These are some photos of Elton John, David Furnish and their son Zachary on vacation with Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka and their kids last week. I never got around to covering these photos for whatever reason…? I guess I just forgot. The two families went on vacation last year too, and the photos are really similar (except for the size of the babies). But that’s not the point of this post – the point is that Elton John is still a raging bitch. And I love him. Remember this year’s Golden Globes? Madonna won “Best Song” and she was up against Elton John and Mary J. Blige, and both Mary and Elton were PISSED. Mary didn’t say anything, but Elton and David Furnish basically told everyone who would listen that Madonna is a selfish, narcissistic, talentless POS. Madonna was surprisingly gracious about the criticism, telling reporters that she loved Elton and David, etc. Still, Elton seethed. And now Elton is bitching about Madonna in a new interview:

Sir Elton John has reignited his feud with Madonna by labelling her a ‘f***ing fairground stripper’ in an extraordinary new interview.

The 65-year-old singer didn’t hold back with his criticism of Madonna, with his outburst triggered as he claimed the singer had been ‘horrible’ to Lady Gaga, who is godmother to his and husband David Furnish’s 19-month-old son Zachary.

Elton added that Madonna, 53, had no right to criticise other artists because her ‘career is over’ and her recent MDNA world-tour was less than well received.

Speaking on Australian news and current affairs programme Sunday Night, Elton said: ‘She’s such a nightmare. Sorry, her career is over. Her tour has been a disaster and it couldn’t happen to a bigger ****. If Madonna had any common sense she would have made a record like Ray of Light and stayed away from the dance stuff and just been a great pop singer and make great pop records, which she does brilliantly. But no, she had to go and prove … she looks like a f***ing fairground stripper. She’s been so horrible to Gaga.’

Elton’s comments come after Madonna hit out at Gaga for her track Born This Way having too many similarities to her own 1989 hit Express Yourself.

She said: ‘I thought, “What a wonderful way to redo my song.” I mean, I recognised the chord changes. I thought it was … interesting.’

Earlier this year, Elton reignited his long-running feud with Madonna by implying she wouldn’t sing live at the Super Bowl half-time show, saying she should “lip-synch good” in her performance.

The 65-year-old musician’s comments came after David had branded Madonna ‘embarrassing’ and ‘desperate’ after her song Masterpiece – from her directorial debut movie W.E. – beat Elton’s efforts on animated film Gnomeo and Juliet to win a Golden Globe award.

He wrote on Facebook: ‘Madonna. Best song???? F**k off!!! Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit.

‘Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in its narcissism. And her criticism of Gaga shows how desperate she really is. (sic)’

[From The Mail]

Is all of this about Lady Gaga? I doubt it. I mean, I think the Gaga thing is an interesting sidenote, of course, and I don’t doubt that Elton and David want to defend their friend. But let’s be real: Elton and David just have a hate-on for Madonna. You don’t get this worked up about Madonna JUST because she points out that your friend Lady Gaga is a copycat. Something else is going on – maybe it’s just Elton’s completely normal, temperamental, bitchy behavior. Or maybe it’s something else.

Also… “fairground stripper”?? Do fairs have strippers now? I haven’t been to a fair in ages.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Madonna didn’t actually say the words “French politician Marine Le Pen is a Nazi” but she did say it with her visuals during her MDNA tour. During Madonna’s show, she does a “video morph” thing of various international politicians and leaders, and when Marine Le Pen’s photo comes up, it morphs into a swastika. Incidentally, when I was looking up my previous story on this subject, I just typed in “Madonna Nazi” thinking it would bring me to the story – it didn’t. You know why? Because Madonna also defended King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, claiming that they weren’t Nazi sympathizers, when in truth, there is a lot of evidence that proves that they were. Basically, Madonna only uses Nazi imagery when it suits her purposes, and she will defend real, genuine Nazi sympathizers because they were “romantic”.

Anyway, these are photos from Madge’s Paris show last night. The last time she was in France, she pulled the Marine Le Pen-swastika trick, and Le Pen made a lot of noise about suing (although I don’t think she’s actually sued yet). So Madonna tried to apologize while on stage. Except she didn’t really. Just FYI, this Mail story cracked me up:

Madonna appeared to make a public apology to France’s far-right nationalist leader Marine Le Pen last night after depicting the politician with a swastika across her forehead. It comes as the leader of the National Front prepares to sue the pop queen for associating her with Adolf Hitler’s Nazis.

In an eccentric performance in front of 2,500 fans in Paris, Madonna said: ‘I know that I have made a certain Marine Le Pen very angry with me. It’s not my intention to make enemies.’

Madonna then went on to praise France for its tolerance and the welcome it had shown to black performers.

She said: ‘Before the civil rights movement in America, African American artists were not allowed to perform in America, but France opened its arms to Josephine Baker, Charlie Parker, to people of colour and people who were different. Minorities felt welcome in France. If we don’t learn from history we will just repeat it. So the next time you want to point the finger at somebody and blame them for the problems in your life take that finger and point it back at you.’

Despite her emotive words, there were boos when Madonna, who turns 54 in August, performed for just 45 minutes, after fans paid up to £200 to see her.

She also raised eyebrows when she said: ‘I have a special affinity with France, and I have for many years. It could go all the way to Napoleon because I think of myself as a revolutionary.’

The pop queen was attacked for only singing for around 30 minutes – and spending 15 minutes ‘wittering on about politics’. As she left the stage, the curtains closed behind her with a message reading ‘I love you’. But when she did not reappear for an encore, audience members began jeering, booing and pelting the stage with bottles. Ticket prices for the sold-out gig started at £60 rising to £200, but were exchanging hands on the black market for up to £1,000.

Concert-goer Guillaume Delaval said afterwards: ‘The show was OK but it only last 45 minutes, and she spent 15 minutes of that wittering on about politics and tolerance. We didn’t come to hear that. It was a concert, not the United Nations.’

Madonna’s staff were not available for comment today on why she ended the gig so abruptly.

The National Front has already lodged a formal legal complaint on Madonna for the Nazi stunt, which she pulled at another concert in Paris earlier this month. Florian Philippot, the FN’s vice-president, said the party could not accept ‘such an odious comparison’, adding: ‘This is just another provocation in Madonna’s world tour so that people will talk about her. Marine Le Pen will defend not only her own honour but her supporters and the millions of National Front voters.’

Ms Le Pen, 43, threatened prosecution when Madonna performed the same stunt in Israel, saying: ‘We understand how old singers who need to get people talking about them go to such extremes.’

Other sources in the National Front, which has frequently been linked with anti-Semitism and racism, said Madonna had offended all of its members.

‘We are not a Nazi party, and object to being depicted as such,’ said a source in the party, which won a fifth of the popular vote during the first round of presidential elections in April. ‘If you accuse the National Front of being anti-Semitic and racist then you accuse a fifth of the French people of being anti-Semitic and racist.’

Marine Le Pen pledged to reform the party after taking over the leadership from her notorious father, Jean-Marie Le Pen last year. He is a convicted racist and anti-Semite who has in the past denied that the Nazi Holocaust actually took place during World War II. Despite this, he came runner-up in the French presidential election in 2002, proving that he had widespread support. Ms Le Pen has toned down the party’s extremist views, but regularly pledges to limit Muslim immigration, and to clamp down on Islamic culture in France.

Ms Le Pen won just under 18 per cent of votes in the presidential election but failed in her bid to become an MP in France’s National Assembly.

[From The Mail]

So, long story short, she didn’t apologize, she yammered on and on about race and politics, and she barely “performed” for 30 minutes after charging everybody roughly $300-ish for the pleasure. CLASSIC MADGE.

PS… I’m including a slightly NSFW photo at the bottom. Because I LOVE YOU. Madge Biscuit Attack!!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Last week, when I covered the latest Madonna “controversy” in which she basically called a French politician a Nazi, I mentioned that Madonna’s MDNA stage show features a lot of “prop guns”. She’s touring Europe right now, which doesn’t have the kind of rampant gun problems we have in America, so I kept expecting to hear more stuff from European politicians about that issue in particular, but not so much. Beyond the actual politics of “prop guns used during a Madonna show,” seeing Madge pop her hip out while waving around a prop gun is pretty lame in general. We’re supposed to think she’s avant-garde, I think. When really she just looks out of touch.

Anyway, you know where I’m going with this. The new Madonna controversy is that, following the Colorado massacre, Madonna has not removed prop guns from her stage show. At all. Some people are offended. When she was in Scotland, the authorities even warned her about using the prop guns, and she did it anyway.

Maybe she really just doesn’t read the news, but Madonna’s managed to do it again: Despite being warned by police, the singer — who named her album after a thinly veiled drug reference — defied a ban and waved fake machine guns and pistols on stage at her show in Scotland on Saturday.

Her performance drew the ire of Mothers Against Guns, who said the 53-year-old singer “should know better.”

“Madonna and her dancers using replica guns was always in bad taste but given what happened in Colorado it is even worse,” a representative for the organization told the Saturday Morning Herald.

The singer’s camp remained defiant. “Madonna would rather cancel her show than censor her art,” a member of her tour staff told HuffPost’s Rob Shuter. “Her entire career, she has fought against people telling her what she can and cannot do. She’s not about to start listening to them now.”

[From HuffPo]

It’s not about censorship – it’s about showing respect to the victims of one of the worst mass-shootings in American history. Madonna probably didn’t want to take the guns out of her show because there would have been barely any show left. What were they going to do, take away the guns and leave all of the crosses and the “music”? Still, I’m not crazy about the idea that only NOW, after the Colorado thing, people are like, “Wow, Madonna is so dumb to have all of these guns in her show.” It was asinine and offensive BEFORE Colorado. Now it’s just… Madonna being Madonna. Looking for whatever controversy she can cling to, fighting the “good fight” against “censorship” of her artsy prop guns that bring nothing to the conversation. All for a tour in support of an album that bombed. My point? She should take the prop guns out of her show because the whole “waving guns around on stage” thing is so lame and stupid, not because of the politics or “censorship” or anything like that.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are new photos of Madonna performing during her MDNA concert last night in London. I’m so tired of covering photos of Madonna on stage with this prop gun! Using a “prop gun” during your show and waving it around, pointing it at the audience – God, that’s so lame. And she’s still using crucifix images too – how avant-garde! Anyway, there are a bunch of Madge stories this week, so let’s just do some highlights:

*Madonna has taken in $50 million in the first three weeks of her MDNA tour. She has 70 more shows left (internationally), which means she could stand to make $450 million once the tour is done. A concert promoter source tells HuffPo, “This is one of the biggest tours we have seen … ever. She is playing some of the biggest venues around the world and selling them out … It’s putting other summer tours, including J.Lo’s first tour, to shame. What is so impressive about these numbers is she’s playing far fewer shows than previous tours by the Rolling Stones, Cher and Lady Gaga, and grossing more.” You know why that is, right? Because Madonna is charging hundreds of dollars per ticket. It’s price-gauging.

*Meanwhile, there are rumors that Madge is going to cancel the Australian leg of her tour for “reasons unspecified”. While Madonna claimed that there would be an Aussie leg, the dates haven’t been announced and the tickets haven’t gone on sale. Sources claim that Madonna will probably wait until after the Olympics to announce whether she’ll be going Down Under.

*And finally, the political story that I wanted to avoid discussing, but here I go. First, let me just say – I know very little about French politics. Don’t yell at me for simply going with whatever Time Magazine says about French politics, okay? So, in France, there’s a political party called the National Front, and they’re seen as very conservative, ultra-right wing, very anti-Islam and pro-xenophobia. Their leader is a woman called Marine Le Pen, who Time claims is trying to bring her party into the mainstream, and as such, she’s having problems with her (far, far) right flank. During Madonna’s stage show, there’s a video morph that includes a photo of Marine Le Pen with a swastika superimposed on the image. The image then morphs into a photo of Adolf Hitler. The video morphing thing also includes images of Pope Benedict, Sarah Palin, and Hu Jintao. Le Pen threatened Madonna with a lawsuit after Madge did the video morph thing during her Tel Aviv show, and Le Pen said that if Madge did it during her French show, Le Pen would sue. Madonna did the same thing during her Paris show. So now Le Pen is going to sue. And my guess is that Le Pen might have a pretty decent case considering the hate crime laws in France.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This is the music video for Madonna’s latest single, “Turn Up The Radio”. First of all, the song isn’t all that awesome, or all that bad either. It’s just kind of meh. Maybe I’m not the best judge (it’s true), but I kind of liked the song (and the video) for “Girl Gone Wild” and I absolutely loathed everything about “Give Me All Your Luv”. That song was crap, and the video was Madge trying to do… like, Katy Perry or something. Now, although I’m meh on the song, I actually think this music video is decent. Photographer-turned-video-director Tom Munro directed Madonna in a Cadillac in Italy – there are moments that are obviously “borrowed” from Federico Fellini, but that not bad. I’d rather see Madonna in the back of a Cadillac lip syncing her song as opposed to whatever the hell “Give Me All Your Luv” was.

What did the chauffeur say at the end? Can someone translate?

I have a question: when did Madonna’s voice get so high-pitched? Is it just me or is her voice a lot higher than it used to be? She never really had a “strong” voice or anything, but it feels like she’s singing through helium here.

Brahim is in here somewhere… I didn’t feel like trying to figure out which one he was. Madonna surrounded herself with several dudes who all look Brahim-ish.

Last thing – wear your seatbelts, y’all. Madge is lucky she didn’t fall out of the back of this car.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Madonna and Lady Gaga have been going back and forth with each other for a while. By my memory, I think the simmering feud really got a kick-start when everyone heard Gaga’s then-new single for “Born This Way” and everyone was like, “Um, that sounds a lot like Madonna’s ‘Express Yourself’ right?” Madonna called Gaga reductive and Lady Gaga made some pointed comments about Madonna’s age and Madge even “covers” part of “Born This Way” in her latest tour, during a medley which also pointedly features “Express Yourself”. But you know who we haven’t heard from yet? Madonna’s 15-year-old daughter Lourdes. According to The Enquirer, Lola loves Gaga and Lola wants her mom to “stop picking on” poor Gaga.

Madonna’s embarrassed teen daughter Lourdes keeps telling her mom: Knock off your infamous feud with Lady Gaga – it makes you look like a jealous old fool!

“Loudes is 15; a lot closer to Lady Gaga’s age than her mom is… and like most every girl her age, she absolutely adores Gaga,” said a family friend. “It embarrasses her hugely that her mother constantly picks on Gaga. Lourdes, who’s wise beyond her years, knows Madonna’s doing herself more harm than good – and that she’d be better off locking arms than horns with her rival.”

But Madonna’s turning a deaf ear.

“She’s jealous of Gaga’s success since her own latest album didn’t do so well,” said another friend. “And it doesn’t help that many pals have commented that her daughter bears a striking resemblance to Lady Gaga – a comparison Lourdes loves, and her mom hates!”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

Eh. I still think that Madonna’s medley-cover of “Born This Way” was a clever and exquisitely bitchy way to poke Gaga. Maybe Madge should stop with the bitching and commenting about Gaga being “reductive” though? But even then, I think Madge has every right to say something. Gaga stole Madge’s shtick, and whenever Madge points it out, Gaga’s monsters are all “OMG, BULLYING!” But… Madonna is jelly. I think most artists are jelly of the kind of success Gaga has had in such a short time. And Gaga’s fanbase are made up of the same people that used to be die-hard Madge-loonies too. So… in that instance, Lola has a point. Still, who wants to listen to a teenager?

Photos courtesy of @MaterialGirl, Fame/Flynet and WENN.

These are some newish photos of Madonna in Florence, Italy last week, where she was filming a new music video or commercial or something. Yes, I’m including a photo of her leather-clad grundle. You’re welcome. Anyway, Madge is still on her Magical MDNA tour, and she’s still making outlandish, crazy demands. Sure, she’s Madonna – insane riders come with the package. She makes a crazy amount of money and she IS crazy. Of course she’s going to have fresh flowers and 20 international phone lines. But did you know that she’s also got a team of cleaners to come in after her so that her DNA can be completely scrubbed from every surface? Um.

If Madonna fans had any crazy notion of nicking some of her DNA from her dressing room, bad luck. The paranoid star, 53, has ordered aides to leave no trace of her after she leaves gigs on her latest world tour.

In true diva style she set up a “sterilisation team” to wipe away any DNA that may have been dropped in her room on hairs, skin or saliva.

Hygiene freak Madge, whose MDNA tour arrives in Coimbra City, Portugal, tomorrow has also told ­organisers only her and her entourage are allowed ­backstage passes. Concert promoter Álvaro Ramos, overseeing the ­Portuguese leg of the spectacle, said: “We have to take extreme care, like I have never seen for any other artist.

“We cannot even look at the dressing room, after it is ready, or even open the door. We can only enter after her sterilisation team has left the room. There will not be any of Madonna’s DNA, any hair, or anything. They will clean up ­everything. In the end it is all to protect her and make her feel comfortable. I do understand it, but it is taken to extremes.”

Her DNA destruction certainly beats Madonna’s many other precious concert demands in the past, such as ordering a new loo seat at every venue.

The singer will play at the Coimbra City Stadium, where the dressing rooms will be converted by her own staff to stop snoopers.

Álvaro added: “Her team will build everything for her, including fake ceilings and fake walls, so they can ensure that no one has hidden a camera somewhere.”

Last night, a source close to Madonna said: “She is a ­perfectionist, and expects the best. But then, at her age and with her status, why shouldn’t she?”

[From The Daily Mirror]

I don’t understand the paranoia about this if you’re A) a woman or B) Not wanted for any crimes in which comparative DNA evidence can be used in a court of law. The woman thing – like, if it was a dude who was paranoid about paternity tests or DNA evidence being used to frame him of assault or something, maybe I could understand. MAYBE. But it’s Madonna. Do people really care if you touched the same Kleenex that Madonna touched? Eh.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are some new photos from Madonna’s tour stops in Milan and Florence, Italy over the past few days. So far, it doesn’t seem like Madonna is going to do much more than the occasional nip-slip or butt-cheek-reveal – some outlets have her flashing her ass yet again on stage in Milan. Is it just me or are Madge’s costumes kind of boring? It feels like she’s doing some lukewarm repeats of looks we’ve already seen a dozen times before. I guess the gun is new…? Or has she had gunplay in her stage show before? Madge is so ridiculous… it’s not about age, it’s not about her crazy face, it’s that she really doesn’t have anything NEW to add to the conversation, right?

Anyway, reports about Madonna’s rider for this MDNA tour have been circulating. Apparently, Madonna likes to make a lot of international phone calls… all at once. Like, she’ll call London, New York, Toronto, Tokyo and Sydney ALL AT ONCE.

She hit headlines after flashing her nipple and her bottom while performing on stage. And if reports are to be believed Madonna’s diva demands are more outrageous than her exhibitionism. The 53-year-old singer’s rider includes all sorts of extravagant conditions as she performs her MDNA tour, according to reports.

According to In Touch magazine Madonna travels with a huge 200-person entourage and has very specific requirements to the way her dressing rooms are set up. A source tells the magazine: ‘She requires all furniture be removed from the rooms and replaced with her own pieces that she has shipped in.’

It is claimed the singer demands 20 international phone lines in the room as well as special white and pink roses that must have the stems cut to six inches. Backstage, it’s strictly vegan snacks.

As well as all this the singer is also said to demand special fabric for her room. An insider tells In Touch, “She requires all furniture be removed from the rooms and replaced with her own pieces that she has shipped in.”

A source told the Daily Star: ‘Madonna has probably the longest list of requirements of any of the world’s music stars. She expects things to be just right or it puts her off her stage show.’

Within the 200-strong team she is said to have 30 bodyguards, a yoga instructor as well as personal chefs, an acupuncturist and an on-site dry-cleaner.

[From The Mail & In Touch Weekly]

The 20 international lines I don’t really understand unless it’s the rider for EVERYONE on the tour, backup dancers, crew, managers, etc. If it’s for everyone, that’s nice – everyone can call home and check in. But if it’s just for Madonna – there is no reason for one woman to need 20 phone lines all at once.

As for the other stuff – I believe it. The roses cut to a certain length just seems like something Madge-tastic. Vegan snacks are fine – compared to Britney’s rider, the idea that Madonna is still so conscious of her diet is kind of amazing. I also understand traveling with a yoga instructor, a dry-cleaner (cleaning the costumes must be a task and a half) and a chef. I don’t understand why a hotel’s furniture wouldn’t be good enough, though. Why spend all of that money to travel around with your own furniture everywhere? Hotel cooties? Is that it? “Hotel cooties.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Lady Gaga tweeted the above ^^ photo last night – it looks like her face/head is still really bruised after one of her dancers slammed a metal pole into her head onstage in New Zealand. Poor Gaga – I bet everything in that general area is as sore as can be.

Anyway, you remember how there was video of Madonna “covering” Gaga’s “Born This Way” a few weeks ago? The medley is actually part of Madge’s show now – she sings “Express Yourself” and then goes into “Born this Way” and then moves on to another song. Pretty much everyone thinks Madonna is just doing it to make a point – that point being “Born This Way is pretty much the same song as Express Yourself, so Lady Gaga is a copycat.” Once again, here’s how Madonna does it:

I actually think Madge is pretty smart for making her point that way – she had already made some comments about it (“I thought, ‘What a wonderful way to redo my song.’ I mean, I recognized the chord changes. When I heard it on the radio, I said ‘that sounds very familiar.’ It feels reductive”) in interviews, but hearing “Express Yourself” and “Born This Way” side-by-side, live, in concert, is extraordinary.

Gaga didn’t really have anything to say when the Madonna videos first came out. But when Gaga was performing in New Zealand last week, many think she made some pointed comments directed at Madge. In the middle of her stage show, Gaga said:

“It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves to put other people down or make fun of them or maybe make mockery of their work…And that doesn’t make me feel good at all. That just makes me feel like I’m not a good human being…I don’t even want to fight back because it’s more important to me to keep writing music. Because that’s really all I care about, is the music. Things are really different than they were 25 years ago, and that’s what makes Born This Way so relevant for me… We’re socially in a different place and it’s OK, we don’t have to all slice and hate each other anymore.”

[Via The Mail]

Yeah… I get Gaga’s point: “Stop hating, bitch.” She wants to call a truce with Madge. Sort of. Obviously, many people think the “Things are really different than they were 25 years ago…” comment is pointed – as in, Madonna’s heyday was 25 years ago, and Gaga is saying things have changed since then. Although I have to say – Gaga’s argument falls flat. If she just kept it about respect and NO HATE, that would be one thing. But making it about how things were “25 years ago” is ridiculous given that Gaga is flat-out copying stuff Madonna did 25 years ago. Obviously, Madonna is still relevant, and she was relevant 25 years ago, which is why Gaga copies so much of Madonna.

Gaga’s comments start around the 2:20 mark.

Photos courtesy of Gaga’s Twitter, WENN.

Madonna has a new interview with the UK’s Now Magazine. Now Mag is a pretty budget, tabloid operation, so I came into this thinking “Did Madge really sit down for an interview with these people?” But I think she really did. And she hints at why she’s doing a print interview with a busted UK tabloid – her album, MDNA, bombed. And Madonna blames herself for the album flop – because she didn’t have time to do all of the promotion needed, because she’s a mother of four. Basically, Madonna is saying that no one bought her album because she’s too focused on her children. Au contraire, Madge.

She’s directed a movie, recorded a new album and performed at the Super Bowl — all within the last few months. So it’s not bragging when Madonna says: “Sometimes I think I’m Superwoman.”

In a new interview with a British magazine, Madonna opened up about her hectic work and personal life admitting that she’s “grumpy” from non-stop work and that she’s skimped on promoting her new album MDNA to spend more time with her children.

“Just going from my movie to my record and the Super Bowl and rehearsing for my tour I really haven’t had a break,” said Madge. “Sometimes I think I’m Superwoman and I can do it all. But right about now I’m thinking, ‘Maybe I should’ve taken a few months off.’ But I have four kids so that factors into all of my decisions. Being on tour in the summertime is better because they can be on the road with me and they don’t miss school. I don’t make decisions on my own anymore.”

One decision she has made is to cut back on promoting the new album, which set a dubious record for the biggest sales drop from Week 1 to Week 2.

“It’s hard,” Madonna told NOW magazine. “It’s always a juggling act. So often to the irritation of my manager I say no to things. I should be out promoting my record a lot more but if I do that then I have no free time with my children. I have to make sacrifices.”

And one thing she will definitely say no to – if asked – is a stint as judge on American Idol, The Voice, The X Factor or any singing competition show. In fact, Madonna reveals she’s never watched any of them!

“I don’t watch television,” she said, before expressing mild disdain for the shows. “Everyone’s a bit contest obsessed. I don’t actually like the idea of being a judge. It’s so, I don’t know, subjective – what’s good and what isn’t. I think perhaps we’re too obsessed with it.”

Proving that she is completely unfamiliar with the singing shows and their products, when asked about Simon Cowell’s group One Direction, Madonna said: “That’s a pop group, right? I haven’t seen them yet, sorry.”

[From Radar]

The kicker is that I think Madonna probably is a pretty good mother, as far as celebrity moms go. Years ago, she seemed really strict, but you can see Lola’s teenage drama infecting the whole household and suddenly barriers are being broken and before you know it, Rocco and Mercy and going to be eating Lucky Charms in front of the TV!

As for her comments about TV and reality shows – “Everyone’s a bit contest obsessed. I don’t actually like the idea of being a judge… I think perhaps we’re too obsessed with it…” -LMAO. Isn’t it a wonder that Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow are no longer friends? Because I feel like Gwyneth would say or has said those exact words. Madge is throwing shade at reality shows, but she’s also pretending that she’s not a judgy bitch. So maybe Gwyneth wouldn’t say those words – I don’t think Goop has any problems acknowledging that she would be a natural at reality show judging. She sits in judgment of all the peasants on a daily basis. As does Madonna.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.