Pop star Ricky Martin has hit out at press for criticizing Madonna's adoption of 13-month-old DAVID BANDA, insisting she's an exemplary mother and an inspiration for others thinking of adoption - including him, says The Associated Press.
The Latino singer, who is an ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), is desperate to be a dad and can't understand why the MUSIC hitmaker's moves to adopt in has caused such outrage.
Ricky Martin says, I know Madonna as a mother, and she's exemplary.
The love she gives her kids is a dream, and I know that her heart is big enough to adopt not just one child but to adopt 20. On his own aspirations to adopt, he says, I don't know when, but right now I am sponsoring three children in India and we have a very beautiful connection.
Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie were granted interim adoption of David Banda last week.
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ORG -- Madonna has called for more people to adopt children from Africa despite the controversy surrounding her own moves to take custody of a Malawian child. The singer told US talk show host David Letterman she was saving a life by taking the one-year-old to the UK. She admitted she had been warned it might be difficult but had not expected so much criticism.
Moldova.ORG -- Ordinary Boys frontman Samuel Preston has walked out of a recording of BBC Two pop quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks, informs BBC news. The singer, 24, took exception when host Simon Amstell read extracts from an autobiography written by his wife, Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton.
Preston just stormed off, said a spokeswoman for the show.
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