 The location of Madonna’s luxury gym in Rome has been revealed as the ex-Teatro Colosseo on Via Capo d’Africa, in the shadow of the Colosseum. The three-storey Hard Candy Fitness centre is scheduled to open on 26 May but it is not believed that Madonna will not attend the opening; insiders say that she will likely visit in September instead. The 1,200-sqm gym will be part of the Italian-American popstar’s Hard Candy global chain of luxury gyms and will be managed in partnership with Italian fitness firm Dabliu. The gym’s venue is best known for housing the Teatro Colosseo until 2008 while a more recent transformation saw it hosting the now-dismantled “3-D Rewind Rome” interactive tour. The location, in the vicinity of the capital’s “gay street” at the Colosseum-end of Via S. Giovanni in Laterano, is unlikely a coincidence given Madonna’s popularity among the gay community. The gym will offer fitness classes based on the "Addicted to Sweat" routines used by the Queen of Pop, as well as yoga studios, spaces for group training and a coffee bar. |
Playboy publishes nude photos of Madonna taken before she was famous. The singer did a number of nude photo shoots from 1977-1980, starting when she was an 18-year-old student at the University of Michigan looking for some extra cash and trying to form a band. Now a huge star, Playboy publishes some of the shots taken in 1979 and 1980 in a revealing spread. A year earlier, the magazine turned down nude photos of Miss America winner Vanessa Williams , which their rival Penthouse published. "We think Vanessa genuinely didn't know what she was doing, didn't know her photos might be published," the article states. "Madonna, on the other hand, posed repeatedly for two noted photographers who routinely publish what they shoot." One of the photographers, Lee Friedlander, says of the shoot: "She seemed very confident, a street-wise girl." Madonna has little to say on the matter, but doesn't shy away. "I'm not ashamed,...
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