Rihanna is red hot at Bajan festival

R&B star Rihanna turned up the heat in her native Barbados on Monday (01Aug11) when she donned a skimpy red outfit to take part in a local festival parade.

The Umbrella hitmaker returned to the Caribbean island on Saturday (30Jul11) to take centre stage at the colourful Kadooment Day celebrations, part of the Crop Over Festival to mark the end of the sugar cane crop harvest.

The beauty thrilled the crowds by dressing in a bejewelled red and gold bikini, fishnet stockings and matching feathered headdress.

Rihanna wrapped up the North American leg of her Loud tour on 24 July (11).