Rihanna dismisses rumours that she's dating Leonardo DiCaprio: "I don't have a lot of time to offer to a man"

Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio got everyone talking when they were spotted getting close on several outings, but now the singer appears to have dismissed the rumours of a romance.

The S&M hitmaker is well aware of the romance rumours and didn’t appear impressed when it was suggested that she could take his name in the future.

“How does Rihanna DiCaprio sound to you?” Rihanna was asked, to which the quick-thinking beauty told Hello! magazine: “It sounds to me like you should stay away from the blogs because they will screw you every time.”

Pictures from Rihanna’s birthday party showed the two stars looking very close indeed as they mingled with her friends, in a bash that he reportedly organised.

But Rihanna, who performed at the IHeartRadio Music Awards last night, admitted that her busy work life doesn’t allow for much time for love and pretty much confirmed that she is single.

“I’m so busy right now that I just don’t have a lot of time to offer to a man so it wouldn’t even be fair to be thinking of pulling somebody else into this life,” she said.

“But if I did, he would have to be man enough to live with my schedule and not get scared.”

Despite having been seen meeting up with Leonardo DiCaprio in the early hours of the morning in New York in recent weeks, a spokesperson for the 40-year-old actor insisted that he is single.

A rep told the Los Angeles Times that Leo was “single and has been for some time”, before adding that he remains “focussed shooting” his new movie, The Revenant in Canada.