If Madonna can be Esther, maybe I can be Mordechai too and we can both be heroes of jewish history together...When did celebs get so weird?

It's Esther, the welly-wearing, Italian-Jewish-British country landowner. Julia Magnet reports

What's in a name? Not that much, it seems, as Madonna - mistress of the makeover - has announced she is trading her iconic moniker for Esther. Esther? Yes - and she's doing it as a testament to her belief in Kabbalah, a mystic sect of Judaism, based mostly on medieval, ethical texts and numerology. Except that she interprets this Jewish devotion as rather "punk-rock". "Call me Esther," she proclaims this week, à la Moby-Dick, in an American television interview.