“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE” -ANDY WARHOL

The 50-year-old singer who was first romantically linked to the baseball player, nickname 'A-Rod', earlier this year before announcing her divorce from Guy Ritchie - has reportedly been gushing to close pals about the sportsman. A source said: "Madonna is smitten with Alex. She told a close friend that he has the heart of a poet trapped inside an insanely gorgeous body."It has also been claimed Alex has regularly been sending the mother-of-three "love notes". The source added to the New York Post newspaper: "Alex has been writing Madonna these sweet, personal and rambling expressions of his feelings - sort of like old-fashioned love notes." It was recently claimed Alex is so keen to make his relationship with Madonna work that he is moving in a bid to be closer to the singer.