The Mexican-born actress picked up the baby immediately upon hearing of the mother’s plight and began breastfeeding it despite the presence of several media camera crews. Sierra Leone has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the world and the sexy actress later said:

“The baby was perfectly healthy, but the mother did not have any milk. He was very hungry – I was weaning my daughter Valentina, but I still had a lot of milk, so I breastfed the baby. It was amazing because he was really looking at me and he’s very little. My baby is one year so he can suck a lot harder.”

Salma Hayek recently admitted in a newspaper interview last November that she was addicted to breastfeeding her daughter and that the possibility of professional rehabilitation was not off the cards.

“I’m like an alcoholic. It is like, I don’t care if I cry, I don’t care if I am fat, I am just going to do it for one more week, one more month, and then when I see how much good it is doing her and I can’t stop.”

Offers of support for the big bosomed actress have come from far and wide. Female fans have inquired as to whether she is officially for hire as a wet-nurse whilst legions of male fans have described their poverty stricken voids of hunger and begged for her assistance.

One of the most well known figures to have got in touch is the Scottish socialist politician George Galloway who wrote a detailed letter regarding the possibility of being breast fed by Salma Hayek. The Respect Party MP was widely ridiculed in 2006 for his Big Brother appearance where he took the role of a cat licking imaginary cream from the cupped hands of actress Rula Lenska.

The reasons for Galloway’s desire to be breastfed by the buxom star have not yet come to light but many critics of the Saddam Hussein-admiring firebrand have suggested it could be something to do with the beginning of the 5,000-mile journey to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, that he has helped organise. The Arabist Scot has delighted in reassuring the British population of an “intifada sweeping Britain”.

It’s thought the donated milk from Salma Hayek, which would be consumed by George Galloway, will be able to fuel his confrontational rhetoric for the entire 17 days of the journey from London to the Egypt-Gaza border.

A spokesman for the actress has refused to pass comment on the speculation. In other related news, Lancashire police stopped several suspicious vehicles near Preston which are said to be connected to the Gaza mission. In the boot of one of the cars was found Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, who detectives have suggested was being kept as an alternative in case the Hayek offer was rejected.

The Turritopsis Nutricula is a hydrozoan and is the only known species on the planet that can revert back to a younger self. It’s able to do this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation which can be repeated indefinitely. They originate in the Caribbean but have now spread across the globe.

Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: “We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion.”

Marine biologists and geneticists have frantically been studying the animal to see exactly how the Turritopsis Nutricula is able to reverse the ageing process. A special charity was established last month called “The Fountain of Youth”. One of its co-founders is the Welsh singer, Sir Tom Jones, who has donated $50 million of his own money to the cause.

Speaking in Los Angeles, the granny’s favourite pop star admitted that age was a major concern of his. Just two years ago his plastic surgeon, Günther von Hagens, told him that his features might not be able to take any more improvement operations.

Instead, Sir Tom Jones has taken to the more dynamic solution of coating his hair and beard with the 5mm long immortal – but dead jellyfish. Three of his personal bodyguards were seen trawling the waters off Barbados last week on his yacht, the “Love Boat 2″.

Sir Tom Jones said in a recent interview: “I’ve been dying my hair for years now and it’s well known I’ve spent over £30,000 a year on surgery. When I came across an article in the New Scientist about this jellyfish, I was over the moon! With a bit of luck, within 12 months, our team of researchers will have found a way of reversing the age process in humans too. In the meantime, I have decided to coat myself with thousands of the now-dead Turritopsis Nutricula in the hope that their cells will seep into my hair follicles and skin and work their magic. You never know.”

Hundreds of plastic surgeons remain sceptical however and have even called for a boycott of the charity.