Such piffle doesn't matter too much when you're a celeb. While we try and get rid of flies, sit sweating in rush hour traffic, try and fail to drink less and recoil in horror at the size of the credit card bill, famous people just pack up and change location. When you pick and choose your work projects and you're considerably wealthy, it's almost too easy to flee cold weather in search of some luxurious time in the sun.

This year, as always, the Caribbean was one place riddled with celebrities on vacation - and why not? I'd be there myself if I had the funds. Musical power couples Beyonce and Jay-Z and Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon (ok, three of the four are powerful in music) rang in the New Year on the island of St Barts, where Mariah put a halt to the burgeoning pregnancy rumours by quaffing oysters and champagne. Ryan Seacrest and Daniel Craig were also spotted on the idyllic Caribbean island.

Amy Winehouse has been on the neighbouring island of St Lucia for the past couple of weeks, looking happier and healthier than she has in years. Wino's seemingly ditched the drugs her beehive and most of the eyeliner for some R&R in paradise.

The troubled soul singer fled London (and her banged up loser husband, Blake Fielder-Civil) for balmy nights, paddling in the sea - with or without bikini top - and cosying up to a couple of comely fellas. One night she was spotted smooching calypso singer Shayne Ross. Another day she was cuddling up to 21-year-old former public schoolboy, Joshua Bowman. Whatever she's doing, it's working. She looks fabulous in comparison to the scabby, bleary-eyed Wino of 2008. Onwards and upwards, Amy!

Anthony Kiedis and Nicole Richie and Joel Madden chose Hawaii for some family-focused time in the sun. Kate Moss and Jamie Hince headed for Thailand. Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and the ever present Jennifer Aniston joined pals Sheryl Crow, Laura Dern and her hubby Ben Harper in Mexico. I wonder if David ever gets fed up with Jen hanging around like a bad smell?

Paris Hilton and sister sidekick Nicky headed to Sydney, where the airhead heiress hosted a New Year's Eve party in King's Cross. She was hosting The Bongo Virus New Year's Eve do - from what I can gather a party streamed online where losers sitting at their computer pay to see Paris Hilton kick up her heels instead of actually doing it themselves.

If you're interested, click here to see Paris dancing at said Sydney club on New Year's Eve. Her dance floor moves seem to involve a bit of knee bending and the odd hand in the air like she just don't care.

Not that easily impressed, savvy Sydneysiders failed to warm to Paris - with the Sydney Morning Herald reporting Hilton received a six figure paycheque for "mastering the art of looking vapid and bleating incoherent nothingness for eager reporters."

Paris certainly didn't win over many fans at Bondi Beach either, where sun worshippers threw sand at her as she pranced about, looking for the limelight.

Former NBA player Charles Barkley, actor Matt Dillon and playwright Sam Shepard all spent the festive season in a slightly different manner - getting busted for DUI in various locations around the US.

And of course New Year in the Caribbean wasn't all fun and games, with the tragic death of 16-year-old Jett Travolta while on a family holiday in the Bahamas on January 2. Lots of sympathy to dad John Travolta, mum Kelly Preston and little sister Ella.

Is it all over for Lindsay and Sam?

Reports are filtering through today that the humdinger of a fight that fiery couple Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson had on New Year's Eve may spell the end for the couple.

Lindsay has reportedly packed a bag and moved out of the DJ's home following the scrap in a Miami alleyway which saw the pair punching and scratching each other.

If true, and this couple were positively bound to break up so I tend to believe it, it sort of puts the kibosh on the NW's story this week that the pair were trying for a baby following Ronson suffering a miscarriage (read it in In The Gossip Mags here).

Lindsay Lohan is a talented actress and a woman struggling to overcome a troubled family life and addiction, but one thing she certainly doesn't lack in her life is drama. Correct me if I'm wrong, but she seems to thrive on it. And she may be 22, but her maturity when it comes to relationships may take some work.

I mean, who yells at their other half while storming off during a fight ‘When I storm off, you are supposed to follow me!'

I still suspect there was a third party in that relationship that Lindsay loved entirely more than Sam, and that was the publicity. She is a Lohan, remember.

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