EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Madonna celebrates her son Rocco's 23rd birthday after the Queen of pop turns 65

Queen of Pop Madonna turned 65 yesterday — but she was keener to celebrate the 23rd birthday of her son Rocco.

The singing superstar shared online this photograph of her snuggling up to artist Rocco at a restaurant in Lisbon, where he was given a cake in the shape of a Portuguese guitar.

Rocco, who's known as a natty dresser, is the son of the star's second husband, Guy Ritchie, the British film director. His birthday was last Friday.

'You have made me worry —possibly more than any other person on the planet,' Madonna wrote next to the picture.

'But you have taken the road less travelled by and that will make all the difference. Nothing gives me more joy than to watch you grow as an artist.'

Madonna was forced to reschedule her forthcoming Celebration tour following a bacterial infection that meant she had to spend several days in intensive care. 

Veteran DJ Simon Bates, who made a welcome return to the airwaves with Boom Radio at the weekend, was once given a police escort from Heathrow to Radio 1's studios when he was required to present the Top 40 at one hour's notice. 

'Some very nice policeman thought I was important. But I wasn't,' recalls the modest 76-year-old.

No high-speed dash needed for his Boom debut — he performed from a studio in his living room.

Wish you were deer? Jodie's hols with stag

Jodie Kidd is engaged to former Royal Marine Joseph Bates — but it looks as if she's the first to have a stag do.

The model-turned-publican, 44, has shared this holiday snap of her intimate encounter with a red stag, called Storm, in Exe Valley, Devon. 

In a potentially dangerous move, Kidd is pictured feeding the creature a digestive biscuit from between her teeth.

'A day to never forget,' she said, adding of their accommodation: 'I feel like we're in a cabin in the Wild West, but it's Devon.'

Winston Churchill was once so impressed by the work of an ocean liner immigration officer that he gave him two of his Cuban cigars as a thank-you. 

Now the cigars, and a signed 1950s photograph of the great man, have gone under the hammer at an online auction — with the current bid standing at £2,858. 

A letter from John Chalmers, son of the officer Wilfred Chalmers, reveals: 'My father was a first-class immigration officer aboard the Queen liners ... the first class passengers were "processed" before their arrival at Southampton. Sir Winston Churchill was impressed by this service, hence the cigars and the autograph.' 

Not many people know that... 90- year-old Sir Michael Caine's first encounter with Sherlock star Martin Freeman became a three-pipe problem for the younger actor. 

Freeman, 51, recalls: 'The first time I met him [his friend, the film director] Edgar Wright knew that I liked him. He said, "Martin, come and meet Michael Caine." 

'So I did, and I put my hand out and said, "Hi, I'm Michael." I was so nervous. And he said, "No, I'm Michael, you're Martin." '

How about this for a 'first-world problem'? Harriet Walter, star of television dramas including Succession and The Crown, says the damehood she was awarded in 2011 is causing her 'nightmares' — because the title isn't recognised by most websites when she's making payments or bookings.

'It's on one of my bank cards but not the other,' the actress, 72, says of her title.

'But also it causes all sorts of nightmares on most websites because they have a drop-down menu saying, "What's your title?" and they practically never have dame on there.'

Dame Harriet adds: 'Sometimes I go, OK, if I want people to know I'm a dame, it'll say first name, and I'll put Dame Harriet. And then you go to the airport and they say, "You're not here". I'll say, 'Look under D.' '