Celebrities tell GH their Christmas traditions

The lovely Lorraine Kelly told us, 'I'm a real sucker for Christmas traditions. We tend to have people round for Christmas Eve, then Christmas Day is totally for the family. We have all the family around. 

'To try and keep it in perspective in my head I tell myself it's a roast dinner with an attitude. I also delegate, delegate, delegate to everyone. I have a selection box or an entire Chocolate Orange before breakfast, obviously. I've been doing that since I was about six. It has to be done. I'd eat my selection box and then my brother's as well! 

'You also have to have a piece of Christmas pudding even if you've eaten too much because it's tradition.'

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Strictly Come Dancing's Darcey Bussell was adamant: 'Stockings, we all have stockings, the dogs even have stockings. My husband is slightly dismayed that he still gets one and has to make an effort to get me one.

'We always go for a long walk on Christmas day so that we deserve any of the food - we either walk it off or create an appetite.

'We just try and make Christmas last as long as possible. We put the tree up in the first week of December, we don't mess around, we want Christmas there.'

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Cooking pro Jamie Oliver gave us a top tip: 'The week before Christmas I get all my bits and pieces ready, and all my timings down on a piece of A4 paper.

'The night before Christmas Eve I go to the supermarket with one of my daughters, which gives us a nice bit of daddy and daughter time.

'We go at 11 at night when it's empty and they're filling the shelves up with all the freshest stuff. You get the pick of the crop and no one is there!'

Read the full interview with Jamie in our December issue - out now!

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Paddington star Hugh Bonneville has one job on Christmas day: 'My main tradition is trying not to slice my hands open as I shuck oysters. I like to provide oysters for the family on festive occasions. That's my job on Christmas day.'

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Along with her impressive Christmas dinner and Stir-up Sunday traditions, Lisa Faulkner has a few extra festive activities.

'Christmas Eve we always have a present from under the tree which is Christmas pyjamas. 

'I like to put the tree up the first weekend in December, then as soon as Christmas is over I take it down. After New Year's day it's done, the end.'

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Mother and actress Joanna Page told us, 'We don't really have any traditions we just all sort of get together and play games. We all eat lots, drink lots, overfeed the dogs and play loads and loads of games. Nothing particularly different. 

'I want to start going to Christmas carols before Christmas, I want to start that tradition because I think  Eva would enjoy that. We always say we're going to go for a lovely walk, but we never do.

'When it comes to the food I plan everything - I say I'm doing the turkey, every year I say I'm doing the Christmas cake and I get to a couple of days before and I back out of it and say to James you can do it, I just don't want to do it. So I actually don't cook anything. '

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We caught up with the star of Call the Midwife and she told us, 'As I'm married to a Swede, we have a Scandi Christmas on December 24th.

We have a smorgasbord and I make Janssens Delight.'

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Nigella Lawson is a big fan of Christmas and for her the decorations are very important.

She told us, 'For me, it’s fairy lights a go-go! Unless I’m bathed in them and have turned my kitchen into a heavenly grotto, it’s not Christmas.’

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