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Madonna accepts an award in new York in 2019. Alamy Stock Photo

Madonna recovering after the pop icon spent several days in intensive care

The pop star’s upcoming tour has been postposed after she was hospitalised with a ‘serious bacterial infection’.

MADONNA IS RECOVERING after falling ill with a “serious bacterial infection” that landed her in an intensive care unit for several days, her manager Guy Oseary said in a statement last night

“Her health is improving, however she is still under medical care,” he said. “A full recovery is expected.”

Oseary said the 64-year-old pop icon’s Celebrations tour, due to start 15 July in Vancouver, Canada, was postponed until further notice.

The New York Post’s Page Six website said the pop star was taken to a hospital in the city after becoming unwell.

Her global, nearly sold-out tour was billed as paying homage to Madonna’s more than four-decade long career, and according to her website boasted 84 concert dates.

Stops in the United States were to include Detroit, Chicago, Miami and New York, the city where her storied rise to superstardom began.

She was then slated to continue in Europe, with dates in over a dozen cities including London, Barcelona and Paris but none in Ireland. 

The Grammy-winning megastar behind classics including “Like a Virgin” has asserted incalculable influence over her stellar career as one of music’s top stars.

In his statement on social media, her manager vowed to provide more information when available, including a new start date for the tour and for rescheduled shows.

In 2020 Madonna underwent hip replacement surgery following an injury sustained on her “Madame X” tour.

© – AFP 2023

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    Jun 29th 2023, 9:31 AM

    Probably the high temperatures, she started to melt?

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    Jun 29th 2023, 10:34 AM

    @Paul Shepherd: Stand on the pedestal Paul. You get the cup for comment of the day. Brilliant.

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    Jun 29th 2023, 9:24 AM

    She’s unrecognisable these days with the amount of crap she’s pumped into her face.

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    Jun 29th 2023, 12:27 PM

    Well she’s always stolen all her “innovative”looks. Maybe this is her bodies way of telling her that modelling her face on Joan Rivers, wearing a pirate eye patch for no reason and dancing around in her knickers while collecting her pension the next is maybe just a bit much at this stage of the game. I’m sure Leo’s a fan though, so she might get the freedom of Dublin if she plays her cards right. That’ll cheer her up.

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    Jun 29th 2023, 12:21 PM

    I think when you have so many procedures on yourself you’re exposing yourself to a much higher risk of infection – possibly she has MRSA or something. I wouldn’t like to guess how many surgeries she’s had – I barely recognised her on stage last time I saw her.

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    Jun 29th 2023, 9:34 AM

    Amazing how famous pop stars get such conditions. Not like there is a history of doctors to such people “medication” which has killed the star. I am suspicious

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    Jun 29th 2023, 1:19 PM

    It’s kind of sad how much she has changed in later years, I mean she really is the last of the big icons that is not knocking about. Her music, excuse the recent stuff will always be up there with the greats.

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    Jun 29th 2023, 1:20 PM

    @Fiona Wyse: * still knocking

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    Jun 29th 2023, 10:38 PM

    That’s an awful lot of hate for someone who might be genuinely unwell, and has just been in intensive care. I think the fact that all of you have commented on her appearance rather than anything else says more about you than anything else.

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    Jun 29th 2023, 11:08 AM

    Dodgy drugs?

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    Jun 29th 2023, 12:01 PM

    Recovering? Damn!

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