Rihanna and Chris Brown have reportedly enjoyed a romantic dinner together in Monaco.
The pair – who have been on separate vacations in the South of France but regularly meeting up with one another – headed to the principality on the French Riviera to dine at the a deux restaurant
on Wednesday (25.07.12), according to the new York Post newspaper.
After their meal, Chris – who has also been shooting a music video with Swizz Beatz and Ludacris in the region – headed off to perform at Cannes nightclub Gotha where he was filmed giving an energetic performance.
The former couple are also believed to have been kissing in view of onlookers as they partied on a yacht with celebrities, including Kanye West and his girlfriend Kim Kardashian.
According to insiders the ‘YeahX3′ singer decided to fly out after hearing that his love rival Drake – who he was recently involved in a fight with in a new York club – is touring in Europe and was planning to hook up with the Bajan beauty.
However, Chris’ representative has insisted he has not rekindled his romance with Rihanna, saying: ‘There is no Rihanna connection.’
He added Chris is in France with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran.
Rihanna dumped Chris in February 2009 after he viciously assaulted her in a car just before the Grammy Awards.
Fans of singer Adele, who swept the 2012 Grammy Awards with six trophies, are up in arms over the extreme weight-loss makeover the singer was given in the March 2012 issue of Vogue.
Fans Unleash Volcanic Tirade
Adele, who insists she’s happy with her plus-sized curves, looks dramatically thinner on the cover of the fashion magazine, as well as in the inside photospread.
To be fair, Adele has lost weight since her November 2011 throat surgery, but the Vogue cover was shot before her recent slimdown.
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Here are some fan reactions to the radical photoshopping:
Adele is stunning but why has she been doctored until almost unrecognisable.
It doesn’t even look like her. they have photoshopped her into someone else. If they have to do it why don’t they make very subtle changes. It’s getting too ridiculous for words.
Vogue has obviously air-brushed and enhanced the picture, I don’t know why as Adele is a genuinely attractive woman. If they felt the need to make such changes, why ask the woman to pose for their cover if she wasn’t what they wanted?
The image is so radically modified, it is unrecognisable as Adele. Clearly Vogue DOES “have a problem with her weight” or they wouldn’t have felt the need to perform such ridiculously over-the-top surgery on the image.
She’s gorgeous, so why did Vogue have to airbrush her, raising her eyebrows, making her upper eyelids wider, thinning her face, (changing the tip of her nose?), and whittling away at her upper arm & torso? yes, she’s more voluptuous than the stick-thin models usually featured on the cover, but they just couldn’t leave her natural beauty alone…
That cover shot hardly looks like adele!!… Air brushed to the max!
While airbrushing and photoshopping is common in magazines and in cosmetic and fashion ads, the practice is coming under heavy criticism as some claim it leads to poor body image among young girls.
‘Nothing you See is Real’
Actress Rachael Leigh Cook, 32, says gullible fans idealize airbrushed magazine images of actresses and models where they appear thinner, younger and more beautiful than they really are, causing readers to wonder why they don’t look so perfect by comparison.
“Nothing that you see is real, even if you look at what looks like a candid photo of someone, anything can be done,” Rachael Leigh told Fox. “It is false advertising, and false advertising is a crime, so why isn’t this a crime?”
While the magazine industry has been called out several times for photoshopping stars to erase wrinkles off their faces, smooth out cellulite and erase pounds of fat off their bodies, the practice is still commonplace.
Cook, who became famous after starring in the 1999 romantic comedy She’s All That, says young women should realize that the perfect images of beautiful actresses and models in magazines are often manipulated and distorted.
“I’m just up in arms about it,” says Rachael Leigh. “People need to know that there are actual lenses that are put on cameras to make people [look] stretched out (and thinner).”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Rumor has it Adele has been severely Photoshopped on the cover of Vogue magazine.
The cover features the voluptuous English singer in a low-cut dress with her face and waist looking significantly thinner than the night she swept the Grammy Awards.
Her fans aren’t impressed.
“if you’ve ever seen Adele at all, you’d know that there was something wrong, because no one changes like that overnight unless they’ve had surgery,” one woman told 1010 WINS’ Sonia Rincon.
1010 WINS’ Sonia Rincon gets reaction from New Yorkers
“Although I think she looks pretty it doesn’t really look like her,” a fan said. “At the Grammys she looked awesome and you don’t need to change it.”
“It’s very nice but it’s not real, she just looks fake,” one woman in Midtown said.
Many find the alleged retouching unnecessary.
“I think she’s beautiful so I think they should just keep it true to who she looks like for real not what society feels she should look like,” one fan said.
“I think it’s unfortunate that in order to sell magazines we have to change how someone looks and pass that off as acceptable,” another fan said.
Fans have also taken to voicing their opinions on the Vogue website.
“”thanks for this excellent interview, the best one I’ve read so far, that depicts her not only as a singer but as a person.However, the Cover photo is the opposite contrary, that’s the worst picture of Adele I’ve seen. Frankly, I can’t seem relate to it and I just hope that it hasn’t been much photoshopped. Adele is a larger than life personality and this just doesn’t do her justice,” one reader wrote.
Adele recently said in an interview with “60 Minutes” that she’s never looked at videos and magazines and felt like she’s had to conform to an image to be successful.
No comment from the magazine or Adele.
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Singer Barry Manilow, 67, reportedly had a facelift in 1995, a second facelift and eyelid surgery in 2003, a third facelift in 2006, plus regular Botox injections.
That’s too much, according to plastic surgeon and blogger Dr. Tony Youn of Michigan.
“I’d like to see a bit more natural aging to his face,” Youn said.
“I believe that facial plastic surgery can create a very natural appearance when the goal is to take 10-20 years off someone. when we start to go after 25, 30, or even 40 years, then people start looking fake.”
“Maybe he should dedicate his song, ‘I Can’t Smile without you,’ to his plastic surgeon. (No, not me),” Youn joked.
The blog Plastic Surgery Spot sums up the singer’s appearance after so much surgery: “Barry Manilow is looking very, what’s the word, ‘surprised’ lately.”
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