OK, so I am now totally on board with Rihanna‘s bright red hair and I’m really on board with her meeting music legend David Bowie, but I know there’s gotta be at least a handful of you out there who are still looking at this flamin’ ‘do like, “Girl, WHAT?!”

There are a couple of angles to check out in the gallery, so please click through and let me know your thoughts in the comments.

And P.S. – if you haven’t heard this “What’s My Name?”/Jack and Diane” mash-up, you’re totally missing out.

So it’s official. Those damn non-shorts that Rihanna sported on her recent RS cover shoot were SPRAYPAINTED on. I thought, you know, that she just posed in a bodysuit maybe and the computer graphics artists worked their Photoshop magic, but alas – you can see that the ‘shorts’ are in place throughout the above video, though there’s definitely something not-exactly-fabric-like about them.

Whatever. I love Rihanna, she’s way cute and charming, and she can totally rock it, but between watching her play into the whole ‘I’m from Barbados so OF COURSE I love Bob Marley and everything Rasta’ thing and seeing those bright-ass red tendrils of weave hanging in her face the whole damned time made me want to slam my notebook shut and tapdance on it to, of course, Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman, No Cry.’

And damned if I’m wrong, but his torn short-shorts look absolutely Photoshopped on. Those shits don’t even LOOK REAL, but whatever. I can get past the overt absence of real fabric and the crazy hair (which, honestly, really has grown on me over the past few weeks) because Rihanna is just so damn fine.

See what you gave up, Chris Brown? Antoine Dodson said it best: ‘You are so dumb.’

Isn’t that the sweetest thing you’ve heard all day?

ABC didn’t press charges when Chris Brown flipped his shit on Good Morning America, and you know why?  Because if they pressed charges, it might hurt Chris’ feelings, and if they hurt his feelings, then he might not make another appearance for ABC, which is the opposite of what they want. What they want is to “milk this event for everything its worth.”  Totally classy, ABC.

E! asked ABC if there were any plans for a Chris Brown reality show, and this is the conversation that followed:

“No, that would never happen here,” said a top-level ABC insider, who knows the current situation regarding Brown very well. “What’s far more likely is orchestrating Chris Brown talking to Rihanna for the first time.”

I’m assured that’s a top get to get at the network right now—especially now that all things Brown have electrified the media so much. And just who would be doing the interview, Diane Sawyer?

“No, she would never do it,” the insider said matter of factly. “It would be Robin [Roberts].”

This is just too rich. The very woman who had the kiss-ass interview with Tiger Woods, and who then made up for it by not letting Brown off the hook for beating up Rihanna, now wants to help bring them back together for some kind of touchy-feeling moment?

“It’s all about the ratings,” replied my ABC source. “At all other costs.”

Does that last bit make anyone else feel dirty?  ”At all other costs,” how gross.  Way to be an enabler, ABC.

Oh, and can I weigh in on the original Good Morning America incident real quick, specifically the part where he ripped his shirt off when he got angry?  Because let me just tell you, I know the guy who tears his shirt off when mad, I know him real well. And you do not want anything to do with that guy.  So all you people who think that he deserves a second chance after the Rihanna ordeal, trust me – dudes who deserve second chances don’t strip the minute things don’t go their way.  They just don’t.

So it looks like there might have been some truth to the rumors going around that Rihanna and Colin Farrell have been exchanging racy text messages. Bossip has the scoop on what’s going on with Rihanna and Farrell, and it sounds hot and heavy:

The pair did not want to be photographed together so came out of Santa Monica eatery Giorgio Baldi separately last night. Rihanna looked demure, by her standards, in black cropped trousers and a silver blouse. Her curly red hair made sure she was noticed though as she exited the Italian restaurant. Farrell meanwhile, looked rather sheepish as he made a quick dash out wearing jeans and a black T-shirt.

It has been reported in recent weeks that the pair have been sending flirty text messages to each other. The Sun claims that Farrell, 34 has ‘worked his charms on Rihanna to such an extent she hasn’t stopped texting him’, since they swapped numbers earlier this year when they both appeared on The Graham Norton Show in the UK. A source told the paper: ‘Colin was taken aback by some of the texts. He reckons he might well be in there. They’re both single, so why not?’ It is also rumoured that he will be introducing the 23-year-old to his two sons, James, seven and 18-month-old Henry, while she is in LA.

I mean, how hot would this couple be? Even though Colin Farrell’s kind of settled down in the past few years, and Rihanna is known for being a size queen, the two of them together?  TOTALLY HOT.

What do you guys think of this couple?

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I’ve never had strong feelings about Rihanna. I was always like “yeah, she’s pretty, and a couple of her songs are ok, but can we move on?”  But then she went and said some pretty respectable words to Vogue, and I think I’m going to give her an official thumbs up.

On her father and his reaction to the Chris Brown incident: “It really makes me question what I have become to my father. Like, what do I even mean to him? It’s really strange. That’s the only word I can think of to describe it, because you grow up with your father, you know him, you are part of him for goodness’ sakes! And then he does something so bizarre that I can’t begin to wrap my mind around it. You hear these horror stories about people going behind people’s backs and doing strange things, but you always think, Not my family. My father would never do that to me. My dad went to the press and just told them a bunch of lies. Because he hadn’t talked to me after… that whole thing … He never called to find out how I was doing, if I was alive, nothing. He just never called. He went straight to the press and got a check. And now he does it again. Now I’m like, Whatever. I tried.”

On her own reaction: “It actually gave me a lot of liberation,” she says. “What I mean is, I was able to tap into the personal part of my music. I started to tell stories through my music that were actually my stories. My album before that, there was still a little bit of protection, there was still an innocence to me. And what that time in my life did was kind of wake people up: It’s not all a bed of roses. My life is like yours. It made me look at the world in a much bigger way because my life was suddenly superduper magnified; all eyes were on me. I needed that in my life to know how to say, ‘Fuck off.’ To know how to keep my head high even in the worst of situations. I keep using the word unapologetic. But there’s a freedom that has come with all of that. Where you feel like you don’t have to make an excuse for being yourself.”

On her break-up with Matt Kemp: “I just kind of shut down from that,” she says. “I just let it go. I don’t ever want to have to depend on a relationship. I think it’s a really special thing to find love. It’s beautiful. Nothing can match it. But I want to make sure that I can find other things in life that I love besides … love.”

Rihanna has obviously gone through some horrible things in her life, much of it in the public eye, and for her to speak of it this gracefully and assertively?  I think that speaks really highly of her character.  So good on you, Rihanna, but I still can’t change the radio station fast enough when “Rude Boy” comes on.

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