Madonna offers marriage advice (From Crewe Guardian)

Madonna offers marriage advice

1:09pm Friday 12th March 2010 in

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Madonna has offered relationship advice on US TV show The Marriage Ref, where she joined Larry David and Ricky Gervais as a guest panelist.

The show invited the panel of "experts" to help analyse real-life disputes between married couples, mostly for laughs.

In one case, Mindy Goldman was offering sexual favours to Alan, her husband of 28 years, if he would clean up their messy basement, and Madonna joked: "I think it's weird that she wants him to be clean so that they can be dirty."

Gervais added: "Could they combine the sex with the housework?"

Then Susan and David Harper, married for three years, were seen in their house squabbling over possessions left over from their past relationships. Susan wanted her husband to get rid of the sofa where David and his ex-wife might have had hanky-panky, while David complained about Susan hanging on to the ashes and prosthetic leg of Don, her late husband.

Madonna offered a swift solution, saying: "He gets rid of the couch, she gets rid of the leg."

"This is easily the most uncomfortable hour I've ever spent in my life," sighed Larry David in the midst of the debate.

"Why?" Madonna retorted. "Because you're sitting next to a woman who's standing up to you?"

The Marriage Ref, which premiered last week, has Jerry Seinfeld as a creator and producer.