WITH the family meet-and-greet over, Victoria's Secret stunner Shanina Shaik and her equally genetically perfect boyfriend Tyson Beckford arrived in Sydney last week to party on New Year's Eve.
The New York-based couple, who visited Shaik's family in Melbourne over Christmas, celebrated the start of 2012 at the Opera House last night.
The day before, the couple enjoyed a long lunch at Manta restaurant on Woolloomooloo's Finger Wharf with Shaik's New York-based model booker Stephen Lee from Next NY.
Looking anything but incognito in a bright purple T-shirt which matched his sneakers and violet New York Yankees cap, Beckford didn't show any signs of stress from meeting Shaik's folks when the pair were snapped by Insider later that day.
A 21-year age difference aside, things appear to be getting quite serious between top US male model Beckford and his brunette beauty, who have been dating for 18 months.
They met on the set of the TV reality contest Make Me A Supermodel, in which Beckford was a mentor and Shaik was a contestant.
With a Chanel and Victoria's Secret show in the can this year, 2012 is sure to be a good one for 20-year-old Shaik, who now has her sights set on conquering the cut-throat Paris modelling scene.
"It has been a great year," she said.