saturday night's/sunday morning's chris brown assault situation is getting more out of control by the minute. it turns out that the victim of the attack was, in fact, chris's girlfriend rihanna. rihanna sustained two huge contusions on the side of her forehead, a bloody lip, and a bloody nose. chris turned himself into the la police late last night and is currently being held, with bail set at $50,000. rihanna's family finds chris to be a threat and is helping the singer return home to barbados. as well, her big birthday bash set for february 20th in nyc has been canceled by her record label for obvious reasons. she's also been forced to cancel any upcoming appearances. as for chris? he's feeling the backlash. his wrigley's gum campaign has been suspended immediately (even though it ran during last night's award show) and he has, understandably, decided to pull out of his appearance at the nba all star game. brown's defense team is apparently hoping for a plea bargain, where chris would be out on 2 years probation. this will be an interesting story to follow. what will happen with chris' career is still to be seen. chris' songs are already receiving less radio play while rihanna is sure to get more. i would also venture to say that r&b's first couple is definitely over. and done.
big in '09
while chris and rihanna's quarrel is overshadowing all other news currently, last night was the 51st grammy awards and there were a lot of big winners and some great performances. some of the big winners included lil wayne for best rap album, john mayer for best male pop vocal performance, adele for best new artist, coldplay for song of the year ("viva la vida"), jennifer hudson for best r&b album, duffy for best pop vocal album, and adele for best pop vocal perfomance, female. robert plant and allison krauss won everything else. (not really, but it sure seemed like it). the performances had to be shifter around to cover up for the missing 2 (rihanna and chris brown), but the show still ran about half an hour over time. but, we can all let that slide because we got to see some really cool collaboration. old school met new school with the jobros teaming up with music legend stevie wonder. check out there performance here. i can only imagine stevie was a little freaked out when he could feel joe girating around him. miley cyrus and taylor swift also teamed up to duet on taylor's song "fifteen." it wasn't horrible, but taylor definitely carried the performance while miley awkwardly closed her eyes and sang. click here to see. justin timberlake also got to do some cool mashups, while m.i.a. danced around, almost giving birth on stage. okay, not really. but it could have happened.
more music news
some of grammy night's big stars also have some big stories. performer and winner jennifer hudson is set to embark on her first headlining tour (co-headlining with r&b crooner robin thicke) with a few big events starting in april and ending in may. grab tickets while you can in the dallas, houston, philadelphia, washington, dc, nyc, detroit, memphis, atlanta, baltimore, and las vegas areas. and duet-er taylor swift's new music video for her song "white horse" dropped over the weekend. the video features former laguna beach star steven colleti as taylor's love interest. it looks like the video plays off of taylor's break up with jobro joe jonas. could the other girl alluded to in the video be joe's current flame camilla belle? click here to see for yourself. the song should be yet another hit for the country star.
updates and small scoop
it looks like america's got talent now has a host for its fourth season. mr. mariah carey, nick canon, will be taking the mic starting this summer to introduce the contestants to judges sharon osbourne, david hasselhoff, and piers morgan. it's a bit of the odd choice, but it seems like this is the network's attempt at gaining some new, younger viewers ... britney spears has an old friend back on board. spears' old family friend and assistant, felicia cullata, has left her position with the jonas brothers to return to the camp that jump started her career. felicia is back as brit's assistant and has her best interest in mind ... bar rafaeli, leonardo dicaprio's girlfriend, is this year's sports illustrated swimsuit edition cover model, a first for the israeli born model ... it looks like kate hudson and owen wilson have rekindled the flame of love for the fourth time. kate and owen spent the whole weekend together ... zac efron has dropped out of promoting his new film 17 again for a few spots to host saturday night live for the first time ... dancing with the stars released its list of next season's dancing competitors, including reality star denise richards, olympic gymnast shawn johnson, singer jewel, and actor david allen grier.
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