MADONNA - MADONNA REFUSES TO READ NEWSPAPERS

Pop superstar MADONNA refuses to buy newspapers and magazines because she is sick of the inaccurate stories they print about her.

The HUNG UP hitmaker, who is a devout follower Kabbalah, is determined to protect her children LOURDES, nine, and five-year-old ROCCO from the media circus which surrounds her.

And the 47-year-old doesn't have enough spare time to waste trying to set journalists straight.

She says, "I find it frustrating because my life is always misinterpreted through a filter of misinformation.

"It's simple. I don't want to be influenced by the gossip and the press and one inevitably is if you read it.

"I get to the third page of a paper and there's a hideous article about me, my husband or my children or somebody in my circle, and I end up getting irritated and I'd rather not have that in my life."