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MADONNA’S EX-PAL LETS LOOSE

GUY Ritchie might want to look up his wife’s former close friend, Sandra Bernhard, for a shoulder to cry on.

While Ritchie was jetting here from London – perhaps to try to save his foundering marriage to the Material Mom – Bernhard just ripped her in Toronto, going off on a rant when one fan shouted, “Are you still friends with Madonna?”

“She . . . descended into this mad, dark, five-minute freestyle, where she mercilessly mocked the Queen of Pop by repeatedly chanting, ‘We Only Got Four Minutes to Save the World,’ [and] at one point screamed, ‘My chicken is raw!’ ” reports Toronto columnist Shinan Govani. “After all that, she paused pregnantly and asked, deadpan: ‘Does that answer your question?’ ”

Bernhard also mentioned Madonna “when Sandra began to crap on all the celebrities who like to brag that they ‘work out three hours a day,’ ” Govani writes. “Like Madonna, she said. Like Gwyneth Paltrow. ‘Yeah, why don’t you rub some salt in the wounds of the people who have to work 14 hours a day?’ Bernhard thundered.”

Meanwhile, Madonna’s been rehearsing daily for her upcoming “Sticky and Sweet” tour at Steiner Studios in Williamsburg, and her drivers are racing like madmen to get her there and back. “They are constantly using lights and sirens, running reds, it’s very dangerous,” said one eyewitness. In 2006, Page Six reported Madonna’s drivers zipped through 40 red lights in four days.

And Saturday, while Madonna sat in Kabbalah class on East 48th Street, her longtime driver, Abel, blocked a parking garage for 30 minutes. “The garage attendant was trying to get him to move,” said our spy. “He was totally blocking the sidewalk, people had to walk in the street. She just doesn’t care.”

“I can’t imagine they would go through red lights unless there was a dire security emergency,” said Madonna’s rep, Liz Rosenberg. “But I’m sure she is transported with utmost respect for other people.” [More on Madge: Liz Smith]