{"id":92283,"date":"2024-02-04T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92283"},"modified":"2024-02-11T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T07:02:17","slug":"madonna-reunites-with-ripa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/02\/04\/madonna-reunites-with-ripa\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Reunites with Ripa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the nick of time, we have an <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question from <strong>Patrick <\/strong>in Chicago: <em>\u201cWhat happened with that reunion <strong>Madonna <\/strong>was supposed to have with [former backup singers] <strong>Niki <\/strong>and <strong>Donna<\/strong>?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, it\u2019s a sad, sad story.&nbsp; Everything I\u2019m going to say at this point should be put under a huge \u201callegedly\u201d umbrella.&nbsp; What I hear is that someone close to the ladies (allegedly, closer to Donna) reached out to Madonna to say the girls would love to go to the <em>Madison Square Garden <\/em>show on January 29<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; Why that show?&nbsp; Because the duo, who perform as <strong><em>Niki + Donna<\/em><\/strong>, would have just wrapped up their weekend gigs at <em>The Green Room 42<\/em>, just down the street from MSG!&nbsp; We\u2019re told that Madonna happily set up tix for her former colleagues in the front row.&nbsp; Fans were excited that there might be some onstage reunion.&nbsp; However, not only was there no reunion, there was not even an acknowledgement from the stage.&nbsp; We hear the gals didn\u2019t even get invited to the post-show party.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Well, after the tix to the concert were arranged, someone allegedly showed Madonna videos of the duo performing some of her songs\u2026and, let\u2019s just say she was not happy.&nbsp; So, while there had been an idea brewing of a reunion onstage to judge the \u201cVogue\u201d dance-off, Madonna instead invited up her pal <strong>Kelly Ripa<\/strong>.&nbsp; Oh, the humanity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the nick of time, we have an Ask Billy question from Patrick in Chicago: \u201cWhat happened with that reunion Madonna was supposed to have with [former backup singers] Niki and Donna?\u201d Oh, it\u2019s a sad, sad story.&nbsp; Everything I\u2019m going to say at this point should be put under a huge \u201callegedly\u201d umbrella.&nbsp; What<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92309,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92283\/revisions\/92309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}