Serena Williams and husband Alexis Ohanian.Photo:Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock
Serena Williams' husband,Alexis Ohanian, enjoyed the 2025Super Bowlhalftime show a little bit more than usual this year.
During the 2025 championship game, Ohanian, 41, took to X to share his reaction tothe halftime showstarringKendrick Lamar. To the whole arena’s surprise, Williams — who briefly dated Lamar’s rival,Drake— made an unexpected cameo during the anticipated performance.
“Pretty fantastic halftime show,” Ohanian wrote in aposton X.
Serena Williams at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kevin Mazur/Getty
His response to the performance was threaded in a series of posts, which captured his excitement for musical performance. “Kendrick Bowl is about to Kickoff,” he wrote before the football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs officially got under way.
Later he added, “Halftime show about to start and no one has left their seats.”
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Afterdancing to Lamar’s Grammy-winning single “Not Like Us”— a diss track aimed atDrake, 38 — Williams shared a video of herself onInstagrampracticing the controversial moves. “Let’s go Super Bowl halftime??! I died a little! 💃🏿,” she captioned the post.
In a video from backstage, later shared to X, the retired athlete reviewed her own performance. “Man I did not crip-walk like that at Wimbledon. Oh, I would’ve been fined,” Williams said, adding, “It was all love.”
source: people.com
