Christmas grinch Madonna

22-10-2008 12:01

Madonna wants to cancel Guy Ritchie's plans to give their children a traditional Christmas.The US singer is trying to block the British director's planned festive celebration - which was previously banned in their household because of Madonna's Kabbalah religion, an offshoot of Judaism, which doesn't recognise the Christian holiday.Madonna, 50, wants to keep the children they raise together - Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight, and David Banda, three - with her on Christmas Day (25 December) following the pair's divorce, which is expected to be finalised by the end of the year. A source told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "Guy has taken a lot from Kabbalah and any talk of him being against it now is rubbish. But he's also very much a British traditionalist and he would love to pass on some of the flavour of a traditional Christmas to his kids."He thinks the kids are missing out and he's determined that things change. He won't go overboard because that would just confuse them."What he wants more than anything though is to actually be with the kids at that time of year and he just hopes Madonna can compromise."Meanwhile, Madonna is allegedly planning to secretly meet US baseball star Alex 'A-Rod' Rodriguez in Miami next month.