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SUPER BOWL
Echo Lawrence - February 9, 2026
Look, nobody came to the Super Bowl for the halftime show because of Bad Bunny. They came for football, commercials, and to see which celebrities would awkwardly wander onto the field like they’d been drafted in the first round.
And this year’s halftime performance delivered exactly that: a parade of famous faces popping up between camera cuts while America waited for the second half to kick off.
The real sport of the night, honestly, was celebrity spotting.
Among the random cameos and blink-and-you-miss-them moments, Alix Earle showing up during the show had the internet doing what it does best, debating her relevance to football now that she’s officially not a football WAG anymore.
Not that it stopped the cameras from finding her. Once a headline-generating NFL girlfriend, now just a very visible influencer hovering around the biggest sporting event on the planet. Growth, or something like that.
But it didn’t stop with Alix Earle. The halftime set felt like an A-list cameo reel with Cardi B, Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba, Karol G and someone called Young Miko joining the performance or dancing on and around the set.
And then, just when everyone thought the halftime show had exhausted its supply of random cameos, Lady Gaga popped up.
Yes, that Lady Gaga. Out of nowhere. At the Super Bowl. Singing a salsa-infused version of “Die With a Smile.” Because apparently the assignment was “confuse football fans as much as humanly possible before kickoff resumes.”
Anyway, here's the show:
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