The 2009 Grammy’s brought us an emotional performance by Jennifer Hudson, a vibrant collaboration between M.I.A and rappers, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, T.I and Kanye West. A little less boring than some may have predicted the 51^st anniversary to be. 

However, the highlights of the night were the rather hideous outfits spilling onto the red carpet. Celebrities really pull out all the stops when it comes to their red carpet outfit, with some rather bizarre styles and shapes. And this year was no different.

Check out our five worst dressed celebrities of the night!

  5. Jennifer Hudson

  Although Hudson gave a beautiful acceptance speech and performance, we couldn’t help but notice that after her meal she had forgotten to take her napkin off.      Shame really because the rest of the dress looks pretty nice underneath.

  4. John Mayer

  Singleton Mayer, seemed ready for bed as he trotted up the carpet in what looked like some satin pajamas.

  Nice work Mayer, definitely on the right track to making Jennifer Anniston jealous!

  3. M.I.A

  Heavily pregnant M.I.A really wants to make sure she keeps her newly voluptuous figure under wraps by dressing as a marshmallow!

  However, she didn’t really have much choice in dresses with the star looking ready to burst on the red carpet. But still she is in our top 5! Sorry M.I.A! 

  2. Bai Ling

  I can clearly see that Ling really loves the new collection at Clintons Cards here! She is really taking advantage of their new birthday wrapping paper and large  bows. Very inventive I must say…for a kids fancy dress party more like!

  1. Cyndi Lauper 

  Cyndi, Cyndi, Cyndi, now what are you playing at? You may have a sexy little figure for your age and you may just want to have a little fun, but really the Morticia   Adams look really isn’t so great and definitely not fun for us to look at!

While most of us worry about the credit crunch and panic about where our next meal is coming from, many hip-hop stars are not feeling the bite on their bling. With many now owning their own record labels, luxury houses and apartments, night clubs, and some rather expensive jewelry, the multimillion dollar stars are set through this groveling recession.

So set, in fact that their spending habits are going through the roof. Take a look at these extravagant celeb spends and prepare to feel the tug on the purse strings even more. 

50 cent and more

50 cent is known as the priciest rapper on the planet and worth over £60 million.

The stars collection boasts of a Ferrari Enzo worth £1 million, as well as three other Ferraris’, two Jags, three Bentleys, six Lamborghinis and two Jets. 

At his 48,000-square-foot mansion, the star has his own lake, waterfall and in-house club, complete with 52-rooms, servants’ quarters and a boat house, all costing a staggering £2.5million.

Jay-Z liked it enough he put two rings on it

Multimillion dollar rapper, Jay Z, proves his babe Beyonce is more than enough by splashing most of his cash on the R&B star.

Beyonce’s engagement ring cost a whopping £3.5million, which she believes is too expensive to wear out so she had a cheaper version made to wear instead. 

Kanye believe it?

A shoe fetish is generally deemed as a female trait, but rapper Kanye boasts a collection of 450 pairs of designer shoes, with a resident ‘shoe keeper’ to specifically look after his shoes.

With a keen appetite for UK takeaways, the ‘Golddigger’ star ordered an Indian takeaway from a restaurant in Wales, to be delivered to his pad in New York, costing a mega £2,775.

P DIDDY

Sean Combs, as his real name goes, is worth a mega £25 million and owns two luxury homes costing a combined £22 million.

Pretty reasonable for a hip hop star, but his demands on tour is what gives him the diva bling factor. Travelling with a personal entourage of 30, P Diddy takes his own barber, the only man allowed to touch his hair, alongside a team to lay out all of his 80 black and white suits for him to choose every morning. On standby is a barman to mix his favourite cocktail and a guy to carry his gem encrusted iPod. Nice!

Akon

Akon doesn’t waste any time on measly one off diamonds, instead he just buys a whole mine instead. 

The ‘Right Now’ star bought a whole South African diamond mine all for himself in 2007.

Famous rapper Jay-Z has spoken words of support for singer Rihanna, following the alleged attack on her by singer Chris Brown on February 8th 2009, where Chris has reportedly attacked Rhianna after an argument arose between the couple whilst traveling in a car he had rented for the pre-grammy awards party. 

The rapper Jay-Z was quoted as calling Brown a ”walking dead man” after the alleged incident, and has since spoken to numerous people within the press about his support for Rihanna, a protégé of his.

“It’s not a soundbite, this is a real situation,” he said. ”You have to have compassion for others. Just imagine it being your sister or mom and then think about how we should talk about that.”

“I just think we should all support her. She’s going through a tough time. You have to realize she’s a young girl, as well. She’s very young.”

Chris Brown released a statement on February 15th in which he said he was ”sorry and saddened” about what happened, and he has also reportedly tried to remove himself for the limelight by going to stay ‘back home’ with his parents until the hype has passed over… but judging off what Jay-Z said, that won’t be for a while yet!