Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) world, the challenge begins at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with the top 10 new innovations progressing to the finals at Necker Island where Branson joins the judging panel along with technology figures and investors from Silicon Valley. The Necker Cup, an exhibition tennis tournament held at the end of the tennis season, has been held on the island annually since 2012. In February 2017, former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visited Necker as guests of Sir Richard Branson. On August 22, 2011, The Great House burned down in a blaze believed to be
Richard Branson Report" as the "Colbert-Branson Interview Trainwreck". Branson then made a cameo appearance in "The Soup", playing an intern working under Joel McHale who had been warned against getting into water fights with Stephen Colbert, and being subsequently fired. In March 2008, he launched Virgin Mobile in India; during that period, he made a cameo appearance in Bollywood film "London Dreams". In July 2010, Branson narrated Australian sailor Jessica Watson's documentary about her solo sailing trip around the world. In April 2011, Branson appeared on CNN's Mainsail with Kate Winslet. Together they re-enacted a famous scene from the 1997 film "Titanic"