Swansea has gone Catherine Zeta-Jones crazy this week as the star made a trip back to her home town with fiance Michael Douglas and their baby son Dylan.

The South Wales Evening Post was among the papers to cover the visit – which saw the actress tour the local Singleton Hospital’s maternity unit.

She also revealed that a feature in the Evening Post had inspired the trip to meet other new mums.

The paper ran a competition to find the Swansea mother whose baby was born nearest to the moment when Catherine delivered Dylan at Mount Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, on August 8.

At the hospital Catherine told a Post reporter: “It is lovely here. I’m really enjoying it. I thought it was great when the Evening Post did the competition about the baby born around the same time as Dylan.

“He would have been born here if it had been possible. the staff are really doing a great job”.

She also revealed that she had taken baby Dylan to see the statue of poet Dylan Thomas, in whose honour he was named.

As well as a picture special of Catherine’s visit, the paper carried interviews with excited locals who had run into Catherine and her family during their stay.

Post reader Rob Coleman told the paper how he saw Michael, Catherine and her family out for a meal:

“I thought I’d just got up and introduce myself so I walked up to Michael and said ‘Welcome to Wales’.

“He said ‘Thanks very much’ and put his cigarette down to shake my hand.

“I asked him if he minded if I asked Catherine for a big kiss and he said ‘Not at all’.

“So I asked her. She came up to me and I gave her a nice big smackeroonie on the cheek.”

Later, Rob’s wife Shirley-Anne found herself next to Catherine in a queue for the Ladies’.

After exchanging questions about their respective children, Shirley-Anne asked for an autograph, but the only paper she had to hand was a bank statement which Catherine happily signed.

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