Robust lineup at  2025 Joy Awards - video Dailymotion

A robust lineup of celebrities attended this year's Joy Awards in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, British entertainment reporter Stephanie Tayki says.

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00:00Now let's chat to showbiz reporter at the Daily Mail, Stephanie Tetchy.

00:05Stephanie, we just saw some of the celebrities there.

00:09I didn't see Christina Aguilera's picture, but she was there too.

00:12Remind us who attended this year's Joy Awards.

00:17Indeed, Leanne. We had a robust line-up of regional faces,

00:21but we did have the creme de la creme of Hollywood

00:24that was in attendance at the Joy Awards.

00:27The guests of honours were people including Morgan Freeman, Andrea Bocelli,

00:33and also we had Matthew McConaughey, who received the Personality of the Year Award.

00:39For Morgan Freeman, he was bestowed with the Lifetime Achievement Award,

00:43which was presented to him by Sir Anthony Hopkins,

00:46and it was a real pleasure to see him because this just follows days

00:51after he lost his property due to the LA wildfires.

00:56So it was an interesting mix of Hollywood who was there,

01:00including Amanda Seyfried was also there,

01:04and there was a nice mix of also established people.

01:07For us Brits, including Guy Ritchie, who received the Joy Honouries Award,

01:12which was also lovely to see.