Madonna arriving in Paris (July 31 2010)
Madonna’s spokesperson has rebuked speculation the Material Girl has started smoking again after she was snapped holding a cigarette, insisting it was just a prop for her new movie project.
The pop superstar has stepped behind the camera to direct W.E., which tells the story of Britain’s King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne after falling in love with American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
Filming began recently and Madonna headed to France earlier this week to direct a number of shoots.
She was snapped on location holding a cigarette and a lighter, prompting reports she had taken up smoking again, a habit she quit when she was younger.
But a spokesperson for Madonna has told Britain’s Daily Mail the gossip is not true, insisting the singer was merely holding a prop cigarette for one of the stars of the movie.
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British actor Tom Hardy was so starstruck after meeting Madonna on the set of Rocknrolla, he hid in a car to escape the pop superstar.
“She left me starstruck. I did what anyone who can’t deal with the situation does: I went and hid in the Range Rover.
“I was sort of prepping for the scene in there and someone said hello to me and it was her – she’d somehow managed to get into the back of it!
“Then we had a conversation, which I’ve completely blacked out because there she was like the Mother Mary in the boot (back) of the f**king Range Rover and I was completely starstruck.”
But Hardy insists he wasn’t attracted to the star: “She’s just someone’s mum to me and she looks like a ghost. I didn’t see her as a sexual creature. There was a time when I really would’ve gone there but since (she appeared in) the Justin Timberlake video, leaping over cars and things, I just think: ‘Enough now.’”
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Madonna on the set of W.E. in France (July 30 2010)
In his autobiography he said his friend Madonna could be ‘like a whiney old barmaid’. Now she is an ex-friend.
He still doesn’t see what all the fuss was about. ‘I went over to her house and read the book to her. At the time she seemed fine about it. But she never reacts in front of anybody. It was only later on that I found the damage had been done.
‘I thought I’d been very nice about Madonna. I think she’s an amazing character. I was sweet about her in my book. I still admire her. But she’s a saint now, she’s beyond human contact. Her great friend told me a very clever thing: “Everybody thinks they’re Madonna’s best friend and they’re not.” ‘
Daily Mail
Madonna on Roman Abramovich’s yacht ‘Luna’ in Cannes (July 29 2010)
Madonna on the set of W.E. in Cannes, France (July 29 2010)
