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Chris Brown has opened his heart about the “terrible” night he attacked girlfriend Rihanna – and insisted: “I still love her.”

Brown – who insists he will never hit a woman again – insists that he feels enduring love for the woman he left bloodied and battered after a jealous tiff.

“I never fell out of love with her,” he insisted. “That just wouldn’t go away.”

The R&B star sat next to his mother Joyce Hawkins – herself a victim of domestic abuse – to speak of his shame at his own violent behaviour.

He says he turned to his mother straight away after he attacked the Umbrella star in his car after they drove away from a pre-Grammy’s party in L.A..

“I was distraught,” he said. “I went to my mum on the same night and told [her] what happened and broke down.”

Despite his attack, however, he still believes he is different than abusers like the stepfather he grew up living in terror of. “I feel like he enjoyed it,” Chris said. “It was continuous.”

Brown, 20, has pleaded guilty to felony assault and was sentenced last week to five years’ probation for the attack.

Rihanna and Chris Brown are certainly heating things up in their rumored romance. The Barbados singer even took the R&B crooner home! Rihanna turned 20 on Wednesday in London and immediately flew to her hometown to meet up with her new paramour for what was dubbed ‘Rihanna Day’ by the national government on Thursday. She received a hero’s welcome as she was honored in a massive ceremony in Bridgetown and was named Ambassador for Culture and Youth for Barbados. She was then presented with a huge birthday cake which boy toy Chris helped her cut. I guess it’s meet the family, the town, the government and the country all in one.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. And that’s what singer Shakira and her long-time boyfriend Antonio dela Rua did when they chose to spend a romantic holiday on Saturday in Rome. The lovely couple hired a guide to show them around the city. They saw Popolo Square, Campidoglio, the Forum ruins, the Pantheon, Hadrian’s Village and the Capitolini and Barberini Museums.

Shakira is a UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) Goodwill Ambassador and visited Bangladesh recently and met with women and children whose lives have been affected by Cyclone Sidr. She deserves the romantic vacation that she’s on.

As its title suggests, this balls-to-the-wall album finds Kid Rock latching onto the verities of sex, drugs and rock & roll as a path to redemption — both his and the country’s. He’d never admit it, but hurt over losing Pamela Anderson fuels his appetite for salvation. She’s the target of the hilarious country romp “Half Your Age,” which proclaims Rock’s new girlfriend to be “half your age and twice as hot.”

Rock shows his wistful side, too. “All Summer Long” takes its inspiration from “Night Moves,” by Bob Seger (Kid’s Michigan idol), mashing up the piano lick from “Werewolves of London” with bits of “Sweet Home Alabama” for a story of sexual awakening. It’s stirring stuff. And “Amen” imports a gospel choir to denounce religious hypocrisy, racism and pointless soldiers’ deaths in Iraq. There’s straight country, hard-edged rock, big soul balladry and rhymes declaimed over metal guitar. Throughout, Kid Rock extends the Seger-Mellencamp tradition of heartland rock — its swagger as well as its vulnerability — into a new era.

Kid Rock is the first to admit that he’s “no saint” — his immortal couplet (from “So Hott”), “I don’t want to be your friend/ I want to fuck you like I’m never gonna see you again,” amply makes that point. But his good-hearted faith in rock & roll delivers a powerful kick. As he well knows — and Rock N Roll Jesus proves — roaring guitars, truckloads of attitude and an unquenchable lust for life make up for a multitude of sins.

Apparently, Nick Cannon isn’t one for duets. The solo artist has gone solo in his love life as well, with he and Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks calling off their engagement after just five months of betrothed bliss. Some couples are never meant to go all the way to the aisle and live a happily married life, they hit the speed breaker very soon, fall apart and understand that its better to stay apart than to stay together and make life hell for one another. This is the part that really makes me think there are some really sensible people out there who understand what commitment for a long successful relation means. Its not hunky dory all the time that you get into the bed and make hot sex and its pleasure full time all the way. You have a partner and you need to share time and responsibilities and that’s not something every lame jack ass is able to do not is it an easy task for a woman to leave a successful modeling career and say boy oh boy you make me feel so good but what about the times when you are going to be away.

We all know that Mel B. (former Spice Girls member) seemed devastated when she was dumped by Eddie Murphy. It all came at a bad time as the singer was pregnant with his baby (that is what she claims, there is still no proof of that). It seems that the sun is starting to shine again in her life. Mel B was seen enjoying a new romance with Stephen Belafonte (producer of “Thank You for Not Smoking”). The couple was seen in a Los Angeles park with a little girl by their side. It seems she was his daughter and they were also spotted partying at Hyde nightclub on Monday. While Heaven would be the right word to describe how she sees the relationship, the problems with Eddie Murphy might become hell. The “Beverly Hills” actor is refusing to take parental tests and this means Mel B will take him to court and we will surely find out if he is the father or not. I am curious because his reaction seems very strange. As far as it was reported it seems that he wanted the baby so it might turn out that Justin Timberlake’s “What goes around comes back around” lyrics might become a reality in this case.