If she was expecting to enjoy a quiet night in on her 22nd birthday, then Rihanna was sorely disappointed.

Her rumoured new boyfriend, baseball star Matt Kemp, threw her a raucous surprise party.

He even arranged for a four-foot tall stripper, Bridget The Midget, to give Rihanna a lap dance, as she sat laughing in a chair.

A source told a US magazine: “It was a little female person. She thought it was funny.”

And despite not expecting the bash, Rihanna soon got into the party spirit.

At one point, Rihanna and a female guest were grinding away on the dance floor, making the most of the time off.

Luckily Rihanna was appropriately dressed for the occasion in a skin-tight nude dress with cut-out panels. And with the addition of a plastic tiara she was ready to party.

Kemp spent more than a month organising the event.

Witnesses said guests sang Happy Birthday to the R&B star and Kemp presented her with a birthday cake decorated with copies of her tattoos.

The Rude Boy singer was also presented with a pile of presents at the party, in Phoenix, Arizona.

–Daily Mail

Renée Zellweger, Reese Witherspoon slim down

She’s rumoured to be filming a third Bridget Jones film later this year. But petite Renée Zellweger showed no sign of piling on the pounds as she posed for photographs at a Vogue party in Hollywood Wednesday night.

The 40-year-old actress dazzled in a burgundy corset and black pencil skirt – but fellow star Reese Witherspoon appeared even skinnier in a crushed purple silk mini-dress.

Both put on a friendly display and cosied up on the red carpet to have their photos taken at the dinner party, held in honour of fashion designer Vera Wang’s new store.

— Daily Mail

Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is deemed too offensive for Oscar night

Sacha Baron Cohen has been dropped as a presenter at the Oscars, allegedly over fears he may drive Avatar director James Cameron to storm out of the ceremony.

The Borat star, who had been invited to introduce one of the awards, planned to poke fun at the film by dressing up as one of its characters — a blue-skinned, female Na’vi — and revealing to the audience that ‘she’ was pregnant with Cameron’s love child.

But sources say that fears over Cameron’s reaction led show producer Bill Mechanic to axe the sketch and order Baron Cohen, 38, to be dumped from his first ever Oscar appearance.

Let’s just say that Cameron isn’t known to be, shall we say, “self-deprecating”,’ said a show insider.

As an Oscar nominee, Cameron, 55, will be sitting in the front row of Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre during the show this weekend.

Baron Cohen’s spokesman Matt Labov confirmed that the Ali G actor was no longer part of the Oscars.

“I hate to use the term, because it’s so ubiquitous, but there were “creative differences,” he said.

“Nothing acrimonious, but both sides felt that since they couldn’t agree, [Cohen] might as well remain in London.”

— Daily Mail