The cameras are going behind the scenes at Sir Richard Branson’s Caribbean island hideaway as part of a new season of TV shows about the super-rich.

The one-off BBC2 documentary, Inside Necker Island, is described as “an intimate portrait of how the rich, powerful and famous holiday”.

Sir Richard bought the island in 1978 and opened it as a luxury retreat for private hire in 1984. Guests can pay up to £40,000 a night and are waited on by around 100 staff.

It hit the headlines three years ago when Oscar-winner Kate Winslet had to carry Sir Richard’s 90-year-old mother, Eve, to safety when a fire broke out in the multi-millionaire businessman’s house.

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