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Pop star Rihanna said yesterday that she regrets going back to singer and ex-boyfriend Chris Brown after he left her bruised and battered in a February assault. She warned other women facing domestic violence to not become blinded by love.

"It's completely normal to go back. You start lying to yourself," the 21-year-old singer said on "Good Morning America" in her first TV interview since the beating. "I'll say that to any young girl who is going through domestic violence: 'Don't react off of love.'"

Brown, 20, pleaded guilty to felony assault and is on probation. In an MTV interview that premieres today, he says he is "confused" about his public image. He says he thinks his fans "love me and support me," but others "want to see me kind of, basically in jail."

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• Michelle Obama's vegetable garden is about to become an "Iron Chef America" battlefield. The Food Network said an episode will be taped in part at the White House and will feature Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse using garden ingredients. It airs Jan. 3.

On-air promos for a sexual threesome on an episode of "Gossip Girl" have spurred the Parents Television Council to ask CW affiliates to pre-empt the show, which is to air Monday. -- From Wire Reports