US elections 2020: Celebrities from Kanye West to Kirstie Alley take to Twitter

A-list supporters, on both sides, have had a tense night

Voting Biden: Singer Beyonce. Instagram / Beyonce

Voting Biden: Actor Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. AP Photo

Voting Biden: Actor Jennifer Aniston. EPA

Voting Biden: Basketball player, LeBron James. Getty Images

Voting Biden: Singer Taylor Swift. AP Photo

Voting Biden: Singer Cher. AFP

Voting Biden: Actor Reese Witherspoon. Reuters

Voting Biden: TV host and model Padma Lakshmi. Courtesy Tarun Tahiliani

Voting Biden: Singer Bruce Springsteen. AFP

Voting Biden: Actor Tom Hanks. AP Photo

Voting Biden: Singer John Legend. AP Photo

Voting Biden: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio. EPA

Voting Biden: Singer Billie Eilish. AP Photo

Voting Biden: Actor Chris Evans. Getty Images

Voting Biden: Actor Michael B Jordan. AP Photo

Voting Biden: Actor Brad Pitt. Getty Images

Voting Biden: Singer Mariah Carey. Getty Images

Voting Biden: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez. EPA 

Voting Biden: Actor Jennifer Lawrence. Getty Images

Voting Biden: Actor Lena Dunham. AP Photo

Voting Biden: Model Karlie Kloss. Supplied

Voting Biden: Rapper Cardi B. Shutterstock

Voting Biden: 'Star Wars' actor Mark Hamill. Reuters

Voting Biden: TV star Mindy Kaling. Reuters

Voting Biden: Actor Natalie Portman. Getty Images

Voting Biden: 'Veep' actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus. AP Photo

Voting Biden: 'Blackish' actor, Tracee Ellis Ross. EPA

Voting Biden: Actor Samuel L Jackson. Getty Images

Voting Biden: Singer Lizzo. AP Photo

Voting Biden: 'Queer Eye' star, Jonathan Van Ness. EPA 

Voting Biden: 'Big Little Lies' actor, Zoe Kravitz. EPA

Voting Biden: Actor Paul Rudd. AP Photo

Voting Biden: American musician, Willie Nelson. Wikicommons

Voting Biden: Comedian Kumail Nanjiani. EPA

Voting Biden: Model Hailey Bieber. EPA 

Voting Biden: Comedian Ken Jeong. EPA

Voting Trump: Rapper Lil Wayne. Reuters

Voting Trump: Former NFL player, Brett Favre. AP Photo

Voting Trump: Actor Kelsey Grammer. Starz via Bloomberg

Voting Trump: Actor Jon Voight. Twitter

Voting Trump: Singer Kid Rock. AP File

Voting Trump: Actor Randy Quaid. Getty Images

Voting Trump: Actor Roseanne Barr. AFP

Voting Trump: Actor Scott Baio. AP Photo

Voting Trump: Rapper, Lil Pump. EPA 

Voting Trump: 'Ghosts of Mississippi' actor, James Woods. EPA

Voting Trump: NFL player, Jay Cutler. AP Photo

Voting Trump: Former 'Grey's Anatomy' actor, Isaiah Washington. Wikicommons

Voting Trump: 'Clueless' actress, Stacey Dash. Wikicommons

Voting Trump: 'The OC' actress, Samaire Armstrong. EPA

Voting Trump: 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman' actor, Dean Cain. EPA j

Voting Trump: Actress, Kirstie Alley. EPA

Voting Trump: Actor, Stephen Baldwin. EPA

As the US awaits results of the 2020 presidential election, people across the country – and world – have had a tense night. Many stayed up very late, or all night, to anxiously watch the results and people, including plenty of celebrities, have also taken to Twitter to voice their tension.

Click though the gallery above to see which celebrities are supporting US President Donald Trump and those backing Democratic candidate Joe Biden. 

Kirstie Alley, a vocal Trump supporter, has almost live tweeted the election.

Last night, she declared: "I have to go to sleep I really do. I’m hoping to wake up with a new president named Donald ... take the wheel!"

However, she has since woken up and said: "Awoke to strangeness. The problem with mail-in votes is they are ghosts. No proof of anything including being alive, being a resident, or being a citizen. Absentee ballots are not mail-in votes. But we knew that didn’t we? Hope the ghosts don’t win".

Adding: "Does anybody else have a headache?... rhetorical".

She also referenced the debates she frequently gets into with Trump opponents on the social media platform, writing: "Smack talk probably doesn't effect (sic) the election results but it passes time in a less boring way."

Politically-engaged Lovebirds actor Kumail Nanjiani is a vocal Democrat and has almost been guiding followers through the evening.

"Just to remind you all, there is going to be a red shift in the swing states in the south (from looking blue to looking red) and the opposite in the upper Midwest (from red to blue.) This is because of how mail-in ballots are counted. So don't freak out! Or do! I don't know," he wrote this morning, which would have been the middle of the night in the US.

Of the time, he joked: "What time is it? It feels like a million o'clock".

Singer John Legend announced that he would be voting for Joe Biden, and took aim at the speech Trump made at 2am in Washington DC, prematurely declaring victory.

He also referenced the 2018 midterm elections in a tweet:

On November 2, Legend joined rapper Common to perform ahead of remarks by Democratic US vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Rapper Kanye West, who was running his own independent presidential campaign, magnanimously accepted that he was out of the race in the early hours of the morning.

He tweeted a photo of the US map lit in red and blue, to indicate Republican or Democratic wins, with the concise caption: "Kanye 2024".

From the UK, a number of comedians have tweeted their observations of the presidential race.

Irish comic and This Way Up star Aisling Bea wrote: "One good thing about the US election is that it's getting everyone back on Twitter debating and arguing again."

Meanwhile, comedian David Baddiel tried to offer a solution to the close call, writing: "Maybe they should just declare it a tie and co-president. Can't see a problem with that."