It’s like a celeb epidemic. Angelina Jolie, Victoria Beckham and now Madonna blatantly dictating which questions are forbidden during interviews.

Leave it to Madge to take it one crazy step further, according to MSNBC.

“Eye contact must be maintained at all times,” interviewers were told, according to the London Mirror. “Never look down to check notes — all questions must be memorized or the interview will be terminated.”

“We thought her people were just joking,” a source told the paper. “But it soon became apparent that they were deadly serious.”

Interviewers were also given a list of questions they were not allowed to ask: no inquiries about the state of her marriage to director Guy Ritchie, about their adoption of a Malawian child, or about her religion, Kabbalah.

“She did not want to do any interviews, which I told the Live Earth folks from the start,” Madonna’s rep told The Scoop, adding that she didn’t know about any backstage demands.

Of course she didn’t know, or she wouldn’t admit it. What rep wants to be linked to this kind of nutty stuff?

Eye contact? Memorizing questions in advance? Forbidding journalists from looking down at their notes?

Feel sorry for those reporters. Have you seen Madonna lately? She’s scary like Medusa. The correspondents probably feared they’d be turned to stone.

Like a stringer statue garden, backstage at Wembley.