Child Actor in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance Addresses Getting Mistaken For 5-Year-Old Boy Detained by ICE
Jason Pham
From Pedro Pascal to Cardi B to Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny‘s 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show wasn’t short of surprise guests, but it was one appearance at the end of the performance that had viewers wondering who the rapper gave his Grammy to.
Toward the end of the set, Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, stopped by a stand that read “Conejo,” the Spanish word for “rabbit,” as he gave his Grammy to a young boy who seemed to be watching a video of the rapper’s recent Grammys speech on TV. Bad Bunny won the Grammy for Album of the Year for his album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, just one week before the Super Bowl. (He also took home awards for Best Música Urbana Album and Best Global Musical Performance at the same awards show.)
The moment led fans to wonder who the boy was, with many thinking it was Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old boy who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, on January 20 after returning home from preschool in Minneapolis. Both the father and son were released from a South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas on February 1.
Was Liam Ramos in Bad Bunny’s 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Despite the speclation, the boy at the end of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was not Ramos. Instead, it was an actor named Lincoln Fox, who shared several posts of the moment on his Instagram after the performance. “I’ll remember this day forever! @badbunnypr – it was my truest honor 🐰🏆🏈,” he wrote on one post.
Fox also confirmed in the hashtags that he was cast to play a young Bad Bunny watching himself achieve his dreams in the future. “youngbadbunny #littlebadbunny,” he wrote in the hashtags.
He further confirmed the reason for the scene in another Instagram post. “An emotional, unforgettable day being cast as the young Benito — a symbolic moment where the future hands the past a Grammy. A reminder that dreams come true and that it’s never too early to dream big,” he wrote.
He also addressed viewers mistaking him for Ramos. “Sending love to Liam Ramos. We all deserve peace and love in America, a country built by and home to so many hard-working immigrants,” he continued.
On January 31, a judge ordered that Ramos and his father be released from the detention center. According to the order obtained by The New York Times, Judge Fred Biery of the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas called the detention an “ill-conceived and incompetently government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.”
He continued, “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.” Arias confirmed in an interview with ABC News that he and Ramos were reunited and were headed home to Minnesota.
Along with Fox, other special guests during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance included Pedro Pascal, Cardi B, Jessica Alba, Karol G, Lady Gaga, and Ricky Martin.
