HAPPY BIRTHDAY

REBECCA STEPHENS, 56. In 1993, the mountaineer became the first British woman to conquer Everest. The former journalist only got the climbing bug after writing a series of articles about an Everest expedition. She said the joy of reaching the peak, ‘momentarily, is explosive’. CLIVE OWEN, 53. The Coventry-born star of Closer and Gosford Park (right) insists he doesn’t think about his looks, saying: ‘Any actor who ever thinks about that or considers himself to be a sex symbol has got serious problems.’ Angelina Jolie, his Beyond Borders co-star, said that when she told Owen he looked sexy in a white vest, ‘He fell over laughing . . . ’