ADELE FLIPS THE BIRD AT THE BRIT AWARDS: Hot off her six Grammy wins, ADELE was the big winner at the Brit awards last night, but that’s not what everyone’s talking about.

While accepting her award for Best British Album, Adele's speech apparantly ran long prompting show producers to order the host to cut her off  and introduce the band BLUR, who was closing out the show.



Adele later assured her fans the gesture was not aimed at them or the crowd. "I flung the middle finger. That was for the suits at the Brit Awards, not my fans,” she told the BBC. “I'm sorry if I offended anyone but the suits offended me.”

Giving the bird wasn't the only reason people were talking about Adele's fingers ... she was also sporting a huge rock on her left hand, fueling talk of an engagement to her boyfriend. There's been no confirmation, though, that was she was rocking was indeed engagement bling.

Here's a closer look ...

Engagement ring, or is Adele just one of those women who wear rings on their engagement finger? Discuss.

TWITTER WAR ROUND TWO - CHRIS BROWN VS. WWE'S CM PUNK: The Twitter war between WWE champion CM PUNK and CHRIS BROWN has entered its second day. After Chris accused Punk of using steroids, Punk posted a video on Twitter denying it, then threatened to "choke [him] out.”

“I will make you feel as weak and as powerless and scared and alone as any woman who had the misfortune of knowing a sad, cowardly little boy such as yourself," Punk says in his video.

Brown fired back, first by calling Punk's video "cute", then he writing, quote, "I really hope this 15 minutes of fame is paying you for the long run becuz music last forever! Wrestlers come and go according to ratings!"

You can watch Punk's Twitvid  HERE.

PEEP DIS - WHITNEY HOUSTON: Check out some modeling pics WHITNEY did for "Seventeen" magazine in the early 1980s, when she was only 17 herself. PHOTOS

2. Watch video of Whitney watching the Super Bowl game at a hotel bar, and grooving in her seat during MADONNA's halftime show HERE.

RELATIONSHIP REPORT - 'GLEE' CO-STARS DATING/ZOEY SALDANA HANGS WITH BRADLEY COOPER'S MOM: Is life is imitating art on the set of ‘Glee’? Word on the street is co-stars CORY MONTEITH and LEA MICHELE are dating in real life too.

According to ‘Life & Style’ the two were spotted getting cozy on Valentine's Day. One eyewitness says, "They were into each other all night. She was very happy, flirting and touching Cory a lot. He just stared at her with puppy-dog eyes." A ‘Glee’ crew member adds that "Cory is totally into her."

2. Things must be getting serious between ZOE SALDANA and BRADLEY COOPER because the ‘Avatar’ star is already hanging out with his mom. Saldana and her sister were seen enjoying a girls' day out in Los Angeles over the weekend with Bradley's mother Gloria. The trio enjoyed lunch before heading to the movies together.

BABY POOP: Has DREW BARRYMORE been fetused???!!! TMZ snapped Drew, who turns 37 today, clutching what appeared to be sonogram results as she left a doctors office in Beverly Hills last week.

But as for whether the recently engaged actress is pregnant, Drew gave TMZ a "no comment."

SNAPSHOT: KIM KARDASHIAN stuffed her junk into a bikini -- well, as much of it as she could -- and hit the beach the other day …

COULD BE TRUE COULD BE CRAP - JAY-Z 'UPSET' ABOUT CHRIS BROWN AND RIHANNA'S COLLABOS: Rumor has it JAY-Z is very upset that CHRIS BROWN and RIHANN collaborated on a couple of songs, which were released Monday.

The rarely-if-ever reliable Mediatakeout gossip site is reporting that Jay-Z was so upset he flew to Los Angeles yesterday to have a discussion with his record company partners who supposedly helped Rihanna and Chris get their collaborations done -- even though Jay-Z was "100% against it."

And Jay-Z isn't the only one who feels that way. According to an 'Us Weekly' poll, 79% of readers say Ri-ri's collaboration with Brown was a bad idea.