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Barack Obama and Tom Hanks can’t turn down a holiday in the sun together.
The family were spotted dining seaside with Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson while both parties enjoyed a summer outing on the Aegean Sea.
The former president was in Greece for agathering of the Obama Foundation global young leaders— a week-long leadership and cultural experience in Athens. Hanks and Wilsonbecame citizens of the countryin 2020 after Wilson learned of her Greek ancestry in a 2012 episode ofWho Do You Think You Are?and regularly spend time there.
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Geffen’s 450-foot vessel, The Rising Sun, was the 11th largest yacht in the world at the time and valued at an estimated $300 million.
The group enjoyed lunch on Vanilla Island, made a stop at Le Taha’a Island and continued to Bora Bora. Oprah joked to PEOPLE that the details of their voyage couldn’t be shared. “What happens on the boat, stays on the boat,” she said. But Hanks was happy to chat about the hangout ontheLate Show with Stephen Colbert.
“Look, imagine what it could’ve been like it, triple it. It was off the scale, fantastic,” the actor revealed. And the famous five didn’t just sit around on the boat all day.
Hanks shared he and the former president and first lady rented bikes to sightsee on shore. While the group, including the Secret Service, had “an array of bikes” to choose from, the Oscar winner and Medal of Freedom recipient was stuck with a far-from-ideal ride.
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“It was rusted like all over, it only had one gear … all the others were like mountain bikes … it was so bad,” Hanks recalled.
And as for what kind of conversations Oprah and Springsteen had with the Obamas, Hanks remembered trying to get the president to divulge “classified” information. “I’d like to share a ton of stories from it, but they’re classified,” Obama told Hanks.
source: people.com
