In 2005, Banksy travelled to the West Bank, where he painted the security fence at Bethlehem with a trompe-l’oeil scene of a hole in the concrete barrier, revealing a glittering beach on the other side; it looked as if someone had dug through to paradise.

Shortly before his wedding to Madonna in 1985, Sean Penn noticed paparazzi flying around his Malibu home in helicopters....

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David Beckham once visited what was described to him as a “secluded beach” in Bangkok, Thailand. He soon arrived, and found a hundred fans waiting to meet him. It was also in Thailand, in 2000, that a fan paid him the ultimate tribute: placing a gold-plated foot-high statue of David at the foot of the main Buddha in Bangkok’s Pariwas Temple, in a spot reserved for minor deities, forcing monks in the monastery to kneel and meditate before his likeness.