Lopez glams up parade

Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony lent Hollywood glamour to New York's Puerto Rican Day Parade on the weekend, attracting such a horde of paparazzi that police officers kept them roped off from the crowds as they marched.

Salsa music blared from dozens of floats as the parade made its way up Fifth Avenue past a sea of revellers waving the red, white and blue Puerto Rican flag. Beauty queens wore Barbie doll dresses and foot-high tiaras. Folk dance troupes wore ruffled skirts and flowers behind their ears. The Puerto Rican parade, an annual event in New York since 1958, has grown to be one of the city's largest.