She is quoted in the Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: "Can we take a picture, can we take a picture - No!" But 37-year-old Ritchie admitted: "They all started booing because we wouldn ’t stop for pictures." Madonna, 47, also admitted she enjoyed not having to ’work’ the crowd because it was her husband’s night. She is quoted in The Times newspaper as saying: "This is fun for me. I get to dress up and show up."
Madonna and Guy had a food fight in a London restaurant - Sept 05
Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie reportedly had a food fight at a swanky London restaurant. Onlookers claim Guy started the shenanigans at Moroccan eatery Momo when trying to help his wife - who currently has her arm in a sling after breaking her hand and collar bone in a riding accident - cut her food.
He is said to have wiped a piece of roast lamb down Madonna’s cheek, which prompted her to tip a bowl of couscous in Guy’s lap. Witnesses claim the couple then proceeded to have a full-blown food fight. One is quoted by the Daily Star as saying: "No one could believe they were having a food fight in such a posh restaurant. "The waiters had to shield the other guests and pretend they didn’t notice the flying food. But they all received hefty tips from the cheeky couple afterwards."
Last week, it was revealed Madonna and Guy don’t share their marital bed all the time. Guy, who has been married to the Material Girl for five years, confessed to Glamour magazine: "She doesn’t seem to like my snoring, so she boots me out of bed. "We’ve got four houses, but in every one of them I end up sleeping in the cleaning room cupboard or the corridors because all the other bedrooms are being used."
Guy wants more kids with Madonna - Sept 05
Guy Ritchie is desperate to have more kids with Madonna. The film director, who is father to five-year-old Rocco and stepfather to eight-year-old Lourdes, has confessed he wants to extend his family with the pop queen. He revealed: "I’d like to think that we would have more children. I love it. I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids for ever." Guy has also admitted he and Madonna argue like every other couple. He confided: "Normal man and wife stuff. Relationships are about eating humble pie. We are not unique. We’re quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn’t work exponentially when we are together."
However, despite their occasional tiffs, the ’Snatch’ director says he loves Madonna because she gets on with things rather than just talking about it. He explained in an interview with the Times magazine: "She’s a manifester. She has an idea and can then manifest the idea. Not everyone’s like that. The world is divided between those that waffle and those that do."
Madonna signed ?1 million deal to advertise mobile phones - Sept 05
Madonna has signed a ?1 million deal to advertise mobile phones. The Material Girl has already starting filming the commercial for mobile phone giant Motorola, alongside a galaxy of stars including rock legend Iggy Pop. The ad will see a number of musicians squeezed into a phone box, to promote Motorola’s phone with built in iPod.
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The following year Madonna broke away from Kamins and recorded Holiday which went straight in to the American top 20 and was a hit across Europe. She cemented her raunchy image with Like A Virgin, her first US number one, and Material Girl with it’s iconic video. By this time Madonna was becoming one of the most emulated and best loved artists in the world and she became even more popular thanks to her part in Live Aid and a high profile marriage to Sean Penn.
The pop diva followed up her success with several singles from the True Blue album and turned her hand to acting for the first time in the poorly received A Certain Sacrifice and of course, Desperately Seeking Susan. Her first real flop was alongside her husband in the laughable Shanghai Surprise. Her failure’s in the film department didn’t stop David Mamet from casting her in a Broadway production of Speed the Plow - by this time talent or no, Madonna’s was name that guaranteed attention.
1989 saw the singer court controversy with the video for Like A Prayer, featuring a black Jesus, which outraged and shocked the Catholic church and caused Pepsi to cancel a sponsorship deal. But far from ruining her career, this stunt saw her become the icon that we know today. The 1990s were the pinnacle of Madonna’s success, her divorce from Sean Penn pushing her further in to the lime light, beginning with a part in Dick Tracy opposite Warren Beatty and a fantastic soundtrack album alongside featuring hit song Vogue. Documentary film Truth or Dare and her Blonde Ambition tour (with that pointy bra) followed with further controversy.
In 1992 she signed a multi million pound deal with Time Warner guaranteeing the release of music, films and books through her own record label, Maverick. She made the most of the deal with picture book Sex, which caused another controversy but rocketed up the bestsellers charts nonetheless. Erotica was her first album for years though not to generate a US number one. People thought that perhaps Madonna had gone too far with her need to shock, and perhaps she had realised it too as her next album was far mellower and a part in Evita in 1996 made her bankable again.
Later that year she fell pregnant with Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, daughter of her personal trainer. But far from slowing her work, having a child only seemed to spur Madonna on, she released the runaway success, Ray of Light which produced hit after hit and recorded Beautiful Stranger for the second Austin Powers movie. she also starred alongside Rupert Everett in romantic comedy The Next Best Thing.
It was around this time that Madonna met British director Guy Ritchie - the man who would change her life. They had son Rocco in 2000 and they married in 2002 after Madonna moved permanently to England, took to wearing flat caps and drinking tea. The title track of her album Music gave her a transatlantic number one hit. Collaborations with Ritchie, especially their film Swept Away, have generally been unsuccessful but Madonna’s music career continues to go from strength to strength, her latest album American Life has been a worldwide hit and she has even found time to pen a children’s book, The English Roses. Now, an honorary Brit and devout follower of Kaballah, Madonna lives with her family in Marylebone and Wiltshire. She also owns a ?4 million Spanish-style villa in Beverly Hills, a house in Miami and a duplex overlooking Central Park in New York.
(Updated April 04)
November 2007