Celebrities and courtrooms: sometimes you can't keep them apart. Enter Madonna, pursued by a legal action brought by fans who may like her music but do not like her timekeeping.

The singer has said she plans to ‘vigorously defend’ the case brought by fans who attended her New York concert as part of her sold-out Celebration tour.

Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden, who bring the US claim, say they would not have paid for tickets had they known the event would finish so late. According to reports, they are suing promoter Live Nation and the Barclays Center for ‘false advertising, negligent misrepresenting and unfair and deceptive trade practices’.

Live Nation said the shows in North America opened ‘as planned, with the exception of a technical issue December 13th during soundcheck’ which caused ‘a delay that was well documented’.

The show was meant to start at 8.30pm but Fellows and Hadden said it did not begin until after 10.30pm.

Court papers, according to the BBC, also claim Madonna has a ‘long history of arriving and starting her concerts late, sometimes several hours late’.

Nothing like a court case to remind people of what is valued - and time is a big one. Thanks to the Queen of Pop for reminding us of that.

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