Frankie Delgado Says He And Rihanna Are 'Just Friends'

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p type="articleSubhead"'It's Hollywood, people talk a lot,' 'Bromance'/ 'The Hills' star says of romance rumors.br/By MTV News staff/ppa href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1608036/20090329/rihanna.jhtml"img type="photo"src="http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/news/d/delgado_frankie/hard_rock_tampa/281x211.jpg"//abr/i type="articlePhotoCaption"Frankie Delgado/ibr/i type="articlePhotoCredit"Photo: Chris Gordon/Getty Images/i/pp type="articleText" pRihanna and Chris Brown are reported to be taking some time off after their a href="/news/articles/1606211/20090303/brown__chris__18_.jhtml"reported reunion/a, and many rumors have surfaced about who Rihanna is dating these days. Some of those rumors have linked her with "Bromance" and "The Hills" star a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/bromance/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=10589"Frankie Delgado/a, but Deglado a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20268682,00.html" target="_blank"told People.com/a Saturday that he and the singer are not an item./ppAt the grand opening of Wet Republic, the pool party at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Delgado reportedly told the site that the two are "just friends."/ppDelgado said he thinks the chatter got started because "she's been out, hanging out, I guess. It's Hollywood, people talk a lot."/ppAsked how Rihanna is doing, Delgado said only, "She's good."/ppa href="/music/artist/rihanna/artist.jhtml"Rihanna/a was in the news last week after getting a href="/news/articles/1607825/20090326/rihanna.jhtml"a new tattoo/a -- of a gun. a href="/news/articles/1607888/20090326/rihanna.jhtml"Tattoo artist BangBang/a told MTV News of the ink, "She flew me out for the purposes of tattooing one of her friends. I've tattooed her a few times, and she gave me a call and asked if I could come out to her house. I wound up tatting her as well. We've been playing with it for about a year, and I was at her house, and I suggested she finally get the gun."/ppAfter a href="/news/articles/1604672/20090210/rihanna.jhtml"Brown and Rihanna's alleged altercation/a on February 8 before the Grammy Awards, Brown and Rihanna a href="/news/articles/1606715/20090310/brown__chris__18_.jhtml"reportedly reunited/a and spent a few days at Diddy's Miami home. Brown was photographed smiling widely while a href="/news/articles/1606122/20090302/brown__chris__18_.jhtml"riding a jet-ski/a during that visit, which led some to wonder whether he understood the gravity of the incident./ppA few days later, Diddy explained why he loaned the couple his house. "It was a dark time for them, and I was there as more of a support," a href="/news/articles/1606715/20090310/brown__chris__18_.jhtml"he said on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."/a "I'm not immersed in [the proceedings]. I'm not going to pass judgment on it. I'm going to be there as a friend."/ppBrown, 19, has been charged with two felony counts, assault and making criminal threats, in the case and is due back in court on April 6 for his arraignment, at which time he could enter a plea./p/pbRelated Artists/bullia type="relatedArtist"href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/rihanna/artist.jhtml"Rihanna/a/li/ulimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/MTVNewsLatest/~4/25Pd3cqCYvE" height="1" width="1"/

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