Eat healthier, do more for the environment, more sport: The beginning of the year is traditionally the time of good intentions. This doesn't just apply to normal people: actor Leonardo DiCaprio, for example, thanked the organizers of the Golden Globes on Twitter for wanting to serve up a purely vegan menu at the award ceremony on Sunday: "Thank you HFPA".
Thank you HFPA @goldenglobes https://t.co/WQ1yCKd57i
- Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) January 2, 2020The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has been organizing the award ceremony for cinema films and television programs since 1944. It is the first time that a major event in Hollywood has completely dispensed with animal products when choosing a menu, reports the "Hollywood Reporter".
The meal sequence is part of a larger sustainability initiative: The climate crisis is there, and think of the new year and the new decade, HFPA President Lorenzo Soria is quoted in the report. This should send a positive signal.
DiCaprio itself has long been committed to protecting the environment and species. Last week, he had criticized illegal mining in the Amazon region. The Hollywood star has clashed several times with the extreme right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Britney Spears has also made good resolutions. The 38-year-old is probably less concerned with sustainability than with physical fitness: she wants to do more yoga in the new year. "I'm a beginner," the pop singer wrote on a video of herself on Instagram. She wanted to open her back and chest - but it was difficult for her to let go.
In the video she stands in a bikini in a garden and does some yoga exercises like the "looking down dog" or the "cobra". The short video was viewed more than two million times within a few hours. "I thank God for Mother Nature," wrote Spears. It helps her to ground herself and it opens her mind when she goes outside.
Donnie Wahlberg may have set out to be more generous. In any case, the actor and brother of Mark Wahlberg surprised a waitress with a huge tip on New Year's Day: At the turn of the year, the 50-year-old paid a tip of $ 2020 in addition to his $ 78.45 bill.