{"id":188071,"date":"2023-10-22T01:06:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T01:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=188071"},"modified":"2023-10-22T01:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T01:06:34","slug":"emily-prescott-sadiq-khan-leaves-in-first-half-of-madonna-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/celebrities\/emily-prescott-sadiq-khan-leaves-in-first-half-of-madonna-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"EMILY PRESCOTT: Sadiq Khan leaves in first half of Madonna gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>EMILY PRESCOTT: A front-row seat &#8211; but then Sadiq Khan leaves in first half of Madonna gig<\/h1>\n<p>Madonna&#8217;s\u00a0tour is by far the hottest ticket in town, with VIP seats going for more than \u00a31,300 \u2013 if you can get hold of them.<\/p>\n<p>Yet London Mayor Sadiq Khan somehow managed to secure a coveted front-row position for the Queen of Pop\u2019s acclaimed show at the O2 last week, despite apparently having little interest in the music.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old left the gig well before the halfway point, missing out on many of the superstar\u2019s biggest hits.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a place that could have gone to a real Madonna fan, the Labour politician was seated with his lawyer wife Saadiya right at the end of the stage runway, next to pop star Rita Ora and her husband Taika Waititi, the New Zealand-born film director.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/00\/76848133-12657837-Madonna_s_tour_is_by_far_the_hottest_ticket_in_town_with_VIP_sea-m-31_1697931804050.jpg\" height=\"1287\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Madonna&#8217;s tour is by far the hottest ticket in town, with VIP seats going for more than \u00a31,300<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/00\/76848135-12657837-image-a-29_1697931746258.jpg\" height=\"1022\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sadiq Khan somehow managed to secure a coveted front-row position for the Queen of Pop\u2019s acclaimed show at the O2<\/p>\n<p>He stuck around for opening numbers Nothing Really Matters and Open Your Heart \u2013 but missed out on tracks such as Vogue, Like A Virgin and Crazy For You. But his office insisted the Mayor was \u2018thrilled to see Madonna back in the capital\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>While Khan ducked out early, Ms Ora couldn\u2019t have been having more fun \u2013 even dressing up in a white shirt and black tie in homage to one of the singer\u2019s signature looks. Gushing about the night on Instagram, the 32-year-old said: \u2018Went to see MUVA and I am sweating in places I didn\u2019t know were possible.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, \u2018Muva\u2019 is slang for mother and used to indicate respect.<\/p>\n<p>Also spotted at the sold-out gigs last week were Emma Watson, Graham Norton and Boy George. Perhaps Bruce Springsteen is more to the Mayor\u2019s taste, as he was spotted in a fan T-shirt at his Hyde Park gig in July.<\/p>\n<p><span>An interesting\u00a0<\/span><span>position for Gillian Anderson, who reckons today\u2019s wellness culture is \u2018toxic\u2019 \u2013 despite the fact that she has her own, er\u2026 wellness brand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/22\/00\/76848047-12657837-Gillian_Anderson-m-14_1697931571163.jpg\" height=\"301\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Gillian Anderson<\/p>\n<p><span>The X Files star, left, told Elizabeth Day\u2019s How To Fail podcast she believes our obsession with exercise and dieting is \u2018potentially making people even sicker\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But clearly some wellness culture is palatable for the 55-year-old actress, who has launched her own brand of drinks to apparently \u2018cut through the all-or-nothingness of the wellness industry\u2019. Called G-Spot, in a nod to her role as a sex therapist in the Netflix drama Sex Education, the drink is said to be \u2018filled to the brim with adaptogens and nootropics\u2019 \u2013 so-called smart drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-12657837\/EMILY-PRESCOTT-row-seat-Sadiq-Khan-leaves-half-Madonna-gig.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMILY PRESCOTT: A front-row seat &#8211; but then Sadiq Khan leaves in first half of Madonna gig Madonna&#8217;s\u00a0tour is by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EMILY PRESCOTT: Sadiq Khan leaves in first half of Madonna gig - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/celebrities\/emily-prescott-sadiq-khan-leaves-in-first-half-of-madonna-gig\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EMILY PRESCOTT: Sadiq Khan leaves in first half of Madonna gig - News Need News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EMILY PRESCOTT: A front-row seat &#8211; 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