It may be winter in Los Angeles but Rihanna is raising temperatures as usual. RiRi was spotted leaving the Beverly Hills hotel in a daringly short dress yesterday. No matter how chilly it was she still stepped out in a peach long sleeve frock that was cut-out at the sides, exposing her toned waist. The low-cut back of the dress also revealed her back, where she sports a smattering of star tattoos. She paired the simple look with a pair of Christian Louboutin stilettos. RRi is known for taking a risk with her fashion choices.
Proud of her body, the Bajan singer often enjoys showing off her dangerous curves.
Shakira 33, revealed on her blog Monday that she and beau Antonio de la Rue called it quits last summer after 11 years of dating.
“Since August 2010, we made a mutual decision to take time apart from our romantic relationship,” she wrote. “Throughout this time we have continued to work together hand in hand, have remained close and have kept the details absolutely private until now.”
However, Shakira, who called her romance with the investment banker “the most wonderful years of our lives” hinted that they could reconcile in the future.
“We view this period of separation as temporary and as a time of individual growth as we continue to be partners in our business and professional lives,” she wrote. “Our friendship and understanding of one another is unwavering and indestructible.”
Adds an insider, “There was no big drama, it’s just one of those things where they had been together a long time and realized they were more friends and business partners than lovers. It’s sad, but they could get back together. They just needed a break.”
Carlos Santana and his new bride, drummer Cindy Blackman, didn’t let a little rain ruin their wedding day.
“The weather was kind of iffy, so we said, ‘Let’s just do it inside,’ ” the guitar legend Santana, 63, tells PEOPLE of their Dec. 19 nuptials at the Ritz-Carlton on Maui. “Because no matter where we did it, the sun was shining.”
“Rain represents mercy,” adds Blackman, 51. “It couldn’t have been more beautiful.”
In fact, the couple fully embraced the weather: “My favorite part of the ceremony was when we washed our hands in a bowl of rainwater,” says Blackman, adding that the gesture was suggested by Santana’s son (from his first marriage), Salvador.
“We absolved ourselves of all things past and all things future except the two of us. It felt so clearing to do that,” she says.
Santana and Blackman, a jazz and rock drummer often recognized for her work with Lenny Kravitz, were feted by 180 guests, including comedian George Lopez and musician pals Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, who performed at the reception.
“That took the wedding to a whole other level of the word supreme,” says the groom.
Blackman, who wore a custom-made silk dress from the Zurich boutique Zoro for the ceremony, says she and Santana, who proposed during a concert last July, also released doves “to release our purity and love into the cosmos.”
After honeymooning in Hawaii over the holidays, the guitarist is already back to work – he kicks off his new residency at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas on Wednesday – but is basking in the glow of married life.
“Cindy is a match with everything that I am, from fire of passion to vulnerability,” he says. “Everything tastes better when you share it with your soul mate.”
After a year of many ups and downs, Christina Milian is ready to move on.
The singer/actress opened up to Latina Magazine about her highly publicized divorce from The-Dream, who cheated on her and filed for divorce while she was pregnant with their child.
Looking back, she has no regrets about ending the nuptials.
“No matter what, you can’t change who you are. I know that now. I tried to be someone I wasn’t because I wanted my marriage to work,” Milian said. “But ultimately, if it’s not working, it’s not working.”
Giving birth to her child, Violet, in March has helped her move on.
“Being a new mother definitely makes me feel so much sexier than ever before,” she said. “There’s a certain responsibility that I carry being a mom that makes me feel very confident and so blessed. Being a mom is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
In 2011, Milian says she’s completely moving on.
“I feel brand new. I’ve been to hell and back, but I survived. I’m stronger for it and now I’m ready for the next phase of my life.”
Living it up back in her homeland, Rihanna finished up all of her shopping needs in Barbados on Christmas Eve day (December 24) after she shopped it up in LA on (December 21).
Clad in a black crossbones t-shirt, the “Umbrella” singing beauty joined a few friends in wandering the streets of Georgetown while loading up on last-minute presents before the family’s celebration.
Upon touching down on Thursday, the 22-year-old immediately made her way to a “Sub Urban” bash hosted by brother Rorrey Fenty, where she reveled with friends and family into the wee hours of the morning.
Rihanna also slipped into a feline swimsuit and makes some motion in the ocean on Sandy Lane beach in Barbados on Sunday (December 26).
“Merry Christmas to all my lovers!” tweeted the 22-year-old pop phenom, who also published pictures of a Christmas tree and festive cake.
On Friday, Rihanna will be hosting a New Year’s Eve party at Pure in Las Vegas. “Who’s comin’ out to party with me @ PURE?” Ri tweeted. “FYI I’m NOT performing but I’m DEF PARTYIN!”
He might be treating his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter to a cruise in the Caribbean – but Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has still found the time to have fun with his children on their festive trip.
Diddy treated several of his brood…including sons Christian, Justin and Quincy..to a banana boat ride in the sea as they holidayed in St Barts.
Diddy 41… who seemed to be enjoying the chance to spend quality time with his family also chased his sons around the beach as the tide came in.
Diddy is vacationing on a yacht moored off the coast of the Caribbean island along with Kim, who is the mother of 12-year-old Christian as well as their twin daughters D’Lila and Jessie.
The couple who had a tempestuous on/off relationship for 16 years…celebrated the twins’ fourth birthday earlier this week.
Writing on his Twitter on the big day, Diddy enthused: ‘Happy Birthday to three of the most important women in my life! My daughters Jessie and D’Lila and my Mom. I love you…..Happy Bday Mom, Jessie and D’Lila!’
She’s thrown herself into her work to nurse her broken heart since splitting from the man she thought was ‘The One’.
But what Rochelle Wiseman from The Saturdays has really needed is a girls night out on the town to let her hair down and embrace the single life again.
And this past saturday night that’s exactly what she did as she and her friends partied in central London. Rochelle, 21, split from her JLS beau Marvin Humes last week after eight months together.
They blamed differing work commitments and their petty squabbles for their eventual break-up but insisted they will still remain friends. Well there goes another one that let a diamond slip through his finger….Hey Rochelle (CALL ME MA!!!)
Gregory Isaacs.. one of the most popular and versatile reggae singers of the late-1970s, and the smooth-voiced dancehall crooner behind the genre’s landmark 1982 LP Night Nurse… passed away this morning at his London home following a year-long battle with lung cancer, the BBC reports. Isaacs was 59. “Gregory was well loved by everyone, his fans and his family, and he worked really hard to make sure he delivered the music they loved and enjoyed,” Isaacs’ wife Linda said. “He will be greatly missed by his family and friends.”
Over the course of his prolific career… in which he released an estimated 500 albums within Jamaica, the UK and the U.S…. Isaacs collaborated with reggae, dub and dancehall icons like Lee “Scratch” Perry, King Tubby, Sugar Minott, Freddie McGregor, Dennis Brown and Errol Holt. After spending the 1970s building a reputation as both a top-notch roots reggae singer and a soulful “lovers rock”-style crooner, Isaacs recorded his masterpiece Night Nurse at Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Studios in 1982, the year after Marley’s death.
Isaacs was poised to become a worldwide star when Night Nurse climbed to No. 32 on the British charts, but instead found himself sentenced to six months in a Jamaican prison on illegal firearm charges. (Isaacs’ police record is almost as prolific as his discography, with over 50 reported arrests in his lifetime.) Dubbed the “Cool Ruler” by fans, Isaacs wrestled with drug addiction throughout his career, eventually losing his teeth and jeopardizing his legendary voice from persistent drug use, but he continued to make music, releasing his final album, Brand New Me, in 2008.
Foxy Brown is back. And this time she wants to be considered for political position as The Youth Ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago. Foxy says of her potential to hold down the political position:
“Who else but me? I am a staunch supporter of American-Caribbean relations and my music targets the exact same demographic and genre of young people I want to stand up for. I’ve forged many political alliances and I’m well-versed, articulate and educated. Beyond just having a vast amount of music industry experience, I am a staunch believer in being the voice for our young Trinidadian people.”
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