Ritchie: 'Madonna's brother was desperate'

Guy Ritchie believes his wife Madonna's brother penned a tell-all book on the singer because he was desperate for the attention.

The filmmaker insists he isn't bothered by Christopher Ciccone's book 'Life With My Sister Madonna', which made a series of allegations about the singer's private life.

But 'Snatch' director Ritchie denies Ciccone's claim he is homophobic - because Madonna wouldn't stand for it.

Ritchie says: "I don't make anything of the book. The poor chap wrote it out of desperation. I don't think it'd be intelligent to comment on that. I can't give too much equity in what the chap's gonna write in that book.

"But you'd be hard pushed to be a homophobe and marry Madonna."