*Rihanna is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of her lingerie company Savage X Fenty, which she founded in 2018.
The pop star announced her replacement will be former Anthropologie Group CEO Hillary Supe, Vogue Business reports Rihanna will remain in a leadership role as executive chair after Supe takes over on June 26.
“It’s been beautiful to see our vision for Savage X Fenty impact the industry at such an incredible magnitude over the last five years. This is just the beginning for us, and we’re going to continue to expand in ways that always connect with the consumer,” Rihanna said in a statement.
She added, “I’m so grateful and excited to welcome Hillary Super as our new CEO – she is a strong leader and is focused on taking the business to an even higher level.”
In related news, we reported previously that Rihanna will voice the character of Smurfette in Paramount Animation’s upcoming “The Smurfs Movie.”
“I tried to get the Papa Smurf role but It didn’t work out,” she said on stage at CinemaCon in April, Variety reports. RiRi will serve as a producer on the project as well as write and record original music for the film.
The songstress has appeared in a slew of film projects such as “Battleship,” “This is the End,” “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” “Ocean’s 8” and “Guava Island”. She also voiced an animated character in DreamWorks’ “Home” and created the soundtrack for the film.
“Getting to do animation is a fun journey for me,” Rihanna said at ComicCon.
“I’m usually front and center with everything with my likeness…but this was fun, I got to imagine, I got to show up in my pajamas in my third trimester, and be a blue badass,” she continued.
“I hope this gives me a little bit of cool points with my kids one day,” Rihanna added.
President of Paramount Animation Ramsey Naito told the Comic-Con crowd that the Smurfs movie will unpack themes of identity, asking the question, “What is a Smurf?”
The “Smurfs” is slated for release on Feb. 14, 2025.
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