Guy Ritchie
- Profession: Film Director and Writer
- Place/Date of Birth: Hatfield, 10 September 2020
- Associated with: Madonna
Super Guy - 03/09/02
Guy Ritchie’s been talking about his relationship with Madonna’s daughter Lourdes. "She calls me Super Dad," he said. But Guy’s not trying to take her real father Carlos Leon’s place. "She’s got a good dad, he’s a good man. I get away with just being Super Dad." Courtesy of Heat Magazine
New show for TV devised by Guy Ritchie - 29/08/02
The show, which is currently called Swag, is described as a "cross between Police Camera Action and Trigger Happy TV."
It will feature reconstructions of dumb crimes and situations where members of the public are tempted to see if they are greedy enough to perform illegal acts.
Guy Ritchie came up with the idea for the show but he will not be involved in its production. Swag is expected to debut on Channel 5 next year.
Guy returns to his mockney gangster roots - 21/08/02
Guy Ritchie has obviously learnt his lesson and is going back to doing what he does best, directing a film about the London gangster underworld (yawn .).
His recent attempt to direct his wife in a romantic comedy ’Swept Away’ has apparently ended in disaster. Preview audiences have panned the ’couple stuck on a desert island together’ based film.
For Ritchie it’s a major glitch in his career and it looks very likely that it will be a straight to video film. Guy though has said that working with the missus was a "complete success, we are better off as a couple after it than we were before"
Guy’s latest project couldn’t be more different from Swept Away. Based on a book entitled Layer Cake, it will have a similar format to Ritchie’s 1998 blockbuster, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Hague and Ritchie get ready to rematch 24/06/01
It is rumoured that William Hague and Guy Ritchie are arranging a rematch on the judo mat, in the not to distant future. Hague, who just recently announced his stand down from Tory leader, and Ritchie, the famous film director and husband to Madonna, clashed on the mat earlier this year, after being introduced by instructor Ray Stevens, of Budokwai martial arts club in Chelsea, where they are both members. It has never been revealed who won, but I would think Hague has a bit of pent up tension after the recent election results. (apparently his secret is to visulise Tony Blair standing in front of him).
Guy Ritchie & William Hague fight it out 19/03/01
Madonna’s husband Guy Ritchie and Conservative Party leader William Hague have been sparring together on the judo mat. The unlikely battle took place at Budokwai, a fashionable judo club in Chelsea, London. Hague usually visits the club twice a week in order to tussle with his right-hand man Sebastian Coe. When Coe failed to turn up for a session, Hague’s coach Ray Stevens, an Olympic silver medallist, suggested Guy Ritchie as a suitable replacement. Hague amazingly would seem to have the advantage in a bout - he is a venerable blue-belt, whereas Guy is a relative newcomer to the sport. In practice, however, they were apparently well-matched, as Guy is also a karate black-belt, and has reportedly taken to judo like a natural. Guy’s grapples with Hague aren’t his only links to the Conservative Party. Shireen Ritchie, his stepmother, is a close friend of Tory MP Michael Portillo, and the chairman of his Kensington and Chelsea constituency party.
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His second film, Snatch, also did well, taking £3m in its first weekend earlier this year, a record opening for an 18-rated film. The diamond-heist drama has so far grossed £12.3m in the UK and is soon to be released in the US. But, of course, it is not just Ritchie’s film successes that command the hundreds of column inches written about him each week. The 32-year-old’s marriage with pop icon Madonna and the birth of their son Rocco has caught the imagination of the public.
He began his career as a film runner in the UK in 1993, quickly progressing to directing music promos for bands and commercials by 1995. The money he made from this enabled him to direct his first film - Hard Case, a 20-minute short and after meeting his producing partner Matthew Vaughn, the two formed SKA Films. They went on to make Lock Stock, and two years later Snatch was released.
Ritchie also spotted the acting potential in footballer Vinnie Jones, who terrified opponents on the field with his crunching tackles.
He is now working on a 17th Century civil war action drama, which is slated for production in 2001.
He spent much of his childhood at Loton Park, in Shropshire, the 17th century home of his baronet stepfather.
Ritchie was born in Hatfield in Hertfordshire in 1968. His parents divorced when he was five, and he went to live with his mother, Amber, who was a model, and her new husband, Sir Michael Leighton, until she divorced again when he was 12.
It is reported that his severe dyslexia meant he attended a total of 10 schools, and left with one GCE in film studies. He got a job at Island Records, before pursuing his interest in film-making.
December 2007