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Madonna was declared the “most famous celebrity of the decade”, in a column inch countdown of British national newspapers.

Robbie Williams, who has enjoyed comeback success this year, was the most written-about male celeb of the past 10 years.

Michael Jackson, whose death in June – just before he was due to embark on a marathon string of London concerts – sent shockwaves around the world, was the best-documented star of 2009 in the survey.

Man of the moment and Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor supremo Simon Cowell was in second place in the survey which covered 2009 up to December 7.

Others catapulted into the limelight thanks to Cowell’s talent shows include Susan Boyle, who researchers found had 3,170 pieces written about her in 2009, and twins John and Edward Grimes, collectively known as Jedward, who attracted 1,112 articles due to their X Factor success.

Cheryl Cole’s national newspaper popularity increased almost three-fold following her role as a judge in The X Factor, according to the research.

In 2007, the Girls Aloud singer had 884 articles written about her, but this number increased to 2,241 in 2008 and a further 3,745 reports appeared this year, which means that she is the fourth most written about celebrity of 2009.

With a high profile marriage and divorce, adoption bids and one of the most successful careers around, Madonna has accrued 45,633 mentions over the decade.

This was around 17,000 more news articles than her nearest rival Williams.

The study was commissioned by online UK TV channel Liv, which features style and celebrity programming.

source: pa

Guy Ritchie doesn’t regret making ‘Swept Away’ with ex-wife Madonna despite the fact it was a box office flop.

The 41-year-old British director – whose 2002 movie ‘Swept Away’ starring his ex-wife Madonna, 51, flopped at the cinema and went straight to DVD in the UK – said he wasn’t upset by the critics, because you have to do some things wrong in order to know what works.

He said: “‘Swept Away’ was always going to have a limited audience. The idea was that it was going to be a small film… but you can’t do small films with the ex.”

The romantic comedy was a disaster at the box office, just like his 2005 film ‘Revolver’ which starred Jason Stratham, but Guy said he doesn’t take too much criticism on board, and in fact, ‘Revolver’ was still his favourite movie.

He said: “I think on reflection it always will be. Celebrity culture can only be capricious and ephemeral, sometimes you are in synch with what everybody wants, sometimes you are not.”

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Any truth to the rumours about working with Madonna again?

There is always speculation about that and people would like it. You know, I send her tracks and sometimes she’s keen … I sent her a track when she was doing the best of and she was very keen and then she realised, and it ticked me off a bit actually, that Finley Quaye had done a version of it previously and she didn’t really want anything that had been done before so I missed my chance. Would I do another project with her? I’d do it but I don’t miss the stress of it. She doesn’t half push the stress button.

When you’re DJing do you have a song you always play?

I always want to play Music by Madonna. It’s almost like a get out of jail free card.

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The cast and crew of musical movie Nine had just as much fun behind the scenes as they did on screen, according to Penelope Cruz.

The Spanish actress says she had a novel way of making sure they were all on song.

“I tried to take everybody to karaoke. We were planning it and then it didn’t happen,” said the 35-year-old.

She added: “Most of us went to a concert together to see Madonna and that was really inspiring and really beautiful.”

source: itn