Source: Mirror.co.Uk

4 February 2006
THINGS A BIT TENSE, MADONNA?
By Cameron Robertson
MADONNA went into spin overdrive yesterday after the Mirror revealed
fears that her marriage is in trouble because of the time she is
spending on her career.

The 47-year-old singer went out of her way to present a united front
with husband Guy Ritchie.

But the strained look on her face as she waited for the film director
to get out of their car at an Italian restaurant will do little to
convince fans all is well.

Madonna's PR machine was desperate to play down our pictures
yesterday of the star leaving music producer Stuart Price's London
home - which doubles as his recording studio - after two and a half
hours there.

Friends are worried because she is spending too much time with
Stuart, 28, who worked on her album Confessions On A Dancefloor. Her
publicist Liz Rosenberg said: "Her relationship with Guy is quite
good, they're quite happy. They're certainly not estranged."

But after Madonna waited with her arms folded for Guy, 37, she
briskly walked into Luciano's restaurant in West London with him
following behind grim-faced.


They married in 2000 and have a son Rocco, five. But she said: "I got
married for all the wrong reasons. My husband did not turn out to be
everything I'd imagined."