Guy Ritchie attacked by a Madonna fan


Guy Ritchie is shown outside his pub on 10/31/08. He is not wearing his wedding ring. Credit Bauer Griffin

When you divorce Madonna, it seems you not only have to fight off your ex-wife and her lawyers, but also her fans. A knife-wielding Madonna fan tried to attack Guy Ritchie on the set of his latest film about Sherlock Holmes.

A crazed Madonna fan stormed on to the set of Guy Ritchie’s new movie and threatened to kill him.

The film director, who is in the process of divorcing the singer, was just yards away when the teenager burst on to the set waving a 12-inch knife and yelling: “Where’s Guy? I’m going to kill him!”

And as security guards wrestled him to the ground, he screamed: “I’m Madonna’s biggest fan! I’m gonna kill Guy.”

The teenager, dressed entirely in black, managed to get on to the set in Manchester where Guy is filming a remake of Sherlock Holmes.

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It wouldn’t have occurred to me that anyone could be so unhinged (or that big of a Madonna fan, but perhaps the two are linked) to want to attack her ex-husband. Surely you could see the good things he’s done for her, like making Swept Away.

Guy’s rep has made no statement about the attack, and given that it features in a tabloid the incident might not have occurred, but I really do believe that a fan(atic) could have done this. The part that doesn’t ring true for me is that the attacker was 16 – surely no 16-year-old on the planet lusts after Madonna nowadays? She looks like gristle wrapped in my mother’s old gym clothes.

Here’s Guy outside his pub, The Punch Bowl, on 10/30/08 and 11/1/08. Guy stayed at the pub until 2am on Sunday morning. He is said to have sung that night and to have ordered McDonalds. Madonna is shown performing in Vancouver, Canada on 10/31/08. Credit: Bauergriffinonline.

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  1. MissMara says:

    Those pics of Madonna performing are so embarrassing! 😯

  2. RAN says:

    Guy ordered McD’s? How endearing.. For some reason, I find that to be cute as well as sad. Like someone who was on Survivor or something.

    And about the fan… utterly ridiculous – possibly true, but idiotic if it is. Who’s that dumb? 🙄

  3. smit33 says:

    Maybe she hired him to kill her husband. Paid him with sex, and now he is totally loco.

  4. geekaziod says:

    so sad.

  5. Leandra says:

    Maybe the kid was on something…that happens a lot nowadays. Guy eating McDonalds? He probably had to do that disguised and in cover of darkness before in case Madonna would find out. Now he can eat it openly.

  6. geronimo says:

    Or possibly even a tabloid plant? Glad to hear he’s getting some McNourishment.

  7. tigerlille says:

    You know, most highly successful rock bands can keep right on performing, if they wish, through their 50s and 60s, and no one blinks an eye. But Madonna’s antics, at age 50, truly do come off as embarrassing, as Miss Mara commented. Grotesque too. I wonder why that is?

  8. MissMara says:

    Good question Tigerlillie. I’m gonna give it a shot.

    I guess it has something to do with the way they use their sexuality.The Rolling Stones for example are still cool and Mick Jagger is in some ways still hot, but in an understated way – they are rather proving that they are still cool rock artists than proving that they have the hottest bodies/are true sex machines.

    Madonna always tries to be the epithome of sex, sees herself mainly as a sexual being during performances. And all of this in an obvious way: naked=sexy, the more flesh the hotter. I don’t think so, Madge. Were she dressing in really cool suits, dresses (I mean she has all the money in the world to buy cool clothes that fit her age/figure) she would be considered sexier than she is now. To hang on to youth this tight is pathetic in my eyes. I would love to see a mature Madonna with a mature sexuality. She could still be a role model if she weren’t so skrewed up in this respect (and in all the others… 🙄 😆 )

  9. geronimo says:

    Agree, other musicians in their 50s and 60s are doing it for the music and their love of playing live and the buzz of performing, and are happy with that, and couldn’t care less about being seen as sex-gods. Which is why they continue to be so successful. Madge, on the other hand, has a very warped perception of her place in the scheme of things and isn’t prepared to accept anything less than global mass adoration. Whch she seems to see as her right.

  10. Syko says:

    She’s always been so aggressive with sex anyway. And now with her man arms and man legs and 50 year old face and fried hair, she just looks grotesque.

    Sometimes subtlety is a lot sexier than the crotch-in-your-face approach.

  11. Tess says:

    She’s looking like a Marlene Deitrich wannabee. But with an unlovely, very crass, harder edge.

    And by the way, IMHO, aging male rockers look just as rediculous as their female counterparts.

  12. Kaiser says:

    I think the “fan” was Geronimo. 😯

    Perhaps she just wanted to use the knife to get Guy’s pants off.

  13. geronimo says:

    😀 Kaiser. No, I was the shouty beer-spilling drunk (another mad Madge-fan story) who got arrested in his pub on Sat night.

  14. mojoman says:

    Maybe he is just picking up what he had left off from 8 years of deprivation, who can blame him? and going to the total extreme (McDonald) just to mock Madonna.

  15. Kaiser says:

    G, ZOMG DERANGED MADGE FAN.

    “According to police reports, the deranged fan was yelling ‘A pox on Man-Arms!’ and ‘Take off yer pants, Guy!'”

  16. Tess says:

    Syko—love your comment.

    …Madge’s man arms and legs remind me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry watches with mounting horror as his otherwise good looking date rips into a lobster dinner with a pair of man mitts.

  17. Ron says:

    Yikes for the Guy thing!

    Regarding M, she does need to start dressing more appropriately to her age. I am 43 and even though I could wear them, if I were running around in skateboard clothes I’d look ridiculous. It doesn’t mean that you can’t follow trends either, you just have to pick and choose accordingly. Madonna generally has a good sense of style.

    We have all seen your bod and yes you work out, now try to reinvent yourself as a lady…now there’s a challenge.

  18. vdantev says:

    Ah, the terrifying fury of undernourished tone-deaf 8th graders !!

  19. Anoneemouse says:

    Nice to see her one remaining fan is sticking up for her. I think Guy deserves a medal for putting up with her since 2000. It looks like he aged 25 years since they first married.

  20. Mrs. B says:

    Madonna dresses very age-appropriate when she goes to a public event. Actually, she dresses matronly! Has anyone ever bothered to realize that she only dresses this way when she is performing? She’s a dancer, for god’s sake! She’s not Celine Dion just standing around singing! I don’t blame her for wanting to be comfortable while performing her butt off! Maybe people don’t give her the props she deserves b/c she is a woman, and is—OMG 50!!!!!

  21. crab says:

    What about Cher? She dresses a lot worse when performing and she’s a lot older?