Inside millionaire Barry Drewitt-Barlow’s lavish £2million NYE party with chefs, private jets and naked butlers
PRIVATE chefs, 250 guests and a whopping £2million budget - businessman Barrie Drewitt-Barlow is going all out for New Year’s Eve this year.
The Manchester-born entrepreneur, who is worth an estimated £200million, revealed that “no expense will be spared” for his end-of-year celebrations.
Barrie, 53, who has had eight kids via surrogacy, previously shared how he was forking out an eye-watering £2.8million for Christmas.
Speaking exclusively to Fabulous, Barrie said: “We are spending NYE at our Tampa [Florida] mansion this year.
“We have a team of chefs, preparing a feast for 250 people who are flying in from all over the world.
“With the presents this year, jets, staff food and drink, the budget will be around £1million but I don’t care if it costs £2million, I just want everyone to have a nice time.
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Break-in stresses
Barrie no doubt wants to put recent stresses behind him, after being left in fear following the attempted break-in at his Essex property.
The Rich House Poor House star's cameras caught three balaclava-clad burglars scaling a wall at his home.
Barrie and ex-husband Tony made history in 1999 when they became the first British same-sex couple to be legally recognised as parents, after welcoming twins Saffron and Aspen, 23, through surrogacy.
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The pair made their fortune from various business ventures including a trans-Atlantic surrogacy business and a global medical research company.
Special year for Barrie
Barrie said he’s keen to make the celebrations particularly special this year, thanks to the arrival of Saffron’s first baby, Marina, who was born in June.
The businessman explained: “We were going to do a very small family thing this year, but we are celebrating a great year for the Drewitt-Barlow family, with the birth of Saffron's first baby and our business doing so well.
“We thought we would celebrate with the people who made it all go so well so we have 250 friends, family and coworkers flying in on four private jets that we have hired.
“This year, no expense will be spared.
“Our executive chef David, who was a contestant on MasterChef, has a budget of $150,000 (£118,000) to buy food and drink and bring in additional staff.
“This year we will also add naked waiters from Butlers in the Buff company.”
Lavish gift for fiance Scott
Barrie is not only throwing an extravagant party but also giving expensive New Year gifts to his family, including a £157,000 car for his fiance.
After splitting with Tony, a few years ago, Barrie confirmed he had fallen for daughter Saffron’s ex Scott, and they are now engaged, and share Valentina, two, and baby Romeo, who arrived last August via surrogate.
Barrie continued: “This year we will go all out.
“I have just bought Scott a new F150 Super Snake truck that I will give him which cost $200,000 (£157,000) and he bought me a Harry Winston diamond ring, which cost him a whopping $375,000 (£294,000), it is so beautiful.”
Bumper bash
The party will start at 6pm and go on until 3am, although Barrie said he reckons he’ll slip away at 1am.
He added: “We will spend the morning until mid afternoon taking out food to the homeless in and around Tampa first, something we have done for the last five years.
“We will have our chefs make the food and we will drive it out and hand it out to the guys living under the bridges in Tampa.
“This time of the year is about giving and being thankful.”
Barrie starred on Channel 5’s Rich House Poor House earlier this year, where he met struggling single mum Ocean Chapman.
New sex toy business
Ocean, 29, and nine-year-old daughter Oziana swapped lives for a week with wealthy Barrie, and he has since pledged £550,000 to help the mum start a sex toy business.
Barrie has also vowed to help Ocean leave her Essex council flat and also to “become a millionaire” herself through the new business venture.
Initially he had said he’d put £250,000 into a baby food business, but they are now working on the sex toy company called The Spot instead - and Barrie has doubled the investment amount.
Barrie added: “For 2024 I’m really looking forward to opening the sex toy business with Ocean, maybe doing the follow up with Channel 5 for Rich house Poor House.
“I am currently in talks with a production company in the US about another reality show idea they have, so who knows what's in store.
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“Whatever happens, I'm looking forward to seeing how the year turns out and with a bit of luck, helping to put Ocean on the road to making her first million.
“That’s the plan anyway, I'm determined to help her get there one way or the other.”
