Rodriguez Wife 'Madonna stole my man'
Category: Gossip.
todays MIRROR The wife of one of America's biggest sports stars has accused Madonna of stealing her husband. She says she found a letter from baseball ace Alex 'A-Rod' Rodriguez to Madge, saying: "You're my soulmate." Angry Cynthia Rodriguez told a friend: "He was having an affair with her." Madonna, 49, said to be planning to divorce Guy Ritchie, insists she and Rodriguez, 32, are merely friends
Madonna On Tour With Britney and a Mummy?
Category: Gossip.
schocking gossip coming from todays edition of SUN paper MADONNA has asked troubled BRITNEY SPEARS to join her on tour — and pals hope she will give guidance to the young star. The Queen Of Pop, 49, is set to record a video with Britney, 26, in New York tomorrow. The footage will be broadcast on huge screens as part of Madge’s Sticky and Sweet tour, which kicks off on August 23. Madonna has also invited Britney to appear in person on some of the world tour dates. A source close to Britney revealed: “They are recording a video together on Sunday that will provide the backdrop for part of Madonna’s show. “And they are talking about Britney taking the stage on a few of the dates too. “There’s no doubt that her and Britney together will spell fireworks again. Comeback “It’s hoped that Madonna can help Britney get back to her old self. Appearing with Madonna would really kickstart her career again. She’s been there and done it so could provide some great guidance.” Britney and Madonna stunned fans at the MTV Music Awards in 2003 by sharing a passionate kiss. The source added: “If anyone can mastermind a Britney comeback, it’s Madonna. “Lots of people will be hoping there’s a repeat of the kissing incident a few years ago.” The Toxic singer has always been a huge fan of Madge — and even converted to her Kabbalah religion. But it has been reported that their relationship cooled after Britney lost interest in the mystical Jewish faith. The source added: “Maybe this means Britney is ready to devote to Kabbalah again as she tries to sort herself out.” Advertisement Click here to find out more! Madonna’s new tour to support album Hard Candy promises to be her sexiest yet. She will turn 50 a week before it kicks off in Cardiff — but still plans to shock fans with a controversial stage show. The singer will even pretend to be MUMMIFIED as part of a routine. Britney lost custody of kids Sean Preston, two, and one-year-old Jayden James as she battled her demons.
Sticky & Sweet Tour: Madonna in Montenegro!
Category: Live Performances & Tours.

From Madonna.com:

Madonna’s ’Sticky & Sweet’ Tour To Visit Budva

We are happy to confirm that a show in Budva, Montenegro, was just added to Madonna’s 2008 tour itinerary.

The show will take care at Budva’s Jez Beach on September 25th.

Tickets will go on sale Friday July 11th at 10am, local time.
A devoted fan club presale will start on Wednesday July 9, at 10am LOCAL TIME.

Sticky & Sweet Tour: Athens loves Madonna!
Category: Live Performances & Tours.

Thanks to Pantelis & Nikolas from Athens.

Heavy Media Coverage Over Affairs Rumors
Category: Gossip.

The tabloid media, especially in New York, has been heavily sensationalizing the absurd Madonna and Alex Rodriguez affair rumors with front-page coverage. The affair rumors have been officially denied by Madonna's representative Liz Rosenberg this week.

    

   

Madonna and Guy hold hands in New York City!
Category: (Private) Life.

Photographs like this spike all the made-up rumours

[EXCLUSIVE] Sticky & Sweet Tour: More Tidbits.
Category: Live Performances & Tours.

**SPOILER**

EXCLUSIVE - Word is that a newcomer is in charge to direct two video-interludes. His name is Noel Clarke.

DrownedMadonna.com heard that the new "Everybody" choreography reminds of "Erotica/You Thrill Me" from the Confessions Tour.

The choreography that is being conceived for "Heartbeat" is described as a tongue in cheek shoe changing choreography.

Among the old hits that Madonna is currently rehearsing there is "Angel". We really hope Madonna likes the live version and it will make the final setlist. Fingers crossed!!

We remind you that everything is subject to changes. So stay tunes!

[PHOTOS] Dining out at Cesca Restaurant, July 01, 2008
Category: (Private) Life.
    

Liz Rosenber speaks again!!
Category: Interviews & Statements.

Madonna’s spokeswoman has released an exclusive statement to PEOPLE rejecting reports that the singer’s marriage to her film director husband Guy Ritchie is on the rocks.

"Madonna’s husband Guy arrived in New York last night to be with his wife and family (not in a last ditch attempt to save his marriage which does not need saving)," Liz Rosenberg told PEOPLE. "There are no plans for Madonna and Guy to divorce."

Rosenberg also denied a published report of a relationship between the singer and New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez. "Madonna and Alex have the same manager, Guy Oseary," Rosenberg says. "They have met. They know each other and Madonna took her kids to a Yankees game last week. There’s really not anything to comment on beyond that."

Adds Rosenberg: "It’s nothing new that people are airing tons of dirty laundry Madonna’s way lately – much of it untrue."

Thanks to our collaborator JPASC24.

[EXCLUSIVE] Sticky & Sweet Tour: Latest Exclusive Details from the NYC Rehearsals.
Category: Live Performances & Tours.

**SPOILER**

EXCLUSIVE - Madonna is not satisfied with the live version of "Spanish Lesson", so she decided to shelve it AS OF NOW.

DrownedMadonna.com also heard that Madonna is currently testing a cover of Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" to replace "Spanish Lesson" after "Buenos Aires". Let's wait and see if this cool idea will make the final setlist!

Another song has been shelved as of now. "Ray Of Light" - which was originally part of the Rock/Guitar section - is now out of the tentative setlist.

"Give It 2 Me" is being rehearsed the same way as in the Hard Candy Promo Tour, but obviously with different outfits.

Besides "Spanish Lesson", the only other "Hard Candy" track that is not being used as of now in the tentative setlist - neither as a video interlude nor as a live performance - is "Incredible".

Keep in mind that everything is subject to changes, so stay tuned!

Liz Smith at the ''Sticky & Sweet'' Tour Rehearsals!
Category: Live Performances & Tours.

By Liz Smith at Variety:

The indomitable Madonna has been rehearsing her "Sticky and Sweet" tour in a massive space in New York. Her latest troupe of beautiful dancers is present, as is every other member of a massive Madonna undertaking. When the boss works, everybody works! It is 80 degrees and humid outside. Inside it’s a steam bath. Madonna does not enjoy air-conditioning. (Audiences tend to leave her concerts having lost about 10 pounds in water-weight.) Everybody looks whipped. Not Madonna. Without makeup, her long blond hair lank, dressed in funereal black rehearsal togs, she looks fresher, younger, and more vital than she does on the red carpet. (She also looks less muscular. Concert lighting and flash photography tends to over-emphasize her toned sinew.) She certainly shakes a tailfeather like she is still writhing along the canals in Venice for the "Like A Virgin" video, filmed back before most of her dancers were born.
People close to Madonna, those who love her, are always saying, "Why don’t you relax more; have some fun?" Sometimes she will agree. But most of the time she doesn’t bother to give concerned parties her life memo: hard work --pushing herself to the limit and most of all, dancing is her fun and relaxation. So many of her songs celebrate the power of dance and how it can free you -- perhaps just temporarily -- from immediate care.

Watching this star go through her paces, she seems not to have a care in the world, except to perfect her show. "That sucked!" she declares after failing to execute her double-dutch without error. "I have to be better." Madonna pauses and gives a mock scowl to her dancers, "And so does everybody else."

Later, she painstakingly explains her vision on one of the numbers. The choreographer is working only from an email he just received from Madonna. She has her vision, now she has to communicate it. The number will feature four girls who are dressed up in various iconic versions of Madonna images past. She’s laughing at her old ’looks’ and discussing the particulars. "At first I thought mannequins, then no, real girls would be better. Truthfully, I wanted drag queens, who does me better? But I figured that might be too much drama, you know -- those girls love their scenes. And I provide enough of that!"

As Madonna recruits the dancers who’ll stand and strike a pose, each holding or wearing a prop the star will snatch away, the choreographer beams, "Oh, this is getting so wickedly weird. Now I’m really loving it!"

THROUGHOUT THE afternoon and evening Madonna never flags, and never loses her sense of humor or the maternal camaraderie she always shares with her dancers.

Happily lost in her greatest love -- her work -- it doesn’t seem the time or place to bring up her supposedly failing marriage or the betrayal of her bother, Christopher Ciccone, and his tell-all book.

Will Madonna and Guy Ritchie separate? I don’t know. The last time I saw Guy and Madonna together, they couldn’t have been more convivial and affectionate. They were in public, of course, so we take the proverbial grain of salt on that one. She has three children. She is not cavalier when it comes to divorce. (Remember, this is only her second marriage.)

Certainly Madonna does not look or behave like a woman whose marriage is on the rocks. She wouldn’t show that face anyway; that’s a great part of her appeal.

Guy Ritchie landed in New York.
Category: (Private) Life.

Guy Ritchie arrived in New York from London Monday evening amid reports of trouble in his marriage to Madonna, who is in the Big Apple rehearsing for an upcoming tour.

Around 6:30 p.m. the director, who was accompanied by two bodyguards, entered the Upper West Side building where he and Madonna own an apartment.

Rumors that their seven-year marriage is in trouble have been circulating for some time. Adding fuel to the talk, Ritchie, 39, and Madonna, 49, spent the weekend apart – she with their three children in New York, and him in London. Neither of them wore wedding bands.

Madonna’s spokesperson, Liz Rosenberg, said, "Madonna has rarely worn a wedding band over these last six years, so there’s no secret message about that."

Last week, the Daily Mirror reported Madonna met with divorce attorney Fiona Shackleton, who represented Paul McCartney and Prince Charles in their respective divorces.

Source: People.

TV Newsreports of Greece's Hysteria for Madonna Concert
Category: Video-clip.

Enclosed below are Greek TV newsreports further showing the hysteria for Madonna's much anticipated concert in Athens, Greece that is taking place on September 27, 2008. Thanks to mykpmp and panosmad.


ZOUGLA

ANT1 TV

 

STAR TV

Madonna and Family Attend Sabbath Services - June 27
Category: (Private) Life.

From People.com:

Madonna and Family Attend Sabbath Services


Madonna on Friday, leaving the Kabbalah Centre
Photo by: Dario Alequin / INF

With no wedding ring on her finger and no husband in sight, Madonna and her three children – and Carlos Leon, 11-year-old daughter Lourdes's biological dad – visited Manhattan's Kabbalah Centre Friday night for Sabbath services and returned again on Saturday.

So where was Guy Ritchie, rumored to be splitting with Madonna? British tabloid reports had him in London, but headed to New York this weekend. Britain's Sun has an unnamed source saying Ritchie seeks to keep the couple's marriage going, although Madonna is focused on rehearsals for her upcoming world tour.

On Thursday, it was reported in the London Times Madonna had consulted noted divorce British attorney Fiona Shackleton, who had represented Paul McCartney and Prince Charles in their bitter divorces from, respectively, Heather Mills and Princess Diana.

On Friday night, Madonna's group came in three waves, with Leon and Lourdes arriving first, quickly followed by an SUV carrying her son (with Ritchie) Rocco, 7, and adopted son David, 2, each child with a nanny.

Fifteen minutes later, around 8:45, Madonna arrived, wearing a black skirt and a black tank top over a white T-shirt. The service had just about ended, with a dinner about to begin. Madonna stayed some 20 minutes before leaving with Rocco and David for her home on Central Park West, according to a source.

Attended Bar Mitzvah

On Saturday, Madonna and her three children returned to the center for services. Her presence didn't create any kind of stir, as congregants gave her hardly any notice.

With Lourdes at her side, Madonna sat in a front-row seat, wearing a black baseball cap and tight black T-shirt. David, in a white baseball cap and Rocco sporting a Yankees cap, spent much of the time playing quietly with some other children on the floor of the sanctuary.

A bar mitzvah took place, and at its conclusion Rocco joined all the congregants in throwing Sunkist fruit gem candies at the bar mitzvah boy.

At the service's conclusion, Lourdes wrapped her arms around her mother's neck and gave her a big, long hug.

In Manhattan to rehearse for her upcoming world Sticky & Sweet tour, which kicks off Aug. 23 in Wales, Madonna has stuck to a rigid schedule.

First, according to a source, she works out at home. Then, at 2:15 each afternoon, Madonna leaves for a studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she and members of the tour practice numbers.

Meanwhile, the children and several nannies, often also accompanied by Leon, spend time playing outside or in Central Park, the source says.

 

Sticky & Sweet Tour rehearsals.
Category: Live Performances & Tours.

Rehearsals for the Sticky & Sweet tour are taking place on a soundstage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The band are working on music from 10 - 2 every day, before Madonna arrives at 3 pm.

Thanks to our collaborator and insider JPASC24.

Sticky & Sweet Tour: Hysteria for Madonna's tickets in Athens!!
Category: Live Performances & Tours.

Today Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour tickets were on sale in Greece!

It was a hysteria!

"People slept outside the box offices," Jason from Athens tells DrownedMadonna.com. "Everything was and is beyond any expectation!"

"More than one hundred fans slept outside that box office! I went at 6am and I couldn’t believe it!"

Here are a few pictures that Jason took near the box office in downtown Athens. Most of them were taken at 12pm!

"Madonna is everywhere on the TV!! A lot of TV channels and Newspapers were on my box office," says Jason. 

"The internet sales - www.ticketpro.gr - crashed for a few hours! It is set to be the the most successful ticket Ever in Greece for number of tickets and rate of selling!" adds Jason. 

Our reader George from Athens due to a server problem wasn't able to buy his tickets though his Icon membership, so he decided to go today at one of the ticket office in Athens. 

"I was at the ticketbox at 6.00 am and about 100 people were already there. What followed I just couldn't believe," George tells DrownedMadonna.com. "There was a massive arrival of Greek fans in order to get the magic tickets. I was able to buy mine at about 11.30 am after struggling, pushing and anxiety!"

"The time I left there, around 12pm, there was this super-long line of fans waiting under 40 degrees celcious, people of all ages, I just couldn’t believe it! Damn impressive!"

Here's a video footage that George filmed today.

"Early in the morning, at about 6am, 20 people were standing in front of the ticket stand of the Olympic Stadium," Gerasimos from Athens tells DrownedMadonna.com.  

"2 hours later we were about 300 waiting to buy tickets for Madonna's concert. At the other sales point in the heart of Athens there were about 1000 people waiting for the TicketPro shop to open. I was the second one in the row but I got the 1st ticket, the one I scanned for you - see below."

"I'm really proud. I got tickets for Nice and Paris concerts too, but it's fantastic that Live Nation decided to bring her in Athens." 

People says that the show is already SOLD OUT. Let's wait and see!

Don't miss ''Madonna dalle origini al mito'' !!
Category: Music.

Don't forget that today, June 27, on every Italian news-stands you can buy the SECOND issue of "Madonna dalle origini al mito" (Madonna from the beginning to the myth) with Italian daily newspapers "Corriere della Sera" and "La Gazzetta dello Sport".

The second issue of the special collection is "Like A Prayer".

DrownedMadonna.com really suggest you to buy the whole collection, which will include 9 original albums and 2 original DVD's:

 True Blue

 Like A Prayer

 Like A Virgin

 Madonna

 Erotica

 Bedtime Stories

 Evita

 I'm Breathless

 Who's That Girl

 Ciao Italia - DVD

 The Immaculate Collection - DVD

It's a great item that cannot miss on your Madonna's collection!!

And it's also a great chance to collect some old Madonna's albums, if you miss them.

If you don't live in Italy, we suggest you to ask your Italian friends to buy a copy for you and ship it to you!

Don't miss it!!

''Give It 2 Me'' already Top10 Airplay at Dance Radio.
Category: Charts.

Despite not being added across the board at U.S. radio thus far, according to Billboard, Madonna’s "Give It 2 Me" is already No.7 in Airplay at Dance Radio in just 2 weeks!!

#7 Billboard Hot Dance Airplay

Please, fans continue requesting the song at your Top40 stations in your city!

Thanks to Savymicheal.

Heatherette's Richie Rich talks about costume designs for Madonna's Sticky & Sweet Tour.
Category: Live Performances & Tours.

Our Canadian correspondent Kevin booked Richie Rich of Heatherette on ’THE SHAUN PROULX SHOW’ on Toronto’s all gay commercial station PROUDFM, while he was in Toronto yesterday. 

Richie Rich talked abit about recording an album with Cazwell and also talked about sketching costume designs for Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet Tour.

Richie said that he is meeting with Liz Rosenberg this coming Tuesday in NYC to show Madonna’s camp his design sketches.

Click here to download the audio clip.

Material Girl Leaves Doubters In The Dust For Biggest Tour Of 2008
Category: Press Release.

Madonna Tickets Breeze Past One Million Mark - 'Sticky & Sweet' Tour Heading Toward Record-Breaking Numbers

Material Girl Leaves Doubters In The Dust For Biggest Tour Of 2008

LOS ANGELES, June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Neither wind, nor rain, gas prices, nor the economy can slow down the momentum of Madonna fans who are turning out in record numbers all over the globe to scoop up tickets for the upcoming "Sticky & Sweet" Tour. Today, Live Nation confirmed that Mexico City's Foro Sol Stadium shows scheduled for November 29th and 30th sold more than 100,000 tickets in just three hours, resulting in back to back sellouts at the famed stadium.

Mexico City joins the growing list of sold out Madonna shows in Paris, Lisbon, New York, Zurich, Boston, Chicago, Denver, East Rutherford, NJ, Oakland, Las Vegas, Houston, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver all of which sold out within hours of going on sale.

To date Madonna has sold out 90% of the tickets available for her 42-date global tour, which kicks off in Cardiff, Wales on August 23rd.

With more than 70,000 tickets sold for the Sticky & Sweet Zurich Show at the Military Airfield Dubendorf on August 30th, Lisbon's 75,000 tickets sold and 50,000 tickets sold for her Vancouver dates and four Madison Square Garden shows sold out in New York City in addition to the nearby Izod Center in East Rutherford for a total of 65,000 New York area tickets sold, Madonna has sold more than 1 Million tickets thus far on her global tour.

Madonna, whose most recent CD 'HARD CANDY' debuted at Number One in over 30 countries, has made it her personal mission to challenge herself to top her previous tours. With rehearsals well under way for 'Sticky & Sweet,' Madonna and famed director and long-time collaborator Jamie King are creating an extraordinary never-before seen stage set, groundbreaking audio and eye popping visual effects. Madonna will be joined onstage with a new band and 18 dancers that reaffirm that this is a singular event that Madonna fans can not miss.

"With 'Sticky & Sweet,' Madonna is on track to break her own record as the top grossing female artist of all time," said Arthur Fogel, Live Nation's of Chairman of Global Music and CEO of Global Touring. "Her sales are extraordinary in every market she's playing and illustrate what an unparalleled live draw Madonna is for music fans all over the world."

Source: Live Nation press release via prnewswire.com