Moments before Madonna launched her Sticky & Sweet tour Saturday night in Britain, she paused backstage for a bit of sugar. No, not the kind she deprives herself of in order to maintain her preternaturally brawny physique.

This tasty treat was in the form of a good luck kiss from husband Guy Ritchie, who also presented the Big M with a bouquet of flowers, reports the London Sun.

Madonna and her Olympic-standard legs on the opening night of her Sticky & Sweet tour.

"Her legs are Olympic standard," the impressed filmmaker points out to the paper. "She is in amazing shape. You won't find a fitter bird than her. Her legs are so toned. She's fitter than dancers on her tour who are half her age."

Guy's romantic gesture and gam gushing comes on the heels of his affectionate tribute to his missus at her 50th birthday bash on Aug. 16, when he told the crowd, "I'm so proud. I love her so much."

But did the rumor-beset pair recently make another declaration of love?

The London Daily Mail says the Ritchies, in a "last-ditch attempt" to salvage their union of nearly eight years, renewed their wedding vows during a hush-hush Kabbalah ceremony.

Madonna, 50, supposedly flew her Kabbalah teacher from Los Angeles to London to perform the purported matrimonial affirmation.

"It was very intimate and both Guy and Madonna made vows to each other and pledged to try to make their marriage strong again," a source maintains to the paper. "The ceremony lasted about an hour. They turned up at the Kabbalah Centre in their gym clothes and changed into white robes. Everyone at the Centre hopes that they will get through their recent rough patch."

If the ceremony did take place, Ritchie may not have been completely on board with all the spiritual aspects of the occasion.

In an interview with Britain's Observer magazine, he answers in the negative when asked if he would describe himself as a Kabbalah follower.

"No, I wouldn't, no," says Guy. "I like to think I'm an objective guy. I have sympathies with many philosophies, and I think it'd be a mistake to be a follower of anything, really."

As for whether he and Madonna are trying to adopt a 3-year-old girl named Mercy from Malawi, the same country where they adopted 2-year-old son David, the director, unlike Madonna's rep, doesn't offer a denial.

"Possibly," he responds.

The suddenly chatty Ritchie, whose film "RocknRolla" will soon hit theaters, also weighs in on the recently released tell-all from Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone.

"I don't make anything of the book," he opines. "The poor chap wrote it out of desperation. I don't think it'd be intelligent to comment on that."

But Guy is willing to comment on his brother-in-law's claim that he's homophobic, zinging, "You'd be hard pushed to be a homophobe and marry Madonna."

Speaking of pushing hard, Madonna is taking heat for a jab aimed at John McCain during her opening night performance.

While she warbled "Get Stupid," an image of the Republican presidential nominee was juxtaposed with pictures of global warming, Hitler and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. Later, Barack Obama's photo was shown amid a montage featuring John Lennon, Gandhi and Al Gore.

McCain's camp, seemingly operating under the assumption that a London-based pop icon's latest attempt at controversy can influence the presidential process, was quick to respond, saying in a statement (via Fox News), "The comparisons are outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive all at the same time. It clearly shows that when it comes to supporting Barack Obama, his fellow worldwide celebrities refuse to consider any smear or attack off limits."