-spears-perform-video-music-awards/) during a mischievous trip to the shopping mall for DeGeneres’ show on Wednesday. DeGeneres proved to be the troublemaker, egging Brit on to make some questionable decisions during their trip. “You need to take advantage of your celebrity,” DeGeneres joked at the start of their shopping trip, while urging Spears to run a stop sign and create her own parking space. During the rest of their mall escapade, Ellen and Britney make plenty of trouble, from running up the down escalator to shopping with a “100 percent discount” and treating themselves to everything from a purse to ice cream, while being encouraged by employees and bystanders. The clip ends with the two wacky blondes climbing into a bed display in a department store to take a nap. 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