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Taylor Swift surprised an 8-year-old girl at the Phoenix hospital where she has been recovering from devastating burns.

The Arizona Republic reports the pop star showed up unannounced Saturday at the Arizona Burn Center to see Isabella McCune.

The girl's family made a video last Wednesday of her asking for Swift to visit because she couldn't leave the hospital for the singer's concert next week.

Swift stayed for about 20 minutes. She signed autographs and gifted Isabella with a bag of merchandise from her concert tour.

The McCune family says Isabella suffered third-degree burns over 65 percent of her body when a fire erupted at a neighbourhood party on St. Patrick's Day in March.

The girl says hugs sometimes hurt but asked for one from Swift.

R. Kelly's management says a statement sent out on his behalf wasn't authorised by his team.

An early Friday-morning email sent by Katie Thompson on behalf of R. Kelly Tours claimed the media was trying to distort and destroy his legacy by reporting allegations that he sexually mistreats women and said the singer was "heartbroken" over it.

However, management disavowed that statement to The Associated Press on Friday.

There have been numerous reports detailing allegations that Kelly sexually abused women over the years. He was acquitted of child pornography charges in 2008.

The Time's Up campaign is taking aim at R. Kelly over allegations he has sexually abused women.

"We demand appropriate investigations and inquiries into the allegations of R. Kelly's abuse made by women and their families for more than two decades now. And we declare with great vigilance and a united voice to anyone who wants to silence us - their time is up," the statement said.

Kelly has denied such charges.

Cardi B has been plagued by "spooky" dreams since getting pregnant.

The 25-year-old rapper is expecting her first child with fiancee Offset and is already getting in some practise for sleepless nights with a newborn as she's not resting well because of the "weird" nocturnal visions she's been experiencing.

She tweeted: "Ok soooo one thing I don't like about pregnancy is these weird, crazy, spooky dreams I be having.

"I hate them. I be waking up in the middle of the night out my naps. Is the weirdest thing. (sic)"

When a fan replied to say she used to have "vivid sex dreams" during her pregnancy, Cardi admitted she'd experienced the same.

She wrote: "I be having a lot of those too. Everything is too vivid. Sex dreams, nightmares, good dreams. (sic)"

The Bartier Cardi hitmaker also admitted her growing baby bump has made her reconsider her plans to make a new music video.

She revealed: "I really wanted to do a music video too "SHE BAD" but imagine me half naked with this big *ss stomach and all these bad bitches around me O HELL NO ! After i give birth thoo !!! (sic)"

The former Love & Hip Hop star recently admitted she and Offset have already chosen a name for their baby but she's going to leave it to the Migos rapper to reveal it as he chose the moniker.

She said: "Yeah, my dude named the baby.

"I really like the name. I'm [going to] let him say the name because he named the baby."