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Nov 12

Madge gets mushy over award

Pop queen Madonna showed her emotional side last night (Nov 11) as she accepted her Music Hall of Fame award.
According to the Daily Mirror, Madonna, along with Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, The Beatles and U2, were selected as the founding members of the awards by an industry committee, for their outstanding contribution to music.
Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley and artist Tracey Emin presented her with the gong.
In her acceptance speech the 46-year-old mother of two said: "If anybody had told me when I was a little girl growing up in the Mid-West that I would be married to a Brit, be living in England and be inducted into the Music Hall of Fame I would have said "b******s to that!""
She added: "I have to thank Tracey Emin who truly is la grande fica [a colourful Italian insult], Jo Whiley, Stella McCartney and Gwyneth Paltrow, who are truly formidable women.
"In spite of the title for this ceremony, I think this award is more to do with my accomplishments than my fame.
"Just because I am famous, doesn't mean I don't have anything to say."
Madge went on: "If I am grateful for anything in my career, it's the long, arduous, painstaking journey that started 20 years ago in the Mid-West.
"It is the voice I have been given, the voice to ask questions with, challenge with, explode with, create with, laugh with and cry with and I am also truly grateful my voice has given other people a voice.
"I am so grateful to the people who have stuck their neck out for me and taken the slaps. I've taken many slaps and I don't regret a thing.
"I'm grateful for those slaps. I'm grateful I had something to provoke them with.
"I'm grateful people were listening and are still listening."
Ok, ok, Madge so you're grateful!
The event, which took place in London's Hackney Empire, saw Madonna's pals, Stella McCartney and Gwyneth Paltrow dress up as the pop queen to do a send-up of one of her songs.
Madge said: "It was really cool. I got pretty emotional up there but it was hysterical to see Stelly and Gwyneth really pull me off."
source : icnetwork.co.uk

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