Rihanna headed out on a date last night. But while the "Umbrella" singer has dated singer Chris Brown and baseball star Matt Kemp in the past, last night she was seen holding hands with a woman.
"I'm on my first date in almost 2 yearz," the Barbadian pop star tweeted yesterday. "#datenight my lover for the night @mforde11."
Rihanna referred to her longtime friend, Melissa Forde, who has been rumored in the past to be the singer's lover. The two were spotted out last night, getting dinner at Il Ristorante di Giorgio Baldi in Malibu before heading out to the Roxbury nightclub in Hollywood. The pair were photographed holding hands as they left the restaurant. While Rihanna wore a loose-fitting white dress, with a red garter belt underneath, Forde was dressed in a tiny black mini-skirt.
"2night is gon' be a good one, I could feel it!" Rihanna wrote on the micro-blogging site. She also posted a photo of herself and Forde. In the image, taken in a dark room, the two women's faces are barely discernable. Rihanna smiles wide.
Radar reports that Rihanna and Forde have matching tattoos that read, "Never a failure, always a lesson."
While it's unclear how close they are, Rihanna has flirtily hinted that the two hook-up. On New Year's Eve, she wrote on Twitter, "Fyi, we gotta find me somebody to kiss @ midnight by next NYE!!!! Melissa didn’t cut it for me lastnt."
Questions about Rihanna's sexuality have come up before. In January, reports surfaced that a model named Natajah Burton was writing a book about her affair with the singer.
And while Rihanna has not come out as bisexual, she has teased that she plays for both teams. Not only do the lyrics to her song "Te Amo" hint at Sapphic impulses, but she has also been known to flirt with rapper Nicki Minaj over Twitter. Last year, Rihanna tweeted, "Me and Nikki in our new crib, lol! Getting busy on the set of FLY!!! Its so hard to keep my hands off!"
Minaj responded, "@rihanna lol. If we're gonna liv 2gthr and hook up u gotta learn how 2 spell my name!"
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