Georgia Toffolo passport damaged: Where’s the safest place to keep your travel documents?

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The TV star was detained in the Maldives at the weekend (Getty)

Q Where’s best to keep your passport during a flight? We’re told not in the overhead lockers in case of emergency evacuation (and recent thefts). It’s the one thing you may actually need.

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A The reality TV star Georgia Toffolo was detained in the Maldives at the weekend because of missing pages in her travel document. “I have been detained at Male airport for a page missing on my passport,” she tweeted. “I am not allowed to board a flight home because of my damaged passport but I am also not allowed to leave the airport.”