Scandal

It seems my favourite Sugababe, Keisha Buchanan has been booted out of the group. This - and her subsequent replacement by Eurovision 2009 entrant Jade Ewen - is the culmination of a couple of weeks of intense speculation about in-fighting within the long-suffering pop group.

It couldn't have come at a worse time for the group, whose seventh album is due for release in November. I've heard that Keisha's departure is going to involve Jade Ewen re-recording her vocals for the new album, so the remaining girls won't even have a minute to dry their crocodile tears for their departing member.

Why did Keisha leave?

Up and coming British pop artiste, Little Boots has corrected a claim in The Sun newspaper that she slammed Leona Lewis for having no personality. The newspaper ran a story in which she supposedly said:

Surely having ‘The X Factor’ is somebody with amazing talent and personality. You look at Leona Lewis and she’s got an incredible voice but I don’t see anything else.

Everyone on that show goes crazy when someone manages to hit a high note. It’s so one-dimensional.

And, like any modern celebrity worth her salt, she set the story straight via Twitter, tweeting the following statement:

would like to point out i did NOT say anything mean about leona! bleeding love is a CHOOOON!!

How did I miss the news about Chris Brown alledgedly hitting Rihanna? Apparently the couple argued at a pre-Grammy event, and ended up getting out of their car, where upon Rihanna was apparently severely beaten.

The details are incredibly fuzzy, and it looks like the media are jumping on this story, making up most of it as they go along. I've read several different accounts, and I don't know what to believe. All the facts seem to agree that Rihanna took quite a beating, as the unfortunately named Celebrity Smack Blog states:

Earlier reports of Rihanna suffering bite marks to an arm and multiple fingers were true, and the singer also suffered a bloody nose, cut lips and two rather large contusions on her forehead. It’s not known for sure if she suffered broken teeth as earlier reported.