Super Bowl halftime show: What happened to The Weeknd’s face?

With the star teasing fans all year with a brand new face, the finished product at the Super Bowl halftime show raised some questions.

The Weeknd has performed his highly anticipated Super Bowl halftime show for 2021, and unexpectedly, his face was completely normal, with no real plastic surgery in sight.

The 30-year-old has been teasing fans with wild face prosthetics and bandages for weeks leading up to the performance and new album release.

The singer had no bandages or prosthetics on his face during the show. Picture: Supplied

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However, nothing has actually changed on his face.

Backed by gospel singers, the Starboy singer started his prerecorded show – not live – walking through a labyrinth under the stage.

Singing his hit song I Can’t Feel My Face, dozens of bandaged up lookalikes danced around him.

But the most dramatic thing to happen to The Weeknd’s face during the entire show was when the stage lit up his moustache while singing his 50 Shades Of Grey anthem Earned It.

The singer’s backup dancers had bandages instead. Picture: Getty Images

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The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, has been sporting the extreme new look ever since he released his fourth studio album After Hours, which he has been referring to as “The Character”.

It started when he showed off an extreme bloody face at the end of Blinding Lights, in January 2020.

The gore escalated for his After Hours short film which came out in March that year.

Between April and August, that “Character” was seen more battered with bruises and bandages and in November, he was covered his face in gauze for the American Music Awards.

The gory look was followed up by a “plastic surgery” look when he added prosthetics to his face for Save Your Tears in January this year.

He attended the AMAs with these bandages. Picture: Instagram

He later displayed a face full of prosthetics recently. Picture: Instagram

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However, the singer finally explained what his agenda has been behind the fake facial reconstruction.

“The significance of the entire head bandages is reflecting on the absurd culture of Hollywood celebrity and people manipulating themselves for superficial reasons to please and be validated,” he explained to Variety. “It’s all a progression and we watch ‘The Character’s’ storyline hit heightened levels of danger and absurdity as his tale goes on.”

He added that fans can “take that being attractive isn’t important to me but a compelling narrative is,” and explained why he’s been going back and forth between himself and “The Character”.

“Why not play with the character and the artist and let those lines blur and move around?”