Though she will not perform, Rihanna will still attend the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on January 31. But, she chooses to go alone without Matt Kemp, a baseball player who has repeatedly been spotted spending some quality time her. ”I’m going to the Grammys alone, as always!” the Barbadian songstress said during a radio interview on 104.3 MY FM in Los Angeles. “Even when I was in a relationship, I always have gone alone.”  She then quickly added, “I’m still single, if that’s what you really want to ask!” When pressed with question about her trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with the baseball player, she played it coy. “It was a blast,” she commented in a short statement.  Rihanna is nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for her joint track with Jay-Z and Kanye West in “Run This Town”. And, she is excited about it saying, “This was actually the first piece of music we did since the last Grammys. …. We cannot wait. We hope we bring home the bacon, but if not, it’s great that it was nominated.”  Last year, Rihanna was forced to cancel her performance at the event after she was involved in an altercation with Chris Brown which led to a messy split between the two.

After days of speculation about a possible breakup between Mr. Pitt and his other half, Angelina Jolie, word is surfacing that the power couple did indeed visit a high-powered L.A. lawyer last week - but only to cover their assets. ”They aren’t married, so they need to protect their children and property in case there’s a rift in the future,” a source says. That certainly makes sense, considering the two are worth a whopping $330 million combined. So why are rumors of a breakup running rampant? ”People hear ‘legal papers’ and assume it means a divorce,” our snitch continues. “But it could mean exactly the opposite. Either way, they’re making sure to get their ducks in a row, which they’ll need whether they split or stay together forever.

Citing a “deficit of trust” in government by the American people, President Obama’s first State of the Union address urged Congress to erode the influence of special interests and work together to confront the nation’s most pressing problems. In the nationally televised speech Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress, Obama sought to reassure Americans angry and nervous about the pace of economic recovery that his government understands the challenges and would act boldly to meet them.

Obama called for a new political climate of “common sense” approaches that invest in the American people without building “a mountain of debt.”

Highlights of the speech

“We have to recognize that we face more than a deficit of dollars right now. We face a deficit of trust — deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years,” Obama said.

The Early Show’s , Michelle Miller recently sat down with this year’s top nominee, Beyonce Knowles.  Miller said Beyonce just may have had the hottest year in music. The singer nabbed 10 nominations and capped a decade of accomplishment with a solo career that just keeps soaring.She’s got more Grammy nods than any performer this year, and now Beyonce is Billboard magazine’s Female Artist of the Decade.

Miller told Knowles, “We’re talking 23 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 — five of them went to No. 1. You’re now named Billboard’s Female Artist of the Decade — not the year — the decade.”  Knowles responded, “Wow. It’s — it’s really — you know, I don’t even know how to respond to that.”

Lady Gaga said she raised more than $500,000 for Haiti relief on Sunday night at her show in New York. On her final U.S. tour date on the first leg of the Monster Ball Tour, the singer announced Tuesday that her “Gaga for Haiti” day on Sunday netted half a million dollars for relief efforts in Haiti.

The current fourth season of Ugly Betty will be its last. ABC will pull the plug on the low-rated comedy-drama after its finale, and is announcing the decision early to give producers some time to craft a suitable ending — and fans ample warning that the show’s days are numbered.

Mrs Madikizela-Mandela, as she has been known since her divorce from Mr Mandela in 1996, is one of South Africa’s most controversial and divisive figures.The South African-made film, titled Winnie, is due to start shooting in May and will star Jennifer Hudson, the Oscar-winning American actress, whose casting in the role provoked protests from South African actors. It is based on an independent biography of her, Winnie Mandela: A Life, by Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob, a former journalist, described by one reviewer as “hard-hitting but not heartless”. Nonetheless lawyers for Mrs Madikizela-Mandela, 73, have stepped in to warn the producers that she is reserving her legal rights.The position of the producers is that if a screenplay has to be approved by Ms Madikizela-Mandela, then the film based on that screenplay could possibly be jeopardised as the world may question the credibility of the film,” she said, adding that they were advised that they do not legally need her consent to make the film.

Oprah Winfrey has reclaimed the title of being the most popular celebrity on TV in a new poll.

The 30-year-old Swedish model was said to have explored possible split options after her husband admitted “infidelity” in December. But Elin, who is the mother to the golf star’s two children, is now understood to have changed her mind. It follows claims that the former Swedish model spent five days with Tiger at a sex addiction clinic in Mississippi last week. ”She was happy when she came home,” a source told RadarOnline. “Things went well.”  ”He’s told her he’s serious about making it work and doing whatever he can.”

Elin was photographed near her Florida home on Monday after apparently returning from her stay with Tiger on Sunday evening. Her appearance coincided with a new US media report that claimed to shed new light on Tiger’s dramatic card crash outside his Florida home last November.

Monday, Avatar eclipsed Titanic to become the worldwide highest-grossing movie ever. Per Fox, the worldwide total Avatar now stands at $1.859 billion, compared to Titanic’s $1.843 billion. Now that Avatar has topped Titanic as the world’s biggest-grossing movie, can we finally agree that James Cameron is the greatest director of all time?