They took their relationship public while on stage at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, so it was no surprise to learn that Rihanna and Drake didn’t hide their affection for each other after. Drake presented his lady love with the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award, telling the audience that he’s been in love with Rihanna since he was 22. After the show wrapped, according to Page Six , they had dinner at Carbone in Greenwich Village, then went to an after party at Up&Down nightclub thrown by her label, Roc Nation. Sources told the gossip column that Drake and Rihanna “looking very much like a couple and very in love ,” when they arrived at the party. “They were holding hands and looked very affectionate,” the source added, noting that they stayed in a “private” section of the club, and left together. Other guests at the party included Naomi Campbell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Chance the Rapper, The Chainsmokers, Kevin Spacey and magician David Blaine, who reportedly did magic tricks. View Slideshow: 19 GIF-tastic Moments from the MTV Video Music Awards Back in May, Drake went on Ellen, and was asked about the status of his relationship with Rihanna. Drake insisted they were “just friends,” and when a photo of he and Rihanna grinding on stage popped up, Drake had an appropriate response. “That’s friendship at its finest.” Fans have been waiting for Drake and Rihanna, who first met in 2005 on the set of her music video, “Pon De Replay,” to admit that they’re dating for quite some time now, so Sunday night was especially thrilling. After throwing a Memorial Day party, Drake was seen going out to dinner with Hailey Baldwin, but nothing serious came of it. In fact, he was still hung up on Rihanna. ” Hailey was a fling , but Drake has always wanted to make things work with Rihanna,” a source told People earlier this summer. “They have been keeping it a secret because this time around, they want to do it right and keep their relationship private.” L-O-V-E.
Taylor Swift is just like the rest of us. How so? The singing sensation was summoned for jury duty in Nashville. When do you ever hear of celebrities doing jury duty? Granted, it's probably something they keep quiet to conceal details of the case. This probably makes it super clear she did not ditch the MTV VMAs because of her arch nemesis, Kanye West. As much as Kanye would like to take credit for the hit maker steering clear of the awards show, it was out of her control. That's what happens when you get asked to do jury duty. Yes, Swift actually attended and gave all of the fellow jurors a huge shock in the process. How would you feel if you walked in to do jury duty and the one of the biggest stars on the planet was waiting to do the same thing? The mind really boggles. Everyone was probably pretty star-struck at the shock of crossing paths with Swift. Swift was happy to rise to the occasion and take selfies with the crowd. It even resulted in a video with her doing shout outs to the family members of one of the jurors. The video didn't stop there. She also gave out road safety advice to the family members. It's all pretty bizarre, but great at the same time. Alas, it wasn't all fun and games. Swift was excused from her duties after learning the severity of the crime. Ken Whitehouse, a spokesman for the Davidson County district attorney general’s office, said Swift couldn't take part due to her ongoing sexual assault lawsuit against David Mueller. “She asked to be left off out of concern for an upcoming trial in Denver where she was – she used the term – ‘groped’ by a fan at a meet-and-greet,” said Whitehouse. It makes sense for her to steer clear of the case given the circumstances. Maybe she recruited some new members to her squad while she was there. What do you think about all of this? Hit the comments below!
Kailyn Lowry’s divorce from Javi Marroquin continues to get uglier by the day as the ex-couple’s warring over social media continues. This time with a third party involved in the shade-throwing. Javi’s been running his mouth left and right, passive-aggressively telling anybody and everybody how Kailyn is to blame for the split. The Teen Mom 2 star recently gave an interview in which Javi says Kailyn knows what she did , strongly implying that she’s a cheater. Now Marroquin’s relationship with mutual friend Christina “Peach” Pietrobon (above) is once again being called into question – by Lowry. To recap: Javi and Kailyn are divorcing after separating while he was overseas with the U.S. Air Force. He moved out as soon as he returned. The status of their relationship these days is tense, at best. “Unless it has to do with the boys, we don’t talk. I have nothing to say to her,” he said of his soon-to-be ex-wife. “We co-parent, that’s it.” But he has plenty to say about her if you get him going at all. “I don’t wanna put too much out there, but she knows what she did. It’ll come out,” he told Us. “What’s done in the night will show in the light.” “It’ll all unravel. I just gotta keep my mouth shut and watch.” He didn’t go further than that in terms of naming names or specific things she did, but he did say she’s a different person these days: “To be honest, [Kailyn]’s changed a lot. I left for six months and a lot has changed, so sometimes I don’t even know if I know who she is.” “She’s living a different life than I thought we were going to.” Javi also claimed that Kailyn filed for divorce last December, but they worked it out … only she never actually nixed the divorce filing. He said that he figured it out while overseas, along with a lot of other things Kailyn allegedly been doing. Marroquin says he has proof. Enter Peach, the couple’s longtime friend. Javi raised more than a few eyebrows – and rumors of cheating with Kailyn’s best friend – after he returned from deployment this summer. “Missing @Javimarroquin9,” Peach wrote, as Marroquin responded, in tweets he had to know were flirty and would get under Kailyn’s skin: “So soon! So freaking soon!” Soon after Kailyn announced their divorce, Peach tweeted: “Really disappointed in you. You’ll blame someone for not being there yet you won’t even give them the chance to choose to be there.” “You decided for them when you neglected to tell them all the information to make their own decision,” she wrote in a scathing indictment. Fast forward to this week, when someone asked Javi why he and Peach – who are clearly close – don’t get together now that he’s single. He replied by saying that she’s just a friend, and therefore it would be weird … but Kailyn stepped in to say “they did date in high school.” Javi shut that down, as the latest war of words escalated: Peach agreed, then turned things around on Lowry, hard. She seemed to allude, as Javi has, that Kailyn was the one behind their marriage unraveling, telling a fan there is more to this. Specifically, that the fan isn’t ready for the “real” explanation: At that point, Kailyn clearly got nervous and tried to nix this. The mother of two hilariously chastised Peach to put a lid on it and that social media is “not the place” to air this dirty laundry. Pot … have you met kettle? You two should get together! The queen of passive-aggressive tweets and terrible communication skills giving lectures on social media tact is just hilarious: Bottom line: In all likelihood, this is going to get worse before it gets better, and we’ll have a front row seat online if nothing else. We really hope the MTV cameras are rolling for at least some of it, because we’re looking at ratings gold if ever there were any. Sure, it’s challenging to film a Twitter beef for TV, we realize. But even so, few things would make us want to watch Teen Mom 2 online more than watching their reactions to this on camera. As for Javi’s new girlfriend , he says she’s just a friend too. Guy either has a lot of female friends that he enjoys flirting with openly, or really enjoys needling the mother of his child … or both. Who says they have to be mutually exclusive?
