Elton’s new snub to his hospitalised mum, 90

SIR ELToN JoHN paid touching tribute to his old friend David Bowie at a concert in Los angeles this week, performing a rendition of Bowie’s first number one song Space oddity.

Sadly, Sir Elton didn’t feel the need to make a similar dediciation to his dear old mother.

For back home in Blighty, I hear the piano tickler’s mum Sheila Farebrother, 90, is currently recovering in hospital in London after undergoing a hip operation this week. No word from Sir Elton’s spokesman whether he’d been in touch with his ma — the pair fell out nearly eight years ago, following an explosive row, allegedly over his husband David Furnish.

Nor was Sheila able to rely on a visit from her friend Paul Bacon, who plies his trade as an Elton impersonator and whom she hired to entertain guests at her 90th birthday.

I am told the unlikely pair have not spoken in months.