It seems 19-year-old Justin Bieber isn’t the best at keeping things in order of late.

TMZ reports the singer kept a private jet waiting in Miami for eight hours on Friday while he ‘searched for his pet monkey’.

The teen singer apparently rented the jet to fly him from Miami to Burbank, and only just made it in time before the pilot left without him – monkey or no monkey, according to the website.

The site reported that the Baby singer was scheduled to depart on the private jet at 11am.

He phoned to say he was running late, then reportedly showed up at 3pm only to say that he wasn’t yet ready to leave because he still had to retrieve his monkey from West Palm Beach.

Apparently the pilot was planning to leave without Bieber because his duty time was about to run out, but at 5:10pm the teen star made it on board… but whether or not the monkey was with him was not known.

It remains unclear if this is the same monkey – ‘Mally’ – that was seized from Bieber in Germany and re-homed in a zoo in late May, or whether he somehow managed to pick up a new one.