Madge 'dreads' marriage grilling

MADONNA and GUY RITCHIE’s private life is going under the microscope as officials test them to see if they are fit parents.

The couple — desperate to formally adopt Malawian tot David Banda — will open their home to the African country’s top child welfare inspector.

The superstars are “dreading” the official grilling, due to take place at their £5.7million pad in London’s Marble Arch in two weeks.

“Very sensitive” questions about alcohol, infertility, divorce and infidelity will be fired at them for up to five days.

Penston Kilembe — director of Malawi’s Ministry of Child Welfare — will also observe them together for up to five hours a day.

Madonna, 48, and Guy, 38, have been dogged by rumours of a rocky relationship and if rifts are spotted, they will be banned from adopting two-year-old David. They will be judged on how loving they are towards each other and to their other kids, daughter Lourdes, ten, and son Rocco, seven.

A source said: “This home study is a big deal — and Madonna and Guy have been absolutely dreading it. Malawi is a conservative country that disapproves of drugs, alcohol, divorce and cheating.

“These assessments are very gruelling and many couples don’t pass.”

The “home-study” is the final legal hurdle in adopting David, who has been living in England with Madonna since she plucked him from a Malawian orphanage last October.

Madonna’s bid to adopt the tot sparked huge controversy last year and some 50 civil rights groups filed petitions trying to block it.

The pop superstar was criticised after it emerged David was not an orphan and his dad, Yohane, gave him up after his mum died when he was just a week old.

Madonna hopes to adopt ANOTHER African baby called Grace.