Madonna has announced rescheduled dates for her upcoming tour – with her her first performance to take place in London.
The Queen of Pop’s Celebration tour, marking 40 years in the music industry, will now kick off at the sold-out O2 arena on 14 October, three months after it was originally supposed to begin in Canada.
The 64-year-old singer was forced to postpone the North American leg of her tour after she came down with a serious bacterial infection in late June.
The Hung Up singer spent several days in intensive care and continued her recovery at home – but now her shows can go ahead as entertainment company Live Nation confirmed her tour dates.
Her European leg will be as planned, commencing in London over four days in October.
In a space of less than two months she will travel to Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Paris and other major European cities before culminating in the O2 once again with two more concerts in December.
Madonna will then fly to North America where New York will host her on 13 December, before she takes the stage in Boston, Toronto and LA, ending up in Mexico City in April next year.
Due to the rescheduling, five North American shows were cancelled including a December gig in Nashville, Tennessee, and one in January in Las Vegas.
A week ago, Madonna had posted a positive update to ticketholders as she posed in front of the camera in several outfits.
She wrote: “All dressed up and nowhere to go… But soon, very soon, I’ll be traveling to you.”
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Before that, Madonna expressed gratitude saying she felt “lucky to be alive” following the health scare and praised her children who had supported her throughout the ordeal.
On Instagram, the star wrote: “When the chips were down my children really showed up for me. I saw a side to them I had never seen before. It made all the difference.”
In a previous post where she was “on the road to recovery“, she thought of her fans as she said: “I did not want to disappoint anyone who bought tickets for my tour.”
Madonna has had a number of previous health scares impacting her performance schedule.
Mariah Carey is set to perform an exclusive concert at a royal estate.
The US megastar is lined up to headline Heritage Live at Sandringham in Norfolk on 15 August.
Also set to perform on the same day of the festival are Nile Rodgers & Chic and British R&B group Eternal.
It will be the second UK show for the singer this summer, as she has also been confirmed as the headliner for the Brighton Pride Festival on 2 August.
The singer was previously lined up for the event in 2020, which was later cancelled due to the COVID pandemic.
Giles Cooper of Heritage Live Festivals, said: “We’re absolutely thrilled to bring one of the greatest pop artists of all time to the Royal Sandringham Estate for an exclusive UK headline show.
“Mariah Carey is an award-winner, a record-breaker, and an absolute global icon – this show will be historic.
“Mariah’s live show is second to none and with such a catalogue of huge hit singles, it’s going to be an incredible occasion. It will most definitely be an ‘I was there’ event that will live in all of our memories forever.”
Carey has 19 number one US singles to her name, more than any other solo artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Her best-known hits include Vision of Love, Fantasy, Emotions and the festive favourite All I Want For Christmas Is You – which turned 30 at the end of last year.
Sandringham is described as the “much-loved country estate” of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. The Royal Family traditionally spend Christmas at Sandringham.
The winners of this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) have been revealed – a major predictor of the Oscars, with just a week to go.
Demi Moore continued her run of success to be named best actress for her performance in body horror The Substance, while Timothee Chalamet picked up the award for best actor for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.
Image: Demi Moore adds yet another tropy to her collection for her performance in The Substance. Pic: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
While not a complete shock, before this Adrien Brody had probably just nudged it as favourite for an Oscar win for his performance in post-war epic The Brutalist.
Now, the race is closer than it has been in years – and both Chalamet, 29, and Moore, 62, could be on course for their first Academy Awards.
Following a BAFTAwin earlier this month, papal thriller Conclave was honoured with the top film prize, for best ensemble.
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini and Stanley Tucci, the film follows the drama of the selection process for a new pope.
Image: Conclave stars (L-R) Sergio Castellitto, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini and Ralph Fiennes with the ensemble cast award. Pic: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Elsewhere, the supporting categories were true to 2025 awards season form – Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldanacontinued their runs of success with wins for performances in A Real Pain and Emilia Perez respectively.
‘I want to be one of the greats’
Image: Chalamet attended with his mum, Nicole Flender. Pic: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
The awards are voted for by members of the SAG-AFTRA union and are held as a celebration of actors honoured by their peers.
For the best male actor announcement, Chalamet looked visibly surprised as his name was called.
After being accompanied by girlfriend Kylie Jenner to the BAFTAs last week, this time round he was celebrating with his mum, Nicole Flender.
“The truth is, this was five-and-a-half years of my life. I poured everything I had into playing this incomparable artist, Mr. Bob Dylan, a true American hero,” he said on stage. “It was the honour of a lifetime playing him.”
Making no secret of his ambitions, he added: “The truth is I’m really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats.”
Moore said joining SAG-AFTRA as a teenager in 1978 gave her meaning as “a kid on my own who had no blueprint for life”.
Image: Jane Fonda was honoured with a lifetime achievement award. Pic: AP/Chris Pizzello
Actress and activist Jane Fonda, 87, provided the ceremony’s most passionate political moment as she was honoured with a lifetime achievement prize.
“We are in our documentary moment,” she said. “This is it. And it’s not a rehearsal.”
The word “woke”, she added, “just means you give a damn” about others.
The TV winners
Image: Shogun stars (L-R) Tommy Bastow, Shinnosuke Abe, Moeka Hoshi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano and Hiroto Kanai. Pic: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
The SAG Awards also include TV categories, with Japanese historical drama Shogun picking up the gong for best ensemble and its stars, Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai, named best actor and actress.
Only Murders In The Building took home the prize for best comedy ensemble, with star Martin Short named best actor in a comedy series.
Jean Smart, who had previously called for cancelling the awards shows due to the wildfires that hit LA in January, was named best actress in a comedy, for her role in Hacks. She did not attend, but gave a recorded introduction.
In the limited series category, British star Jessica Gunning was named best actress for Baby Reindeer, while Irish star Colin Farrell was named best actor for The Penguin.
Louis Theroux will be honoured with the prestigious National Film and Television School (NFTS) fellowship next month.
The renowned interviewer – who has been working in the business for over three decades, and whose Weird Weekends were the stuff of legend – admits he initially felt like “a trespasser” and “imposter” in his front-of-screen role.
Image: Theroux with students at the National Film and Television School. Pic: NFTS
Never going to film school himself, the now world-famous presenter and documentarian got his first job as a print journalist in America after graduating from Oxford University.
His big break came on Michael Moore’s TV Nation series, as a roving reporter delving into offbeat culture, later striking up a deal with the BBC resulting in Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends.
A first-person storyteller, who disarms his subjects with charm, Theroux’s interviews frequently result in the unexpected.
Commenting on his upcoming award, Theroux said: “I came into the industry more than thirty years ago, feeling like a trespasser, an imposter, in a role meant for someone else, worrying that I would be found out, hoping I could keep going for a few more months, since I was enjoying it so much.
“All these years later, I’ve learned that ‘keeping going’ may be the best definition of success.”
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Admitting that like those just starting out in the field, he too is “still figuring things out”, he said he hoped the fellowship would give him the chance to “connect with younger people… sharing the few things I’ve learned, and more importantly learning from them”.
Image: Theroux at the Church of Scientology building in LA. Pic: BBC/BBCWorldwide
Theroux went on to interview a host of celebrities in When Louis Met…, including Jimmy Savile, who is now known to have been one of the UK’s most prolific sexual predators.
Haunted by the interaction, Theroux would go on to interview some of Savile’s victims in a follow-up 16 years later.
Theroux has also fronted various documentaries across BBC1 and BBC2 and released the 2016 feature-length documentary My Scientology Movie.
The author of several books, he currently hosts his own podcast series.
Image: Theroux and his wife Nancy Strang in 2019. Pic: PA
In 2019, he set up his own production company, Mindhouse, with his wife Nancy Strang and filmmaker Arron Fellows, producing documentary film and TV series, as well as his podcast.
Theroux recently revealed he was suffering from alopecia, initially resulting in the loss of his eyebrows.
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NFTS chair Sophie Turner Laing praised Theroux’s “immense contribution” to the world of factual filmmaking, adding: “His ability to connect with audiences and uncover powerful human stories makes him a true icon in the industry.”
Previous recipients of the honorary fellowship include James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, Wallace And Gromit creator Nick Park, director Sam Mendes and children’s author Malorie Blackman.
NFTS graduates have gone on to win 15 Oscars and 166 BAFTAs since the school opened half a century ago, with current graduates’ work on show at the BFI Southbank from Monday 3 March to Thursday 6 March.
The fellowship will be awarded to Theroux during the school’s graduation ceremony on Friday 7 March.