The nearest most of us get to a slathering of St Tropez is the brown stuff that comes out of a bottle.

Not so for Beyoncé and hip-hop beau Jay-Z. The two lovebirds soaked up the fun on the sun-soaked French Riviera.

Rapper Jay-Z with the music midas touch needs a holiday after working flat-out with Rihanna (still top of the charts with Umbrella) and remixing Amy Winehouse’s Rehab.

Winehouse does rate the rapper even if she can’t remember meeting him for the first time because she was drunk. According to TSQ, she says, “(It was) really cool. He’s real sweet. I like Jay.”I remember one night we were some place and I was so drunk that Jay kept saying, ‘Okay, Amy, come on, sit down. You still with us?’” Helen

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