{"id":306590,"date":"2026-02-19T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306590\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:37:18","slug":"snoop-doggs-credit-card-declined-at-winter-olympics-dinner-so-he-repays-milan-restaurant-in-a-special-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306590\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg\u2019s credit card declined at Winter Olympics dinner \u2014 so he repays Milan restaurant in a special way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ain\u2019t nothing but a free thang.<\/p>\n

Snoop Dogg\u2019s credit card was declined during dinner at a restaurant in Italy \u2014\u00a0 so he repaid the owners with five free tickets to the much-anticipated 2026 Winter Olympics<\/a> snowboarding finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrazie, Snoop!\u201d Sofia Valmadre, daughter of the restaurant\u2019s owners, said in a video posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 54-year-old hip hop legend \u2014 who\u2019s in\u00a0Milan-Cortina working as an NBC corespondent for the Olympic games <\/a>\u2014 ordered a cheeseburger, chicken wings, chicken nuggets and french fries at the gastropub Cronox in the town of Livigno, according to Valmadre.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The hip hop star ordered a cheeseburger, chicken wings, chicken nuggets and french fries at the gastropub Cronox in Livigno James Lang-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

When it came time to pay, however, his credit card didn\u2019t go through, causing an embarrassing moment for the world-famous \u201cGin and Juice\u201d rapper.<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead of getting irked, the restaurant owners told him not to worry about paying and to take the food for free, Valmadre told NBC Los Angeles.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe sent his staff to take [the card] and pay, but they couldn\u2019t pay. I don\u2019t know why, it wasn\u2019t going,\u201d Valmadre said. \u201cSo my mother told him that it was OK [to take the food] without paying.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the money mishap, Snoop repaid the family-run eatery, known for tourist-friendly late-night pizzas and salads, with far more than the cost of the grub.<\/p>\n

\"Sofia<\/p>\n

Sofia Valmadre said Snoop Dogg repaid her family with the coveted Olympics tickets. NBC News<\/p>\n

\"Snoop<\/p>\n

Snoop Dogg is working as a 2026 Winter Olympics correspondent for NBC. Katie Stratman-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

He sent them five coveted tickets to the men\u2019s snowboard halfpipe final, Valmadre said.<\/p>\n

Snoop Dogg \u2014 who famously raps that he\u2019s \u201claid back, with my mind on my money and my money on my mind mind\u201d \u2014 hasn\u2019t said when or why his card was declined.<\/p>\n

The feel-good moment blew up online earlier this week, with fans loving that even the \u201cNuthin\u2019 But A \u2018G\u2019 Thang\u201d\u00a0<\/a>rapper has to deal with annoying financial transactions.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo @SnoopDogg has real-people problems too. His credit card company must be sweatin\u2019 now!\u201d one fan wrote under NBC News\u2019 X video.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood doggy,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n

Snoop Dogg, who was named Team USA\u2019s first-ever honorary coach<\/a>, has been having a blast at the Olympic\u00a0games, where he even scored a snowboarding lesson from gold medalist Shaun White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ain\u2019t nothing but a free thang. Snoop Dogg\u2019s credit card was declined during dinner at a restaurant in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10770,1323,93,61,60,278,9057,144312,23657,144311],"class_list":["post-306590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-credit-card","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-nbc","tag-olympics-snowboarding","tag-snoop-dogg","tag-sofia-valmadre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}