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?”
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.
There were probably gonna have to be cleaners to clean up after she’d left anyway so what’s the problem for her paying for her own team to do all that random stuff instead of the venue?
Besides If I was famous it would creep me out to think of random people having my DNA… Like when someone paid thousands for Britneys shaved off hair and a piece of chewing gum she spat out.
If they can clone a dog, I am sure they can clone a pop star. I don’t really blame her, she has money to burn after all.
Lol..they’ve already cloned Madonna. Her name is Lady Gaga. So Madge can relax.
That first pic scared me more than Ashley Olsens soul-sucking stare of doom.
Lmao. First belly laugh of the day. Thank you.
I have a question..can anyone tell me what she does to her boobs and ass so that they look young ..like a cream or something? i know she’s wearing a push-up bra but they look very smooth and have a nice complexion.
She sucks virgins’ blood and eats new-borns’ placenta whilst whispering obsessively this ancient chant: “Youth…youth…youth…is mine…”
No, seriously, I don’t know what she does and I don’t even want to know! She scares me.
she has gristle on toast every morning
RocketMerry – LOL! I thought it had to be something like that.
About her ass, she’s wearing fishnets which cover all sorts of flaws. But her ass is probably great… weight lifting, HGH/roids, and genetics.
Her boobs are fake. The push up bra and the implants have plumped up her cleavage and smoothed out any wrinkles. She might have also had a breast lift and laser treatments.
Anyone else notice how she ALWAYS wears gloves these days? She must have gotten sick of people commenting on her veiny golem hands.
Oh my..she looks so old!
Yes, she is the embodiment of the Dowager Lady Ursula, famous for her homemade gooseberry wine.
LOL.
You just made my Monday a little easier. Thank you!
She needs to cover up! She doesn’t look good for any age
and why , pray tell, would anyone want her DNA?.. and what’s up with still wearing the one glove?… why not both hands?… ? she really needs to age more gracefully…. it just isn’t attractive in any way.
Same old pretentious Madonna. I’m not surprised in the least.
However, what’s with the cross wearing? Is it another “prop” for her like cigarettes? Her oh-so-sincere belief in Kabbalah seems to be over. So…she’s not only pretentious but a religious dilettante as well.
ETA: Just saw the red string on her wrist in the third photo. Yeah, whatever. Accessorizing with different religious symbols – she’s still a dilettante. A sincere belief would mean you’d wear the symbol of your faith exclusively and stick with it, not change it up like some fashion accessory.
Guess MDNA (lol, edgy) is really pleased with the insider’s “at her age” comment.
Bet she loathes them even more than hydrangeas now.
I still haven’t forgiven her for hating hydrangeas.
WTF?!!! She hates hydrangeas? What is her problem?!!!! Carnations maybe…. One bad taste decision too many. That’s IT, right now she is dead to me.
in the second to last picture, she looks like Camilla Parker-Bowles (Camilla Windsor (?)), if you scroll down really quickly.
And look at those biceps 🙂 wow. I can never do that level of dedication in the gym. *stares at the expiring gym membership*
She looks scary. That’s because she doesn’t age with dignity.
^^^^^THIS! Took the words out of my mouth. DIGNITY!
Madonna has never done anything with dignity
she’s probably doing it out of vanity so no one can clone her, not paranoia about germs.
also: she still has to pee and poop like the rest of us so I wish she would drop the superhuman gattica stuff.
OMG! I was thinking, “Maybe she doesn’t want an army of Madge clones out and about if they aren’t under her iron-fisted power!” Get outta my mind!!
Yep, she’s having a Madge Army cloned. Just. You. Wait. The Mayans predicted this.
LMAO. 😀 One Madonna in this lifetime is enough for me!! 😉
Right on – that is what is so annoying about wanna be so ethereal celebs like Madonna,Giselle,Goopy, Michelle Williams – they act as though their farts are perfumed delicate roses and wine and fine imported cheese come forth from their pampered and powdered behinds.
Well I get it.
Fans sometime do the craziest things (Madonna has some stalkers too).
Agreed. This is one of her “eccentricities” I sort of understand.
Holy bustedly gripping onto her youth by her fingernails. Epic fail, Madonna. Epic fail.
Mutton dressed as lamb. Ugh!
Go Madonna! Love you…
+1
she’s ridiculous
Oh here come the Madonna looks like crap brigade… Ignoring the subject at hand to comment on her appearance. I think a lot of the problem people have with Madonna atm is ageism whether it’s subconscious or not. Madonna flashes a nipple in a concert (for a cause btw) and it’s “DISGUSTING” but I can’t count the amount of times I’ve seen Lady Gaga walking down a public street were there are children around etc with her nipples and ass hanging out and she doesn’t get half the criticism.
If you are not sexually attracted to Madonna that’s fine but why hate on her body when she is probably fitter than all of us?
“OMG Madonna hit 50 why hasn’t she curled up into a ball on a pile of knitted sweaters and cats and died yet?!” PLEASE… Madonna as far as I’m concerned needs to keep doing what she’s doing, putting on amazing tours, raking in hundreds of millions of dollars and pushing peoples boundaries, the only thing I’d ask her to do is put more effort into her next album because “MDNA” sucks especially when she made the flawless “Confessions… ” not too many years ago.
+1 She is unique, which cannot be said for more than most people.
Kudos to her – she s still living life on her terms
“Flashing my nipple for a “cause”” is going to be my new signature move.
LOL just to clarify I know she did it for attention too but she was also raising awareness for women being subjugated in that area.
Yes. Please do make it so. We need more nipple flashing because breasts are sooooo difficult to find these days. lol
Great post. You’re absolutely right. As soon as women show a flicker of age, they’re supposed to dress like old ladies and sit around talking about the good old days in a state of sexless despair.
You’re setting up a straw man. There’s a big difference between not thinking a push-up bra is an appropriate top and wanting someone to wear a housecoat covered in cat hair.
In my opinion, Madonna would look amazing if she covered up more — we could still see how incredibly fit she is, and she’d look great in actual clothes, as slim women do. Right now, she seems a little desperate; it’s not attractive.
I don’t think she needs to dress up like an old lady. I also don’t think she needs to dress up like a 20 year old pop star either.
If she was half the artist she claims to be, maybe she could express her sexuality in a more evolved way that reflects the experience of a 50 + woman instead of just regressing into time?
There is something to be said for maturing mentally as you grow older and learning something and changing.
I agree! She looks tired, but she also looks fit and strong. All the self righteous, smug, ageist comments here are really disappointing. Madonna could crush their heads in her iron thighs!
She could!
stopitluke, I don’t really like ageist comments, they’re as nasty as homophobic slurs, and I also don’t mind artists copying from other artists coz all creative ideas are derivative anyway. Also, I feel Madonna has not been given her proper rock due because she’s a popstar – a female popstar but has Madonna done something new? She’s been doing the same schtick – to make an instant cash grab. How about making mature, grown up music for a change?
Wow she’s really looking rough. Her confessions tour was only a few years ago and she looked flawless and glowing then. Hard living either caught up at once or her divorce really took its toll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyAqcxlVtCE
She was stunning in the Confessions tour, 47/48 years old, and I loved her whole look outfitwise the whole show. I aspired to look like that at 48. It was pre-cheek implants and massive fillers. She aged herself by having a midlife crisis and messing up her natural bone structure with pillow implants and fillers. If she would have stayed with her Confessions tour look and just used minimal fillers with an eyelid lift when she hit 53, she would still be stunning. She can look great still at times, but in certain light, you can see the implants aged her, not made her look younger. The whole Confessions tour DVD had closeups nonstop, and sweaty and all she was flawless. Here she is an hour and a half into the concert, sweaty from dancing and goes into a ballad and her face was stunning, great bone structure for her age. It seems like all the implants and fillers drags her face down when she smiles now compared to this clip when she was 48.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aefh1ZEsAi8
I was having a rough morning into noon. This video was exactly what I needed. Even with the trace of fake British accent, she was so beautiful during this tour (and performed to my expectations of her, especially on this number). Gorgeous. Seriously, the tears welled up. Thank you, Jayna!
Cloning dogs is done for anyone with $40,000 now (see 60 minutes ’09)…. Can you imagine if you’re some wealthy stalker who could clone the object of your desire. Or just a stalker who could get a loan out of their house. Blech! I’d have a team too if I had her fame. She’s had stalkers for years.
I wonder if she will still sport the same god-awful tramp outfits into her 90’s. The only thing good I can still say about her is that she’s got guts. I wish she’d let her kids be the teenagers.
I respect people staying fit later in life (I try to and am not a spring chicken), but that doesn’t mean you should show everything and as we age a little meat on the bones is a good thing. It actually makes a person seem a little younger.
Disgusting woman this Madonna .
She REALLY needs to stop beleiving she’s still 15…
Lindsey Lohan is that you?!?
Nah, Lohan actually looks older than that.
Oh my, she is not at her best here. It looks like her face collapsed lately (maybe her cheek injections have fallen).
I can’t wait to see how she handles the next decade or two!!! Buckle up and hang on for the ride kiddies, delusional and full-of-herself Madonna is heading towards her 60s!! This is gonna be fun to watch!!!
Come on, she’s not fooling anyone with the gloves and covering her legs (have we seen her bare-legged in awhile?). Still say she looks like Norma Desmond.
Look, she doesn’t look bad for her age, I suppose. But she really should start dressing at least a little bit more appropriately. It’s starting to get seriously sad.
I agree Kristin, “sad” is the word that comes to mind for me, too. I think about Madonna in the eighties and early nineties, when I was a kid. She taught me that being a woman had power, that being sexy and being strong went hand in hand. I really wish she could have held on to all that confidence and showed women a strong woman who is naturally living and getting older. Instead it seems she lost her confidence somewhere along the line and now she is grasping at this strange half-dressed image that just feels like a cover. Sad.
My sentiments exactly.
she looks like a tired hooker. her and pam anderson are morphing into each other.
That pretty much covers it.
Madonna and Pam are too old to be selling the “hooker” experience.
Both could try using a little class when getting dressed.
And don’t scream how they are being judged by their age. They are being judged because they look like idiots.
Both are tiny girls who could wear better conceived clothes.
Especially considering that they have school aged children.
Who have to fade the crapped off their peers, about their Mother’s looking like old hookers.
according to wikipedia,there’s A-DNA, B-DNA, Z-DNA, though only the latter two have been directly observed in functional organism.
they should update wikipedia with M-DNA, which has been directly observed in um… well… you know.
i don’t want to presume or be blasphemous or be disrespectful of elders, you know.
This is so delusional. If she’s all “I don’t anybody to be able to gather and sell my DNA to make big bucks or a Madonna clone” (which is the only “reason” this demand would be “valid” for), then isn’t she forgetting one thing? That cleaning team has all the Madonna DNA they could ever want! Vacuums full of her hair, skin cells etc. If you’re gonna go crazy-anal-delusional, go big, think it through and don’t be stupid about it.
Maybe we should look at this another way: she’s giving more people jobs! Unnecessary jobs, maybe, but jobs nonetheless!
Finally, what I REALLY want to know is: why on earth is she wearing two bras? Even my saggy girls don’t require TWO friggin’ bras.
Because someone would want to clone the Crypt Keeper???
God, she is so freaking weird.
GROSS GROSS GROSS!
That outfit, those arms, those shoulders, that face – she looks awful.
She can keep her DNA as I doubt anyone else wants it.
I love the word “grundle.”
My mind immediately went to Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian countess who in the early 1600’s killed hundreds of young girls to bathe in their blood so she could maintain her youth. She supposedly had a team of people who followed her around taking care of her DNA too, in a sense. If a hair fell off her head, or a nail broke off, one of her assistants had to eat it, lest a witch get ahold of it and have the means to cast a spell against her.
I swear I am not making any of this up!
julie delpy starred in a very good movie about this countess.
Thanks for the tip! I knew I’d Americanized her name- Erzebet. Such a fascinating story, particularly the aspect that it may have been entirely fabricated by political foes.
Wow i thought that was Ivana Trump at first look. Oh Madonna u need to stop, getting old sucks but have some dignity for goodness sakes!
Grandma A$$ in leather! Don’t bend over grandma!!!
I think the empress has no clothes.
She’s leaving dna in lots of other places where her contingent do not follow with sanitary wipes and space suits.
She’s given something like 200 people temp employment and world travel. They are not about to talk sense but encourage whatever costs her money and gives them billable hours. Or is she the only one around who selfishly obsesses over her own neediness?
Courtiers kill the king. It has always been that way. Sycophants surrounding Elvis watched him eat food and pills till it killed him.
Gerry Garcia should have been in rehab instead of going on another tour, but people actually called him saying they needed work. And he was too nice of a guy(not madams flaw i know), to take care of himself.
Its odd that the fans who ‘love’ her know she would treat them like vermin, but the mystic allure of the vadge keeps them from lifting the curtain.
But i know, she has a nice body and can push people around. Yay!
For all the fervent Madonna defenders out there, we are not ragging on her jealously for still looking great and still being edgy and still bringing her great talent to the unwashed masses. We’re ragging on her because she’s still rude, pushy, vulgar, arrogant, self-obsessed and hypocritical. Her only talent has always been and always will be marketing herself through any means possible including flashing all her bits (SEX book anyone??). She is a drop of talent in an ocean of ambition to quote the late, great and truly talented George Harrison, who didn’t need a team of DNA cleaners to come in and scrub up after a performance.
If that’s true, then why are there so many comments on this thread commenting on her looks?
Don’t go away mad, just GO AWAY!
Leave no trace of what you are imbibing?
Fame made her a monster.
She’s actually offering a wonderful humanitarian service. Can you imagine what the world would be like if homemade Madonna clones were running free?
I totally get the DNA thing. Wealthy celebrities are prime targets for opportunistic crooks. She’s not only protecting herself but her children as well who share her DNA. This sterilization procedure should protect them from future set-ups where they could be blackmailed or sued because their DNA has shown up planted somewhere it shouldn’t be.
Right on, Madonna! Very smart thinking.
This silly bitch needs to get over herself. She and her career jumped the shark a long time ago.
I’m not the biggest Madonna fan, but I don’t buy this shit.
She’s still styling herself after others.
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-italian-actress-monica-vitti-shielding-herself-from-the-news-photo/141551256?Language=en-US
Your so right Madonna copied that whole look right down to the umbrella.
I don’t think this story is true, if it was we would have been hard about it.
Just like the story from last week about her traveling with her own furniture I think this is Madonna PR team hard at work to keep her name out there. Weeks before this she was going for the shock value now she has her people planting a few quirky stories to keep people talking about her.
OMG, the ass shot. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
OMG–when she sees these latest pics of her tired looking, dragging skin she’s going to be calling her docs and SCREAMING!!!
lol whut. you’re right op, she is crazy. i never noticed how crazy until now… don’t worry darling nobody is after your dna. this reminds me of the time she tried to raise money for charity at an auction. she wiped her hands on a cleenex and put it in the bag, eww. and then she said “if there is a crime there is enough dna here to frame me for it” and still the bag didn’t sell. roflol. anyway maybe this paranoia has been going on since then
As if she’s worth cloning! Good grief, you self-obsessed old crone. Madge, no one cares, honey. You’re old, You’re washed up. You’re a has-been. You’re a constant reminder of what we didn’t do right in the ’80s. The “me generation” has given way to much more kinder, self-reliant, earth-friendly, graceful, and not so self-obsessed pop stars.
Time for retirement. Get moving!
careful now… the quintessential one madonna fan who lurks in every one of her threads shall e-fight you to death to defend his/her idol… no slandering against her shall go unpunished… lol…
LOL…Sup, you’re right. I better get prepared. I should wake up the old man Darth (Vader) and ask him if I can use his light sabre for the challenge. I’m sure he’ll agree, it’s better to use an antique to fight an antique. hehe. 😉
All in good fun, all in good fun.
I agree she’s looking a little rough here but give the woman a break. She’s probably in the midst of menopause and working her ass off performing at the same time. Does anyone complain when Mick Jagger removes his shirt while performing? Some of you come across as disrespectful with your comments as those kids on the bus bullying Karen Klein.
Madge is coming off as seriously desperate to cling to her fading youth. Time for her to grow up already.
I’m glad she does this because I wouldn’t want some insane scientist to clone her with leftover dna.
i present to you Madonna in 30 years!
http://dlisted.com/2012/04/07/hot-sluts-day
Here she is in 20 years:
http://www.galleryoftheabsurd.com/2009/02/a-madonna-crotch-endorsement-20-years-from-now.html#comments
In 30 years:
http://www.galleryoftheabsurd.com/2009/02/a.html#comments
LOL! Doesn’t seem so far-fetched.
She is hideous looking
Sorry folks. This is what 53 looks like.
Ha ha, Madge looks just like Stacey Jaxx from Rock of ages in the 3rd photo down.
DNA sterilization, new toilet seats at every venue… LOL. I swear, she just does this sh!t because she can, and wants to see how far she can push it. Really, I think that might be it. Well, that and she’s a vapid narcissist. Or is that Kim Kardunce-ian? It’s getting so I can’t tell them all apart.
She has young children. How does she explain the whole DNA thing to them? When they go to school, the toilet seats aren’t changed every day. Isn’t this confussing to them?
It’s official… Bitch has gone and lost her damn mind.
All the plastic surgery, macrobiotic dieting and yoga in the world can’t stop senility.
I would absolutely do this if I could. I would have it sterilised before I arrived, and after I departed.
However, I have Howard Hughes levels of OCD, so that is essentially a wet dream for the crazy.
Why in the HELL is she wearing 2 bras? Seriously? I would really like to know lol
She’s no longer a spring chicken. Fifty year old plus boobs need all the support they get.
I am starting to see a resemblance to Whatever Happpened to Baby Jane
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.”
In that regard I can’t really blame her. She’s been around long enough to know the possibilities of what all can go wrong.
As far as her appearance. She’s 50. She looks 50. So what. At least she appears to have given up on all the fillers.
God only knows when she’ll start peeing in bottles like Howard Hughes…
I wonder what Madonna would be like if she never got famous? Lol
She’s not looking good these days. Is she still going to be gyrating onstage in fishnet support hose, several bras and singing ‘Like A Virgin’ ten years from now? Age gracefully and by that I mean, it’s okay to wear clothes that cover your body and it’s okay to stop being a sad old ho because it’s pathic as hell now.
If M is performing DNA cleanups then you’d better know they are cloning people, or are preparing to – and M knows ALL about it, that one does. What we should be asking is who her sources are.