Johnny Depp buys Caribbean island

Johnny Depp has completed the purchase of an island in the Caribbean.

The actor - who has two children, 10-year-old Lily-Rose and Jack, seven, with girlfriend Vanessa Paradis - splashed out on the 45-acre tropical paradise after discovering it by chance on a family holiday.

He said: "Like everything else in my life, it wasnt planned, it just kind of happened. After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl and someone said there was an island down the road for sale.

"I looked at it, I walked on it and I was done. So I immediately called my business manager and said Please! And that was it."

The 46-year-old star loves spending time on the perfect island because it allows him and his family to hide away from the pressures of living in the public eye.

He explained to Britains Daily Telegraph newspaper: “It came at the perfect moment. The island provides me with somewhere I can go where no one is looking at me or pointing a camera or a finger at me. When were there we do absolutely nothing.

“My kiddies dont have any toys there and they build little houses out of shells”.