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MADONNA HAS PLANS OF HER OWN

To no one’s surprise, Madonna wants in on the action. The music icon launches her Celebration Tour this Saturday in London, and just like Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, she’s planning to film her performances and turn it into a movie. Madonna was a trailblazer in this genre, turning her Blonde Ambition tour into a feature length documentary, Madonna: Truth or Dare. This time around, she will take a cue from Taylor’s record breaking, The Eras Tour concert movie and make her concert the movie. In Truth or Dare the majority of the film was the behind the scenes action with only a few snippets of her performing. Taylor stands to make upwards of one hundred million dollars from her movie and Beyoncé’s upcoming Renaissance Tour movie is expected to do equally as well, so Madonna expects to earn quite the pretty penny.

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA Madonna returns to UK hotel at 1 AM after 8 hrs of rehearsal

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IS BRITNEY SPEARS READY FOR A BOOK TOUR?

There’s one group of people who might NOT be so thrilled that the strikes in Hollywood seem to be ending – those in charge of promoting Britney Spears’ upcoming memoir, The Woman In Me. Britney‘s tell-all tome is supposed to hit bookstands on October 24, but according to our insider, her publishers were NOT upset that the Hollywood strikes might have prevented her from doing publicity to promote the autobiography. Now that the strike seem to be ending, some connected to the project fear that Britney is in no mental condition to go on a grueling book tour. If she babbles incoherently, it’s going to be a hard sell to make any reader believe she wrote any of the book!

Instagram Photo of Britney doing her knife dance

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HANG ON BRITNEY – IT’S MADONNA TO THE RESCUE!

Madonna has just rescheduled her worldwide tour and she wants to bring Britney Spears along for the ride! The women both made headlines recently: Madonna had an infection which landed her in the ICU and forced her to postpone her tour, and Britney because her husband Sam Asghari just surprised everyone by filing for divorce! The two singers have been close for years and Madonna was one of the few celebrity guests at Britney’s wedding to Sam last year. An insider says that Madonna wants to cheer Britney up and thinks she would be the PERFECT surprise guest for her concerts where they’ll reenact their infamous KISS from the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. Sounds like a fun way for Britney to forget her troubles…

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA It’s OVER for Britney and Sam

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PARIS JACKSON: BEING BLACK IS AN ASSET

Paris Jackson, 24, appears to have a lot of choices for her life- she aspires to be a singer, model and actress. For the past month she’s been touring in Europe as a solo act and ironically AEG is promoting her tour. You might remember her family sued AEG after the death of her father Michael Jackson and lost. No hard feelings. Paris still considers herself to be Black, but she hasn’t acquired a large Black fan base yet. When she’s not singing, she IS landing lots of modeling jobs and has already appeared on four international Vogue covers. And expensive designers fight to dress her for red carpet events, so life is good…

Photo: Instagram

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BILLY IDOL: NO DANCING WITH HIMSELF YET

Last December Billy Idol thought he had an ordinary sinus infection that was making him feel lousy. Despite treatment, the infection got worse and turned out to be caused by staph bacteria – the serious MRSA superbug that resists most antibiotics. One antibiotic after another failed to help and Billy had to resort to surgery. He was distraught when he was forced to cancel the tour he had planned with Journey that started in February and lasts until May. (Toto filled in for him) He’s STILL experimenting with different antibiotics and further surgery might be necessary. He’s asking fans to send him positive thoughts.

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA: Billy and girlfriend China Chow last December

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KID ROCK AND HIS MISPLACED MACHISMO

It will be interesting to see how Kid Rock’s Bad Reputation tour 2022 pans out since he announced that he won’t perform at any venues that require vaccinations or masks. His tour starts April 6 and runs to June 15. He assured fans that they will get refunds if the venues still have Covid mandates by the dates of his scheduled concerts. He’s making a big deal out of his macho anti-vax posturing, but if the rest of us are careful, Covid might have subsided and mandates be dropped by his start date- or he will lose a lot of money. Uncooperative Buffalo and Toronto already backed OFF the tour list and most of Rock’s concerts are in small towns in the South and Midwest, so he might get lucky. But he’s still obnoxious.

Photo: Instagram

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ROLLING STONES NO FILTER TOUR: ONE MAN OUT

The Rolling Stones have been itching to resume their covid cancelled USA No Filter tour, but according to Roger Friedman, it turns out they’re going to be missing one man. Drummer Charlie Watts, 80, had some sort of surgical procedure that was described as successful. BUT his doctors decided he needs more rest and recuperation. Watts asked his friend Steve Jordan to play drums for him on the tour – Jordan says he’ll be happy to give up his seat at the drums as soon as Charlie recovers.

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ROD STEWART: THIS PICTURE TELLS A STORY

Rod Stewart, 74, looks irresistibly happy as he leaves the BBC studios in London and he DOES have a lot to be happy about. In September he revealed that he successfully battled prostate cancer for two years – “I’m in the clear now – I caught it early!” The “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” crooner has been doing a series of concerts in the UK, still appears regularly in Las Vegas, and is about to start a tour of Australia, so he has a busy and financially satisfying year ahead of him.

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA

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KD LANG IS STILL CRAVING – AND TOURING

When KD Lang left LA in 2012, we assumed she moved back to Canada, but in fact, she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she’s been living happily ever after. She always hated being a celebrity – when her Ingenue album (featuring her hit Constant Cravings) was released in 1992, the world swooned, and Madonna wisecracked “Elvis lives, and she’s beautiful!” Rumors of a Madonna/KD Lang romance swirled, but proved to be untrue. Now 57, KD admits she’s not craving to write new songs, but still loves to perform. Above, she’s in the middle of her Ingenue Redux UK tour in which she performs the entire Ingenue album. She’s still got that pompadour…

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA

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CHER DOESN’T NEED TO TURN BACK TIME

The movie Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again came out at exactly the right time for Cher. Her Dancing Queen album followed, and this Spring, her concert tour, appropriately titled “Here We Go Again,” was a big hit in Australia and New Zealand with multiple performances added. She just started the North American leg of the tour in Florida and her opening act is the disco group Chic (Le Freak) with memories of Studio 54. When we saw Cher during her last tour, The Village People opened for her. By all accounts, Cher’s costume changes are numerous and outrageous – Las Vegas glitz all the way…

Photo Credit: BACKGRID-USA

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