Rihanna is all the way down to joke, however the Tremendous Bowl LVII halftime queen wasn’t laughing when league MVP and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was tricked into pondering she had referred to as him the G.O.A.T. “That’s so imply. He’s imply, O.Ok.,” Rihanna stated when she was instructed a few bit the place former NFL wideout Brandon Marshall punk’d Mahomes throughout a press occasion on Wednesday.
Marshall caught up with RihRih throughout her press day on Thursday (Feb. 9) and described how he instructed Mahomes that the singer had heaped reward on him earlier than revealing that he was mendacity.
“I’m so sorry you went by way of that,” Rihanna stated with a smile when Marshall requested her to truly say one thing good about Mahomes. “I nonetheless suppose you’re nice.”
“Rihanna got here out and stated that you’re the best quarterback ever. Listening to that how does that make you’re feeling?,” Marshall requested Mahomes through the QB’s Q&A session earlier this week. “It makes you’re feeling nice,” Mahomes responded. “No matter Rihanna says is just like the gospels. So I’m glad that she went with me for that honor.”
The 2-time Tremendous Bowl QB then turned KC pink when Marshall added, “She didn’t. I used to be messing with you.”
Jokes apart, Rihanna is gearing as much as blow minds on Sunday (Feb. 12) in Glendale, Arizona when Mahomes takes on the Philadelphia Eagles within the huge recreation in her first dwell efficiency in seven years. “It feels prefer it might have solely been now,” she stated throughout a sit down with Apple Music’s Nadeska Alexis to speak about her Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LVII Halftime Present set.
“Once I first acquired the decision to do it once more this yr, I used to be like, [hisses] ‘You positive?’ I’m three months postpartum. Ought to I be making main selections like this proper now? I’d remorse this,” she stated. “However once you develop into a mother, there’s one thing that simply occurs the place you’re feeling like you may tackle the world. The Tremendous Bowl is among the largest levels on the earth, in order scary as that was as a result of I haven’t been on stage in seven years, there’s one thing exhilarating in regards to the problem of all of it … It’s vital for my son to see that.”
Take a look at Rihanna’s response and the unique Mahomes video beneath.