Madonna, 64, wears knee pads while rehearsing for 81-date Celebration Tour… after undergoing knee and hip surgeries due to 2020 tour
Seven-time Grammy winner Madonna made sure to wear protective knee pads on Wednesday while rehearsing for her 81-date The Celebration Tour, which will be her biggest production yet in honor of her four-decade career.
The 64-year-old Queen of Pop – who boasts 51.3M social media followers – Instastoried several snaps of herself wearing a blue plaid shirt while working in a rehearsal studio, and she quoted The Wizard of Oz: ‘No place like home…’
Rehearsals began the week of April 6 for Michigan-born Madge’s 12th concert tour, which marks her first greatest hits tour and the first time she’s not promoting a specific studio album.
In one shot, the self-made superstar appeared to have removed her braided hair extensions, revealing her natural hair scraped into two of the tiniest ponytails.
Madonna is scheduled to kick off The Celebration Tour on July 15 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver with RuPaul’s Drag Race #8 champ Bob the Drag Queen as her opening act.
Safety first! Seven-time Grammy winner Madonna made sure to wear protective knee pads on Wednesday while rehearsing for her 81-date The Celebration Tour, which will be her biggest production yet in honor of her four-decade career
The 64-year-old Queen of Pop – who boasts 51.3M social media followers – Instastoried several snaps of herself wearing a blue plaid shirt while working in a rehearsal studio, and she quoted The Wizard of Oz: ‘No place like home…’
Here’s hoping things go better this time as the Hang Up songstress’ knee and hip injuries forced her to cancel 14 shows of her prior 75-date The Madame X Tour back in 2019-2020.
On February 27, 2020 – Madonna injured her coccyx ‘when a chair was literally pulled out from underneath’ her onstage Le Grand Rex in Paris and she called herself ‘a broken doll held together with tape and glue.’
‘If only knees didn’t twist and cartilage didn’t tear and nothing hurt and tears never fell out of our eyes,’ the twice-divorced mother-of-six lamented on Instagram at the time.
‘But alas they do and thank god for this important reminder that we are human.’
As the coronavirus pandemic put the final nail in her tour’s coffin, Madonna decided to finally undergo knee surgery in April 2020 followed by hip surgery in November 2020 as well as ‘regenerative treatment for my missing cartilage.’
In January, Variety claimed the two-time Golden Globe winner’s self-directed Universal Pictures biopic titled Little Sparrow was ‘scrapped,’ but three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner is still hopeful it will eventually get greenlit.
The Bronx-born 29-year-old thinks the movie might happen after Madonna’s tour, telling ET on March 12: ‘I don’t want to tell too much. I want to keep things… yeah, fingers crossed!’
On August 26, the gossip site Deuxmoi shared leaked texts indicating that Sparrow has been a ‘nightmare production’ because of the ‘script and constant changes’ and ‘might not happen’ because it’s ‘costing a ton of money.’
The Material Girl co-wrote the script with Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, who was later replaced by Independent Spirit Award-winning screenwriter Erin Wilson (The Girl on the Train, Secretary).
Madonna previously helmed two dismally-reviewed box office bombs – Filth and Wisdom in 2008, and W.E. in 2011.
Only the hits: Rehearsals began the week of April 6 for Michigan-born Madge’s 12th concert tour, which marks her first greatest hits tour and the first time she’s not promoting a specific studio album
Damage: In one shot, the self-made superstar appeared to have removed her braided hair extensions, revealing her natural hair scraped into two of the tiniest ponytails
Hitting the road! Madonna is scheduled to kick off The Celebration Tour on July 15 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver with RuPaul’s Drag Race #8 champ Bob the Drag Queen as her opening act
Health woes: Here’s hoping things go better this time as the Hang Up songstress’ knee and hip injuries forced her to cancel 14 shows of her prior 75-date The Madame X Tour back in 2019-2020 (pictured in 2019)
On February 27, 2020 (pictured) – Madonna injured her coccyx ‘when a chair was literally pulled out from underneath’ her onstage Le Grand Rex in Paris and she called herself ‘a broken doll held together with tape and glue’
The twice-divorced mother-of-six lamented on Instagram at the time: ‘If only knees didn’t twist and cartilage didn’t tear and nothing hurt and tears never fell out of our eyes. But alas they do and thank god for this important reminder that we are human’
‘Madame X is a survivor’: As the coronavirus pandemic put the final nail in her tour’s coffin, Madonna decided to finally undergo knee surgery in April 2020 followed by hip surgery in November 2020 as well as ‘regenerative treatment for my missing cartilage’ (pictured in 2021)
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