HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JON SNOW, 69. The Channel 4 newsreader, keen cyclist and former chorister said two years ago that ‘sex comes into every evaluation of a woman’. As a student, he had an affair with a librarian almost twice his age. He said: ‘I was warned off by my lecturer, who told me I was very unwise to be seen going off in the lunch hour in the librarian’s car.’

BRIGITTE BARDOT, 82. The French actress (pictured) has had four husbands and, according to one book, more than 100 lovers, including women. An animal rights activist, she was unsuccessfully sued by her neighbour after she had his donkey castrated, fearing its interest in her 32-year-old mare Duchess was excessive and that mating could kill the old horse.