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Rihanna sent fans into a frenzy with her hotly anticipated halftime performance at Sunday's Super Bowl.
The songstress, 34, took to the stage in Arizona for an impressive display of her hits, which also saw her unveil a blossoming baby bump as she’s expecting her second child.
Dazzling in red on a floating platform, Rihanna stunned fans with the 13-minute set of her iconic tunes, including All of the Lights, Umbrella and Diamonds.
But not everyone was impressed by the music icon's performance.
Howard Stern has slammed the star’s act, claiming she lip-synced the majority of her performance and was caught out by several microphone blunders.
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Rihanna sent fans into a frenzy with her hotly anticipated halftime performance at Sunday's Super Bowl (Getty Images)The 69-year-old radio personality told listeners of The Howard Stern Show on Sirius XM on Monday that he believes she mimed.
He said: “You know, I don’t even know why she bothered showing up. I could be wrong, but in my opinion, 85 percent of that performance was lip sync.
“Well, the big giveaway might be when she puts the microphone down by her knees and her lips aren’t moving and the other voices are going.”
His co-host Robin Quivers chimed in to say she “couldn’t be sure” if Rihanna sang for the whole performance.
Rihanna’s set at this year's Super Bowl 57 was full of thrills and had the crowd in the stadium on the edge of their seats.
A mass of backing dancers donned white puffer suits as the pop icon treated fans to a superb medley of her past hit tunes.
Howard Stern has slammed the star’s act, claiming she lip-synced the majority of her performance (GETTY)As the star was raised to the skies again on the levitating platform to bring an end to the show, fireworks lit up the sky and the crowd rose to their feet to cheer their halftime star.
Rihanna’s second pregnancy comes just nine months after she welcomed her first child with A$AP Rocky.
It was RiRi's first time performing live on TV in five years as she followed the likes of Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and last year's show of Dre Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Mary J Blige to be watched by millions of people across the world.
Speaking to Apple Music ahead of her performance, she revealed that 400 people had been involved in the production process and there had been 39 different set-lists as she laboured over what songs to perform, and how.
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