These are photos of Madonna and her boyfriend Brahim Zaibat leaving Aura Nightclub last night in London. Poor Brahim – he hasn’t really gotten the career boost of someone like, say, Jesus Luz. So why fool around with Madonna? I mean, what’s in it for him? He just gets to hang out in her dungeon? “Play that song again,” Madonna orders from the intercom, cackling madly.
Anyway, as I was looking through the photos, I noticed something strange. Madonna’s face seems… different. Again. Back in August of last year, I asked if Madge’s chicken cutlet cheek implants had somehow been reduced – they really seemed to be “settling in” or “getting smaller”. Now they seem almost nonexistent. Did she take them out? Did she find a new youth-regeneration process, perhaps something involving swan blood and cream made from crushed pearls? Even The Daily Mail notes how “extremely fresh-faced” she looked:
She has been in the business since before he was born, but his opinion obviously counts highly in her estimations. So when Madonna was auditioning for dancers last night she sought the help of her 24-year-old boyfriend. The 52-year-old singer, who was looking extremely fresh faced last night, was joined by beau Brahim Zaibat and around guests at London hotspot Aura in Mayfair. Visitors to the exclusive members club were treated to a dancing spectacle as half of the group took to the floor to strut their stuff and showed off some incredible dance moves.
A source told MailOnline: ‘Madonna was watching the performers, who came from all around the world, and I know she was selecting for her next World tour. About half the group took to the dance floor and performed one after the other before dancing together. They were absolutely incredible.’
In her fifth visit to the club in seven months Madonna arrived with Brahaim and her entourage, complete with her own DJ ready to take to the decks, just before midnight. She settled into the VIP area of the private members club before the dancers in her group started to perform to her. And with her 24-year-old boyfriend by her side she laughed and cheered as the artists took to the stage performing to hip hop and house music.
Junior, a-19-year-old break-dancer from France wowed the guests with his award winning moves which saw him defy gravity holding his own body weight just inches off the floor with his hands. Guests at the nightclub cheered and whooped along with Madonna who seemed to be enjoying the revelry. And after the informal auditions Madonna treated her troop to drinks which included expensive jeroboams of Moet and Chandon champagne and Grey Goose Vodka.
While Madonna picked up the tab she and Brahaim did not over indulge sticking to water throughout the night. But the lack of alcohol didn’t dampen her spirits and she got into the party mood dancing with guests and mingled with other revelers in the club.
One onlooker said: ‘Madonna was exceptional, she was happy to chat to other guests constantly smiling and looked to be having a great time dancing along to the music.’
But the night’s merriment didn’t seem to tire Madonna who emerged from the nightclub at 2.30am looking extremely fresh-faced. In fact, the 52-year-old singer who seems to have defied the aging process, did not have a single line or hint of a wrinkle visible on her face.
Dressed in a knee length black skirt, fishnet tights and a chic black leather jacket Madonna exited the club with a pair of sunglasses covering her eyes. She got into a Jaguar with Brahim and headed for home.
The pair, who had dined at Automat American Brasserie earlier in the evening, have been spotted out in London on a number of occasions over the past few months but have always avoided being photographed together.
Last month the couple, who met in September last year, were spotted eating at The Wolseley restaurant and not only left separately but also got in different cars to go home. Back in July last year Madonna performed a similar audition process at the £1,000- a year members club with her ex-boyfriend Jesus Luz by her side.
Although her next tour has not yet been confirmed it seems Madonna is itching to get back to the big stage.
Posting to her fan page she said: ‘Its official! I need to move. I need to sweat. I need to make new music! Music I can dance to. I’m on the look out for the maddest, sickest, most bad ass people to collaborate with. I’m just saying……’
[From The Daily Mail]
Madonna’s life is so strange. I mean… I understand how you get to a certain age, and if you have the money and inclination to back it up, you would want to surround yourself with lithe young dongs. But Madonna just seems so asexual at this point. Why go through the trouble of buying some young guy if you’re not going to enjoy him? Does it sound like she’s having fun, at all? Nope. This just seems like all of it is a business transaction.
Oh, here’s the one photo where it looks like the cutlets are still in effect:
Photos courtesy of WENN.
This is just all kind of sad.
She is fighting it desperately. I wouldn’t want to be in her skin and I kinda feel sorry for her.
She can lift-implant whatever she wants, but she always has to wear gloves, because she can’t do nothing with her aging hands.
She and I are the same age and I wouldn’t be caught dead with a little Claire’s clip in my hair.
At some point it’s all going to collapse. You can pull and poke and buttress and buff your face all you like but it’s only a temporary measure. The neck and hands go first, then your face just ends up looking like a wax image. She’s become a caricature of herself, sort of like Mick Jagger. Kind of pathetic really.
It does look like whatever was in her cheeks isn’t there any more; and the boy’s plaid shirt is really ill-fitting.
I agree, I don’t think Madonna has much interest in these guys- she just likes the attention they generate. Madonna is a pathetic example of a “star” that can’t let go of her glory days.
They are still there. But I think they have settled, and so look softer, and the skin underneath is starting to pouch a little. Oh how we mourn the loss of collagen with aging…
I wish she would release the name of her dermatologist/plastic surgeon! Either her doctor is amazing, or the photos are totally Photoshopped.
Doesn’t the boyfriend look young and frightened? I kind of feel sorry for him.
They’re still in because even when she’s not smiling you can see the line where they begin. This saddens me because I’m a Madonna freak. I love her and all her albums and only back a few years ago in 2006 on her tour she is stunning with no implants. I have her Confessions DVD and she is so beautiful. Her eyes are her best feature. With all the filler and implant they have pushed up and make her eyes appear smaller now. Her eyes don’t look as big with all that stuff. I wish she would take them out. Madonna never had big cheeks when she was young, so silly.
This woman is an icon and so utterly amazing in concert. Whatever light work she was doing on her face in 2006 she should go back to. Madonna in Confessions tour. Check out the song on Youtube under the heading: Drowned World/Substitute for Love Live 2006. She looked beautiful before her cheek implants.
This new boy toy is no Jesus. I almost understood Jesus. Wow, he was hot.
Her face does seem improved. But she seems to be clinging desperately to her youth and her young companions seem to be equivalent to paid ho’s. In comparison, Susan Sarandon who is 10+years older, seems to be having fun and frolicking w/that young-ish ping pong guy and it just does not come across as desperate AT ALL.
When I saw the top pic I thought, Thank God she finally dyed her f-ing roots!
They do look a little darker in the subsequent photos, but not as black as usual.
I despise that look. The dark roots and then the bleached blond hair. Yuk.
Madonna will never change. She will try to look 25 until they roll her stick body into the grave.
She looked incredible five years ago, she should have stopped with the plastic surgery then. Does she make her guy wear a burka?
I am really not able to think about Madonna after reading the words “lithe young dong.” Sigh.
eventually she will get the picture and settle down…
@lori susan is living the dream 😀
So over this wrinkled ass B***h. She pays that kid to sit next to her.
God, she just comes across as so desperate. What a pity-with all she has accomplished, yet she comes across as so pathetic.
How Guy Ritchie stayed around as long as he did is beyond me.
not as obvious…that’s for sure.
remember back when she was 30ish how round her face was? gotta wonder how she would look now without all the nip & tuck.
Guy Richie was no cakewalk either. She’s difficult but she gave her all to that relationship. And he was a male chauvinist in lot of ways that surprisingly Madonna gave in to him a lot. The relationship was always difficult and how they both managed to last as long as they did being so different from each other meant they tried. But in some of her songs of the last five years you can see she was not emotionally satisified with the relationship. The song Sorry about him always saying he’s sorry for hurting her but she’s over it, or one where she says you stay because I make it so easy for you. Many songs are telling.
she probably sucks the life out of the room
at least she hasn’t put her name on every product imaginable
she’s really over, IMO
@OhCamille, how can she be over? Her 2008/09 tour was the highest grossing of a solo artist, man or woman, of all time, and before that her 2006 tour was the highest of all time. She broke her own record. She toured in stadiums(which few acts can command that kind of audience) and refuses to be a nostalgic act and do a concert of 80s hits. They are always her newer music with a few nods to the past that are always done diffently than first recorded. Madonna’s 2005 album sold 12 million copies. How many people in the business for three decades, much less newer artists, can boast about that? Love her or hate her, it can’t be denied she’s managed to do what few 80s musical acts in the business can do, put out new music that isn’t recycled material and still sell out her concerts.
I don’t get all the Madonna love…. she has some good dance tunes but she is not a nice person at all! She is a narcissist to the extreme – and not at all nice – remember in Truth or Dare when she laughed out loud upon hearing that her makeup assistant had been drugged and sodomized? Her ugliness on the inside negates any pop tune she has ever sung.
Big glasses + good makeup + camera angles = deceiving. The cutlets are still there.
The bad hair and all-black wardrobe are just creepy on her.
Gosh, she comes across as pathetic. And FTR I think Susan Sarandon looks ridiculous screwing around with a 30 year old guy, too. (I think the same about men with much younger women, too, not sexist.)
It’s funny, she and her ex-husband also seemed to have a bigger age gap between them than they did. He was 10 years younger, but she looked exhausted trying to keep up with him. Maybe she needs to find a guy very close to her age.
@LeeLee, Madonna is neither bad or good. She’s a combination. She has donated 21 millions dollars for schools in Africa for children. Since Truth or Dare, one of her albums, Ray of Light, showed tremendous self-reflection about spirituality, fame not being fulfilling, and love. You would have to own all of her music to see her evolution as a person and her thoughts, not just a few dance hits. One of her albums is almost folk music mixed with electronica. One of her songs is telling: What it feels like for a Girl — meaning trying to make it in a man’s world.
She accomplished a lot for a woman in the music industry and even with some major misteps (sex book, yes narcissistic), she bounced back. The sad thing is the album Erotica and how good it is was eclipsed by her antics with pushing the boundaries too far sexually with the book and video. Erotica was not a porn album, but a sophisticated polished album that covered all forms of a relationship: sex, lust, longing, love, broken heart, being cheated on, loss of a loved one. Very much a new move into music for Madonna back then, the more sophisticated sound, but she blew it with her bad decisions and people didn’t buy it.
@PJ yes, his eyes are screaming for help
i think they’re still there but maybe she had smaller ones put in. she looks better but still pathetic. oh madge – i thought she would rock her 40s and 50s and embrace it. obviously i was wrong.
@ original kate co-sign with what you said.
I always had high hopes that Madonna would adapt well to aging but it appears she is kicking and screaming all the way. So sad.
To be honest, I think people look more attractive without the heavy cosmetic surgery… there is something insincere, like wearing your insecurity on your face.
Still, Madonna is Madonna. She’s not really part of normal society – she’s a public person (even though I hate using that expression) who will be under scrutiny for the rest of her life, so I can’t really judge her decision. She has always looked harsh, it’s her thing. I feel like her look was never organic or natural, so this “look” is a like her latest costume.
What do we call someone who is doing the exact opposite of “growing old gracefully?”
How do they put cheek implants in, through your NOSE?
I love Madonna. I do wish she would not try to be something she’s not any more though. It would be like me at 45, trying to run around in skater kid attire. It just makes you look old. You can be completely hip and cool and dress age appropriately. She’s a true star who has consistently morphed and challenged thought, but she somehow seems stuck right now.
Wow, her forehead is so completely botoxed. I wonder how much they had to use to get it to look that way?
The shirt the guy is wearing is beautiful-love it. Em knows. She just does. The kid is gorgeous – her desire now, is to make every moment of her life an absolute work of art. Having beautiful and unique things around you why bother with a paint brush and canvas?
Original Kate: She did rock her 40s. She looked stunning in her late 40s.
Her marriage goes south. She hits 50. And she hits some midlife crisis and overdoes the plastic surgery with cheek implants. And has boy toys. I wish someone would be honest enough to tell her to take them out. Not just her. Any woman who gets those silly things. They don’t look good on any woman.
But I give her credit, she always dresses very classy, like here and in interviews, etc, no micro minis. And in concert, that’s different. She’s in costumes and has the body of someone in her 30s. I’ve seen her in concert and her legs and butt are better than 20-something-year-olds from all of her years of dancing.
She surrounds herself with young men to APPEAR younger than she is. If she hung out with all 50-60 yr old it would constantly remind the public how old she really is. She isnt even old. In Hollywood years ok a little but it hasnt affected her career. Its sad she cant accept the natural ageing process. She could be great role model as far as being her age naturally and proving age doesnt slow you down because she is still touring etc.
The cutlets looks like they are still there big time =(
Wow! Slap some white pancake makeup on her mug and she’s a DEAD RINGER for Bette Davis as Baby Jane!!!
I think she looks great for het age, her nip tucks are good is not like she looks like Lisa Marie Presley
I don’t think people have to grow old gracefully, they can if they want but is not manadatory
Also if she wants to have fun and fuck some guys that were borned when she was 30,go for it! Why the fuck not, age is just a number, if he is of legal age is all good.
I personally would be doing the same if o were in her situation
She looks the same to me in these photos, it’s hard to tell a difference with the sunglasses on.
crazydaisy: I also wanted to know how these get those cheek implants in?
Jayna: They look good on Jada Pickett Smith
It must be awful being her daughter. Having a mother who is competing with you to see who looks more youthful.
Implants intact, fat filler smoothing them out. She looks a little less Madame dollish here. Or else she has found regenerative nutrients in young boy sperm. Either way. 😉
Yikes, a very high forehead with creepy roots! Cutlets not a big deal, she has to smile.
I was bored with 20 year olds when I was 25. Can’t imagine wanting to hang, nay, paying them to hang with me when Im 50. Yikes.
Not hating on the younguns, you little people are cute in your own way, but when you get on you’ll know what Im talking about and probably agree.
Silly bitch. ‘Put out new music that isn’t recycled’?? LOL. If you knew anything about music you’d know that’s all she’s ever done. She didn’t even write half that shit.
Her roots are deliberately dyed black. She does that so she can demonstrate that her hair isn’t going grey! It’s quite ingenious really although I hate the look.
I think she looks incredible! Her skin is fantastic. I’m not a particular fan, I’d guess she’s a nightmare to be around but she is iconic.
Looks like they’re still in there. It also looks like a receding hairline there when you pull the skin on the forehead back too much. Poor thing would still have been beautiful with no plastic surgery and a few wrinkles.
Only one word for this woman GHETTO.
so funny ..
madonna is 57 ya’ll ….
& even at THAT she ain’t aging well …
we are the same age & i look great after a life of fitness & no plastic ..
i am amazed that with all her millions she can’t pull it together ..
she uses alot of steroids too ..
always did & they wreck havoc with your ‘looks ‘ ..
she wasn’t a nice person either in the old days & was not liked in nyc ..
i guess she’s still goin’ down to the ‘shootin’ galleries to pick up male latino ‘junkies’ …
funny ….
to the above comment :
check out the fotos that ain’t ‘shopped to hell ..
or better yet in real life ..
it’ll freak ya out ..lol
Yes she did and had them put into her ass.
I think she’s just gained a little bit of weight or is a bit puffy for some reason. Her face is softer all over.
Cheek implants are put in through the mouth. Incisions are made inside the mouth, behind the top lip that joins to the gum and they slide them up. I had very small, soft ones put in years ago which adhered to the tissue over time, as I needed a little filling. My surgeon disliked the large, hard ones because they can move about, he said. Things might be different these days. I hope so for Madonna’s sake. They look huge.