According to Billboard, Chris Brown has publicly apologized for the incident where he apparently hit Rihanna after a pre-Grammy Awards party.

In a round-about way, this seems to confirm that Brown was responsible for hitting his girlfriend. As you might expect, the statement was released by his publicist. This would be in large part to keep him away from the media and to limit the already substantial damage to Brown’s career. A number of advertisers and sponsors have now dropped Brown from their campaigns because of his new image as the poster boy for domestic violence.

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Yawnnn…every other music site seems to be writing about Boy George being sentenced to 15 months in prison for “falsely imprisoning Norwegian male escort Audun Carlsen”.

Yes, it’s a vaguely amusing story, especially if you imagine the dude being forced to listen to Culture Club’s greatest hits on repeat. But really, when was the last time Boy George had any relevance in music?

Is anyone else just a little bit curious to know how you can falsely imprison someone? And if they’re falsely imprisoned, how will they know they’re being held captive?

These are the kind of cutting edge questions we ask at Unreality Music. Now, let’s not waste valuable Internet space on this rather dull story…

Rumours abound that the members of Girls Aloud are pestering Nadine Coyle to commit to the group.

The News Of The World are reporting that Nadine has been giving priority to her business ventures in Los Angeles.

Dan Wooton says ‘Things have got so bad Nadine, 23, has now been told: “Commit or quit.”’

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Alright, maybe we accepted that Leon Jackson’s latest single wasn’t too bad after all. But we didn’t go as far as to claim he’s the biggest thing to come out of the UK music industry, did we?

According to Leon himself, Simon Cowell is comparing him to Michael Buble and Robbie Williams. Excuse us while we roll on the floor laughing.

Simon is over the moon with my new album and has been saying I’m a cross between Michael Bublé and Robbie Williams. I’m like: ‘Calm down, Simon’.

Without wishing to be too scathing, we remember when Ronan Keating left Boyzone and modelled his solo ‘look’ on Robbie. It wasn’t very convincing. Nor is the idea of Leon being anywhere near as charismatic slash maniacal as the former Take Thatter.

The Robster, for all his faults, is a magnetic personality, not a slightly awkward Scot who wandered into a reality TV audition and kind of got lucky when everyone else forgot to bring their talent to the X Factor live shows.

No disrespect to Leon, but we’d keep the comparisons to major stars low key. At least until he’s had a hit that hasn’t been propelled by a primetime reality TV show. Eh?

If Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke was a fan of John Lydon’s work before, he won’t be after the altercation with Lydon and his roadies at the weekend.

The two men’s bands were on the bill for Spain’s Summercase festival on Saturday. The story goes that Okereke approached Lydon to ask him if he would ever consider reforming his 80’s band, Public Image Ltd. At that point, reports say Lydon “became intimidating and aggressive while his entourage responded with a racist tirade including the statement, ‘Your problem is your black attitude.’”

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Big fat celebrity pundit Perez Hilton has been taking swipes at Lily Allen lately. However, he’s obviously picked on the wrong gal, as our Lily has a direct line to the public via her MySpace page.

Lily blogged today about being upset by Perez’s latest blog post in which he claims she’s fallen out of favour at Capitol Records, and alleges that she smoked during her pregnancy and that her miscarriage was suspicious.

While she admits that she’s been partying and working hard recently, Lily claims much of what Hilton has written is completely made up and hurtful. She even goes so far as to point out the hypocrisy of Perez running anti-bullying campaigns on his blog as he paints the words “Has Been” over the top of a picture of her:

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Do you think Kanye West takes himself too seriously? He’s well known for blowing up at award shows when he gets stiffed by the establishment in favour of other acts.

Anyway, he took exception to a review of his Seattle gig by Entertainment Weekly where they rated the show a B+.

The review is actually full of praise for Kanye’s performance, but calls into question the ‘conceptual hokeyness’ of the show, evidenced by a talking spaceship:

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Well, it looks like Mrs Fielder-Civil – otherwise known as Amy Winehouse – has been getting busy while Blakey’s been ‘incarcerated’. The Sun is reporting that Amy’s been involved with two blokes recently – an American photographer called Blake Wood, and her manager’s assistant, Alex Haines.

Allegedly the relationship with Blake Wood only lasted a couple of weeks, but from what I’m reading, Amy and Alex Haines are currently an item.

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It seems the British justice system could no longer allow Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty to remain at large. And no, not because he might release another album.

It’s because Pete repeatedly failed to show up for probation hearings among other things that weren’t disclosed by his manager, Adrian Hunter.

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Skinny Sugababe Amelle Berrabah is suddenly very worried that she’s about to get unceremoniously dumped by her chums in Sugababes.

Why? Well pop-fans, it’s because her boyfriend Freddie Fuller suffered a machete attack on Christmas Eve. It’s not the first time Freddie’s been in trouble and caused some negative press for Amelle – last year he was accused of raping her sister.

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