Madonna’s brother Christopher Ciccone fell out for a time with his famous sister after publishing a memoir about her life and career in 2008.

Happily, they were reconciled before his death earlier this month, with the singer forgiving him for spilling the beans on her romances with beaus including Warren Beatty.

One fling which didn’t make the book — but which Chris was happy to share — was between superstar singer George Michael and himself.

The fleeting romance happened around 1989 — the year when Madonna hogged the headlines for kissing George on stage at the MTV Awards. 

Newspapers at the time wrongly reported that she and the former Wham! man were an item, with one article quoting the Material Girl as telling a friend: ‘I’m really wild about George.’

In reality, the British pop star (who didn’t come out as gay until 1998, after getting arrested while cruising for sex in a toilet in Beverly Hills) was more interested in her brother. 

A friend of his said this week: ‘Christopher was happy to tell people all about it. 

‘He enjoyed dropping his fling with George Michael into conversation.’ 

Christopher, an artist and designer, died in Michigan on October 4 after a battle with cancer, aged 63. 

Madonna paid tribute to him, saying: ‘He was the closest human to me for so long, it’s hard to explain our bond. But it grew out of an understanding that we were different, and society was going to give us a hard time for not following the status quo. 

‘We took each other’s hands and we danced through the madness of our childhood. In fact, dance was a kind of superglue that held us together. 

‘Discovering dance in our small Midwestern town saved me — and then my brother came along, and it saved him, too. My ballet teacher, also named Christopher, created a safe space for my brother to be gay, a word that was not spoken or even whispered where we lived.’ 

George died on Christmas Day 2016 from natural causes related to heart and liver disease.

Mikey Madison called on director Sean Baker and his wife Samantha Quan when working on love scenes in the film Anora, in which she plays a New York sex worker who marries the idiot son of a Russian oligarch.

Baker and his wife acted out the sex scenes fully clothed for Madison and — unusually — there were no intimacy co-ordinators on set, as the cast and director didn’t think they needed them.

In London for Anora’s UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, Madison said that she had complete trust in Baker and wanted to work with him because of his ‘dark sense of humour’. The film is a comic triumph and has been garnering five-star reviews . . . and Oscars buzz for its star.

Madison (pictured left on the red carpet and right in the film) previously revealed her father had installed a strippers’ pole at home for her, no questions asked, so that she could practise.

She also read a number of memoirs, and shadowed dancers at the Headquarters Club in Midtown Manhattan.