Simon Cowell has spent this Christmas cruising round the Caribbean in a luxury yacht. This is in keeping with previous years, where the high-trousered TV personality has spent the festive period at Sandy Lane Hotel on Barbados.
Due to this love of the area, Cowell splashed out £15m on a holiday home on the island, but building work has been slow. Other plots on the luxury development have been bought by Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Eddie Jordan and they too must wait, with the resort expected to be finished in 2011 having originally been scheduled to open last year. Funding difficulties have stalled the project for now, but the developers remain confident that work will recommence shortly.