Welcome to Insta, Johnny! (Picture: Instagram/ People Picture/Raymond/REX)

Johnny Depp has finally done a Jennifer Aniston and caved in and joined Instagram – and he’s promised fans he’s working on a project amid lockdown too.

The Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 56, shared his first post on the social networking site on Thursday as he teased some filming he’s been doing.

Sharing a photo of him surrounded by candles (slight fire hazard, but we’ll overlook it), Johnny told his followers: ‘Hello everyone… filming something for you now… gimme a minute’.

It might have been his first post on Instagram but fans had already suspected he was about to join up, as they spotted that the ‘@johnnydepp’ handle had just been created.




Fans had been keeping an eye on the account, waiting for the actor to finally post his first photo, and he finally proved they’d been right in thinking the account belonged to him all along.

The actor hasn’t had his own profile until now, though several fan accounts dedicated to him were created – including some with over a million followers.

Fans had also speculated what Johnny might be posting on his Insta, hoping to see some of his artwork or more of his music showcased on there.

We’ll have to wait and see what his other posts will include, but we’ll take Johnny surrounded by candles as a pretty great first post.

Johnny joining Insta comes after a judge ruled that Johnny could go ahead with his $50million (£40.1million) defamation law suit against his ex Amber Heard for defamation.

According to the Daily Mail, a judge ‘rejected her motion to dismiss on the grounds that three of the four sentences the Pirates of the Caribbean star complained about could “convey the alleged defamatory meaning that Mr Depp abused Ms Heard.”’

The couple had been together since 2011 after meeting on the set of The Rum Diary, and married four years later.

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