Many believe the boy in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old boy who was detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and then held at an ICE facility in San Antonio. Liam and his father were recently released from an ICE detention center, which sparked speculation that the boy might actually have been at the Super Bowl.
During the Super Bowl halftime show, the Puerto Rican superstar hands a young boy a Grammy trophy after he and his family gathered in front of a TV set and watched Bad Bunny’s speech from the 2026 Grammy Awards. On social media, thousands believed it was Liam, calling the artist “amazing” for featuring him during his show.
“Many of you may have missed this, but the little boy who Bad Bunny handed his Grammy to at the Super Bowl was Liam Ramos! Amazing,” Ed Krassenstien wrote on X. His post had over 39,000 retweets and more than 327,000 likes.
However, it was not Liam. A publicist told NPR Music that the little boy on stage was not him. A representative for the Conjeo Ramos family also confirmed to Minnesota Public Radio that it was not Liam on stage, NPR reported.
The young boy in the Super Bowl halftime show was actually a 5-year-old actor, Lincoln Fox. The young boy shared his cameo appearance on Instagram and wrote, “I’ll remember this day forever! @badbunnypr – it was my truest honor.”
Some believed Lincoln represented something larger. On X, astrid rivera wrote, “It’s true: he looks incredibly similar to Liam. And that’s exactly the point. Because beyond the name, the symbolism is undeniable. It’s a gesture loaded with intention.”
“It’s a symbolic gesture where Benito would be representing himself as a child, reinforced by the similarity in their outfits,” HuGo Aranda Tamayo wrote on X.