Celebrities fall for Halle Berry’s cheeky New Year’s prank

Celebrities rushed to respond to Halle Berry’s latest Instagram post – only to later find out they’d all been fooled.

Halle Berry fooled her celebrity friends and Instagram followers into thinking she married boyfriend Van Hunt with a post shared to Instagram on New Year’s Day, Page Six reports.

“Well … IT’S OFFICIAL,” the actress, 55, captioned a pic of her and the singer, 51, barefoot and kissing in front of what appeared to be an altar.

“It’s 2022!” she wrote over the second picture in the series, which was a close-up selfie of the two smiling.

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Halle Berry looked like she had married Van Hunt on New Year's Day. Picture: Halle Berry/Instagram.

Congratulations quickly started flooding the comments section, from celebrities like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Ava DuVernay, Octavia Spencer and Tia and Tamera Mowry.

“Blessings, Queen! Wonderfulllll,” DuVernay commented.

“Congrats you two!!! Beautiful!!” The Rock wrote, adding a few clapping hand emojis.

Naomi Campbell, Taraji P. Henson and Questlove all fell for the prank as well, chiming in with well wishes for the couple.

Berry had fun responding to a few comments on the post, especially from confused fans. “It’s official.. it’s 2022. Isn’t that what this post is saying?” one follower asked, to which Berry replied, “Yeeesssss!!”

The actress also pinned a comment from filmmaker Oge Egbuonu that read, “I’m [gonna] need some of y’all to scroll to the left,” to help the confused viewers figure it out.

The Oscar winner has called boyfriend Van Hunt “the love of her life.” Picture: Halle Berry/Instagram.

On Sunday, Berry set the record straight in a new post shared to Instagram.

“We were just having some New Year’s Day fun! People clearly don’t swipe as much as we thought they did ??” she explained in her caption. “Thank you for the well wishes, tho’, it really touched our hearts!”

She added, “Now it’s OFFICIAL, the internet is no longer undefeated. #nomoreswipes4me #Januaryfoolsday.”

The couple started dating in 2020. Picture: Halle Berry/Instagram.

The Oscar-winning actress and Hunt have been dating since 2020.

She made the relationship Instagram-official in September of that year by posting a pic of herself wearing one of his T-shirts.

While Berry and Hunt haven’t actually tied the knot, the actress has walked down the aisle three times before meeting the singer.

She was previously married to baseball player David Justice from 1993 to 1997, singer Eric Benét from 2001 to 2005, and actor Olivier Martinez from 2013 to 2016.

Berry and Martinez share an 8-year-old son, Maceo. She also has a daughter, 13-year-old Nahla, from a long-term relationship with model Gabriel Aubry.

Meanwhile, Hunt has an 18-year-old son from a previous relationship. He has never been married.

This article originally appeared on Page Six and was reproduced with permission.

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