Ms. Rachel's fanbase may mostly consist of infants and young children, but she can also count at least one A-list celebrity as a fan -- one she said she almost ghosted by accident.
On Wednesday's episode of the "Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce" podcast, the children's content creator and educator, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, revealed that Rihanna once slid into her DMs on Instagram, and she almost missed it.
"I am ... [an] elder millennial, I think it's called," Accurso said. "So, I'm not amazing with Instagram. I didn't know about the [message] requests and 'top requests,' so I ghosted some people for, like, months."
She continued, "I'm not a cool person who knows a lot about celebrities. So when I saw [a message request from] a 'badgalriri,' I was like, 'Wow, this person has so many followers.'"
The @badgalriri Instagram handle, of course, belongs to superstar singer, actress and businesswoman Rihanna, whose profile photo is a famously a drawing of a stick figure.
"I was like, 'This is such a cute little profile picture,'" Accurso recounted. "No idea, asked some people who were around. I was like, 'Do you know who this is?' And then yeah, I realized it was Rihanna."
When host Kylie Kelce asked about Accurso's reaction to the A-list DM, Accurso said, "I was like, 'Wow.'"
"Good Morning America" has reached out to Rihanna's reps for comment.
Rihanna isn't the only celebrity who is a fan of Ms. Rachel. The YouTuber turned Netflix star revealed that she once sang with John Legend. Robert De Niro also revealed in an interview with BBC Radio 2's "The Scott Mills Breakfast Show" earlier this year that he watches Ms. Rachel with his youngest daughter, Gia.
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"They love singing songs," Kelce said. "Specifically, 'Hop Little Bunnies' is a big hit in our house."
"I love 'Hop Little Bunnies,'" Accurso replied.
"It's so good, and everyone lays down, and they're sleeping -- the whole thing. We do the whole thing," Kelce added, referring to the pantomiming aspect of the song.
