And The Rihanna Stories Continue

Rihanna has blamed her no-show at the Grammy Awards on a traffic mishap, according to the latest reports.

The Umbrella hit maker was due to perform at the Grammys annual awards show in Los Angeles on Sunday night,but she cancelled after her R&B singer boyfriend Chris Brown was arrested over an alleged domestic violence felony.

Some reports in the US are now suggesting Rihanna was involved in the alleged incident - but her spokeswoman insists the singer was caught up in an unspecified traffic problem, according to E Online.

Brown, 19, was booked for making criminal threats and freed on a £34,250 bail after Los Angeles police received a 911 call in the early hours of Sunday morning. It followed an incident in which Brown and an unidentified woman were involved in a heated row in a vehicle in Los Angeles following music mogul Clive Davis' pre-Grammy Awards party on Saturday.

If you believe everything you read, then Rihanna must be in a real mess. Reports that Chris Brown has bitten and bruised her are working there way around the web as we speak, but my cynical mind needs to ask if this is all part of some elaborate publicity stunt.

I am sure there are some paparazzi types sitting outside Rihannas front door right now just waiting to take some snap shots of her alleged injuries.