MADGE'S PR STUNT IS A FLOP
MADGE'S PR STUNT IS A FLOP
ABOVE: Madonna with adopted son David Banda
ABOVE: Little David shakes hands with his natural dad Yohane
I can’t believe he is the same small and sickly baby.
Yohane Banda
1st April 2009
By Emma Wall
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MADONNA scored an own goal when she reunited her adopted son with his real dad in a PR stunt.
David Banda’s father revealed the boy did not know who he was when they met in Malawi.
The singer staged her stunt amid growing criticism of her plans to adopt another child from the African country – four-year-old Mercy James.
Mercy was put in an orphanage after her 18-year-old mum died
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And Madonna visited the Home Of Hope yesterday to spend time with the youngster.
Madge, 50, also tried to play down the row by releasing photos of David, three, meeting his dad for the first time since his 2006 adoption.
But it fell flat when David asked Yohane Banda, 34: “Who are you?”
He even needed a translator to talk to his father as he does not speak his native language. After the two-and-a-half-hour meeting, Yohane admitted: “When I told him: ‘I am your daddy,’ he looked surprised.”
Yohane also fuelled suspicion the meeting was a stunt by heaping praise on his son’s superstar adopted mum.
He said: “It’s amazing how David has grown. I can’t believe he is the same small and sickly baby.”
A judge will rule on Friday whether Madonna can adopt Mercy.
Orphanage officials and members of Madonna’s entourage were also there for the star’s visit to Mercy.
A Madge backlash is growing in the US with one columnist accusing her of “trading in human trinkets”.
Writer Andrea Peyser said: “The baby monster must be stopped!”
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