CONFESS: Like Us, You Are Insanely Jealous of Madonna's Big Fat Taylor Swift-led Greek birthday holiday on Corfu
Holiday, celebration, come together in every nation. But especially Greece.
Madonna is winning.
While you’re either sitting at home wondering where the hell the summer went, or fighting gale-force winds and/or crowds to get on a Greek ferry, the Queen of Pop just took a private helicopter tour of Meteora and is now luxuriating in the manicured wilds of northern Corfu.
You didn’t think the Like a Virgin singer was going to celebrate her 643rd birthday in Michigan, did you? Okay, Madge isn’t officially in Methuselah territory yet, but as part of her 68th birthday she is going slightly biblical — and in a much cooler way than church-led Rick Steves ever would. Our sources tell us that she and her entourage took a private helicopter to facilitate a private tour of the imposing Varlaam monastery in Meteora.
Let’s back up a bit: taking a page out of the Taylor Swift playbook, Madonna had already touched down in Greece by private jet. That’s somewhat unusual, because we know that the frugal-ish Madonna tends to fly commercial, often favoring first class aboard airlines such as El Al to Tel Aviv and British Airways to or from London (flight attendants tells us she’s a bit frosty on board but hey, she’s Madonna). Whether or not she flew from London to Corfu on private jet directly, we were unable to confirm.
But Corfu, it seems, is the main birthday goal. She’s going off-grid, but in her own private rented villa with private beach and marina access kind of way. Northern, more sedate half of Corfu. Our guess is somewhere in the vicinity of Paleokastritsa, with its gorgeous Agios Spiridon beach and Odyssey-adjacent lore (a shipwrecked Odysseus is said to have come ashore here).
What’s up on Madonna’s Greek summer itinerary après-Corfu? The celebrity rumor mill is at full tilt as we hit the dead center of August, but our money puts the Material Girl’s next move on an island imbued with both yachties and Julia Roberts sightings plus major religious significance: check it out with her.
