Snappy New Year! Celebrities go photo crazy... and fireworks are back with a bang
IT’S the time of year when millions embrace the party spirit and, if they are celebrities, feel the need to tell the world about it online.
And this year was no different as glammedup stars let loose with friends and families in an array of exotic locations.
It was a mother-daughter affair for many, including Amanda Holden who posted a photo of herself having a meal with her daughters in Mauritius.
The presenter, 51, wore a white sequinned minidress as she posed with Lexi, 16, and Hollie, ten, during their family getaway.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, 50, was also ringing in the new year with her family and posted photos of herself with lookalike daughter Apple, 18, son Moses, 16, and mother Blythe Danner, 79.
‘Wrapped up 2022 with a lot of love,’ she wrote on Instagram as she shared images of their sundrenched holiday to Barbados.
Penny Lancaster, 51, the wife of Sir Rod Stewart, was certainly in the party spirit as she danced around holding a glass of white wine. She was being filmed by her stepdaughter Kimberley Stewart, 43, during the family’s holiday.
David Beckham also celebrated the evening with his family and publicly reached out to absent son Brooklyn, 23, to tell him that they missed him.
He posed with his wife Victoria, 48, sons Romeo, 20, and Cruz, 17, and daughter Harper, 11, with fireworks in the background in a photo he shared online. ‘ Happy New Year from the Beckhams,’ he wrote in the caption. ‘We love you Brooklyn Beckham we miss you.’
The ex-footballer, 47, made no mention of Brooklyn’s wife Nicola Peltz, 27, amid rumours of a family rift. The pair have spent the entire Christmas period in the US.
London welcomed back its first public fireworks display since 2019 after the last-minute cancellation of the previous year’s event due to a surge in Omicron Covid cases.
More than 100,000 people gathered in the capital to watch the impressive 12- minute display, which included segments dedicated to Ukraine, climate change and a touching tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Spectacular drone displays included a 3D crown and the 50p coin. Dame Judi Dench and It’s A Sin actress Lydia West were among those who provided voiceovers.
The televised display was watched by 11.7million people on BBC1 at midnight.
Those watching the display from home would have been none the wiser but there was disorder in central London as hundreds of people without tickets stormed the barriers at a number of locations.
A video posted to social media shows police officers drawing their batons as people run through the event while another, taken from above, shows people running along Westminster Bridge.
Yesterday also saw the return of London’s New Year’s Day Parade for the first time since 2020.
Revellers lined the streets as entertainers brought a colourful carnival of culture to the West End, travelling from Piccadilly to Parliament Square.
Outside the capital, in East Wittering, West Sussex, steely swimmers wore nothing more than bikinis as they went for a bracing dip in the sea.