The Guardian reported that Madonna was slapped with a fine in the amount of £135,000 or about $270,000 after exceeding her allotted stage time ( her Sticky and Sweet concert ran late ) at Wembley stadium earlier this month.
“Over 74,000 fans packed into Wembley stadium to gawp at the 50-year-old. Although she was due to take the stage at 8.30pm, according to the Sun, she eventually appeared at 9.10pm, which pushed the final curtain back from 10.30pm to 11.10pm.”
Wembley supposedly fines £50,000 ($100, 000 or so) for every 15 minutes of tardiness.
There were also “reports that fans were stranded after public transport at Wembley wound down after 11pm, another problem that occurred as a result of Madonna’s tardiness.”
Somehow I don’t think a fine will cause financial hardship, nor make her change her diva ways. We all know that she can afford the fine. Her Wembley stadium concert brought in $12m USD (£6.3m), according to a statement. A week earlier she performed at the largest-ever concert in Switzerland.
Janet Jackson has now canceled three more shows which makes for a total of six altogether on her tour. According to her rep, JJ has cancelled last night’s show in Greensboro, NC, today’s show in Atlanta, and tomorrow’s in Fort Lauderdale because it’s “evident” she’s not fully recovered.
So that makes Montreal, Boston, and Philly, Greensboro, Atlanta, and Fort Lauderdale. Her doctor has ordered her to go home for further treatment.
From what I’ve been reading, Janet’s tour has been less than 3/4 capacity at all her venue’s except for Los Angeles. Wonder if her tour has been losing money and she’s doing the same thing that Britney did on the ONYX Tour… progressively becoming more ill and bowing out with a medical condition rather than face up to the shame that has followed her career since the Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction.
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Guitar maestro Carlos Santana who is currently on tour gave an interview with Rolling Stone where he talked about his faith, his painful divorce from his wife Deborah (34 years married), and his dream of one day becoming a minister and opening up a church in Hawaii.
Santana was quoted saying:
“I’m going to stop playing when I’m 67 and work on what I really want to do, which is to be a minister, like Little Richard.
“I’m not sick of what I do, but I find that God gave me the gift of communication even without my guitar and with the ability to get people unstuck with certain sections of the Bible having to do with guilt, shame, judgment and fear.”
Santana kicked off his “Live Your Light” tour on September 6th in Auburn, Washington. The 23-date tour ends on October 12 in Concord, California.
He also has a two-disc album “Multi-Dimensional Warrior,” coming out on October 14th. It’s a compilation of Santana songs from his 40-year career.
Well well who to believe? Britney’s manager Larry Rudolph had adamantly stated unequivocally that Britney would not be appearing at the MTV VMAs but… the rumours are abuzzing that she will as a presenter!
Even though nobody from MTV will officially state on record that she is going to show, production crew and wardrobe people are making preparations for Brit. Supposedly (according to an inside source) Britney has her own dressing room.
She has also RSVP’d for 944 Magazine’s MTV VMA pre-party that is being held at the Hollywood hotspot known as Kress on Wednesday. So if it’s a go, and she does show, this will be her first officially scheduled party appearance since she last appeared for the launch of Las Vegas club LAX just over a year ago.
Taylor Swift made another surprise guest appearance when she performed her hit country song “Should’ve Said No” with the Jonas Brothers at their concert at Madison Square Garden in NYC on Sunday night.
Disney star Demi Lovato, was their opening act, and she kept the crowd dancing on their feet the whole time. She is so adorabale.
The screaming high pitched ear-splitting young chicas confessing their total love and devotion for the entire night was unbelieveable! The guys put on a fantastic show with cartwheels, backflips, flames, fire extinguishers!
Mariah Carey had an autograph signing at the Universal City Walk late last week and she lost a lot of fans during the event. The singer not only showed up two hours late but also took her time signing autographs for 1000 fans in line who had guaranteed meet & greet wristbands on by pre-ordering her album from FYE. Come 1 in the morning, there were still around 100 fans in line who had been waiting for over 8 hours to meet her when Mariah suddenly decides to get up and leave the stage to go home. Fans booed and left angry due to the unprofessional diva.
Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony will be going on tour together! How exciting. All we know as of yet, is that they will be singing spanish, english and duets!
