IF there is one thing worse than a New Year’s Day hangover, it is that you know you have it coming and are helpless to avoid it. Yet again.
Now there is a word for this fear: HANGXIETY.
So, feeling your pain, we rounded up how top celebrities doing the rounds of showbiz parties deal with the morning after the night before.
Some fixes may be familiar, writes Christine Challand, but others are less so, involving everything from carrot juice to avocado . . .
FOR Hollywood star Cameron Diaz, after a big night out it has to be a McMuffin feast. She says: “I have an egg McMuffin . . . and a beer.”
Kate Moss was, of course, famed for her party ways, so the supermodel is one to listen to – and swears by a glass of Coca-Cola and an aspirin.
Pretty Woman actress Julia Roberts switches between flutes of bubbly and something rather less glam while partying.
She says: “The best way to deal with a hangover is by finding a balance between champagne and carrot juice. It works when I alternate between the two.”
Bridget Jones star Renee Zellweger has nailed the British accent in her day job and also learned one of our favourite answers for a sore head: “A full English breakfast is good.”
Nigella Lawson rustles up her own recipe of the aptly named Eggs in Purgatory, which includes eggs cooked in a tomato, garlic and chilli sauce.
Adele had a 2022 hit with I Drink Wine, but the singer says: “The key to being able to drink all day and all night is to have a glass of alcohol, a glass of water, a glass of alcohol, a glass of water.”
Movie fave Kate Winslet says: “A sausage and bacon sarnie usually does it for me.” She washes it down with orange juice and sugary tea.
After a night on the town, movies A-lister Kate Hudson clearly buys half the local health food shop, saying: “I’ll drink lots of tomato juice, eat fresh fruit and an avocado and take vitamins.”
Socialite Paris Hilton has been to more parties than her family has hotels, and says: “I recommend a quarter-pounder burger with cheese”.
Chef Jamie Oliver advises scrambled eggs with plenty of chilli and cheese, and adds: “If it’s just a tiny bit too hot, it just seems to get you sweating and your blood pumping.”
He had a song called Drunk in 2012, and Ed Sheeran knows what to do if he is – he relies on a glass of flat Sprite, swearing by it as “a good cure”.
Gordon Ramsay reckons kedgeree is his go-to pick-me- up, explaining of the curried haddock, rice and egg dish: “It’s the best, as the slight stodginess soaks up any remaining Southern Comfort”.
Film veteran Joan Collins keeps things simple, with “tons and tons of water” and a lie-in.
Scots comic legend Billy Connolly reaches for the Irn-Bru – once crediting the carbonated soft drink from his homeland for “saving my life on so many Sunday mornings”.
Gladiator tough-guy Russell Crowe says the best idea after a night on the sauce is to “get going again” with a tequila on the rocks.
He jokes: “If you only drink that stuff, you won’t get a hangover in the first place.”
And if all else fails, La La Land luvvie Gwyneth Paltrow prescribes a Bloody Mary. She says: “Perhaps the least healthy choice . . . but unavoidable at times, just a little of last night’s poison does the trick.”
