HELLO! magazine 1769

Dear readers, Tis the season to spread joy and kindness – and that’s what HELLO! is all about. So pass on some Christmas cheer with us! I hope all our great Christmas content is making you feel really festive – and we can also solve your last-minute present woes with the ideal gift: a HELLO! subscription. And you’ll get this lovely 2023 diary from Aspinal of London as well! We have all the fabulous celebrity and royal articles you love and, with Christmas just around the corner, the very best recipes, glamorous party fashion and fantastic gift ideas for everyone on your list. PLUS if you subscribe for a year, as well as 55% off, you will get our present to you – this deluxe Aspinal diary, worth £55. It only takes a few minutes…

Music is the voice of the soul and helps us to pray, to love ourselves and the world.” So says the great maestro Andrea Bocelli, whose own voice, together with those of his son Matteo and young daughter Virginia, plays a major part in this festive season’s soundtrack with their new album A Family Christmas. Andrea got New York’s festivities off to a great start earlier this month. After lighting up the Empire State Building in blue and white to celebrate the latest programme from his charitable foundation, he electrified a packed Madison Square Gardens with his glorious tenor. Now the Bocellis are preparing to spend the holidays as befits a great Italian family, back home in Tuscany, the land where their passions and traditions are rooted. There, Andrea and his dynamic…

Moving house is generally considered one of life’s most stressful events. But you wouldn’t know it from talking to Kym Marsh, who just a few weeks before Christmas swapped one home for another with barely time to catch her breath after competing in Strictly Come Dancing. “I’ve moved a lot – this will be my 13th time during my adult lifetime,” she breezily tells HELLO! as we catch up at her new abode in Cheshire. “I’m very fortunate that I have a lot of people around who can help me out.” Kym, 46, and her tribe are the definition of a blended family, as three generations – her parents Pauline and Dave, children David, 27, Emilie, 25, and 11-year-old Polly, as well as stepchildren and grandchildren – join her and husband Scott…

‘We’re opposites. I can be too laid back, whereas Shelly needs a plan. We work well because we find a middle ground’ After a month away in Australia, where she was crowned queen of the jungle on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, then five days in Qatar, where she reported on the England men’s team quarter-final World Cup match against France, it’s not surprising retired football heroine Jill Scott is relishing the prospect of a chilled Christmas under her own roof. “It will be just the five of us here on Christmas Day,” says the 35-year-old former Lioness, by which she means herself, fiancée Shelly Unitt, 37, Shelly’s daughters Evie, 19, and Hattie, 15, and the family’s gorgeous bulldog Winnie. “It’s how we usually spend Christmas Day anyway,” adds Shelly,…

With parts of the UK experiencing an early white Christmas, there was flake news in the garden of Stacey Solomon’s Essex home – and she could not have been more delighted. The mother of four had a (snow) ball playing with her two youngest children, three-year-old Rex and daughter Rose, 14 months (above, top left and right). Sharing a flurry of snaps with her followers on Instagram, Stacey told them: “The First Snow at Pickle Cottage & Rose’s first ever snow. We woke up to what seemed like Narnia outside the window and the kids have never been so excited.” With school and work cancelled because of the icy conditions, the Loose Women star explained that they had spent their snow day playing in a sleigh belonging to her husband, fellow TV…

Never mind Santa’s knee, Lydia Bright’s two-year-old daughter Loretta is happiest when she is perched on her mum’s, in what is fast becoming a festive family tradition. On Instagram, the former The Only Way is Essex star posted a series of throwback photos, including one (above left) in which she was pregnant with Loretta in 2019, plus a more recent image of mother and daughter puckering up for a kiss – all taken in the same spot at a Southend hotel. She captioned it: “The golden years… Four Christmases with the love of my life.” The pair’s annual trip to the Roslin Beach Hotel is just one of the ways Lydia is embracing the festive season, which she says is even more special now she is a mother. “The true magic…