Rihanna will act as executive producer of the fashion design competition, with a similar premise as Project Catwalk and Project Runway. The series will debut this summer on Sky Living. Over ten weeks the designers will compete to dress different celebrities, with the eventual winner getting to dress Rihanna for a high-profile festival performance in July.

Speaking of the venture, Rihanna said: "I have been very fortunate to work with some truly amazing designers and stylists throughout my career, and they have been instrumental in making sure my creative vision reaches the stage".

She added: "I am excited to follow the journey of our aspiring contestants and see how their individuality influences their efforts during the course of the show". Roberts said: "This show is here to discover those people and give them a shot. I'm looking for someone who can think outside the box while using their imagination, someone who isn't going to give up at the first hurdle and ultimately someone who can't be undiscovered anymore".

ITN reports that Rihanna hand-picked Roberts herself to help host the show. Rihanna will mostly work behind the camera but will have an input during casting for the show and the finale.

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Rihanna has been "going a bit wild" during her extended holiday. The singer has enjoyed a lengthy break in her native Barbados recently, following the end of her Loud tour and the release of her new album.

There have been suggestions she has been partying too hard while there, with some claiming she has been smoking marijuana. However, those close to her insist she is just having fun while on holiday.

"Right now she's just letting off steam," a source told Look magazine. "Ri's been working hard and has just had her heart broken by Chris [Brown] again, so it's natural she wants to get drunk and go a bit wild. But we're all sure she'll get back to her usual happy self once she gets home and back into her routine."

There has been speculation Rihanna and her ex-boyfriend Chris have been spending time together lately, but it's not thought they are back together. They have been spotted in the same nightclub but Chris has a new girlfriend. It's thought he has been texting Rihanna, but it's more about the pair of them moving on from their fraught relationship.

"They were each other's first loves and that's something that'll never go away, which is why they were tweeting one another at the end of last year," the insider added. "But they were also really bad for each other. They argued all the time, and everyone knows the violent way the relationship ended."

The former couple split three years ago after an argument turned violent. Chris was charged with assaulting the pop beauty and served with a restraining order. The protective order slammed on the rapper was lifted a year ago. It required that they have no contact with each other.

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In a controversial, but probably not planned move, Chris Brown and Rihanna partied at the same club last night. Yes people, can you believe it?

This only fuelled the speculation that Rihanna and Chris were getting back together, however there were a few points in the evening that suggest otherwise. Although we’re not entirely sure what happened inside the club, The Daily Mail reported that, once Rihanna and Chris left the club, revelers started tweeting about them. However, many said that they did not actually see the pair interact.

Maybe, just maybe, this had something to do with the fact that Chris was there with his GIRLFRIEND Karrueche. Just to hammer home this fact, Chris’s rep told ABC News: “He and Rihanna are just friends. He is with his girlfriend Karrueche, and is not cheating.”

Also, according to the Daily Mail, they were both seen leaving separately, with Chris leaving the club through the front door while Rihanna snuck through a side door and hopped into a waiting SUV with her bodyguard. We don’t think that anything major happened, although we weren’t there so obviously we can’t know for sure. But one thing that puzzles us is, out of all the clubs Chris and Rihanna could have chosen to go to in Hollywood, they both picked the same one. Strange, huh?

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The singer is set to play a US Navy weapons officer in the film Battleship, based on the popular board game of the same name. The movie is directed by Peter Berg, the man behind the 2008 film Hancock starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron.

He says Rihanna has a big future on the big screen. "I've worked with musicians before and I always expected there was a great actress in Rihanna," he said. "That's just from watching her intensity and how hot she is in her music videos."Peter Berg, 49, spent four months with the star filming near Hawaii.

"For anyone that's been on a music video set, it's not so easy to do sexy," he said. "If it was, there would be a lot more Rihannas."The 23-year-old singer recently released Talk That Talk, her sixth studio album, and is reported to have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide.

"Rihanna lived in this small really unglamorous hotel room for four months," he said. "It was really hot, there was nothing but really bad fried food."Despite being a global pop icon, Peter Berg says there were no diva-style demands from the star.

"She had no entourage, she shared the same little trailer as everyone else did."Battleship also stars Liam Neeson and Taylor Kitsch. Peter Berg hasn't ruled out a sequel providing it does well at the box office. As for Rihanna's career in Hollywood, the director said: "Battleship is a small role but she does a great job in it.

"If she wants to be a huge movie star then in a year you'll be sitting here with her talking about whatever her next film is."Rihanna has previously appeared in 2006 film Bring It On: All or Nothing, which went straight to DVD.

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Coldplay are set to perform a duet with Rihanna at the Grammys Awards on February 12. Rihanna told the digital world via her Twitter page: “My friends @ColdPlay and I will be sharing the stage for a performance at this years Annual Grammy Awards! #BONKERS [sic].”

Rihanna and Coldplay will perform their duet “Princess of China,” from the band’s recent Mylo Xyloto album. According to MusicNews.com, Coldplay’s Chris Martin has previously described the duet with Rihanna as the highlight of the album: “Well, her bit on our record is my favorite bit. When the song came out, it sort of asked for her to be on it.”

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Singer Rihanna spotted showing off her sexy butt in a thong bikini in Hawaii yesterday. Sexy,singing star Rihanna showed just how sexy she is yesterday,while vacationing in Hawaii as she sported a freaking,sexy as hell,black, thong,bikini ensemble,while fiddling around with a paddleboard in the water.

These sexy shots aren’t anything new for the singer,these days,as she’s been spotted flaunting her hot bod all over the place these past couple weeks. She tweeted a couple of bikini workout shots the other day. Then she spotted in a smoking white bikini in Hawaii the day before yesterday.

She was also seen,running around Barbados in a bikini for the Christmas holidays. If I didn’t know any better,I would think she’s hoping her ex Chris Brown might see some of these as they’ve,reportedly,been hooking back up again. Whatever the case, I know I sure don’t mind seeing these hot shots. Keep them coming,Rihanna. Keep them coming.

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Rihanna's been taking a break in Hawaii this week and has posted no shortage of photos of herself in skimpy bikinis on her Twitter page to keep her fans happy! The Bajan singer came under fire last week for some recent photographs that showed her smoking what many suspected to be a certain illegal substance, something the "Umbrella" singer didn't deny, but rather alluded to via messages on Twitter.

Last Thursday, she tweeted, "4:20... Hi" (4:20 being a slang term for smoking pot that began in California in the 1970s), and then she dropped another hint on Sunday with the message, "Kush rolled, glass full... I prefer the better things!" (Kush is an Afghan strain of cannabis). And on Wednesday, Rihanna posted pics of herself in a silver twist one-piece with the message "Wake...Bake...#CAKE," yet another reference to smoking the Maui Wowie.

One might wonder how Ri-Ri can get away with getting stoned on the beach in Hawaii, and that's because in 2008 the Aloha State made possession of the substance a "low priority" for law enforcement officials. Adults there are allowed to possess up to 24 plants on private property for personal usage, and the state's Big Island no longer accepts government funds for marijuana eradication.

Rihanna's recent batch of sexy photos included messages like "Strike a POSE," "We #SWAGGIN, We Surfing!!" and a random shout-out to socialite Khloe Kardashian ("Haaaa!!! Come tap this @KhloeKardashian") which she later edited to just say, "#SNAP."The singer recently confirmed that she'll be performing "Princess of China," her hit collaboration with Coldplay, at this year's Grammy Awards. The track is from the band's latest album, "Mylo Xyloto."

"#RihannaNavy My friends @ColdPlay and I will be sharing the stage for a performance at this years Annual Grammy Awards! #BONKERS" she writes. Check out more of Rihanna's Tweets right here on Starpulse, or head over to her Twitter page if you want to follow @rihanna.

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Rihanna and Coldplay will be sharing the stage at next month's Grammys. The We Found Love singer, who had already been tipped to perform with the chart-topping band at next month's Brits, tweeted the news to her fans. She wrote: "My friends Coldplay and I will be sharing the stage for this year's annual Grammy Awards - bonkers."

Rihanna added that the performance was "great news" and that she was in a "great mood". The stars will perform their collaboration Princess Of China. LL Cool J is to host the show, featuring performances from the Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars and Jason Aldean. Kanye West is the frontrunner at this year's event with seven nominations, while Adele is up for six Grammys, including album, song and record of the year. Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars also have six Grammy nominations each, including album of the year.

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Rihanna, who's no stranger to skimpy ensembles, stripped down to her skivvies for Armani's latest ad campaign. Ri-Ri, the face of Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani jeans, went with an edgy and blond look for her first campaign. This time the starlet opted for dark locks and a sexy, come-hither approach.

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Just when you think you've seen all the hotness in the world - see Kelly Brook, here - a bit more hotness presents itself, in the form of some front and back images of Rihanna in a really small bikini.

Rihanna tweeted the picture from her holiday in Hawaii, where she was also pictured smoking on the beach a few days ago. She also tweeted: 'Kush rolled, glass full...I prefer the better things!' which is a line from a Drake song.

Rihanna was rumoured to be going away with best mate Katy Perry, following her break-up from Russell Brand, but Katy recently flew out to Singapore. Missing her mate doesn't seem to be ruining Rihanna's hols though - yesterday she tweeted about swimming with sharks too, which sounds... well, terrifying actually, but she seemed to love it, saying 'Swimming with Sharks is one of my favorite things I've ever done'.

On the other hand, this could be a metaphor for her hanging round with some bad people or something, but we're going to go with the literal since she is in Hawaii. Rihanna has also been tweeting (suitably) about reaching a whopping 12 million followers on Twitter, saying: “I love u so much! Can’t believe we’re here already… #12Milli thank u."

She also tweeted (she likes a tweet) a picture of her chef (her CHEF - yeah, this is a nice holiday) saying 'How hot is my chef?' - he did look quite cute, but also strangely like Kevin Federline, which stopped us enjoying the picture as much as we would have otherwise.

Expect more perfect life-based tweets from Rihanna soon - we're looking out for 'Here's a million pounds I found on my dressing table' and 'Look - all of Hollywood's hottest men have just arrived for a naked swim'. Our mum told us jealousy's not a nice emotion though, so to be clear we are simply observing how nice Rihanna's life is. Yes.

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