RIHANNA – umbrella enthusiast, owner of a California king bed and the woman who managed to find love in a hopeless place – has shed light on how you become Rihanna.
Spoiler alert: It doesn’t involve sitting on the sofa eating salt and pepper XXL pistachios of an evening.
Rihanna is 31. According to Forbes she’s worth $600 million which makes her the richest female musician in the world. She’s got nine Grammy awards, eight albums, 10 perfumes, make-up and lingerie ranges and has become the first black woman to head a luxury fashion house.
Rihanna spoke to her Ocean’s 8 co-star Sarah Paulson for Interview Magazine and it’s an eye opener.
From when she was knee high to a Barbadian grasshopper Rihanna’s dream was to have her voice heard around the world, so she got to work making a deal with God.
“My first time praying and fasting was when I was seven years old. I did that on my own, because I wanted to go to New York, and I knew that this was a sacrifice I had to make in order for God to make sure I could get there.”
Sleb Safari doesn’t want to be a Debbie Downer but if you’re wondering whether you have the grit and the stamina to take it to Rihanna’s level… you likely don’t.
Fast forward 24 years and Rihanna has an unenviable work schedule.
“I will work all day in a meeting, leave that meeting at 1 or 2am, and then come home with a tiny group of staff and work until 5, 7am…”
But Rihanna, surely you make time for a solid eight hours?
“I don’t have a sleep pattern. I have sleep pockets. I fit it in when I can.”
How and ever, Rihanna has learned to take some personal time to invest in things like “going for a walk or going to the grocery store”. That alone gives you insight.
“I’ve made little things a big deal,” she says.
“I got into a new relationship and it matters to me. It was like, ‘I need to make time for this’. Just like I nurture my businesses, I need to nurture this as well. I’ll shut things down for two days, three days at a time. On my calendar we now have the infamous P, which means personal days,” Rihanna explained.
It certainly doesn’t sound as though S for sleep features too highly. One thing’s for sure, the letter W is stamped on every day and that’s W for work, work, work, work, work, work.
Barefeet Theatre and Circus Zambia Competition
This week Sleb Safari is giving away four pairs of tickets to Empyre, a new show from Barefeet Theatre and Circus Zambia who are embarking on a tour of Northern Ireland and England.
Both organisations use the performing arts to help vulnerable children in Zambia. Sleb Safari has worked with Barefeet and it’s an exceptional charity which helps children living on the streets in Lusaka and other towns and cities across Zambia.
The circus collective is performing in the Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast on Wednesday July 24 and in Portstewart Town Hall on Friday July 26. The show is family friendly and full of acrobatics and giggles. Sleb Safari has two pairs of tickets to give away for each show and to be in with a chance to win answer the following:
What is the capital city of Zambia?
Email your answer to competitions@irishnews.com and mark the entry Sleb Safari/Barefeet. Please include your contact details and indicate whether you’d like tickets for the Belfast or Portstewart show. The competition closes at noon on Wednesday July 3.
Line of Duty could have been very different indeed fella
What do we know about Line Of Duty creator Jed Mercurio? Well, we know he loves a plot twist and likes to dispatch characters unexpectedly and brutally.
True to form, Jed says he would have killed off Ted, Kate or Steve if the actors had not clicked.
"They all get on very well," he said.
“And if that hadn’t happened one of them would have been killed off in a completely unexpected way to propel the story forward.
Yikes. It's hard to imagine anyone other than Ted, Kate and Steve nicking bent coppers.
