Adele Attends the Super Bowl to See Rihanna

Adele really did show up at the 2023 Super Bowl tonight just to watch Rihanna’s halftime show. Adele was filmed in the audience during the game:

It comes after she told a fan at her Vegas show last week her Super Bowl plans, “I’m going just for Rihanna. I don’t give a flying f*ck,” she said, via Page Six.

As Page Six pointed out, Rihanna and Adele have been good friends. Adele even wrote the 2018 Time 100 profile for Rihanna.

“I actually can’t remember the first time I met Rihanna; I was probably numb from the shock of it,” she wrote then. “She is one year older than me, but I feel like she’s been around forever. The progression of her superstardom feels steady, well deserved and extremely natural.”

She ended her piece saying, “Whenever I’ve met her, she’s been the most gracious, loyal and funny goofball of an icon. She glows like when someone’s taken a picture with a flash and you’re dazed for a few minutes after. But it’s also very clear in that glow that she genuinely doesn’t give a f*ck; she’s fearless and full of all the right kind of attitude to be everything that she is and will be forever.”

Adele’s evening supporting Rihanna comes after she had big moments with Lizzo and Beyoncé at last Sunday’s Grammys. Lizzo reflected on how drunk the two got at the bash, saying, “I was so drunk. Me and Adele were drinking so much that we didn’t even really know what the categories were at this point. We were like, ‘Wait. Did they do best new artist?’ We didn’t even know when it was time and they would just call out names so we were like, ‘Smile, smile.’”

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