Alicia Keys and Rihanna both appeared on the UK’s smash talent competition The X Factor on Sunday. Rihanna performed her current charttopper “Russian Roulette,” while A. Keys took a brief break from stealing husbands to turn in a live set of “Empire State of Mind” and “Doesn’t Mean Anything” — featured on her forthcoming album The Element of Freedom.

Janet Jackson says “Give Obama A Chance.” R&B legend Janet Jackson has lashed out against detractors who say the president has failed miserably in his attempt to govern the nation. In an interview with Times of London over the weeknd, the “Control” star defended President Barack Obama against Americans who believe he hasn’t accomplished anything during his time in office.

“I think people are giving him really such a hard time,” she said. “Everyone wants everything to turn around immediately. It took us how many years to get to this point?” Janet continued. “People say, ‘His first 100 days in office, what has he done?’ You can’t do that to the man. It’s not going to happen tomorrow. It’s going to take us time to get out of it.”

Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton is getting hitched. The 29-year-old who grew up before our eyes during dad Bill’s eight years in The White House has announced her engagement to boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky, a spokesman for former President Clinton confirmed to ABC News Monday.

McKenna confirmed that Chelsea and the investment banker got engaged on Thanksgiving and announced it in an e-mail to friends. Mezvinsky — the son of former Rep. Ed Mezvinsky, D-Iowa, and former Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinksy, D-Penn. — became friends with Chelsea during their years as coeds at Stanford University. Chelsea’s future father-in-law Ed was released from federal prison last year after pleading guilty in 2002 to charges of bank and wire fraud.

“We’re sorry for the mass email but we wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving! We also wanted to share that we are engaged!” the couple said in a message to family and friends last Friday. “We didn’t get married this past summer despite the stories to the contrary, but we are looking toward next summer and hope you all will be there to celebrate with us. Happy Holidays! Chelsea & Marc.”

Are celebutante Nicole Richie and her longtime partner, rocker Joel Madden, bound for the Big Apple?

The exhausted couple are reportedly planning to move to the entertainment mecca of the East Coast after Nicole recently fell violently ill with pneumonia, celebrity snoops reveal in the Dec. 7 edition of The National Enquirer.

According to the spy, the pressures of dodging the paparazzi — two of whom were recently cited for ramming the socialite’s car — and caring for infant son Sparrow and daughter Harlow, 22 month, is weighing heavily on Nicole. Read the rest of this entry »

Looks like we won’t get to see White House State Dinner crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi on Larry King Live tonight after all. The fame-hungry Real Housewives hopefuls dropped out of thi evening’s schedued appearance on the primetime talk show because CNN refused to fork over their asking price.