Del Boy star Sir David Jason admits he’s a Christmas Grinch.
He hates turkey, tree lights, crowds, cards, rubbish presents… and even neighbours dropping by.
The Only Fools and Horses legend confessed: “I’m someone with a long-held aversion to shopping and a mild anxiety about large gatherings of people, and well Christmas often seems to be offering both of those things in a sandwich.
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“A turkey sandwich, obviously. Which I’m also not that keen on.”
Despite appearing in some of our best-loved festive TV moments with Rodney star Nicholas Lyndhurst, inset, he moaned how he hates “mind-boggling consumption, the enforced jollity, the sense of being held hostage in the house for two days by your relatives, the neighbours dropping in, the obligatory participation in board games and (worse) charades”.
And it didn’t stop there, he also raged about lights which, “despite the fact you carefully coiled and packed them away last January with an attention to detail which would have impressed the captain of a sailing ship, have just emerged from their box in a knotted clump”.
He signed off saying: “Bah! Humbug! has been known to escape my lips quite naturally.”
It comes after the comedy legend confirmed that he and his former co-star Nicholas Lyndhurst are no longer on speaking terms.
Speaking to The Mirror, Sir David confessed: “He’s much more, how can I say, self-contained, perhaps, than he used to be.
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“So, unfortunately, we don’t see each other as much as I’d like to. But that’s how things work out sometimes,” he added.
The star misses working together “terribly” and said filming was always “fun” as the cast “loved each other”.
He said: “I miss it terribly. It wasn’t like going to work. It was going to have some fun with your mates. We loved each other.”
Speaking on the Graham Norton Radio Show in October, meanwhile, the actor revealed his frustration that nobody remembers the BAFTA he won.
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“It is a bit of a cross to bear, the popularity and the impression that Fools and Horses has made on the British public. It’s one that they won’t let go.
“It is a bit of a cross to bear, the popularity and the impression that Fools and Horses has made on the British public. It’s one that they won’t let go.
“I’m very proud of what we all did. But what has happened more recently is it’s become more and more powerful in people’s memories because it’s still on and still being repeated.
“I won the Bafta best actor for a play [an adaptation of Tom Sharpe’s novel Porterhouse Blue] but no-one ever remembers. No-one ever mentions it.”
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