It is normal – and expected – for famous people to delegate tasks to their assistant. After all, if you’re on the set of your movie for 12 hours a day, why not send your assistant to grocery shop for you? However, I feel like there are some people who delegate so much to their assistant(s) that there’s nothing left for them to do except drink, do drugs, court the paparazzi for “unplanned” photo ops, and have inappropriate relationships with people.
Case in point? Madonna. The star has multiple assistants as well as a huge household staff. However, I guess she finds the time to work out six hours a day because her staff does absolutely everything for her. Today’s Daily Mail reports that Madonna was furious when her employee Angela – nanny to Madonna’s youngest son, David Banda – put in her notice and instead fired her immediately. While I don’t write about celebrities’ nannies, Angela is an employee and was probably treated like dirt. However, one sentence in particular from the article stuck out to me:
According to her aides, a personal assistant will be sent [to Malawi, the African nation David was adopted from] next month to select a baby and ensure the official documentation is in place.
Sending an assistant to pick which kid you’d like to adopt next? I mean, don’t you want a little more say in who joins your frickin’ family? Well, maybe if the assistant is going to be the one raising the kid it makes sense that he or she should get to select their charge.
It must be hard to have a world-famous multimillionaire singer as your sister…I mean, look how little Jamie Lynn turned out. Some celebrity siblings handle it better than others. Until recently, it seemed like Material Brother 
