The London pub part-owned by Madonna and Guy Ritchie has been cleared of price fixing.

The Hollywood couple bought shares worth $5 million in The Punchbowl – just around the corner from their west London home – in February.

But the landlord has been accused of having two different price lists for drinks – one for locals and another for tourists.

However, a spokesman for the pub denies unfair pricing strategies.

He says, “Every pub has to change their prices and this came in the middle of the change.”

Westminster council have investigated and confirm a fixed price list is now on display.

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Guy Ritchie dispelled rumors his marriage to pop superstar Madonna is in trouble during a speech at her 50th birthday party on Saturday.

The film director also paid tribute to the singer’s career during the speech at the exclusive Volstead nightclub in London’s West End.

He told the 90 guests: “She looks better now than she ever has done. I’m so proud. I love her so much.”

Madonna also gave a 40 minute speech. She said, “I can’t believe I have reached half a century. It only happens once and this is an evening I’m glad to be sharing with you.”

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Guy Ritchie’s script adviser has been charged with possessing more than $200,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis.

Michael De’Hara, who worked with Ritchie on forthcoming gangster film RocknRolla, was arrested near his London home last month.

He was allegedly carrying 35 ounces of cocaine on his person and police subsequently found 317 ounces of cannabis and $12,000 in cash after raiding his home.

He has been charged with possession of drugs and intent to supply.

De’Hara has been remanded in custody in Brixton, London prison and will appear in Southwark Crown Court in Britain’s capital on 19 September.

A spokesman for Ritchie says, “Like everyone else, Guy was very surprised by the news.”

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Guy Ritchie is praying his next movie RockNRolla turns around his Hollywood fortunes, because he has already written a sequel.

After a string of box office flops, Ritchie is banking on the underworld thriller capturing the imagination of cinema-goers.

It stars Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton and Jeremy Piven, and follows London gangsters fighting for a share of a real estate scam.

Ritchie already has a sequel written and ready to shoot: “I’ve written one. So people better go see it. It’ll allow me to make the next one.”

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Filmmaker Guy Ritchie is stunned by the overwhelming love he has for adopted son David Banda – because he didn’t expect to feel such strong emotions.

The Snatch director and his superstar wife Madonna brought the tot back from Malawi in October 2006, and faced a bitter 20-month battle for the adoption to be approved by the African country’s courts.

The adoption of the tot was highly controversial, with the couple attracting accusations that it had bypassed the impoverished nation’s laws that ban non-residents from adopting Malawian children.

But Ritchie insists he and his wife have put the lengthy proceedings behind them, and now Banda is one of the family – just like their biological son Rocco and 11-year-old Lourdes, Madonna’s daughter from a previous relationship.

He says, “Fatherhood is unbelievable. It has taken over my life.
“But something else surprised me – how much you can love an adopted child, the same as you can love a biological child. I didn’t anticipate that.”

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Guy Ritchie has admitted a character from his new film RocknRolla is based on Pete Doherty.

When a stolen painting falls into the hands of rock star Johnny Story, (Toby Kebbell), the shambolic musician – who is hiding out in a crack den, having been declared dead – finds himself caught in the middle of a battle between the Russian mob, the established London underworld and its rising tough guys.

And speaking to Empire magazine, Ritchie has revealed that former Libertine Doherty was the inspiration for Kebbell’s character.

“At the time I was writing it, Pete Doherty was everywhere,” he explained. “It’s either genius marketing or a happy – or unhappy – accident. It’s creative self-destruction in the sense that he’s doing it creatively.”

He continued: “I think what we all like is someone who fell and then stood up again. And that’s probably the story with Pete Doherty. There seems to be an implication that people want to see him jump. But at the same time there’s a desire to see the likes of him being reborn.”

RocknRolla - which Ritchie has described as looking at “old school gangsters getting pushed out by the new school” – is released on September 5th.

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Madonna’s publicist has shot down reports the pop star and husband Guy Ritchie are planning to renew their wedding vows.

An article in British tabloid The Sun suggested the couple will remarry in a Kabbalah ceremony next month, which will coincide with Madonna’s 50th birthday celebrations.

But the singer’s longtime publicist Liz Rosenberg insists the story is bogus.

She says, “It’s complete fiction.”

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