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Brazil’s far right pilloried for Madonna outrage after figures spotted at concert


Supporters of rightwing ex-president Jair Bolsonaro among 1.6m people at show despite conservative criticism of ‘satanist’ singer

In a WhatsApp message leaked to the news website Metrópoles, the senator blamed his Madonna-adoring wife for making him attend the concert and justified his decision to go by claiming their marriage was going through a “terrible” patch. Castro and Araújo both reportedly claimed they had left the show before some of the more titillating moments, which included two musclebound dancers pretending to perform oral sex on Madonna and the Brazilian pop sensation Anitta. At another point in the concert Madonna appeared alongside the Brazilian drag queen and singer Pabllo Vittar to perform Music – another outrage to supporters of Bolsonaro, who was notorious for his hostility to the LGBTQ+ community and his self-declared homophobia.

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