| By John Smith | | | | birthday gifts. While footballer Wayne Rooney |
| As well as giving 18th birthday gifts, it's traditional | | | | celebrated his big day by signing a five-year |
| to mark the occasion with a special celebration. If | | | | contract worth £25,000 a week, his girlfriend |
| you're stuck for ideas, you might be able to take | | | | Colleen McCoughlin's 18th birthday party wasn't as |
| some tips from the stars. As you'll see, everyone | | | | glamorous as you might imagine. Years before her |
| has a different way to celebrate though a fortune | | | | fairytale wedding, she held her celebrations at a |
| isn't always a guarantee that things will go well! | | | | local hotel with sandwiches and sausage rolls. It |
| Harry Potter star Emma Watson celebrated her | | | | wasn't on the cheap though, with reports that |
| big day by staying up until 4.30am after a lavish | | | | £10,000 was put behind the bar. That could be |
| lunch with fellow cast members. She may have | | | | could be why the event ended in scuffles! It's not |
| had some wonderful 18th birthday gifts, but they | | | | just celebs whose 18th birthday gifts include |
| would have paled in comparison to something else | | | | misery, however. Just look at Sara Ruscoe, a |
| she got for the first time that day: access to the | | | | schoolgirl who made the mistake of putting up a |
| £10.5 million that she'd earned and had been held | | | | poster inviting the entire sixth form to her house |
| in a trust fund. Charlotte Church also got her | | | | party. As Sara lived in a mansion, that might have |
| hands on her fortune when she came of age, | | | | seemed manageable. The problem was that a |
| which may have been some comfort when her | | | | mischief-maker persuaded Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong |
| 18th birthday gifts didn't include one thing she'd | | | | to give a shoutout to partygoers, mentioning the |
| jokingly asked for: a million-pound ruby-studded | | | | event was at a mansion in the small Devon town |
| bra. She celebrated with a quiet buffet for friends | | | | of Bovey Tracey. That's all it took for 2,000 |
| and family, but still made the headlines when | | | | youths to gatecrash in riotous mood, causing at |
| photographed the worse for wear. Not only were | | | | least £2,000 worth of damage. She's not the |
| Prince Harry 18th birthday gifts kept low-profile, | | | | only school pupil to get into trouble on her 18th |
| but he opted to forgo a lavish birthday celebration. | | | | though. Eleven sixth-formers from a Somerset |
| Newspapers had talked of a wild booze and birds | | | | boarding school run by Benedictine monks had to |
| bash, but instead he spent the day on charity | | | | be suspended after a party got completely out of |
| work, visiting hospital patients and homeless | | | | hand. Not only were school displays damaged and |
| people as well as working on schemes to help | | | | thrown in a skip, but the staff room carpet was |
| young offenders and improve health standards in | | | | smeared with dog mess. To be fair, most people |
| the third world. That's pretty much the opposite | | | | don't behave in such a manner on their birthday |
| approach from Maria Sharapova. The tennis | | | | and it's perfectly possible to celebrate with a drink |
| superstar's 18th birthday gifts actually included a | | | | responsibly. Indeed, you can always mark the |
| party sponsored by mobile phone firm Motorola, | | | | occasion with a 'grown-up' drink such as a vintage |
| with the company's logo even appearing on | | | | whisky. American teenagers don't make such as |
| bottles of water. Around 700 people turned up to | | | | big fuss about turning 18: probably because they |
| the Manhattan shindig, which included a live | | | | can't legally drink until 21, meaning traditional 18th |
| performance by pop band Maroon 5. Princess | | | | birthday gifts such as champagne are a no-no. |
| Beatrice had a ball literally. Having been born on 8 | | | | Then again, some children more than make up for |
| 8/88, she opted for an 1888-themed party at | | | | it with earlier birthdays, as viewers of MTV's My |
| Windsor Castle. Guests wore period dress, though | | | | Super Sweet Sixteen can confirm! There is one |
| it's not known how many Royals simply wore | | | | group of people for whom 18th birthday gifts |
| family hand-me-downs! Beatrice's 18th birthday | | | | must be chosen with a little more thought. That's |
| gifts included a blue and gold ballgown from the | | | | because they were born on February 29th and |
| exclusive Marchesa label. Many parents will get out | | | | technically don't celebrate their big day until |
| the cameras for their child's 18th, but in Kelly | | | | they've been around for 72 years. Then again, |
| Osbourne's case, the cameras were already there: | | | | everyone's different, so there's no reason a |
| she was being filmed for the reality TV series | | | | leap-year birthday boy or girl shouldn't go |
| The Osbournes. Father Ozzy took her to Vegas | | | | paintballing or drive a Lamborghini with the rest of |
| (where he was performing) and his present of a | | | | them! |
| 1958 Chevvy was the most lavish of her 18th | | | | |