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Madonna with Guy Ritchie on a dinner date with Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow (January 16 2007)

Madonna leaving the gym in London (January 16 2007)

Madonna leaving the gym in London (January 15 2007)

Madonna was nearly chased off the road after her appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman” last week and had to call the cops for help, according to an Internet gossip site.
Two vehicles reportedly were tailgating the Material Mom’s car, and the pop star’s chauffeur tried to elude them by turning onto Fifth Ave.
The pursuing drivers then tried to ram Madonna’s car, forcing her to call 911, gossip blogger Perez Hilton claimed on perezhilton.com.
The NYPD could not confirm the emergency call, and Madonna’s spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, said she was unaware of the close call, which was reminiscent of Princess Diana’s last moments.
Rosenberg did say the singer encountered “a danger situation” directly outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, where she had told Letterman about her controversial adoption of an African orphan and Britney Spears’ pantyless photo op.
The crushing crowd of 500 fans that surged toward her on Broadway “was pretty scary,” Rosenberg said.
Rosenberg would not confirm whether Madonna or her entourage called for a police escort last week or in the past.
“I don’t comment on her security,” she said.
source : nydailynews

Carlos Leon and Madonna didn’t last long as a romantic couple. But the two, who never married, have remained friendly as the parents of Lourdes, 10. They had dinner Thursday night at Nobu 57, carefully arriving and leaving separately. Madonna and Leon held hands and seemed “very flirty, very friendly, they were having a wonderful time,” said a witness. “They set a good example for other couples who have kids,” said Madonna’s spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg. “It’s lovely they get along and remain friends.”
source : nypost

Material Girl nearly rammed off road…
Madonna was recently involved in a high speed chase through New York, where two large vehicles tried to ram her off the road.
The Material Girl had just appeared on the David Letterman show where she had poked fun at Britney and other stars for not wearing any pants, when she was pursued by the marauding vehicles.
As Madonna’s driver turned onto Fifth Avenue to shake off their tail, the two cars that had been driving closely then tried to ram them off the road forcing the superstar to finally call 911.
Eventually the Hung Up singer’s driver lost the persuing cars after a high speed chase and a lenghty phone call to the police.
We wonder where Britney, Lindsay and Paris were that night?
source : entertainmentwise

Best Solo Artist :

WINNER: Madonna
2nd: Christina Aguilera
3rd: Justin Timberlake

When Madonna initiated the adoption of a Malawian boy, she was “saving a life,” the singer told David Letterman on Thursday, as she called for increased adoption from the African nation.
“There’s over a million orphans in Malawi, and in my opinion the laws need to change because these children need to be rescued,” the Material Mom said on CBS’s “Late Show.”
Madonna, 48, said she had been warned that pursuing an adoption from the country could be difficult.
“My social worker … said, ‘Good luck. You’re going to be making it up as you go along,”‘ the pop star recalled. “She didn’t say don’t do it, but she just said expect challenges, and, boy, did we get them.”
Madonna and her husband, movie director Guy Ritchie, 38, have been allowed to take 1-year-old David Banda to their home in London. She has two other children, Lourdes, 9, and Rocco, 6.
Yohane Banda surrendered his son to an orphanage after his wife died last year. The couple’s two other sons died in infancy from malaria. Banda has said he wants David to stay with Madonna and Ritchie.
Human rights groups in Malawi have said they are concerned the government cut legal corners to fast-track the adoption and they want adoption laws there clarified. A November court ruling allowed a coalition of rights groups to monitor the process.
On the show Thursday, Letterman voiced support for the adoption.
“I found it a little upsetting that there was such a tumult and furor over this when in fact the net result was here we have a human being that now has a life,” he said.
source: ap

UGO: Also in 2006 there was a lot of talk about certain celebrities adopting third world children and they caught a lot of flack for that. Did that ever happen to you when you adopted any of your children?
MIA: No. I have ten children adopted from all over the world and some from the United States. I don’t really see boundaries when it comes to needy children. I have been asked frequently to comment about the Madonna adoption, of which I know nothing. But I felt happy that one child, of the millions of orphans across Africa, won’t have to worry about healthcare or education. That child will have a loving family.
source ugo.com

In her first-ever live TODAY interview, the pop princess discusses new motherhood, her new movie, and sticks up for her friend Rosie
On this morning’s TODAY, Madonna became the latest celebrity to weigh in on the Donald Trump-Rosie O’Donnell feud.
“People are giving Rosie a hard time. I wish they’d stop, I don’t think it’s fair” the singer told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira in her first-ever live interview on the morning show. The pop star said she first heard about the flap while on vacation in the Indian Ocean and immediately sent O’Donnell an email. The two have been good friends since they starred in 1992’s “A League of Their Own.”
“I don’t know exactly the context of what she said,” Madonna told Vieira Thursday morning. “I have to hear it from the horse’s mouth. She’s a standup comic. All standup comics talk about provocative things in their monologues before shows.”

The pop icon’s remarks came during a wide-ranging interview that was delayed because the international superstar was late (she blamed it on her hair). Showing up without a coat because she was told about last week’s unseasonably warm weather in New York, Madonna spoke about the latest developments in her own life including the child she adopted and a new movie.
Madonna was in New York promoting her latest project, providing the voice of the beautiful Princess Selenia in the new animated feature “Arthur and the Invisibles.” Later in the day she was scheduled to host special screenings of the movie at two city charter schools.
The 48-year-old singer didn’t discuss the headline-grabbing controversy surrounding her planned adoption of David Banda, a one-year-old boy from the impoverished African nation of Malawi. She also steered clear of any reference to Angelina Jolie’s remarks about the adoption in a French gossip magazine. A furious Jolie has since told People magazine that her remarks were twisted.
Early last year, Madonna founded “Raising Malawi,” an orphan care initiative to help Malawi’s estimated one million orphans.

In an interview with Vieira that aired on TODAY in November, Madonna said all the attention on David’s adoption was actually a blessing. “Now people know about Malawi. Now people know about the orphans there. And now David’s home.”
In today’s interview, the singer said that family life with three kids is “amazing” and that her daughter Lourdes, 10, babysits for David. (She also has a son Rocco, 6, with husband Guy Ritchie.)
Madonna said she enjoyed her role of “Arthur and the Invisibles,” in which she co-stars along with the voices of Robert De Niro, Jimmy Fallon, David Bowie, Mia Farrow, because it was a departure from fans’ image of her.
“They perceive me as a queen, not a princess,” Madonna joked. “And I don’t normally fall in love with 10-year-olds.”
The first animated feature by filmmaker Luc Besson (”La Femme Nikita,” “The Fifth Element”) is about a boy who sets out to save his family home from real estate developers after his grandfather disappears. Arthur discovers that he must follow his grandfather’s clues to a vast treasure, and unlock the gateway to a new world filled with mysterious little people whose help he must enlist.
Madonna’s character is one of the tiny people who help Arthur. Madonna herself has penned critically acclaimed children’s books, including “The Adventures of Abdi,” “The English Roses,” and “Lotsa de Casha.”
Of her role she said: “I play a princess, which is new for me. I just loved the idea of playing a character where I can create a fantasy world that has nothing to do with who I am, or what people associate with me.”
At the start of the interview at 8:39 a.m. ET, Madonna waved at the crowd outside the TODAY studio and asked “Why are they up so early?”? She said she had so far avoided a live interview on TODAY because “I don’t like getting up and talking to people this early.”? She said she agreed to come on the show at the behest of the film’s producer.
“I saw my career flashing before my eyes when they said you weren’t here,” Vieira told Madonna, when the star hadn’t arrived at the studio quite in time for the planned 8:35 a.m. spot.
“I’m always seeing my career flash before my eyes,”? Madonna said of her chronic lateness.
When asked about her friendship with Britney Spears, with whom she shared an infamous kiss at the 2003 Grammys, Madonna said the two have drifted apart. “We shared a kiss and I never saw her again. That’s how it goes in my life,”? the singer joked.
After the interview Madonna headed outside to the plaza to greet fans.
Madonna, who lives mainly in England, told Vieira that she misses New York City. “I keep telling my husband I want to come back here and I want to live here,”? she said.
source : today