Rihanna and Drake. Photo courtesy killerhiphop.com
Two celebrities’ gangs rumbled over a woman at 4 a.m. in a Manhattan saloon the other night. A bodyguard and four innocent bystanders were hospitalized. The leaders fled before the cops arrived. The bar – W.I.P., a SoHo basement space with cocktails – got busted up big-time.
New York tabloid accounts say the trouble started after Chris Brown, who had been at a birthday party there with his “crew,” saw Drake come in, with his 15-man “entourage.” Brown sent over champagne.
Remember, Drake dated Rihanna for a while, after that time Brown beat her up. Now she and Brown are making eyes at each other again, so imagine Brown’s reaction when Drake returned the bottle with – says the N.Y. Post – this note: “I’m still (bad word) ing Rihanna.” The excrement promptly impacted the ventilation system. Bottles and fists flew. Girls dove for cover.
Before the dust cleared Brown “took a bottle and a punch to the face,” and had a chin gash. A Brown bodyguard had a nasty head wound. An Australian tourist needed 16 stitches. Many people had bruises.
Drake’s manager denies everything. Police are investigating. We’ll see if anyone gets charged.
No comment about this from Rihanna. She did however take a Manhattan stroll the other day wearing a small, very see-through pink top, like a lacy bra. There were several cases of whiplash reported among male pedestrians.
She also told Us Weekly that she is “a size 0 — and not happy about it! I went way too far (with dieting). I prefer myself a bit chunkier. I want my old butt back!”
Now it can be told: Jake Gyllenhaal and Minka Kelly had a brief thing – one of those bells that now and then rings, to coin a phrase – this spring, Us Weekly reports.
This was after Minka unloaded serial babe-dater Wilmer Valderrama. The fling with Jake lasted only a few weeks, the mag says. They’re both 31.
Meryl Streep says she’d be willing to play nasty editor Miranda Priestly again if there’s a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada. And surely there will be, now that author Lauren Weisberger has written the sequel novel, entitled Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns. The book will be out next April; the movie surely won’t be far behind.
Streep, asked by The Telegraph if she’d do a sequel, said “ … sure. I mean, I’d have to lose the (bad word) weight, but yes, I guess I would do that.”
No kidding. She got a Best-Actress Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe for the 2006 hit.
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard: Russell Brand is keeping busy. Just the other day I mentioned his amorous pursuit of some British TV personality; now In Touch Weekly says his “hot new hookup” is one Maeve Reilly, a “stylist,” whatever that is.
The mag’s Nameless Insider says Maeve’s “bragging about sleeping with Russell,” saying “they have crazy sex all the time.” I give her 10 days.
She’s 23. He’s 37.
Written by Dough Camilli for www.montrealgazette.com
