Rita Ora flaunts her toned legs in sexy red ensemble in the wake of Jay Z cheating rumours

She was recently hit with rumours that she’d had an affair with Jay Z.

But Rita Ora seemed to brush off any speculation as she stepped out looking like a scarlet siren in a sexy red top and form-fitting trousers on Friday night.

The singer, 26, stunned in the eye-catching ensemble in New York, after being pictured rocking a heavy duty leather jacket earlier in the day.

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Scarlet siren: Rita Ora seemed to brush off the Jay Z cheating rumours as she stepped out in a red ensemble on Friday night in New York

Style chameleon: Earlier on Friday Rita rocked her favourite leather jacket over a white poloneck sweater

The RIP hitmaker stunned in the red mohair sweater, which clung to her flat stomach and featured half sleeves and a scoop neck.

She carried through the bright theme with matching red trousers that effortlessly skimmed her endless limbs with their structured shape. 

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Keeping accessories to a minimum, the How We Do singer injected some sex appeal to the ensemble with some barely-there Tamara Mellon heels featuring white PVC straps.

The lingerie model wore her peroxide blonde tresses in a loosely undone middle-parting that framed her striking face.

Lady in red: The RIP hitmakerstunned in the mohair red sweater, which clung to her flat stomach and featured half sleeves and a scoop neck

Legs for days: The 26-year-old rocked matching red trousers that effortlessly skimmed her endless limbs with their structured shape

She accentuated her pretty features with a light flash of bronze eyeshadow and plumped her pout with nude lipstick.

Earlier that same day the blonde beauty proved she is the ultimate style chameleon as she rocked an entirely different vibe.

Rita rocked her favourite leather jacket over a white poloneck sweater and a pair of loose-fitting boyfriend jeans.

Bottoms up! The blonde stunner flashed a peek of her firm derriere in the tight-fitting trousers

Strutting her stuff: The How We Do singer injected some sex appeal to the ensemble with some Tamara Mellon barely there heels featuring white PVC straps

Proving her touch for quirky accessories, she rocked a pair of eclectic transparent sunglasses with a silver frame.

Her blonde hair looked slightly dishevelled as it fell around her face and she rocked an understated nude lipstick. 

The Body On Me singer is currently in New York for the Met Gala 2016 – the most prolific fashion event of the season. 

Androgynous chic: The I Will Never Let You Down singer hid her enviable limbs in a pair of loose-fitting boyfriend jeans 

As she left her hotel, she was heading to a fitting for the bash – which takes place on Monday. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced this year’s theme as Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.

The singer beamed as she headed out, no doubt putting a brave face in the wake of having to deny the recent rumours that she had cheated with Beyonce’s husband Jay Z.

In a series of Snapchat pictures posted on April 21, just days before Beyoncé released her album, Rita was seen wearing a semi-sheer bra which protected her modesty with strategically placed lemons. 

Specs appeal: Proving her touch for quirky accessories, she rocked a pair of eclectic transparent sunglasses with a silver frame

Busy lady: As she left her NYC hotel, Rita was heading to a fitting for the Met Gala – which takes place on Monday

While the bra was in fact one of many fruit motif items from her collaboration with lingerie label, Tenezis, it was Rita’s choice of necklace that truly had ‘Queen Bey’s fans – who call themselves the Beyhive – buzzing with disdain.

The singer wore a gold necklace with the initial ‘R’, although due to the mirror reflection, some were falsely led some to believe the letter was a ‘J’.

Rita’s Instagram page was flooded with insults, along with bee and lemon emojis, which is Beyoncé fans’ favored form of attack on social media.  

Brave face: The blonde beauty was no doubt putting a brave face in the wake of the recent cheating rumours with Beyonce’s husband Jay Z

Clue? Fans accused the 25-year-singer of causing trouble in Beyoncé and Jay Z’s relationship after she posted a snap in a lemon bra just days before Beyonce’s album release, in which the flipped mirror reflection made her necklace look like the letter J

Denied: She claimed that she had ‘nothing but the utmost respect’ for Beyonce

She was accused of being the ‘Becky with the good hair’ who stole Beyonce’s man following the release of the superstar’s new music. 

The musician took to Twitter on Tuesday to set the record straight on reports that she was taunting his wife Beyonce over the cheating scandal, insisting she had ‘nothing but the utmost respect’ for the Lemonade singer.

She wrote on Tuesday night: ‘I never usually address tabloid gossip but let me be clear, these rumours are false.’

Keep em guessing: Rita shared an image of the official film poster for Ash Wednesday, a film that focuses on a middle-aged woman trying to keep her husband interested

She followed up with: ‘I have nothing but the upmost respect (sic) for Beyonce. Let’s continue enjoying Lemonade.’

The previous evening she had been putting on a defiant display with pal Nick Grimshaw as Beyonce fans made the initial links between Rita and Jay Z.

And Rita has certainly been keeping them guessing by posting a cryptic Instagram picture on Tuesday that featured the official film poster for the Elizabeth Taylor-fronted film, Ash Wednesday.

The 1973 drama, directed by Larry Peerce, focuses on a middle-aged woman who is worried she’s losing her husband.

The 25-year-old singer shared the official film poster on her account, which shows a glamorous Liz Taylor holding a pearl necklace up to her face.

Rita also treated her fans to several Snapchats as she partied the night away with close pal Nick in Hollywood.

MailOnline has contacted a representative for Rita for comment.

On Monday, Rita appeared to be sending out a thinly-veiled message to Beyonce when she appeared to have copied the outfit she wore in her Formation video.

The singer stepped out wearing the £745 blouse and matching skirt as she stepped out in West Hollywood, after she became the latest person to be accused of having an affair with Jay Z following the release of Beyonce’s new track 

That looks familiar: Rita stepped out wearing a Gucci outfit worn by Beyonce in her recent Formation video in West Hollywood on Monday, appearing to taunt the Lemonade singer

There it is: Rita appears to have taken inspiration from another famous singer 

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2 brothers, 2 breweries, but no ill will on tap

 

After I first heard that brothers Robert and John Klick had founded competing craft breweries on Lake Minnetonka, the headline more or less wrote itself: “Battle Brewing Between Brothers.”

This story turned out to be far less dramatic. There is no battle. The brothers insist there never will be. As a condition for even talking about the brewery and taproom he’s just opened in downtown Wayzata, Robert Klick said he wouldn’t help anyone spread the notion that he doesn’t get along well with his younger brother John.

Not because it’s an uncomfortable situation, he said. Any talk of conflict is just not accurate, even as he prepares for the formal grand opening of Wayzata Brew Works, just a five-mile-or-so boat ride from the lakeside village of Excelsior and John Klick’s competing Excelsior Brewing Co.

“There are breweries in another state started by twin brothers who don’t get along, Evil Twin Brewing or something like that,” John Klick said. “We are not those guys.”

Actually in that famous case, of brothers from Denmark, even a whole country wasn’t big enough for both of them. One fled to Brooklyn, N.Y., to run his Evil Twin Brewing from there.

So while there’s not quite the Biblical Cain-and-Abel story here, the Klicks still make for an interesting business story. These are two very different brothers with two very different plans for winning in the increasingly competitive niche of craft brewing.

John, the CEO of Excelsior Brewing, sounds like a brand builder. In a conversation this week there was more than a hint of business school thinking in him, as he talked about establishing new distribution in the Alexandria and Mankato areas and trying to build sustainable value in the Excelsior Brewing brand.

In the much longer conversation and tour last week with Robert, he came across as a guy who just can’t get over how he’s going to be able to serve his neighbors great beer this weekend on a patio overlooking one of the state’s premier lakes. He called it “bringing posh to the people.”

Robert’s title on his business card simply reads “Idea Guy,” and he was full of them last week on what else he could do to grow his business, even though he’s only been open a couple of weeks with the business plan he has right now.

John Klick, now in his mid-40s, got into the business first, and his story goes back at least five years before Excelsior opened in 2012.

John got introduced to brewing working as a partner at a firm called Innovative Marketing Consultants that sold a lot of advertising specialties and other marketing materials to beverage makers. He found himself talking to brewers and aspiring brewers while attending the increasingly popular trade shows for craft beer-makers.

Once he decided to plunge ahead with his own brewery, finding a site, lining up the investors and building Excelsior Brewing took John years.

Meanwhile, 51-year-old Robert has an entrepreneurial background as varied as any, from toy inventor to kiosk jewelry retailer to lingerie store owner to frontman of an Austin Powers tribute band called Shagagogo.

As Robert described it, he got persuaded by John over the Thanksgiving weekend to help hang Sheetrock in the Excelsior Brewing space. While this sounds like the typical kind of unpaid help you provide your little brother, Robert decided to stay and work for Excelsior Brewing as a contractor. He was there the day it opened, in July 2012.

Robert later got asked to explore establishing a brewery in a Wayzata industrial building that once housed a local dairy; he found it far too large for the modest beer operation he thought he could build. Later he was shown space on the Wayzata waterfront in what’s called the Boatworks building.

He had the construction skills to do a lot of the work on a small facility himself, so he was still thinking small. Then his prospective landlord, the technology entrepreneur Rick Born, gave him a “go big or stay home” pep talk about the potential of a destination taproom on the Wayzata lakefront. If Klick didn’t build big, a competitor would.

Robert decided Born made a good argument and made plans to proceed with a 20-barrel brewing system rather than five, and in a far bigger space. He also had to let John know he was planning to jump into the beer-making business.

“He was taken aback at first,” Robert said. Starting a craft brewery “was his dream much more than it ever was mine. The opportunity was here, and he saw that.”

From time to time he would seek the advice of other craft brewing operators, but he made a point not to pester his brother, although John pointed out he was always happy to help.

“That’s what really attracted me to this business in the first place,” John said. “The cooperative-competition nature of it. Most of the brewers like each other and help each other.”

Along with partners, John Klick since 2012 expanded both his taproom and the brewing operation. Last year Excelsior Brewing sold the equivalent of about 5,200 barrels of beer, John said, about 1,000 in the taproom and the rest either as bottled beer or through kegs at bars and restaurants.

He called selling outside of his taproom “production brewing,” a market segment he suspects will soon be competitive enough for a shakeout. Brewing upstarts hoping to sell beyond their own taproom are competing for limited space on shelves and on the tap handles of bars and restaurants. That’s why John is pressing ahead to firmly establish his Excelsior brand regionally, adding that his greatest fear after adding more distributors is “running out of beer.”

Robert, on the other hand, has a business plan focused on the taproom, not bottling. He said that selling 90 percent of the beer brewed at the Brew Works right in his taproom and patio “would be fantastic.” Many of the plans occupying his thinking are designed to keep the beer taps flowing, including collaboration with Excelsior Brewing that could even include running a boat between Excelsior and his place in Wayzata.

“Yeah, he wants to do all kinds of stuff,” John said, when asked about plans for boat service. “One thing the Klick family isn’t short on is lofty ideas. I kept telling him, ‘Just get your taproom open, Buddy.’ ”

 

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