Chris Brown and Rihanna are busy recording a duet produced by Polow Da Don at a studio in Santa Monica, California, E! News claims.

Uh-oh. Lil Kim is stirring up big controversy once again after she allegedly hung up the phone on BET reporter Clay Cane after he inquired about the Grammy-winning star’s drastic change in physical appearance after undergoing numerous plastic surgeries.

The interview went a little something like this:

Let me ask you this Kim, this is a big question that we get from everybody and you can decide if you don’t want to answer it or not. There is a perception in the African-American community that Lil’ Kim didn’t like the way she looked as a Black woman so she got plastic surgery to make herself look less Black. What’s your reaction—

Note: Kim’s publicist called shortly after the call was disconnected to say Kim was running into rehearsal and I was not hung up on. Yeah right, if she was being rushed away she would say, “I’m sorry, I have to go – thank you BET for all your support,” or something. As Kim once said, “I got no time for fake ones.”

D.L. Hughley’s CNN weekend news talk show has been cancelled due to “budget constraints.”

Yeah….ok.

But the network says the comedian will remain onboard as an L.A.-based contributor.

Love vs. Money, the sophomore release from The-Dream, drops in stores March 10.

Ciara will be the opening act when Britney Spears’ “Circus Tour” arrives in Europe later this year.

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Oprah Winfrey is sending pop tart Rihanna a very stern warning about her allegedly abusive boyfriend, Chris Brown: “He will hit you again!”

“Give it some time, get yourself some counseling,” O said in an open statement to Rihanna on Friday’s edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show. “Take care of yourself, heal yourself first. And also, love doesn’t hurt… and if a man hits you once, he will hit you again.”

Rihanna’s producer Adonis Shropshire is giving fans an update on how the award-winning singer is doing.

“With anybody in the world who goes through something, you have to bring yourself out of it….”

a little birdie tells us that singer-songwriter Kandi Burruss, formerly of ’90s girl group Xscape, will be the newest Atlanta housewife, joining Kim, Lisa, NeNe, and Sheree on Bravo’s reality hit, The Real Housewives of ATL.