Rihanna And Coldplay To Play London 2012 Paralympics Closing Ceremony?

Rihanna is set to join Coldplay to perform their hit single 'Princess Of China' at the London 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony, according to reports.

The singer has been spotted in London for secret rehearsals for the show, according to the Daily Star. "All the Closing Ceremony details are top secret but Rihanna has already started rehearsing," a source told the paper "As soon as Coldplay signed up she was the obvious choice to accompany them on stage."
The closing ceremony, entitled the 'Festival of Flame', will see Coldplay play a number of their biggest hits on the night (September 9).

 "The Closing Ceremony is basically a glorified Coldplay concert," added the source. "They will hardly be off stage." "They may only be getting paid a £1 to perform but they will make a fortune in royalties as their music flies up the charts afterwards.''

Chris Martin and co were also approached by London organisers to play the the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games but turned down the opportunity.

Rihanna's not happy living the single life

Rihanna’s newest single might be called “You Da One,” but it appears there’s no one in the popstar’s life right now — romantically speaking.

“I’m not dating anyone right now,” Rihanna said as she taped an appearance for Monday’s “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”

“I’m not dating at all,” Rihanna added.

And the Barbados-born beauty said she’s not exactly pleased with her relationship status. “I’m not necessarily happy being single. It’s not really that cool,” she said, adding she just doesn’t have the time to focus on romance.

The busy singer told Ellen she likes a guy who can handle the traditional manly-man role.

In bed with Rihanna

Rihanna is her most sultry yet in the video for her new ballad, California King Bed.

In a marked departure from up-tempo hit Only Girl (in the World) the sixth single from her Loud album is a slow-paced song about lovers growing apart.

The short film, which was directed by Anthony Mandler in Los Angeles, features the scarlet-haired Bajan beauty lying between the sheets with a shirtless lover.

As she laments the distance between the protagonists lying on the California King Bed, Rihanna - dressed in white shorts and bra - is sexy and dishevelled as she rolls around restlessly.

Donning a floaty night dress, the 23-year-old then laments to a heavenly backdrop of clouds and a Californian sunset as the lover drifts away.

The director changes from colour to a black and white lens during the song's third refrain, before switching back to colour for the final shots of Rihanna lying in a field of grass, the same shot that opens the video.

At the end of February, the pop superstar took to Twitter to poll her fans, asking them to choose her next single, she wrote: 'QUESTION EXISTING: I'm shootin a new vid in a cpl wks, I just need u to tell me, which song should I shoot? What is my next single?" she tweeted before firing off, "Its hard to go from s+m to SKIN! Don't want to be 2 swiney.' California King Bed was announced as the next single just a few days later.

And it was a key part of the five song set the songbird performed on the Nivea Blue Boat in Hamburg, Germany last night to mark the brand's 100th anniversary. The singer has been jetting across Europe to promote the big event, which culminated in the rousing gig last night where she blasted through Only Girl (in the World), Disturbia, Don't Stop the Music, Umbrella and the new single.

The Umbrella singer even made a quick stop in London to perform at a luxurious party being held to celebrate the engagement of the daughter of Formula 1 boss Bernie Eccelestone.

His 22-year-old daughter Petra is set to marry businessman Jamie Stunt and Rihanna was brought in to provide the entertainment at the lavish function.

Rihanna has also just signed on to perform at the opening of The Today Show's summer concert series.

Her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown has also signed on to perform but they will be on stage on separate days - Rihanna on May 27 and Brown on July 15.

Shocking new pics of bruised Rihanna emerge

25 February, 2011 - Shocking new pictures of singer Rihanna following her beating at the hands of ex-beau, Chris Brown, have emerged.

In the images, the pop star has multiple lacerations on her lips, huge bruises on her eyes, around her cheeks and forehead, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Brown was forced to speak out after MediaTakeOut released pictures showing the results of physical abuse he inflicted on the 'Umbrella' hitmaker after a 2009 fight.

Brown was convicted of assaulting his then girlfriend back in 2009. He was sentenced to five years probation, 180 days of community labor and ordered not to contact Rihanna.

The leak of these latest images come just a day after a Los Angeles judge revised a protective order which now allows Brown and Rihanna to communicate. Brown took to Twitter to address the release of the horrific images:

"The Devil is always busy!! But when u have a destiny, nothing or no one can stop what god has planned!"

Rihanna dating Ryan Phillippe?

R&B superstar Rihanna is enjoying her single life to the hilt and after Colin Farell she is now being linked to another Hollywood hottie, Ryan Philippe. The 23-year-old has been enjoying secret trysts with Phillippe, reported Us magazine online. The Barbados-born singer and the 36-year
-old star are said to have met up on numerous occasions over the course of the last few months. RihannaThe pair reportedly met up after Rihanna's relationship hit the rocks with baseballer Matt Kemp, and while the Cruel Intentions was casually dating actress Amanda Seyfried.

"They initially hooked up when things were strained with Matt Kemp," said a source close to the S&M hitmaker.

According to the report, the couple have been secretive about their relationship and pretend that they aren't interested in each other when at parties.

"They hung out a bit, but were discreet. It is still very casual. Clearly they are keeping it on the downlow," added the source.

Did Rihanna Have A Lesbian Affair With An Ex-Model?

Did Rihanna have a lesbian affair with Natasha Burton? While absurd claims of sexual activity with celebrities should be taken with more than a pinch of salt, our imaginations won’t let this one go…

Rihanna’s edgy, bad-girl image lends itself to claims by wannabe celebrities who might have been in the same place at the same time for half a minute at one point in their lives to make-up crazy stories about affairs. So with Natasha Burton’s claims in her new book that she had a sexual affair with Rih-Rih, we should probably be more than a little bit skeptical about the details.


In her book Low Down Dirty Shame, Natasha reportedly offers “A friend of mine had introduced me to this Barbadian female pop/R&B artist a while ago. I had heard her music several times and was a fan of her unique sound. I jokingly told him that I want to talk to her. He told me on the sly that he wasn’t sure if she was into women but that he would confirm. We exchanged contact and it went on from there. I wasn’t over my ex, but talking to her helped. She was beautiful, wore her hair short with blonde highlights and her style was creative.”


Her story develops in Mills & Boon-esque fashion “I wasn’t sure I could take her serious, so I took it one day at a time. We instantly had a connection. I could listen to her for hours discuss the media, music and fashion. She had opened up and told me about her difficult past, how she went through various trials and tribulations.”

Finally, the info you came for “Sex came up immediately, she was a freak. I wasn’t in a sexual mood, I was on my spiritual journey and sex wasn’t a part of my plans,

it just wasn’t important to me. However that didn’t stop anything. She went down and gave me head, I didn’t stop her. She bragged about the way I tasted and then all of a sudden after I came she snapped out of it and would get right back into her music. It was like clockwork. I never went down on her, she was more interested in pleasing me”

Natasha Burton is an ex-model turned Author who will no doubt sell a few more copies with this story. Make of it what you will. Something in our brains refuses to rule it out.

Rihanna's Alleged Lesbian Lover Tajah Burton Talks To Natalia Perez EXCLUSIVE

27 January 2011

Have we got an exclusive for you guys! Our own Hot Hits Live From LA host Natalia Perez talked to model Natasha "Tajah" Burton, who claims that she had a lesbian relationship with an rnb star who might just be Rihanna!

She's currently writing a tell-all celebrity book, part of which leaked to the media. The section which attracted the most attention is a chapter about her lesbian relationship with a famous rnb singer.
Tajah refuses to name names, but members of the press have put two and two together and are claiming that the other lady is none other than Rihanna!

And Natalia Perez sat down with Tajah to get all the juicy details on the book!

Tajah explained exactly how she met the anonymous female singer.

"We met through a mutual friend," she told The Hot Hits Live From LA. "And I was like 'hook it up' and he was like 'ok'. And we kind of exchanged information and hit it off."

Tajah told Natalia a little bit more about the details of their relationship.

"We had an instant chemistry," Tajah said. "She basically was just there motivating me and it was really cool and it became intimate."

"She's really into her music, and she went back into her music and we remained friends."

And Natalia asked Tajah how long the relationship lasted for.

Check out RIHANNA with 'Te Amo'

"It was a couple of weeks, I wouldn't say it was a full out relationship," Tajah said. "It wasn't something we really talked about, it was just she liked me I liked her we were just taking it day by day."

"She knew I was writing a book, and I told her I was putting her in the book," she said. "The sections that they chose to put in the media really painted not the best picture."

And although Tajah says in her book that the singer is from Barbados and has short hair, she told Natalia that she doesn't know why everyone thinks its Rihanna.

"I'm just like, where did they get that from?," Tajah said. "I've never said names."

So there you have it, Tajah definitely did have a relationship with a female singer.But was it Rihanna? We might never know for sure.

Rihanna, Blur And Janet Jackson Break Out New 'Dance Central' Tracks

If Rihanna's "Pon de Replay" left you wanting more from her in "Dance Central," this is your lucky day because she's also made "Disturbia" available for the Kinect title this week, along with tracks from Blur and Janet Jackson. She joins previous DLC contributors Ne-Yo and Lady Gaga in the "DC" marketplace, where Sean Paul and The Black Eyed Peas have also put themselves up for sale.

Their tunes run 240 MS points apiece there, and the library is still young, but it's growing. This week's batch of tracks marks Blur's debut with their track "Girls and Boys," and the same goes for Janet Jackson, who's entered the "Dance Central" DLC ring with her 1986 single "Control."

So whether you're hanging around inside wearing your sweats, torn between the urge to get outside to be active and your fierce aversion to the cold of winter, or just want to test out your GWAR costume with "Dance Central" and have been hesitant because you needed a Blur track to materialize, your time is now.

"Blur" excites me the most off of this list, and if the "DC" folks wanted to just start making deals to build all-"Blur"-and-"Prodigy" sub-stores for their game, I would love to hang out there for a significant amount of time every week. They are off to a fine start with "Girls and Boys," though.

Ke$ha 'totally fine' with Rihanna

Pop star Ke$ha has brushed off reports of a feud with Rihanna after the Umbrella hitmaker appeared to make disparaging comments about her pop peers.

The Bajan beauty stirred controversy in October when she revealed all of the songs on her new album Loud would be written especially for her, unlike some other tracks in the pop charts.

She was quoted as saying, "I didn't want the generic pop record that Ke$ha or Lady Gaga or Katy Perry would do. Every song is tailored to me."

Rihanna's comments were alleged to have sparked a pop rivalry among the stars - but Ke$ha has paid little attention to the rumours and she's confident the media is responsible for turning it into a big deal.

She tells Complex magazine, "I haven't even read that. I'm so used to the media flipping my words around that I'm sure she meant absolutely no offence to me or Katy or Gaga - Rihanna and me are totally cool, we were just on tour together, and I know that she and Katy are good friends."

Ofcom confirm Rihanna and Christina Aguilera 'X Factor' probe

Eight days, a handful of lurid, full-colour tabloid photo spreads and 2,750 complaints later: Ofcom have finally been cajoled into investigating Christina Aguilera and Rihanna's allegedly "raunchy" 'X Factor' performances, the NME reports.

Nearly 20 million people watched the 'X Factor' finale -- in which Matt Cardle took home the seventh series crown -- on 12 December 12. Along with those who contacted Ofcom, 1,000 viewers reportedly complained to ITV about the two guest performers' underwear-clad dance moves on the Sunday evening special.

The Daily Mail has been drumming up outrage over the Aguilera's rendition of her hit 'Burlesque' and Rihanna's version of 'What's My Name?', calling them "lewd" and quoting "horrified" parents -- while helpfully publishing large format photos of the offending routines "to show the fury they've caused".

Mail columnist Jan Moir -- herself no stranger to complaints, after prompting record numbers with a 2009 piece that argued late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately's "sleazy" lifestyle was to blame for his death -- wrote that "crotch flashing and pseudo sexual grinding" were "out of place before the watershed".

Ofcom will now attempt to figure out whether the X Factor finale broke section 1.3 of the broadcasting code, which insists that "children must be protected by appropriate scheduling from material that is unsuitable for them".