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Rihanna will perform her latest smash hit “Where Have You Been” on the American Idol Grand Finale Wednesday, May 23 (8:00-10:07 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX, when the newest winner is crowned.

Watch Rihanna performing “Rockstar 101″ (2010) and “California King Bed” (2011) on American Idol.

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One of the last to make her way up the 2012 Met Gala stairs was pop star Rihanna who told reporters that we can expect fashionable things from her in the near future.

“Yes. Designing is definitely in the near future for me and we’re working on it as we speak,” she said (wearing Tom Ford). “I can’t say it yet. But it will be fun, definitely things that I love and inspired by my personal style.”

Her personal style last night was a long gown, that she remarked:

“I know it looks really difficult to wear, but it’s really stretchy. The dressing part was easy, my nails took forever!”

Rihanna attended the ‘Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tonight (May 7) in New York City.

RiRi also attended the event in 2007, 2009 and 2011.

The Costume Institute Gala (or Costume Institute Ball), known as the Met Ball and nicknamed the “Oscars of the East Coast”, is an annual ball that celebrates the annual opening of the Metropolitan Museum’s (The Met) fashion exhibit at the Costume Institute.

UPDATE: We’ve also added more pictures when she was spotted leaving her hotel and arriving at the MET Afterparty.

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Rihanna was photographed leaving her hotel in New York City today (May 5). She was heading to NBC Studios to get ready for her appearance on Saturday Night Live.

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Rihanna will star as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live tonight! Tune in to NBC at 11:30pm EST to watch.

Above you can see a couple photos of RiRi rehearsing.

U.S. Navy: Want a chance to win tix to see an advanced screening of Battleship? All you have to do is tweet your city’s hashtag to @BattleshipMovie, and starting May 7th the city which receives the most tweets will be unlocked. Once the location is unlocked, you can enter for your chance to win tickets! For info, go here.

Via Rap-Up: Rihanna stars alongside Eli Manning and Andy Samberg in the promo for this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live.” In addition to performing on the show for the third time, she may appear in a skit or two.

Will she reprise her role in the Emmy-nominated digital short “Shy Ronnie”? Tune in on Saturday night and find out.

Click the image above or here to watch the video promo (currently available only for U.S. residents).

RiRi was photographed wearing a baseball cap while leaving the NBC Studios in New York City today (May 3).

Follow @RihannaDaily on Twitter and like /RihannaDaily on Facebook!

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Rihanna’s “Where Have You Been” music video has been officially labelled a record-breaker by VEVO for clocking up 4.9 million views in its first 24 hours on the site!

@VEVO: NUMBERS ARE IN! After filtering out the BS & triple-checking, @Rihanna #WHYBvideo24hrRECORD stands @ 4,937,281! Congrats!
@Rihanna: That Rihanna reign just won’t let up! #WHYBvideo holds the new 24hr record for VEVO! My #NaviTrillAsPhuck thank you n congrats!

Congratulations, RiRi! And great job, Rihanna Navy!

RiRi was photographed leaving the Gansevoort hotel and heading to a studio in New York City today (May 2). We love her iPhone case!

Last night she visited a strip club, check her Instagram photos!

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Rihanna is set to be the musical on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live,” but having appeared on the show twice before, the Talk That Talk singer is hardly an “SNL” newbie.

Not only has Rih dazzled in musical performances, she’s also stirred up more than a few chuckles alongside Andy Samberg’s low-talking character, Shy Ronnie. On a call with reporters on Wednesday (May 2), “SNL” head honcho Lorne Michaels dished that he’s working to get Rihanna into a sketch or two for this episode as well.

“Yes, are hoping so,” Michaels confirmed. “We’ll know [soon]. I wish I could report on everything that’s been written [and] if this were tomorrow, I could,” he explained. “I know that there are a lot of things in the works, but I don’t frankly know how they turned out. And I think it’s our intention.”

Rihanna’s appearance on the show comes ahead of her big-screen acting debut in the action blockbuster “Battleship,” which opens May 18.

At a recent Skype session with Blackfilm.com, and other journalists, Rihanna spoke about her film debut, working with Peter Berg, and making the transition from music to film.

What characteristics do you share with your character?

RIHANNA: I think mostly being one of the boys. I really liked that. I was used to that, growing up with my brothers, and all my cousins. It was rarely any girls around, and I guess I didn’t feel out of place.

Did all of your video acting help this process? Or was it totally new, learning marks and timing?

RIHANNA: I thought it would help. But little did I know, it was a completely different beast. It was brand new, and it was a whole different experience. It was a much bigger set. I had to use dialog and I never really use that in my videos; it’s usually just me acting to a track, a musical track. So that was different. Having an accent, too.

You guys shot portions of the movie on site of an actual Navy vessel. So in between those scenes, were you able to have any fun, like on, during your downtime?

RIHANNA: I think, I don’t know about fun. I was really locked in to the character. We went to the beach a couple of times, but most of the fun was on set, doing the actual shooting, and using the weapons. That was some of my favorite parts, all the stunts and the fighting scenes. Those were my favorite parts. So that, most of the fun was actually the work.

You could have chose any role to be your first movie. What attracted you to this role?

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