You never know who you will run into in Bora Bora!


Date:8/30/2004
James Bond movie star gives wife Tahitian pearl necklace


Tahitipresse :Call it “Marutea Pearls Mission” for 007, James Bond to the movie world, Irish actor Pierce Brosnan in real life.

No, this wasn’t a new James Bond film being shot in Tahiti. Instead, Brosnan and his wife, actress Keely Shaye Smith, spent a week on Bora Bora, known as the “pearl of the Pacific”. They were celebrating their third wedding anniversary.
On Saturday morning the couple, accompanied by some friends from Hawaii, flew in a private plane to the Tuamotu atoll of Marutea Sud to visit the pearl farm of Robert Wan, the world’s biggest producer of Tahitian cultured pearls.
Perhaps Brosnan remembered how his wife had surprised him on their wedding day on Aug. 4, 2001 with an ice sculpture of Rodin’s The Kiss during their wedding reception at the 13th Century Ashford Castle Hotel in County Mayo, Ireland. Brosnan, 51, was born in Navan County, Meath, Ireland.
Whatever the inspiration, Mrs. Brosnan left Tahiti on Saturday night with a lovely Tahitian pearl necklace as a wedding anniversary gift. And, not to be left out, he wore a men’s Tahitian pearl pendant, a pearl attached to a leather cord around his neck.
“The day was idyllic,” Brosnan told Tahitipresse Saturday night before boarding a flight to Hawaii with his wife.
The couple was warmly welcomed at the Tahiti-Faa’a International Airport by a group of students preparing to leave for France to continue their studies at universities. The Brosnans obviously enjoyed the attention, which was typically Tahitian as guitars were played, the students sang and flower leis were distributed.