Madonna and Guy out for dinner in Cannes. Madonna is wearing a pair of tight over the knee boots, and matching leather fingerless gloves.  

Clearly the raunchy looks she has adopted to promote her new album Hard Candy have spilled over into her home life.

Teamed with a satin trenchcoat, a glimpse of which revealed a racy leopard print lining, clearly Madonna needs no help to spice up her love life.

The couple’s appearance in Cannes together will do much to allay speculation that their marriage might be under strain. 

Source: TheDailyMail

 

American actress Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that she really values her friendship with Madonna, because the pop diva is a “perfectionist” like herself.

Gwyneth has been good friends with the Material Girl since she moved to the U.K. in 2002, and she admires Madge’s way and determination of keeping herself looking fit and fine, even though she is nearing 50 years of age.

The Iron Man star also insisted that the pair can relax and have fun together, away from the public eye.

“She’s a great woman. She’s got a lot of wisdom. We just have fun together. She works on herself harder than anybody else I’ve met,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

“We do share that and we’re both public women. We are both perfectionists,” she added.

Source: TimesofIndia

Madonna wants boxer Mike Tyson to help her charity work in poverty-stricken Malawi.

The pair struck up their unlikely friendship at the Cannes Film Festival, where they both have documentaries to promote – and are now said to have each other on speed dial.

‘Madonna thinks Mike is amazing and asked if she could have a private screening of his documentary Tyson while she was in the Riviera,’ a source reveals.

‘Mike agreed and, aware that having a celebrity fan will do wonders for his film, he offered to do a favour in return.

‘He has promised to fly with her to Malawi in late summer to promote awareness of children with Aids there.’

It seems Madge – who adopted son David Banda from Malawi in 2006 – has not been put off by Mike’s troubled past, which includes 3 years in prison for rape and drug-taking charges.

‘Mike is eager to show he’s turned over a new leaf,’ the source tells the Daily Mirror.

‘And he thinks this is the perfect way to do it.’

Source: Now

Madonna held a fund-raising event for the mystic Jewish religion kabbalah attended by, among others, Stella McCartney, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sting’s wife Trudie Styler.

They were joined by Madonna’s team of fitness experts - who train most of her girlfriends at the gym she had built next to her home in Bayswater, West London. The fund-raising event was held at a private loft-style venue in Soho, where guests were played acoustic kabbalah music.

Word has it, that the party left some of Madonna´s famous friend a little unsteady on their feet!

Source: mailonsunday

Madonna’s film “Filth & Wisdom” has been a very good seller for L.A. foreign sales outfit Katapult Films.

The film, which is Madonna’s directorial debut, was sold to Hexagon Pictures in Japan, to Surreal Films in the CIS territories and United Arab Emirates-based Front Row Filmed Entertainment for the Middle East.

French rights were sold to La Fabrique de Films in a deal separately negotiated by CAA and lawyers Grubman Indursky & Shire.

Pic is set for a North American release through IFC in the fall.

Source: Variety

Madonna plans to start building a multi-million-dollar girls’ school in Malawi for underprivileged children this year, her local lawyer said on Wednesday.”A task force of four prominent Malawians has already been formed to head the project which will be on the scale of what Oprah Winfrey has in South Africa,” Madonna’s lawyer Alan Chinula told Reuters.

“It is a multi-million dollar project and we will get the real costs in the next two weeks.”

Billionaire U.S. television magnate Winfrey has built a $40 million all-girl leadership academy in South Africa which boasts state-of-the-art facilities including laboratories, a yoga studio and beauty salon.

Malawi’s High Court is expected to approve Madonna’s bid to adopt two-year-old Malawian David Banda on Thursday. Malawi’s government and David’s father — his only surviving parent — have endorsed the adoption.

Madonna will not attend the final court ruling on her adoption bid because she is busy with other engagements, Chinula said on Tuesday.

The adoption has been controversial, with critics accusing the government of skirting laws that ban non-residents from adopting children in Malawi, which has been ravaged by an AIDS epidemic that has produced more than one million orphans.

Source: Africa Reuters

Timbaland and the Neptunes are so dominant as producers, they can sometimes upstage the artist they’re working with … unless that artist is Madonna.

On “Hard Candy,” Madonna made sure that she wasn’t a guest star on her own album.

“I thought of it as a true and equal collaboration. … I like to think that when you listen to the record, you don’t just go, ‘Oh, that is a Timbaland record or that’s Pharrell (of the Neptunes).’ That you hear it and you go, ‘There is something new and different about it.’ ”

Finding something new and different is the approach that’s kept Madonna on top for most of her 25-year recording career — and made her a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year.

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Twenty-five years after the release of her eponymous debut album, Madonna proved she has still got what it takes to wow audiences with an energetic set at Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

Madonna closed the event at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, following acts including Duffy, Usher and The Feeling.

Those who had been waiting all day to see Madonna were not disappointed when she appeared on stage in the main tent dressed in a tight black outfit and black knee high boots and opened her set with song Candy Shop, from her number one album Hard Candy.

Madonna opened her six song performance dressed all in black and sat on a gold throne.

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Authorities in Malawi are set to grant full adoption rights of little David Banda to Madonna, a high court official indicated Friday, citing a leaked document.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the court in Lilongwe would hear a full review on May 15 of an 18-month interim custody order granted in 2006 for Madonna to adopt David Banda.

The court had also received recommendations from the ministry of women and child development to make the adoption permanent.

The document, referring to Madonna’s filmmaker husband Guy Ritchie and herself, said: “Mr and Mrs Ritchie have shown a strong commitment in providing the infant with all essential needs like love, safe home environment, care, protection, material as well as emotional support.”

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