From Egg McMuffin with beer to flat Sprite, celebs’ weird and wonderful hangover cures revealed

IF there is anything worse than a New Year’s Day hangover, it is that you KNOW you have it coming and will be HELPLESS to avoid it. Yet again.

Now there is a word for this fear: HANGXIETY.

So, feeling your pain, we rounded up how 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’s gotta be McMuffins. She once revealed: “I have an egg Mc-Muffin . . . 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, it seems, has also learned one of our favourite answers for a sore head: “A full English breakfast is good, or beans on toast”.

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.

She had a 2022 hit with a song called I Drink Wine but singer Adele says: “The key to being able to drink all day and all night is to have a glass of alcohol, have a glass of water, have a glass of alcohol, have a glass of water.”

Actress Kate Winslet says, “A sausage-and-bacon sarnie usually does it for me”, which she washes down with orange juice and a cup of 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 loads of vitamins.”

DJ and socialite Paris Hilton has been to more parties than her family has hotels and says: “I can 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 but knows what to do if he is – he relies on a glass of flat Sprite, saying it is “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 simile, with “tons and tons of water” and a lie-in.

Scots comic Billy Connelly suggests drinking 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 once said the best idea after a bit of a go 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’s Gwyneth Paltrow likes 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.”