Rihanna leaving Met Bar in London (11/17)
Rihanna has a new boyfriend, and he's a drug dealing street enforcer with a heart of gold. Well at least that's what he played on
The Wire. From the
New York Daily News:
Spies tell us that the singer is dating actor Tristan Wilds. The "90210" star was an unexpected guest at a party RiRi held over the weekend at her L.A. home, where she was saying goodbye to pals before taking off for a set of London gigs.
"No one knew why Tristan was there initially, because it was not an industry party — it was very intimate," says a fellow guest. "But everyone quickly realized they weren't meeting for the first time, because they were openly affectionate for everyone to see."
They hit it off the moment they laid eyes on each other, the insider says. "He's a real gentleman," says the source. "She likes him a lot, and it shows. From the moment he walked into her party, Rihanna lit up."
"They'll keep in touch while she's away," the snitch insists. "They're already planning to use iChat and Skype to stay in contact until Tristan finishes shooting '90210' for the season and can fly out to meet her on the road."
Man, this Tristan guy has got it made. All he has to do is not smack a bitch and he'll be considered the Mother Teresa of boyfriends. It's like auditioning for
American Idol after William Hung* -- you'll look great no matter how much you suck. The only way Tristan could be in a better situation is if Rihanna suddenly came down with permanent laryngitis.
*
Little Known Fact About Your's Truly: I went to college with William Hung. True story.
Rihanna leaving Mahiki nightclub in London (11/16)
According to the
Daily Mail, Rihanna suffered a "limo nightmare" last night after accidentally flashing her cellulite to the paparazzi as she was leaving Mahiki nightclub in London. A bit dramatic, aren't we? Her thighs are hardly a nightmare. They're more like a disgustingly bad dream that haunts you to your core.
Nice hat dork According to
WENN, that's Rihanna "appearing to have a bump above her left eye" as she arrived back to her hotel in London last night. I knew it. She's back with Chris Brown and she's still not listening. Some chicks just never learn.
Rihanna nip slip! Missed this a few days ago but Rihanna showed up to the "Woman of the Year" awards in New York on Monday wearing a pretty kick-ass dress that showed off her nipple. If you're wondering why Rihanna was honored as the "Woman of the Year," read the first sentence again.
NOTE: To see the uncensored pics of
Rihanna's nip slip, click the headline pic (or thumbnails) and then click the "Full Size" button located at the top or bottom of the image.
Rihanna out and about in Paris (10/1)
Don't even try to buy Rihanna a $10,000 bottle of champagne. She's not thirsty. From the
New York Post:
Rihanna doesn't take bubbly from strangers. While hanging out with a gaggle of assistants and singer James Blount at a party thrown by Vegas nightclub The Bank at Wonderland in LA, the songstress was sent a $10,000 bottle of Champagne by Jets receiver Braylon Edwards and a handful of his teammates, who were at a nearby table. But according to a partygoer, "She didn't know who they were, so she sent it back."
Apparently the most devastating global economic crisis since the Great Depression isn't hurting Braylon Edwards too badly. Of course, as a world famous gossip blogger, I can totally relate. For example, instead of mixing 1/2 milk and 1/2 water in my cereal this morning, I splurged and mixed 5/8 milk and 3/8 water. Sure, throwing my wealth around like that can be a little gauche, but I always say: If you've got it, flaunt it.
Chris Brown leaving Kitchen 24 nightclub in West Hollywood (10/17)
In a statement sent to
MTV last Friday, Chris Brown pretty much told Rihanna to shut the fuck up about getting beat up:
Brown contacted MTV News on Friday (November 6) to issue a statement about the portions of Rihanna's interview [with Good Morning America] that have emerged since that interview. He reiterated his stance on maintaining the pair's privacy, but he also supported Rihanna's decision to speak out about what occurred that February night. Brown wished Rihanna the best and once again admitted his mistake.
"While I respect Rihanna's right to discuss the specific events of February 8, I maintain my position that all of the details should remain a private matter between us," he said in the statement.
Uh oh, Rihanna better be careful -- the last time Chris wanted her to keep her mouth shut he put in more time on her face than
Jocelyn Wildenstein's plastic surgeon. On a serious note, if Chris really wants to move on from this whole ordeal, he should do what most guys do when they don't want to hear their woman yapping anymore: turn up
SportsCenter.
Rihanna arriving to Milk Studios in New York (10/19)
I seriously envy Rihanna's next boyfriend (possibly Usher). All he has to do is be careful not to beat the shit out of her (stick to the verbal abuse) and he'll be seen as Prince Charming. From the
National Enquirer:
Usher has been secretly calling and texting the [Rihanna] for the past three weeks, and she's been very friendly, sources tell the Enquirer.
"Usher has been making moves on Rihanna and she seems to like him a lot," revealed an insider. "He calls her at least twice a day and they text all the time -- he tells her how beautiful she is and that he can't wait to show her how a woman is supposed to be treated. Usher even sends Rihanna flowers and includes a cute little quote or song-lyric message."
Despite the mutual attraction, Rihanna wants to take things slowly with Usher.
"Even though they are very interested in each other, Rihanna refuses to be seen in public with him in a romantic setting until his divorce is final because she doesn't want any drama with [his estranged wife] Tameka. Right now she's just enjoying the flirting." (Print Edition - 11/2)
Usher better be careful -- if he keeps flirting with Rihanna like this, Chris Brown might get angry and be forced to do something violent . . . to the nearest 90-pound woman he can find. What exactly does Usher want with a chick that's taken more shots to the face than Jenna Jameson? If he really wants to go after someone whose body has been ravaged by flying fists, he shouldn't pursue Rihanna -- he should pursue
Lindsay.
Rihanna leaving Wonderland nightclub in Hollywood (11/4)
Rihanna has finally broken her silence. She spoke with
Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer this morning about
her new CD Rated R that drops in two weeks the infamous night Chris Brown
whooped that ass. From
ABC News:
"It was a wake-up call. It was a wake-up call for me. Big time. I will say that to any young girl who is going through domestic violence, don't react off of love. F love. Come out of the situation and look at it in the third person and for what it really is."
The pop star said it was "embarrassing" that Brown was the type of person she fell in love with.
"So far in love. So unconditional that I went back. It's humiliating to say this happened. To accept that? It's a traumatizing experience," she said. "I stayed. I even went back after he beat me, which was wrong. But again ... I'm a human being and people put me on a very unrealistic pedestal. And all these expectations, I'm not perfect."
After months of silence since the February beating, Rihanna decided to speak publicly about the ordeal so she can be a voice to help others who may be in danger of returning to abuse.
"It's completely normal to go back. It's not right. I learned the hard way, but again, this is what I want people to know," she said. "When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn't be held responsible for going back. Even if Chris never hit me again, who is to say that their boyfriend won't? Who's to say that they won't kill these girls? These are young girls and I just didn't realize how much of an impact I had on these girls' lives until that happened."
In other news, Rodell Vereen of South Carolina
was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday after he was caught having sex with a 21-year-old horse named Sugar for the second time in two years. I guess you could say Rodell has a real "sweet tooth." *
rimshot* . . . I know this doesn't have anything to do with Rihanna or Chris Brown but I thought this story could use a little lightening up. It's traumatizing this, it's humiliating that, he hit me, he choked me, it hurt,
geesh, she can be such a Debbie Downer sometimes!
Rihanna out and about in New York (11/2)
Rihanna and
Mariah Carey somehow squeezed both of their heads into the same club at the same time on Halloween night. And it was all downhill from there. From the
New York Post:
Mariah Carey and Rihanna refused to talk or be photographed together
at a Halloween bash. The dueling divas worked hard to upstage each
other at Carey's party at M2 Ultralounge. A source said Rihanna,
dressed as a tiger with a tail so long a security guard had to hold it
up, partied with three female friends and rapper Ne-Yo in a booth and
wouldn't cross the dance floor to pay her respects. Meanwhile Carey,
in a corset and giant angel wings, stayed with hubby Nick Cannon in
her VIP area. A spy said, "It was Mariah's party, but Rihanna didn't
want to be seen with her. And Mariah was not going over to greet
Rihanna. Mariah needed six guards to clear a path to the bathroom so
her wings wouldn't be dislodged."
If these two ever go to blows, Mariah better be careful -- Rihanna's already proven she knows how to take a punch by someone who weighs three times as much as her. That considered, you'd think after going through a very public domestic abuse case that Rihanna would have learned by now to avoid confrontation. I guess this just means Chris Brown was right all along about her: bitch just doesn't know how to listen.
Chris Brown hasn't heard the last of Wrigley's Before Chris Brown turned Rihanna's face
into a Picasso painting back in February, he had a pretty nice endorsement deal with Wrigley's Doublemint Gum (I don't know if you've heard, but it now has double the flavor
and double the fun). Through exhaustive market research, Wrigley's discovered that people don't like to chew gum endorsed by dudes who beat up chicks, so they scrapped the campaign (I'm sure it didn't help that a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit
was front and center in the pictures of the blood-spattered interior of Chris' Lamborghini). From
Janet Charlton's Hollywood:
Chris Brown hasn’t heard the last of Wrigley Doublemint Gum. He had a very lucrative contract with Wrigley and his ad campaign was not only successful, it produced his hit song “Forever.” Chris had apparently signed up for another five year stint with Wrigley and finished a number of commercials when the Rihanna incident happened. Wrigley pulled his ads and fired Chris. Now they are said to be preparing to sue Chris for all the money they lost due to his bad behavior. They spent big bucks on ads featuring Chris along with other celebrities like JayZ and Mariah Carey. Since Chris was in them also - everything had to be ditched. Wrigley is mad and we hear they hope to recoup the money Chris caused them to lose with a big fat lawsuit.
It seems like the whole world is piling on Chris because of one tiny momentary lapse in judgment. Call me cynical, but I think race has something to do with it. Don't believe me? Explain to me how Ashton Kutcher's career took off
after he got caught with that shipping container full of young Asian sex slaves.
UPDATE: I've just been informed by Ashton's lawyer (very handsome and well-dressed by the way), that Ashton was actually never caught with a shipping container full of young Asian sex slaves. Weird. I could have sworn that happened. My bad.
