Madonna on Britney: 'Let's Go Save Her'

NEW YORK — Madonna wants the media to leave Britney Spears alone. "They need to step off," she told the "Yo on E!" satellite radio show. "For real ... Let's go save her." Madonna, 49, said her daughter, Lourdes, 11, feels the same way.

"She knows Britney, (but) she doesn't really watch TV or read gossip stuff," the pop star said in the interview. "I think she sort of gets the drift of what's going on, and I think she feels very protective of Britney."

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie have a son, Rocco, 7, and are raising a Malawian boy they want to adopt.

"He's the life of the party," she said of David, who she brought home from Africa in 2006. "He loves music, he's an amazing dancer. ... He's a character."

She said caring for David is no different from her raising her biological children: "I thought it was gonna be, but it feels the same to tell you the truth."

As for speculation that her marriage is on the rocks, Madonna said: "It is ridiculous. ... I don't pay much attention to it."

The singer's spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg recently dismissed media reports that the Ritchies have split up, saying they "remain happily married." Rosenberg said that Madonna and filmmaker Ritchie, 39, were "joyfully back together at home in London" after living in separate countries for work purposes.

Madonna, whose new album "Hard Candy" arrives April 29, told "Yo on E!" that she plans to spend the summer in New York, and that she might kick off a tour this fall.

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Comments

[okAcomputer]

09:35 PM on 03/29/2008

madonna is a jehovah's witness now? I thought she was jewish

[awenyyds]

02:58 PM on 03/29/2008

Good for you Madonna, I hope you can help Britney

[SILVANUS]

11:41 AM on 03/29/2008

Wake me when it's over.

[starrianna]

01:47 AM on 03/29/2008

Madonna, honey...

Go buy another dildo with your husband or something.

[sassafra]

09:20 PM on 03/28/2008

if madonna really wants to save britney she should adopt her.

[AurigaRa]

08:16 PM on 03/28/2008

wish they would both go to Siberia

[wsblake]

07:13 PM on 03/28/2008

Pack both of these nitwits off to the Green Zone.

[wayoutleft]

05:48 PM on 03/28/2008

don't be surprised if brit appears on stage with madonna in her upcoming tour. i think it would have to be later summer but maybe sooner- as top notch as her tour support must be. anyway it would seem a little late to support her current successful release with justin timberlake. expect support from britney from both of them. that's not a one way street. britney nation seems largely sympathetic and intact. and if you bought madonna's first club ep as a teenager, you are now closing in on 50 and madonna sold records to your children. and she can sell in britney and justin's market too.

[kellygrrrl]

05:41 PM on 03/28/2008

there is plenty of sh!t you can say about Madonna - but the woman is genius at Marketing.

[ENK727]

10:29 PM on 03/28/2008

No.... not a genius... just a lot of people are fools and will buy any crap music that's out there.

[kellygrrrl]

11:32 PM on 03/28/2008

helloooooo! have you ever taken a marketing class. You just made my point.

[Bruce1369]

11:49 AM on 03/29/2008

In the immortal words of P.T.Barnum:

"there's a sucker born every minute"

It don't take much to sell to a sucker.

[Pippilangstrumpf]

05:10 PM on 03/28/2008

So why wasn't Madonna out there speaking up for Britney a long time ago?

Oh...I get it now...it's because she has a new CD coming out.

[bethonna]

06:17 PM on 03/28/2008

She hasn't spoken about Britney or anyone because she been working on several projects. Now she is giving interviews for the first time in a while and naturally she is being asked about Britney. No mystery.