Welp, you couldn't expect the ravaged black hole that is Madonna's ego to be still just because her very public separation from husband Guy Ritchie and her very public relationship with Alex Rodriguez (who also just separated from his wife Cynthia) is dwindling off a bit, could you?
Madonna's newest tactic for remaining in the spotlight until she's 85? Leaking rumors that she's hooking up with a Portuguese model. A Portuguese model named Jesus. God, where was he when she was shooting the Like a Prayer video?
Sorry it's been so long since you were force-fed some ridiculous anecdote about these clown college graduates, but a) Thanksgiving is a time for resting up and yelling at your mom, not freaking out about the minutia of Madge's life and b) A-Rod actually managed to see his kids for the holidays, and thus avoided a whole post on here about being the worst father of the year (behind Ashton).
But it's been over a week since we last reported on Madonna in a tiff about Rodriguez not attending kabbalah sessions, so it's time for another update in the lives of the old and irrelevant!
Happy early Christmas, y'all.
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And while Brooke Shields can deliver a television advertisement worth watching, sports heroes cannot. But guess what about this Guitar Hero: World Tour spot agitates us more: That we have to watch one-time alleged sexual assaulter Kobe Bryant, rumored Madonna fling Alex Rodriguez, skateboarding forever-child Tony Hawk, and the insufferable and unavoidable Michael Phelps jam together? Or that homages to Tom Cruise movies are still in vogue?
Okay, we know you’re going to find this hard to believe, but Madonna adores all the attention surrounding her alleged affair with Alex Rodriguez. That’s what her so-called friend are saying. What’s more, the pop star’s looking to up the ante a bit:
Alex Rodriguez may have just been a star Yankees player just a few short weeks ago, but now everybody is abreast of his man about town reputation, courtesy the rampant speculation about his dalliances with Madonna. The tabloids, entertainment shows, gossip blogs, and yes, even the cable news networks and morning shows have eagerly weighed in on the matter. And yes, he's even caught the attention of the one one woman who is supposed to be steering America's news cycle. CONTINUED »
Looking to "Ruin Romo" for inspiration, the most asshole-y of Blue Jays fans enjoyed torturing Alex Rodriguez as the Yankees played the Toronto team up north over the weekend. To their credit, they did not use the scariest of all Madonna photos. [Mollygood]
We already know how People magazine is conducting its Madonna/Alex Rodriguez coverage: By running quotes from her publicist Liz Rosenberg as truths. But how are magazines like riot-inducing Us Weekly getting their information — tips so valid they're calling for the end of Madonna and Guy Ritchie's marriage? An email that arrived in our inbox might shed some light. CONTINUED »
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Overwhelmed by the tireless coverage of the Madonna/Alex Rodriguez/Lenny Kravitz/Cynthia Rodriguez rat fuck, a delirious MSNBC staffer accidentally put up a picture of OJ Simpson in place of the Yankee cad.
Madonna/A-Rod relationship denier Roger Friedman helpfully pinpoints all the dates relevant to their relationship that does not exist. As if this entire story could not get more sensational, there's this bit about a, ahem, "groin pull": "What was A-Rod’s injury? A grade 2 groin pull that occurred during a game against Baltimore on the 20th. He went back to work, but exacerbated the injury to the point where he couldn’t play. It was so bad that Rodriguez actually didn’t rejoin the team until May 20, when the Yanks lost to Baltimore 12-1. That’s a long time for a superstar of Rodriguez’s caliber to be out of commission. Indeed, when A-Rod was injured, manager Joe Girardi was quoted in several interviews saying that he was 'surprised to learn the strain was so severe.'" [Fox 411]
As Madonna fields another wave of negative press with her brother Christopher Ciccone hawking his new book — and handing Good Morning America the get with a two-parter on July 14 and 15 — she also has to deal with shenanigans from the likes of Vanity Fair, which today publishes an Ed Coaster-esque email exchange between Madge and A-Rod. (Madonna addresses Rodriguez as "Slugger" and signs off as "Esther." Authentic!)
This is, of course, just the latest round in the saga that is Madonna and Alex Rodriguez. And the tabloid press is on her ass more than ever.
So we got to thinking: Just what would the tabloids pay for the ultimate get — the first photos of Madonna and Alex Rodriguez together — if such a photo were ever taken?
We asked some high-level industry types to find out what the asking price would be for visual proof this duo has spent personal time together. Hint: Angelina's babies still cost more. CONTINUED »
Backtracking is often the unfortunate side effect of being a professional gossip. Sometimes you get things wrong. Sometimes your sources lead you askew. Sometimes you're so self-sure of your own version of events that you put blinders up against the common thinking that everybody else subscribes to, ignoring tell-tale signs and well-sourced reports so you can do the Slate-y thing and zag where others zig.
It explains how Fox News gossip Roger Friedman went from denying any possibility of Madonna romancing with Alex Rodriguez to plotting out how the duo might've maintained their secret affair. Get on the bus! CONTINUED »
It really should be Madonna's year. She's got a new album out (although it's been panned by critics and fans), she's about to embark on an international tour this fall (to perform lyrics that include "Don't pretend you're not hungry, I've got plenty to eat / Come on in to my store, ;cause my sugar is sweet"), and her adoption of David Banda, once mired in controversy, is finally being made official. And then she had to come to New York.
It's then that rumors of a romance with Yankees star Alex Rodriguez really began pouring out, forcing publicist Liz Rosenberg to repeatedly shoot them down with the excuse that they share the same manager, Guy Oseary, rather than acknowledge the long-standing trouble in her client's marriage to Guy Ritchie. And it's then that Madonna began taking the blame for the marital woes between A-Rod and wife Cynthia, despite the baseball player's well-known man-about-town romancing, all of which forced Cynthia to run off to Paris to spend time with "friend" Lenny Kravitz, who just happened to once date Madonna.
And all of that's before her brother even has a chance to make the morning show rounds to plug his tell-all book. CONTINUED »
Just in time for the holiday weekend when nobody will care, Lenny Kravitz issues a statement denying he's sleeping with Alex Rodriguez's wife Cynthia while A-Rod himself diddles Madonna. "There is absolutely no affair between Cynthia Rodriguez and myself," reads the statement. "This is unequivocally 100% not true. Cynthia is a friend and is here with the godfather of her baby, who is also Alex's trainer, his wife and their baby girl." [Us]
Yankees player Alex Rodriguez and wife Cynthia are said to have split "after about three months of problems in their marriage," but it's equally likely the pair already went their separate ways and the Daily News' report is just playing catch up with what was already decided between the two — start seeing other people. (That might explain why the baseball star spent about 24 hours with Cynthia after she gave birth to their second daughter.) A-Rod, of course, has spent the week being linked to the still-married (but also marriage problem sufferer) Madonna, while wife Cynthia is supposedly seeing Lenny Kravitz, the one-time paramour of, uh, Madonna. That all of this is finally coming out in the press, though, is reason enough to start the formal splitting up process, which inevitably arrives first with gossipmongering and then with an official statement. So should we expect the same from Madonna's camp? We're still thinking no. [Photo: NYDN]
In today's Post follow up of the Madonna/A-Rod love SCANDAL!!, there's no mention of the baseball player's good deed yesterday, but there is a smoking gun that confirms these two are totally banging each other: Rodriguez is into Kabbalah. He's got the string and everything. Why is that such a big deal? Because he refuses to comment about it. CONTINUED »
How is Alex Rodriguez dodging all those rumors about hooking up with Madonna? The charitable way!
Today he was spotted leaving his New York City apartment (he might've called the paps, or maybe they were just staking out his place because of the new scandal) with a boy from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, headed off to the Yankees game. Perhaps the stunt will ensure a 24-period of coverage that, at very least, will have the press including a mention of his mitzvah today before rumormongering about Madge. [Photo: INF]
While OK! and Us Weekly insist Madonna and Yankees star Alex Rodriguez are having themselves a little extramarital affair — hey, she did write a song called "I Love New York" … a secret love letter perhaps? — People shoots back with the official response from Madge's longtime rep Liz Rosenberg, who tries to put the kabash on all this nonsense.
"It's nothing new that people are airing tons of dirty laundry Madonna's way lately – much of it untrue," says Liz, who adds that Guy Ritchie just arrived in the U.S. not as a last ditch effort to save his marriage, as some aggressive headline writers might suggest, but to be with his wife and kids.
Except it's also quite plausible, inside the gossip industry where even the Today show is playing, to assume Ritchie came to the States just to give the appearance of normalcy, and quell reports that both he and Madonna have consulted with divorce attorneys.
For its part, Us is standing by its sources, who seem to be phoning in A-Rod reports from the front desk of her Manhattan apartment building. The tabloid's latest report? That the baseball player visited Madge the night after his wife gave birth to their second daughter.
But as hard as Rosenberg works to play this story off as a non-issue, which she's been doing for more than a year, speculation about the end of Madonna's marriage isn't going anywhere. And here's why: CONTINUED »
Madonna has been in this industry long enough to know that she should have fueled divorce speculation back when her album was coming out, because she is getting more attention now than she has in a long time. The latest rumors to hit Madge involve a certain Yankees baseball player, who has been making late-night visits to her NYC apartment while soon-to-be-ex Guy Ritchie is away.
Was that Alex Rodriguez trying to mack it to the much junior Rumer Willis at GQ's Men of the Year party at the Chateau Marmont in L.A.? Why yes, yes it was, says one attendee who claims to have tried, unsuccessfully, to cop a feel of EIC Jim Nelson's junk.
Although we can’t always shake the nasty habit of writing in the royal we, occasionally one of our editors decides to shake off the cloak of anonymity to write a short, pithy statement long, rambling diatribe about a topic of their choice. Today, Debbie Newman is that editor.
This just in: The Yankees' adulterous third baseman (and this year's league MVP) Alex Rodriguez is arrogant, greedy and not particularly well liked by the New York fans or working media.
Worse still, he recently opted out of his contract with the Yanks AND disingenuously said things like "I love New York" while simultaneously fielding offers from all over the country. Plus, this one time? Prior to joining the Yanks? He said something way harsh about Derek Jeter "never [having] had to lead" before. Which, according to columnist-turned-baseball aficionado Jon Friedman, just may have helped spur on their rivalry.
