RIHANNA SAYS LOSING CHRIS BROWN WAS LIKE LOSING HER BEST FRIEND

Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey travelled to Barbados for an in-depth, no holds barred interview with singer Rihanna on her career, family, family, relationships and the infamous incident with then boyfriend Chris Brown.
The star talked about the night ex boyfriend Chris battered her ''it was embarrassing, it was humiliating, i lost my best friend, i was resentful,i held a grudge, i was dark''

The full interview airs on OWN on the 19th of August, 2012.

RIHANNA TWEETS BEYONCE'S BEAUTY IS ''ENOUGH TO DESTROY THE SELF-ESTEEM OF AN ENTIRE NATION''

That's deep! Rihanna went ten steps ahead of People magazine who recently named Beyonce the most beautiful woman in the world. She tweeted a picture of Beyonce rocking long blonde locks and fierce red lips and captioned it ''this pic could single-handedly destroy the self esteem of an entire nation ''. Who would have known Rihanna felt so strongly about Beyonce's beauty? With the media putting them at each others throats over the affections of Bey's husband, Jayz. It's been rumoured for years that Rih's relationship with Jayz is a lot more than just business and that Beyonce is not happy about it. Just goes to show you shouldn't believe everything you read!

RIHANNA NAMED FACE OF BARBADOS

Shortly after being dropped as the face of Nivea, Bajan singer Rihanna has been recently named the face of Barbados. The singer is featuring in adverts to promote tourism in Barbados.
Peep some pictures of the star on the beach in Barbados for her tourism shoot.

CHRIS BROWN AND DRAKE TO BOX FOR CHARITY

Chris Brown and rapper Drake are finally making it official! No more street brawls, they are doing it right this time. The two stars will box their grudge away for charity at the MGM Grand Casino in Las vegas on the 22nd of September in three 1 minute rounds wearing 24 ounce gloves.
Basketballer Tony Parker who was injured in their original brawl at the WiP nightclub in June will referee the fight.
Just wondering, why didn't the organizers find a role for Rihanna in the Re-match. she'd be perfect as a ring-girl, don't you think?

USAIN BOLT THINKS RIHANNA AND CHERYL COLE ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD

Fastest man in the world Usain Bolt has declared U.K singer Cheryl Cole, ex wife of footballer Ashley Cole and Barbadian singer Rihanna as the most beautiful women in the world. Usain who set an Olympic record in the 100 metre sprint on Sunday night said he was smitten by Girls aloud singer Cheryl Cole.
'' london has some really beautiful women, I can't help but notice them. Cheryl Cole is always in the media and i can see why. she is so beautiful''. '' I think for me it is between her and Rihanna for the most beautiful woman in the world'', ''if Cheryl wants to come and watch me in the final I might even take her out for dinner afterwards''

Usain Bolt who broke up with his girlfriend Lubica Slovak to concentrate on preparing for the Olympics is single and willing to mingle. Cheryl Cole seems to have a thing for black athletes, her ex was one. Just maybe???

OPRAH AND RIHANNA GO FOR A DRIVE TOGETHER IN BARBADOS

Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey visited Rihanna's hometown of Barbados for her no holds barred interview with the ''you da one'' singer for Oprah's next chapter. The talk show host previously interviewed 50cents and the Kardashian family on the programme. The media mogul and the award winning singer went for a spin together with Rihrih giving Oprah a guided tour of her hometown.

''look who popped up in my hometown Barbados#topnotch'' Rihanna tweeted to her 23.6 million followers as Oprah, almost at the same time tweeted to her 13 million followers '' look who's driving me around Barbados''.

A day in the lives of two amazing women!

RIHANNA DEBUTS REALITY FASHION SHOW ''STYLED TO ROCK''

Bajan singer Rihanna just boarded the reality fashion train with an upcoming new reality series '' styled to rock''. Each episode of the series will feature celebrity appearances from
the likes of Katty Perry, Cheryl Col, Pixie Lott, The Scissor sisters and more.
Girls aloud singer Nicola Roberts, designer Henry Holland and stylist Lysa Cooper will mentor the competing designers on the show which will run for ten weeks from 14th of August on Sky living. The aim of the show is to find the next big thing in the world of fashion. It is reported that the winner will help design an outfit Rihanna will wear at a planned show in London.

CHRIS BROWN AND GIRLFRIEND STILL DATING, DENIES RE-UNITING WITH RIHANNA

The singer was reported to have broken up with his girlfriend of two years Karrueche Tran when he deleted pictures of her from his twitter page and then travelled to France without her and reportedly spent the night with old flame Rihanna on her yacht flaming speculation that the two might get back together.
A spokesman for Chris has come out to deny the reports telling Hollyscoop ''Chris brown is in France to shoot a music video for the Swizz beatz album and Ludacris is in it. it's Swizz's song'', ''Chris's girlfriend Karrueche is there with him ... they never broke up. He is not on Rihanna's yacht....''. 
The accidental meetings between Chris and Rihanna seem a bit suspicious though, they run into themselves a bit too often don't you think?

ARE CHRIS BROWN AND RIHANNA BACK TOGETHER???

Ever since Chris brown allegedly broke up with girlfriend Karrueche Tran the world has waited with bated breath to see if he would get back together with old flame, Rihanna. Ok maybe not the whole world but a lot of people are interested to see whether the two would get back together .
There are whispers suggesting the two spent some time together on her yacht as she holidayed with pals in France.

Chris and rihanna at her birthday party last year

Chris and Rihanna happened to be in France together at the same time and sources say Chris might have spent the night on the yacht with her. Chris flew into France's Nice Airport two days ago with close friend rapper, Ludacris.

CHRIS BROWN BREAKS UP WITH GIRLFRIEND???

Chris Brown seems to have broken up with girlfriend Karrueche Tran. The singer deleted all pictures of the beautiful aspiring model from his Twitter page, leaving a picture of super model Chanel Iman as the only female on his Twitter page. The alleged reason for the break-up is in connection to a business relationship between Drake and Karrueche.
The break up rumours are coming on the heel of the star's girlfriend tattooing her left hand with a semblance of the tattoo on Chris's hand. The singer has been dating the aspiring model for about two years.
Will he go back to old flame Rihanna?

RIHANNA SHUTS DOWN LONDON RESTAURANT

Rihanna placed a massive order of 7000 pounds for her crew at a UK Nando's forcing them to close for the night cause she bought all the food they had! she ordered allll that food to feed her backup crew after they headlined at the Barclaycard wireless festival. The singer ordered every single item on the menu and had it delivered to her backstage.
Her crew must have worked up quite an appetite performing!

RIHANNA AT GRAN'S FUNERAL

A visibly upset looking Rihanna wearing all black en route her Gran Dolly's funeral in Brooklyn. She died last week after a battle with cancer.

RIHANNA SUES FORMER ACCOUNTANTS FOR MISMANAGING FINANCES

She claims they made her lose money in the millions due to poor management of her finances. Their actions have also resulted in an auditof her income from 2008 to 2010 by the IRS. Rih's accountants, Berdon LLP did not inform the singer that her 2009 ''Last girl on earth tour'' was losing money and did not advise her to trim down production costs cause they were taking a 22% slice of her touring revenue while she wass getting only 6%.

D'BANJ TO PERFORM AT BARCLAYCARD WIRELESS FESTIVAL

D'banj is totally blowing up in the U.K- he was on the cover of The Observer, he was interviewed by the UK Guardian, he performed at the BBC radio Hackney weekend with Rihanna and Jayz . His latest gig is at the Barclaycard wireless festival concert in Hyde park which began today. D'banj is performing tomorrow afternoon at the Pepsi Max stage. Other acts in the line-up include Drake, Rihanna, Rita Ora, Nicki Minaj, Jessie J, Wiz Khalifa, Pit bull and a host of others. The event is powered by Barclaycard, Vodafone, PepsiMax, HP and MTV.

TRENDS - THE CROPPED DENIM JACKET

There's nothing that can jazz up your wardrobe like a cropped denim jacket. They are so versatile, you can wear them with anything - a little black dress, a crazy colorful maxi dress, anything and everything and they are super feminine. Rih rih rocked one on a grey jumpsuit on arrival at the Barbados airpory, Ciara was out and about pairing her cropped jacket with a tank and a colorful maxi skirt and actress Zoe saldana was red carpet worthy at a Kohl's event in L.A in this too cute white cropped jacket and leggings combo glammed up with a pair of heels.

RIHANNA LOSES GRAND-MOTHER TO CANCER

Singer Rihanna is in mourning, she lost her grandmother Clara Dolly Braithwaite to cancer this morning.The singer was performing at Sweden's ''love and peace'' music festival where she gave a shaky, low key performance to the disappointment of her fans. Fans and well wishers have shown her a lot of love, sending genuinely heartfelt messages to her.Joyce Hawkins (chris browns mom) tweeted a heartfelt message to Rihanna saying'' angel may God be with you and your family in your time of sorrow, love you angel'' to which Rihanna responded ''thank you, love you mama.'' Chris also sent his condolences ''praying for family and the lost loved one. she was like my grandmother. love you GRAN GRAN!RIP''.