Rihanna seems to have a taste for all things British. She smacks her lips over UK songstress Cheryl Cole and salutes the troops in a hot UK Esquire photo shoot.

While she has a girl crush on Cheryl going at the moment, she also lets it be known that she hopes to be settled down in five years.

“Hopefully I’ll have a man by then. I’ve gotta start there, right? But how far I go [with my career] is God’s plan,” she told the magazine.

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“I’m just following through my destiny. I don’t think it ever ends. It just evolves.”

As far as men go, all the tabloid hype about her ex, Chris Brown, is just that, even though she ignited rumors herself by doing remixes of respective records together. Rihanna said she was surprised by the reaction.

“I thought people were gonna be surprised that we finally did a record together, but I didn’t see how people could think it was a bad thing, you know?” she says. “In my mind, it was just music.”

It seems like ex-boyfriend Drake might have a better chance. The two were reportedly “hot and heavy” at a Miami nightclub, according to Us Weekly.

Brown, Drake and rapper Meek Mill, who also appears to have had a brief fling with the singer, have been going back and forth on twitter over the Barbadian for most of the past week or so. The tweets bouncing back and forth are half jealousy, half put down.

Rihanna posted a picture of herself flipping her middle finger with a gun ring on it. “F— what you think,” she wrote.