{"id":309791,"date":"2026-03-02T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309791\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:36:09","slug":"rihanna-shows-love-to-don-lemon-on-his-birthday-amid-nicki-minaj-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309791\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna Shows Love to Don Lemon on His Birthday Amid Nicki Minaj Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Sweet On Lemon …
\n B-Day Love Amid Nicki Beef<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n March 2, 2026
\n 6:15 AM PST
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\n Updated
\n March 2, 2026
\n 9:43 AM PST\n <\/p>\n

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Rihanna<\/a> is making it clear she’s standing with Don Lemon<\/a> following his clash with Nicki Minaj<\/a> … posing alongside the journalist to ring in his 60th birthday.<\/p>\n

Lemon took to IG to share a sweet rooftop selfie with RiRi — smiling ear-to-ear as he rocks a fresh pair of shades. He captions the pic, \u201cBirthday hijinks with my girl Rihanna,\u201d and set it to her 2011 hit \u201cBirthday Cake.\u201d<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll recall \u2026 a few weeks ago, Lemon found himself in an all-out war with Nicki Minaj after he live-streamed a news report<\/a> from Cities Church in St. Paul, MN, where demonstrators interrupted a service to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

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Nicki went ballistic online<\/a>, at one point posting, \u201cDON \u2018C**K SUCKIN\u2019 LEMON IS DISGUSTING\u201d — along with several other insulting remarks.<\/p>\n

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Rihanna, meanwhile, seems perfectly happy to celebrate with him.<\/p>\n

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As we reported<\/a> \u2026 Don had some R&R lined up for his birthday, telling us he planned a \u201cspa day in a beach town\u201d after attending the NAACP Image Awards, where he was honored with 4 awards.<\/p>\n

Clearly, Rihanna was the icing the cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rihanna Sweet On Lemon … B-Day Love Amid Nicki Beef Published March 2, 2026 6:15 AM PST |…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-309791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}