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Tuned In: Rihanna and Chris Brown Might Be Friends with Benefits

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Today's biggest music news headline is rather unsettling: A source swears to Us Weekly that exes Rihanna and Chris Brown have been hooking up on the down low, despite the fact that he brutally beat Rihanna the night before the 2009 Grammy Awards. Ugh. In much happier news, Miley Cyrus bought her boyfriend a puppy, Britney Spears is planning a summer wedding, and Bruno Mars isn't in trouble for sniffing cocaine in Las Vegas anymore!

• Rihanna just can't quit Chris Brown, at least according to a "source" who blabbed about their secret hookups, which have supposedly been going on for about a year. One of Brown's friends says the two "meet up very casually," adding, "She comes to see him anytime she's in L.A."

Another music industry source explained, "They can't get enough of each other. I don't see it ending well."

Brown has been dating model Karrueche Tran for the past couple of years. Us claims she's aware of her boyfriend's trysts, but won't let go of him over a couple of assignations with his super-famous ex. Chris' rep claims, "He and Rihanna are just friends. He's not cheating."

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Adding fuel to the speculation, however, is what Rihanna tweeted just after New Year's weekend, when Brown celebrated with Tran in Las Vegas: "How can you lie to her, while u lay with me???.....If you don't have an answer, you don't have to answer."

Whatever. It looks like Rihanna's washing that man right out of her hair in a purple haze, anyway. Her rep won't comment.

Ziggy Bigs to save the day. (via Twitter)
• Miley Cyrus appears to have a much healthier relationship with her actor beau Liam Hemsworth. Last week, she tweeted, "Got Liam THE best day pressie ever!" She subsequently shared pictures of a pup named Ziggy Bigs, who has washed that icky Chris Brown story out of my head with her itty bitty sweet face.

Cyrus responded to all the Ziggy love with a noble tweet, writing, "If you live in LA & looking to rescue an adorable pup like Ziggy let me know! I have an amazing rescue! So many pups in need of a mommy!"

• Britney Spears is planning a late summer wedding, according to Radar Online.

A source claims, "It's going to be a very intimate wedding with only immediate family and very, very close friends. It will probably be a destination wedding in a very warm, tropical location. There is absolutely no drama with the planning of the wedding and Britney will probably wear an off-white dress that will show off her killer bod. Britney's sons are absolutely going to be a part of the ceremony as ring bearers, and Jason has something very special planned for the boys that will take place during the wedding."

The phrase "killer bod" has me thinking this source is probably part of Britney's camp. Either way, I'm holding out hope that Britney and beau Jason Trawick wed in matching bikinis, because that would be so much more interesting than what will probably happen.

• Bruno Mars pleaded guilty to a felony cocaine-possession charge after he was found snorting the white stuff in a Las Vegas casino bathroom in 2010, but thanks to over 200 hours of community service, it's like it never happened. Now he'll be free to shake his pompadour wherever he pleases.

• Demi Lovato has yet to make a music video for her latest single, "Give Your Heart a Break," but there is this live performance video to tide over Lovatics in the meantime. Her performance is way stronger in this version than at the People's Choice Awards. I can't help but love her, despite her Ariel hair, Boy George hats, and constantly flailing left hand. Why didn't they book her on Saturday Night Live instead of Lana Del Rey? Seriously.

• I love St. Vincent way more than I love Demi Lovato.

• I don't love this collaboration between will.i.am, Mick Jagger, and Wolfgang Gartner.

• Katy Perry's going to get even more cartoonish than usual for The Sims 3: Showtime Katy Perry, in which players can explore a virtual world as the world's hottest cat lady herself. Katy mused, "It's cool to see the Sims' stage performances in the Sims 3 Showtime decked out just like my California Dreams Tour—even my cotton candy video screens are in there! I always like to think of myself as a cartoon, and now I'm a Sim!"

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