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Niyama Private Islands, Maldives.

The Maldives have always brought to mind Madonna. It was a few New Years Eves ago and a mate – big in movies – invited a bunch of us to a very fancy dinner in West Hollywood. It was well nice and we were well sloshed. Cut to just-after-midnight, and our mate gets a text: ‘Hope you and the boys are having a blast! I’m in the Maldives with the kids.’ It was Madonna. Soz, ‘M’.

First of all; one of ‘the boys’! Secondly, the Maldives in one fell showbiz text hotfooted it from honeymoon cliché to tip-top bucket list. And people say she’s

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