I don’t know if Madonna is trying to throw Britney Spears a bone (positive publicity) or something, but she has recently said that she works out to Britney’s music.

She says that she actually loves Blackout and does a combination of pilates and dance aerobics to it.

She also spoke on her own earlier music, saying, “I’m not sure I can sing ‘Holiday’ or ‘Like A Virgin’ ever again,” she said. “I just can’t – unless somebody paid me like $30 million or something. [Maybe if] some Russian guy wants me to come to the wedding he’s going to have to a 17-year-old, you know it.”

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Guy Ritchie’s father has hit back at rumours his sons’ marriage to Madonna is in trouble - insisting he was “shocked” by the reports.

Ritchie’s marriage to the superstar came under intense scrutiny earlier this month when the director failed to show up at New York’s Rock + Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony, where his wife was honored.

This was the latest of several events the couple had failed to attend together, prompting scurrilous reports they’d split. But Ritchie’s dad, John, has become the pair’s latest defender, blaming their hectic schedules for their time apart.

He says, “They’re happy. I was shocked when I read they were supposed to have been having problems. They’ve been running around different places. That’s why they haven’t been seen together.” And John went on to dispel rumours that the Holiday hitmaker is planning on leaving her marital home in Britain and returning to her native U.S.

He adds, “She won’t be going out to America to live for good. They’ve got lovely places here (in Britain).”

At a screening of her new movie, Run Fat Boy Run, British beauty Thandie Newton was gushing about working with former Friend turned director David Schwimmer. But everyone really wanted to know what’s going down with Madonna and her director hubby Guy Ritchie.

Thandie recently worked with Guy on the flick Rock and Roller. And she said, “They’re having a good time, as far as I know! I went to their house in the country – it’s lovely. It’s all good! I just saw them the other day – they’re having a great time.”

She continued, “Oh, he’s lovely! He’s a lovely, lovely, lovely man! Awesome – he’s just like – sort of perfect!”

Meanwhile, Thandie knows a thing or two about making a marriage work. She’s been married to her writer husband, Ol Parker, for nearly a decade and the two have two kids together. “He’s essential! They adore him. We love each other a lot and love being together. The key thing is that my kids don’t go to bed until 10 every night. From 7 at night until 10 – that’s when it rocks out in our house! It’s terrible because they’re knackered.”

Madonna and Guy Ritchie are not headed for splitsville, according to the singer’s rep.

“I am delighted to confirm that Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ritchie remain happily married,” Liz Rosenberg said in a statement Monday, countering rampant speculation about trouble in the couple’s marriage.

Earlier Monday, a British news service published a story quoting an unnamed source as saying “Madonna and Guy Ritchie are over.” Multiple reports also speculated that the couple, who have been working on separate projects, were planning to split up.

Rosenberg, However, denied there was any truth to those rumors. “Though they were in different countries recently – Madonna in the U.S. doing promotion for her upcoming album Hard Candy and Guy finishing up post production on his new film RocknRolla as well as completing a Nike commercial and working on several scripts in England – the family are joyfully back together at home in London.”

Madonna, 50, and Ritchie, 39, are parents to three children: Lourdes, 11, Rocco, 7, and David, 2 1/2, whom they are in the process of adopting.

Added Rosenberg, “All is well and wonderful in the Ritchie household.”

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Justin Timberlake was in a comedic mood last night in NYC as he inducted Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He recalled how she once ordered him to drop his pants to give him a vitamin B12 shot while collaborating on her new album Hard Candy.

“She gave me a shot in my a– and looks at me and says, ‘Nice top shelf,’” he told the audience. “That was one of the greatest days of my life.”

Timberlake also took a jab at his ex, Britney Spears, while inducting the Material Mom.

“She has still found time to kiss someone I may or may not have publicly kissed myself while I was in the audience,” Timberlake said of Madonna. “Of course, you know I was talking about Sean Penn.”

Timberlake punctuated his remarks with, “The world has always been full of Madonna wannabes, and I might have even dated a couple.”

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