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Actress Naya Rivera, who plays cheerleader Santana Lopez on the television series “Glee,” and rapper Big Sean on Friday visited with Shriners Hospitals for Children patients, including Vilimoni Naioko, right.
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On vacation with her boyfriend, rapper Big Sean, actress Naya Rivera — better known as cheerleader Santana Lopez on the Fox hit show "Glee" — paid a visit Friday to the young patients in the recreation therapy room of Honolulu’s Shriners Hospitals for Children.
The 26-year-old Rivera chatted and posed for photos with the patients, staff and visitors of the hospital during her brief visit while Big Sean (real name: Sean Anderson) looked on.
Rivera makes it a point to visit places like Shriners whenever she travels. "It’s important to do whatever I can," she said. "I love meeting new people, and I have a soft heart for these kids."
The couple is in Hawaii as part of a concert stop for Anderson, who will be performing as the headliner for today’s True Music Festival: Legion of Boom at Aloha Tower Marketplace.
After the visit, Rivera said she missed seeing Thursday’s season finale of "Glee" because she and Anderson were at a luau at Paradise Cove. "But we plan to watch it tonight," she said.
The Hawaii visit is also somewhat of a working vacation for Anderson. On Thursday he was shooting footage for an upcoming video for the breakout track of his next album, "Hall of Fame," coming out later this summer. The undisclosed song and video will be out by the end of the month, he said.