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Mel Gibson and troubled pop star Britney Spears are holidaying in the actor's beach house in the northeast of Costa Rica.
Local television has shown images of Spears driving an all-terrain vehicle with an unidentified woman and splashing in the ocean on the country's Pacific coast.
Channel 7 says Spears, her father, Gibson and Gibson's wife arrived on Friday.
Gibson has visited Costa Rica several times and bought the house in Guanacaste last year.
Both Spears and Gibson live in the same Malibu, California, neighbourhood.
