'I want Rihanna to know you're a superstar,” Smith said on Wednesday.
“She’s a lot of things. She’s spectacular,” Smith told Shepherd. “There’s one thing she’s not. She ain’t Beyoncé.”
insinuating he was insulting Rihanna. He apologized and said that as a professional commentator, he should take responsibility for his words. The television personality said the only reason he made the comparison was because he doesn’t think any singer’s halftime show could live up to Beyoncé’s 2013 headlining performance or when she joined Coldplay and Bruno Mars’s show in 2015.Beyonce, Coldplay's Chris Martin, and Bruno Mars perform at Super Bowl 50 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Feb. 7, 2016.
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