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Rihanna Made an Undercover Visit to a Winter Market in London and No One Noticed

Earlier this year, global music and fashion phenomenon Rihanna revealed to T Magazine that she had quietly moved to London. She explained to the outlet that she frequently goes on walks around the city, but she tries to “keep it a little incognito.” And now, thanks to Instagram Stories, we have an idea of just how covert the siner can be when she wants to skirt by the London paparazzi.

The Daily Mail reports that earlier this week Rihanna paid a visit to “Winter Wonderland,” a seasonal market in London’s Hyde Park. The visit wasn’t noticed by market goers or members of Rihanna’s Navy at the time—the visit only came to light after Rihanna’s assistant, Tina Truong, posted about their trip on Instagram Stories.

In videos published by The Daily Mail and the Rihanna Twitter fan account @FentyStats, Truong follows Rihanna—who wears an oversized black coat with the hood pulled up—through a packed crowd at the Winter Wonderland. The singer also concealed her face with a black scarf so just her eyes were peaking out. Considering Rihanna loves nothing more than wearing enormous coats, the look is both a disguise and an on-brand fashion moment.

Rihanna’s undercover trip ultimately was just for a snack run. At one point in the videos, Truong loses track of Rihanna and finds her again at a hot dog stand. “Lmaooo found her y’all,” Truong wrote on the video. In it, Rihanna can be seen giggling and holding her hot dog out to Truong for a bite. Celebrities: They’ll risk it all for a holiday hot dog, just like us.

Hiding under coats and scarves isn’t the only thing keeping Rihanna from being spotted by fans these days—she’s simply been busy. Earlier this month, the singer took home her first British Fashion Award, the Urban Luxe award, for Fenty. And she’s also apparently holding on to a new album, which she’s cryptically referred to as R9. But on Instagram this week, Rihanna said she’s “refusing to release it.” We clearly need a Christmas miracle.

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SNL's Michael Che Goes Undercover as a Liberal White Woman Named Gretchen

In this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, Michael Che, who co-hosts “Weekend Update,” went undercover as a liberal white woman named Gretchen, and the result is pretty much gold. Che has been known to make waves with some of his jokes and comments on and off the show, but he says the hate mail he receives in response is overwhelmingly from “super liberal white women.”

So in an effort to understand things from their perspective, Che went on a hilarious mission to go undercover as a liberal white woman—complete with research (reading Yelp and Lena Dunham‘s book, listening to “the most ignorant rap music” he could find) and a makeover (sporting a long blond wig, Warby Parker glasses, scarves…but no makeup)—and headed off to brunch to see what life is like as a liberal white woman.

Che learned that some stereotypes and generalizations about white women—and in some cases, all women—aren’t, well, completely inaccurate. He did come away with a few #tooreal observations, like: “Maybe they do eat a lot of pizza…and a lot of salads to balance out the pizza.” While in undercover mode, Che also encountered some of the privileges upper-middle-class white women stereotypically benefit from, like randomly receiving money in the mail from their parents and drinking wine during the day without judgment.

But he also experienced some of the downsides and frustrations of being a woman, regardless of race, political affiliation, or economic status. Che encountered—and successfully challenged—a manspreader on the subway, something all of us who take public transportation have experienced countless times.

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At a dinner party, he was mansplained to by a white guy claiming that “white men have it just as hard as anybody else,” to which he responded, “Check your privilege, dude!” And when Che found himself alone in an elevator with a man (in his case the man in question was episode host James Franco, so not quite a realistic moment, but still), he reacted the way many of us feel like doing in uncomfortable situations—by hugging his purse in front of his body and turning the other direction.

Che also calls out his girlfriends gushing about Meghan Markle’s engagement ring, saying “I just feel like the monarchy is literally the patriarchy. And as a liberal white woman, I can’t support that sh*t.”

Watch the full video, below:

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