Visit the Caribbean island that A-list celebrities love – and it’ll cost less than you’d expect

THEY say everyone’s famous for 15 minutes but if you’ve got £43,000 in your account, you can live like the rich and famous for two weeks every year.

The ultra-exclusive Royal Westmoreland estate in Barbados — where Wayne and Coleen Rooney, Joe Calzaghe and Andrew Flintoff own sprawling homes — is inviting people to live the showbiz life by offering the chance to buy two weeks (or more) in one of their multi-million pound homes at a fraction of the full price.

The golfing resort, where holidaymakers pay upwards of £25,000 for a week in the Rooneys’ seven-bedroom villa, boasts one of the poshest addresses in the Caribbean and the views — complete with monkeys jumping from palm tree to palm tree — are divine.

Sir Cliff Richard, Denise van Outen and Gary Lineker are all regulars in the swish clubhouse or on the tennis courts.

I saw stars from Made In Chelsea sipping cocktails at the laidback Mullins Beach Bar, and Jeremy Clarkson and James May were spotted drinking their famous rum punches a few days later.

It’s easy to see what draws the in-crowd to the sun-drenched island.

Barbados is around 300 square miles of breathtaking contrasts, with the Atlantic Ocean sending waves crashing against the rugged cliffs of the less-populated east coast, less than an hour’s drive away.

While fine dining restaurants and trendy cocktail bars abound, one of the highlights of any week spent in Barbados is a Friday night at Oistins Fish Fry, where locals, celebrities and tourists head for the ultimate street food experience and rub shoulders late into the night.

Delivered from the tiny boats that drop anchor just a few feet away, fish really doesn’t come any fresher than from these makeshift market stalls.

And if you’ve spent the day in the turquoise sea as I did, swimming with turtles and sipping mojitos mixed by the Cool Runnings catamaran captain, a no-frills plate of grilled mahi-mahi and mouthwatering macaroni pie completes what could well be the perfect day.

But while the Fish Fry might be one of Rihanna’s favourite nights out, the eye-wateringly expensive The Cliff is the number one spot on the celebrity circuit.

We went for drinks at the recently opened Cliff Beach Club — an achingly-cool addition where the prices are more reasonable and you can dance the night away under a canopy of cream sails and glitterballs as fish swim up to the decking below.