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Ariana Grande takes Celine Dion’s NFL promo to the next level with brutal UFC theme song on ‘SNL’: Watch
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Ariana Grande takes Celine Dion’s NFL promo to the next level with brutal UFC theme song on ‘SNL’: Watch

Ariana Grande was full of impressions during her last appearance as a presenter Saturday Night Live.

During her hilarious opening monologue on October 12, she not only took on Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Gwen Stefani, but also Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus and Gwen Stefani Evil The star also impersonated Celine Dion to a T as she parodied her commercial for the NFL’s Sunday Night Football.

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In a pre-recorded skit titled “Celine Dion Sports Promo,” Grande brilliantly portrayed Dion in a follow-up to the legendary Canadian singer’s performance in an October 6 promo for the grudge match between the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the clip, Dion sings about her love of football to the tune of her 1996 hit “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.”

“Football is a sport that connects us to who we were,” says Grande’s Dion in a French-Canadian accent. “That’s why I, Celine Dion, did a promo for Sunday Night Football last week, okay? But football is not the only sport that connects us to our past.”

Grande’s Dion goes on to explain, “There is another sport whose timeless emotions ignite the bittersweet memories that live in my soul and in the octagon,” before launching into a new UFC-themed version of “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now.” . This time the song contains such violent images as “breaking bones” and “knees to the balls.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Stevie Nicks returned SNL for the first time since 1983 as a musical guest and delivered powerful performances of their new, by Roe v. Wade was inspired by songs “The Lighthouse” and her classic hit “Edge of Seventeen.”

Watch Grande enter SNLBelow is the “Celine Dion Sports Promo” sketch. For those without cable, the broadcast will be streamed on Peacock, which you can sign up for using the link here. With a Peacock account, fans also get access to previous content SNL episodes.

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