Ultimately, She's Just An Ugly Woman

"Madonna, the so-called mistress of reinvention, will surely be better remembered as the high-priestess of hypocrisy.

As her marriage crumbles, her carefully constructed image is collapsing with it and revealing her true personality. And it's not pleasant.

The dignified divorce her children have a right to expect went up in smoke on Thursday when she denigrated her husband Guy Ritchie - natural father to one of her children, father to their adopted son and stepfather to another child - as an 'emotional retard'.

If that sets the tone for the battle to come then so much for the peace and spirituality of the Kabbalah faith which she works so hard to promote.

But then I'm afraid I believe that for 25 years, Madonna, who has so cynically and assiduously promoted herself as a role model for independent, modern women, has, in fact, had a hugely detrimental effect on the values of those same women.

Throughout her hugely successful career she has personified the triumph of style over substance. She has paraded herself as a devoted wife - yet glorified casual sex.

She has vilified orthodox religion - yet set herself up as the patron saint of Kabbalah."

— Amanda Platell, with more on the multi-faceted corrosion that is "Madge", in The Daily Mail.