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Madonna is planning to take adopted son David Banda on a paradise holiday this Christmas.
The Queen of Pop is hoping to visit the Cayman Islands or Seychelles next month to celebrate her first holiday season with the African orphan. She originally had her heart set on a trip to the Maldives but decided to cancel after a hotel demanded £250,000 if her family wished to book the entire complex for a week.
A source told The People: “She has got her staff pulling out all the stops to find somewhere else.
“Madge has been so happy since adopting David. She decided to make Christmas really special this year as it is his first with his new family. She and Guy decided to go somewhere idyllic where they could get away from it all. When it went wrong she was devastated.”
source : digitalspy

Madonna has offered to help Britney Spears get through her divorce crisis – by inviting her to spend Christmas in Britain.
She wants to show her support as Britney, 24, prepares for battle with estranged husband Kevin Federline over custody of their children.
The two pop queens have been close friends since their notorious staged kiss at the MTV Music Awards in 2003.
Madonna, 48, has told Britney she is welcome to bring sons Sean, 13 months, and 11-week-old Jayden James to spend the festive season in London with her husband Guy Ritchie and their children, Rocco, Lourdes and newly adopted 14-month-old Malawian son David.
A source close to Britney in Los Angeles said yesterday: “Madonna has always been a guiding force in her life and career.
“Brit’s confident she’ll get full custody of her kids and, with Kevin gone, she’s focusing on motherhood and resurrecting her career with a new album.
“Publicly, she’s looking gorgeous and happy. But there’s a lot of inner turmoil. Brit’s no different to any woman whose marriage has failed. She blames herself for not trying harder to change Kevin, and can’t stop asking herself how it all went so disastrously wrong.”?
The source added: “Brit hasn’t decided whether to accept her invitation – but it means a hell of a lot to her to know Madonna is there for her.”?
Britney faces an ordeal when the divorce petitions are heard in court, early next year. Madonna, whose own divorce from actor Sean Penn in 1989 was not at all amicable, believes that Britney was right to put the Malibu mansion where she and Federline lived on the market for £6.99million.”?
The source said: “Brit has always listened to Madonna who, next to her own mom Lynne, has become a guiding light in her life and career.”?
Britney’s Los Angeles spokesman yesterday refused to comment on a magazine report that she wants to drop “Federline”? from the children’s names after the divorce.
source : sunday express

British actress Emma Thompson has praised Madonna for adopting Malawian baby David Banda last month.
The Sense and Sensibility star has seen the plight of Malawi’s children orphaned by AIDS first hand after becoming involved in charity work in the African country.
Shocked by the suffering she saw, in 2003 Thompson also welcomed an African orphan – 16-year-old Tindy – into her home after meeting the Rwandan refugee in London.
And the 47-year-old is convinced Madonna has made the right decision, despite taking David away from his native country and culture.
She says, “Malawi is a very difficult country, with tremendous problems with AIDS.
“While I understand the arguments about taking people away from their culture, there is a culture of deprivation and poverty that is not fun to be part of.
“She found a child in desperate need. Some people want to bring up a child personally, others want to act in a more general way, but both ways are surely to be welcomed.”

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Will Madonna ever get old? She may acquire more gravitas, continue to mature emotionally, find greater meaning in her work with Kaballah, but will she ever look arthritic, puffy, menopausal? This increasingly seems doubtful. Madonna no longer re-invents, she maintains.
It is the sheer spectacularity of her physical form, the near menacing force of it, and that alone largely, that sustains your attention in Confessions on a Dance Floor,”? the two-hour film of a concert she gave at the Wembley arena in London this past summer, which was broadcast on NBC Wednesday night and will be re-shown on Bravo. With each tour Madonna has embarked on in recent years, her deltoids seem to grow more regally expansive and robust, and her arms more wing-like. Toward the end of the Wembley show, part of a worldwide tour pegged to her album “Confessions on a Dance Floor”? Madonna sings one of its hits, “Hung Up,”? about a woman who migrates between boredom and agony as she waits for a man to call. But who could this man possibly be? Unless Madonna is expecting a call from Wladimir Klitschko, about meeting him in the boxing ring, the sight of her affecting weakness leaves you feeling as you would if you were forced to watch Ethel Mermen impersonate Chet Baker.
“Confessions on a Dance Floor” pays tribute to Madonna’s current and former selves with dizzying jump cuts and all the spectacle the acrobatics, playground sets, 600 costume changes ” that have become the hallmark of her concerts.
Today, Madonna, 47, is a concerned citizen of the world. She has made African AIDS orphans one of her causes and recently adopted a baby from Malawi, causing some controversy. At one point in the concert she sings “Live to Tell”? against the backdrop of various images of children in Africa and a speeding tally of the number who have been left parentless. But here again, her perfect musculature produces a kind of dissonance. Madonna doesn’t have an altruist’s body, she has a denier’s. What you’re tallying in your head when you watch her dance with the strength and agility of a 19-year old, are the number of hours she is spending each day practicing ashtanga, running hills, bench-pressing the weight of a Regency table. You are counting all the calories Madonna is not eating.
In addition to keeping up her legendary physical regimen, Madonna now also rides horses on her country estate in England. Some have seen this as another aspect of her Anglo-philic pretensions, but really what is surprising is that it took her so long to cotton on to a sport so steeped in the dynamic of submission and control. Madonna the equestrian seems the most inevitable Madonna of all. Perhaps realizing that on some level, she opened her Wembley show looking as if she were about to ride in some re-imagining of Ascot. Madonna dances around, directing men on all fours before she rides an apparatus meant to look like an electric horse.
In “Confessions on a Dance Floor,”? Madonna travels back to the beginning of her career, before she was encumbered with the need to do good. The documentary “I’m Going to Tell You a Secret,”? which follows her on her 2004 world tour, reveals a Madonna who wants to learn all the time, who hugs her assistant and dancers, who wishes she had been nicer to people when she was young. Perhaps she knows that many in her audience miss the Madonna of so many Madonnas ago, the one who refused refinement and probably thought Oxford was just an insurance company.
“Confessions on a Dance Floor”? gets deeper and deeper into her early disco years as it progresses with Madonna getting in and out of a Saturday Night Fever tuxedo and Jane Fonda-aerobics gear before it’s all over, as if to tell us that sometimes, yes, she misses her, too.
source : nytimes.com

7 Pictures – Madonna leaving Cecconi’s Restaurant in Mayfair after having dinner with Gwyneth Paltrow and friends (November 21 2006) – are added to the gallery.