London, Dec 26 (IANS) Singer Cheryl Cole will welcome the New Year with a -romantic skiing holiday with -boyfriend Derek Hough.

‘The X Factor’ judge is heading to the Rocky Mountains in north-west America where Hough has booked a private villa in a luxury hotel resort, reports mirror.co.uk.

Cheryl is desperate to toast the end of her ‘annus horribilis’, -during which she divorced footballer Ashley Cole and almost succumbed to malaria.

American dancer Hough, 25, is delighted she will be with him because he was -‘devastated’ that they were apart for Christmas Day.

While Cheryl headed to her -native north-east to spend time with her mum Joan, 50, her older sister Gillian, 31, and her three children, Derek was with his family in the US.