Rihanna and her non boyfriend! New photos (working on getting them) of Rihanna and Chris Brown kissing and cuddling in a Miami, Florida KFC diner have ended reports the pair is just good friends. In fact, the way the story is running makes it sound like Rihanna kissed Chris only after she saw that the paps were following them! Perhaps she is tired to pretending the two aren’t an item.

Dressed down and looking like any other KFC regulars, the couple went public with their much-hyped romance when the two young hitmakers realised they had been spotted by the paparazzi on Wednesday night. Rihanna immediately put her arms around Brown’s neck and planted a lingering kiss on his lips.

UPDATE: Concrete Loop has the shots. None of my agencies are carrying them yet. So click here to see them.

As usual, Rihanna was asked about her relationship with both Chris Brown and Jay Z. You’d THINK after the rapper MARRIED Beyonce, they would lay off of that one. But in this month’s Elle, they dug one more time. In Touch reports:
On Chris Brown:

“We’ve always been friends,” she revealed in Elle’s June issue, “but we’re very close now. “

On Jay Z:

“I get asked about it all the time, and I’m like, ‘You’re asking, but you know the answer.’ I don’t even like to address it anymore.”

And while we are already talking about Rihanna, don’t expect too much from her in 2008. She really wants to take it easy.

“I already told everyone in my camp, ‘This year, I’m not going to work like a horse.’ In 2007 I didn’t really get to enjoy anything that I achieved, because I was moving, moving, moving.”

She admits she couldn’t even take in her Grammy night success for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration - even when partner Jay-Z asked her how she felt.

 ”Jay was asking me, `How does it feel? How does it feel? How does it feel?’ I was like, ‘When I get home and I lock my room and there’s silence, I’ll tell you how I feel then.’”

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I can’t IMAGINE what this must feel like. We all have those days when we need to go out to run errands, but are in no mood to socialize with friends or family. Lucky for us, the odds of bumping into someone while out and about are small. Rihanna never gets to have days for herself because almost everyone feels like they know her and so they walk up to her for a chat. Normally, she welcomes the interaction… but sometimes she gets tired of pretending to be in good spirits when she is not.

“I love what I do but, yes, this stuff does start to take its toll on you. Sometimes you get really miserable and on the edge, but people don’t know why you’re acting like that. You always want to be kind to people, so you’re forced to be a bubbly person, but, to be honest, sometimes I’d just like to sit in a corner by myself and be quiet.”

LOVE this song! Had to share

So many celebrities were spotted out shopping yesterday on Rodeo Drive, or just out and about in the same area, that I thought I’d throw them all into one big post.  The photographers snapped Mischa Barton just strolling along, and they also got a few pictures of Rihanna shopping with her dog.  He’s so adorable, he actually looks like a stuffed animal!  Also in the thumbnails are Kim Kardashian in yellow and a very pregnant Tori Spelling with her hubby

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I will never question their relationship again. Rihanna’s statement is pretty forward isn’t it? Chris Brown is like “her brother” not her boyfriend.

“I won’t say that we’re just friends - me and Chris are really best, best friends. We both started our careers around the same time. He is one of the only people in the industry … I trust and hang out with all the time. We are best friends, honestly, like brother and sister. If he was a boyfriend, I would say that.”

I still don’t get these pictures from a few weeks ago… but that statement is so finite.
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As if I can THINK about another thing this morning. Writing about anything other than the “did they or didn’t they” scandal that is going on this weekend is absolutely pointless. But I will give it a shot. Here are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt getting married at the Kids’ Choice Awards. Woops — see! I can’t do it.

• Jennifer Love Hewitt
• Ashlee Simpson
• Miley Cyrus
• Cameron Diaz
• Shia LaBeouf
• Hayden Panettiere
• Rihanna
• Jordin Sparks
• Will Smith

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge

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