{"id":549556,"date":"2026-07-14T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549556\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:25:14","slug":"tom-cruise-ishowspeed-to-perform-at-world-cup-closing-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549556\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise &#038; IShowSpeed To Perform At World Cup Closing Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFIFA said this afternoon that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tom-cruise\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-cruise\" data-tag=\"tom-cruise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Cruise<\/a>, Laura Pausini, Nicole Scherzinger, Robbie Williams, and internet streamer IShowSpeed will be among the names that will perform as part of the World Cup closing ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe closing ceremony will take place on Sunday, July 19 at MetLife Stadium. The organization didn\u2019t elaborate on what any of the performers will be performing, but noted that Cruise will make a \u201cspecial appearance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFIFA also confirmed that Jennifer Hudson will perform the U.S. national anthem ahead of the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe World Cup semifinals take place this week. France plays Spain today in Dallas in the first semi, while England and Argentina face off on Wednesday in Atlanta. France continues to be the tournament favorites, with a convincing win against Morocco in the last round. England has also maintained momentum throughout the tournament, particularly after the team\u2019s eventful win at the Azteca Stadium against Mexico in the Round of 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe World Cup continues to be a ratings boon globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe U.S. national team\u2019s loss against Belgium in the round of 16 garnered 33.086 million viewers \u2014 the most ever for a soccer telecast in the U.S. and the largest non-NFL audience on any network in a decade, since Game 7 of the World Series on Nov. 2 2016. The viewership peaked at 41M from 9:15 pm-9:30 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the UK, England\u2019s win against Norway in the quarter-finals was the largest audience of the tournament so far. Jude Bellingham\u2019s brace of goals knocked <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/norway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norway<\/a> out of the competition, with a peak of 16.8M viewers watching the 2-1 triumph on ITV1. The game, which kicked off at 10 p.m. local time at the Miami Stadium, topped the previous peak of 15M viewers for England\u2019s opening match against Croatia last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA said this afternoon that Tom Cruise, Laura Pausini, Nicole Scherzinger, Robbie Williams, and internet streamer IShowSpeed will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[90217,321,93,61,60,5592],"class_list":["post-549556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}