Remember when you were a teenager and your parents would ask you about who you fancied at school? 

And then you were subsequently forced to refer to every person you liked as your 'friend', just to stop your parents from bursting into the room with refreshments and telling their friends you were going to the shops with your 'special friend'?

'Mum, stop calling them 'special' it sounds weird. We're just friends, okay?' 

*Cue endless MSN messages, heart emojis, scratching their last name into your Golddigga pencil case and sharing a Slush Puppy in the local Odeon*

Well, it looks like Drake needs to tell his Dad that the situation with Rihanna is a bit more than a friendship because he's ruining it for everyone else. 

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Earlier this week, Drake's dad Dennis Graham addressed the rumours relating to his son's romance with the 'Work' singer and revealed nothing is going on between the pair other than friendship.

'They're friends, they've been friends for years.'

Er Dennis, why would you say a thing like that?

Rebutting claims the pair are in love, Graham – who recently released a teaser for his debut single Kinda Crazy – emphasised 'there's no relationship, they're friends.'

Okay, we get it. Friends…

Like friends who have sleepovers? Friends who go on romantic dates? Friends who admit on live television they've been in-love with the other friend since the age of 22? Those kind of friends? 

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Old Dennis over here then took it one step further in crushing our dreams of Drake and Rihanna getting hitched, having a baby and settling down in the Hollywood Hills by dismissing the significance of the pair's matching shark tattoos to say that anyone could get an inking.

Seriously, Dennis, you don't get a camouflage shark tattoo unless you're a) weirdly obsessed with sharks or b) it has special meaning because Drake won a stuff shark cuddly at the aquarium and you want to remember the adorable occasion forever by inking it on your wrist.

Pfft, everyone knows that. 

Stop raining on our D-rianna parade, Dennis. 

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Katie O'Malley is the Site Director on ELLE UK. On a daily basis you’ll find Katie managing all digital workflow, editing site, video and newsletter content, liaising with commercial and sales teams on new partnerships and deals (eg Nike, Tiffany & Co., Cartier etc), implementing new digital strategies and compiling in-depth data traffic, SEO and ecomm reports. In addition to appearing on the radio and on TV, as well as interviewing everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Rishi Sunak PM, Katie enjoys writing about lifestyle, culture, wellness, fitness, fashion, and more.