Yahoo News Loose Women's Denise Welch unleashes Christmas rant
Christmas is often seen as a joyful time of year, but Denise Welch has had one long rant about it.
The Loose Women panellist unloaded a lengthy monologue where she criticised places and people who start getting into the festive spirit early.
"Do you know what it is – I am a real old humbug. It's not so much the day, it's the build-up from now for one bleeping bleeping day, right," she said on today's episode of the ITV daytime show.
"I went into a big shop in London last year. And it was on October 22. And I remember this day. I just remember it. I said to the girl, 'I've been in the shop for 20 minutes and I am beside myself with stress because of these Christmas songs, and it is two months to go. And you've got to work here'. And she said, 'How would you feel if I told you this started on September 22?'"
Denise's speech continued: "I did tweet about this the other day, and I was sat at the airport, tired and grumpy in the morning, flying back.
"I was really grumpy. And there was an advert to make the perfect Christmas dinner, and it's like, do you know something – make a Sunday dinner like some people do every week and don't make the Yorkshire pudding! That's your Christmas dinner! You don't need to spend millions of pounds on adverts!"
Carol McGiffin – who sat together with Denise on the show for the first time in five years – joked that it's not the first time she's heard this rant.
"Do you know what, we've been away for quite a while," she said. "When it comes to this rant, nothing has changed! Not a word of it.
"It's exactly the same, and I've heard it about 3,000 times."
Not to be deterred, Denise had more to say about getting ready for Christmas early.
"You go into a shop to buy a present, and people go, 'Have you started early?'," she commented. "No, saddo! I'm buying a birthday present for someone!
"Stop talking about the C-word until December. My children haven't been allowed to mention it."
Loose Women airs weekdays from 12.30pm on ITV.
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