Naughty list, indeed.
While it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, several Hollywood celebrities have revealed in the past how much they hate the holiday season.
Some are tired of the many traditions. For Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus, however, it’s the fact that being single can put a damper on what would otherwise be a jolly celebration.
In fact, Cyrus, 31, wrote the 2019 track “My Sad Christmas Song” to get her point across.
Other stars simply would rather be thankful for what they already have instead of promoting consumerism.
“Narcos” actor Diego Luna and Larry David have particularly voiced that Christmas is horrible for the environment, citing wrapping paper going to waste.
See which celebrities would rather go straight from Thankgiving to New Year’ Eve below.
Lady Gaga
The 13-time Grammy winner reportedly has a bad romance with the wintery holiday.
Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, has taken issue with Christmas due to the fact the she has often felt lonely around that time of year.
In 2010, the “Poker Face” hitmaker went as far as bite into — very reminiscent of the way the Grinch did in the 2000 Jim Carrey film “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” — a Santa Claus plush toy before decapitating it with her shoe.
“I hate the holidays. I’m alone and miserable you f–king stuffed little toy,” Gaga, 37, said during a performance at London’s O2 arena. In fact, the closest the Oscar winner has gotten to feeling holly jolly was in 2009 when she released a song called “Christmas Tree.”
Her lonely holidays may be behind her now, however, as she began dating entrepreneur Michael Polansky in 2020.
Miley Cyrus
In 2019, the singer released “My Sad Christmas Song” which served as the antithesis of classics such as “Deck the Halls” and “Jingle Bells.”
”A sad Christmas song I wrote a few years back right before the holidays,” Cyrus wrote in a post on X ( formerly Twitter) in 2019. “Was feeling like s–t cause I couldn’t be with the one I loved.”
“Even with a house full of family and friends I still felt alone. In ways that still feels relevant and someone reading this right now could possibly relate!” continued the “Party in the USA” singer.
“If you feel lonely this season just know You are completely made of magic,” she continued in another post. “You are as special as a snowflake, beautifully unique and I hope inside your soul feels light, hope, peace, and joy knowing how singularly amazing you are! Love always wins!”
Larry David
The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star reportedly detests the holidays more that both the Grinch and Scrooge combined.
In a 2018 personal essay titled “A Very Larry David Christmas,” the 76-year-old explained that Christmas is “filled with dread at the prospect of close social encounters with what seemed like hundreds of relatives.”
“I’m a creature of habit and can’t tolerate anything that throws me off my normal routine,” he said. “That’s why I detest all holidays, but none as much as Christmas.”
According to David, he despises everything from the “loathsome music” to the movies — which he calls treacly sentiments.
Gifts take the cake for his disdain, though.
“Thinking about them, shopping for them (never without resentment), and the attendant pile of garbage that accumulates from opening them,” David stated, adding that they were “an environmental disaster simultaneously taking place in living rooms across the country.”
The “Seinfeld” creator also slammed the “faux bonhomie and nonsensical holiday spirit that dissolves the next day as quickly as an Alka-Seltzer.”
Ozzy Osbourne
Much like David, Osbourne revealed in 2009 that he hates the holiday due to the blatant amount of consumerism.
“I have to unravel all these f–king presents. What a f–king waste of paper,” Osbourne, 75, told Express at the time.
The Black Sabbath frontman reiterated his absolute loathing for the holiday in 2022, telling Loudersound that he would rather work through the festive period.
“I’ve been saying to [wife] Sharon [Osbourne] forever, ‘F–k Christmas, I hate it.’ It’s for shopaholics and kids and so I’ve always wanted to work through Christmas,” he said.
Colin Firth
He may have starred in one of the biggest holiday films in the world, but Firth absolutely hates Christmas.
“I have a profound loathing of Christmas — it’s sad really,” the “Mamma Mia!” actor told the Daily Mail in 2009. “At this time of year, I am careful not to switch on the radio because those novelty jingles make me homicidal and plunge me into the heart of Scrooge territory.”
“I think Christmas turns us all into Scrooge,” the “Love, Actually” star went on. “Everyone is trying to throw happy stuff at you, and that’s when I come over all humbug.”
“I think ‘A Christmas Carol’ is the best seasonal story you’ll find, because after its darkness, fear and regret, you’re ready for a bit of joy by the end.”
Diego Luna
According to the “Star Wars” actor, his distaste for the holiday comes from the fact that Christmas is always linked to consumerism.
“I hate the wave of consumerism and the feeling that you have to do things that you normally don’t have to do at any other time of the year,” the “Narcos” actor, 43, told Celestrellas in 2010.
Luna’s grinchy behavior was also reportedly inherited by his father.
“He just didn’t care,” the “Book of Life” star told Jimmy Kimmel in 2020. “We always end up crashing someone else’s Christmas dinner and it was always him and I just there like hugging people we actually didn’t know and getting leftovers as presents – the VHS of a cheesy film or whatever.”
According to Luna, the fact that his birthday is four days after the holiday also dampened his love for Christmas.
Christoph Waltz
Waltz made his disdain for the Christmas season incredibly clear in 2014 when he almost bolted from an interview with Far Out Magazine.
“What does Christoph Waltz want for Christmas?” the interview asked.
“No Christmas,” the “Inglorious Bastards” actor replied. “That’s my biggest wish, no Christmas.”
“I’m against it. I’m against it even in milder forms, but at Christmas, it turns into mass hysteria,” he concluded.
Rod Stewart
He might have a Christmas album, but that won’t stop Stewart from hating the holidays.
According to Stewart’s wife, Penny Lancaster, the musician can’t wait for their decorations to come down.
“Rod doesn’t love Christmas,” Penny, 51, revealed in 2021 while appearing on the talk show “Loose Women,” per the Daily Mail.
“He can’t wait till the decorations are down and his house is back to normal,” the former model said.
To make the musician feel better, she sometimes dresses as sexy Mrs. Claus when wrapping presents.
“Just to lift his mood I put a little Father… Lady Christmas on,” Penny revealed. “It puts a big smile on his face.”
Noel Gallagher
His first name may be “Noel,” but the English musician won’t budge on his Christmas stance.
“I f–king hate it with a passion,” Gallagher, 56, told Far Out Magazine in 2021.
According to Gallagher, he attempted to give the holiday a second chance when his 1998 Oasis song “Half The World Away” was placed in a holiday advertisement.
“At that particular point I thought, ‘Christmas, you know what, I’m going to give Christmas a second chance here.’ I gave it a second chance, it was f–king s–t,” the “Wonderwall” crooner told the outlet.
“Too much food, too much ‘We Are The World,’ the sweaters, the TV presenters, the s–t adverts, the f—ing weather,” he added.
Marilyn Manson
“I hate Christmas,” Manson, 54, told the Associated Press in 2016. “Some of my friends celebrate Chanukah, which seems to me to be more conventional and a better holiday because you get more gifts.”
He added: “I think … I’ve spent every Christmas without a Christmas tree.”
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