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It's beginning to look... absolutely fabulous, darling.  We caught up with Joanna Lumley on the set of our December issue to chat all things Christmas. From her favourite decoration, handmade by one very famous Hollywood star, to the exact time she pops open the champagne on Christmas Day, Joanna's here to let us know how she typically spends the festive period.

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00:00Hello, I'm Joanna Lumley and I adore Christmas. It's my favourite time of year.

00:05What I usually have is what we call, it sounds horrible, but it's called waifs and strays.

00:09It's people who aren't necessarily Christians, people who might not have a family, people who are singletons.

00:14And we get them at a big Christmas table. Sometimes they want to bring food.

00:17Sometimes we cook food and we all just share it out together. And it's fantastic.

00:21I always like to go, Christmas being a Christian festival, to go to a carol service.

00:26And I do lots of those because there are lots of charity carol services.

00:29I'm going to fit in as many as I can. But they're lovely because you get to see people drink mulled wine,

00:34eat a mince pie, get quite fat before Christmas, which is essential.

00:38One of the things you've got to do for Christmas is wear quite big clothes.

00:42So nobody can say you look fat because they just go, oh, you've lost weight.

00:45And you go, have I, darling? This used to be skin tight.

00:47These are just tips I'm going to give you. I try not to pop the first bottle of champagne until after midday.

00:52I just said I try. I don't always succeed.

00:56And if it's very, very cold and children in the fridge, how much harm could one small glass do?

01:03I ask you. I put it to you. So there we are. Just 7.30.

01:07God bless Mariah Carey. My Christmas isn't Christmas without that girl.

01:11But the other one, I'm afraid, is Wham's Last Christmas. That is my Christmas song.

01:16I love the old ones. I love all the bing and the crooning.

01:18And I love Elvis having a lonely, lonely Christmas without me, Elvis. Elvis, don't lose heart.

01:24I'll be there with you one day. But when people come in, you don't want too much music.

01:28You just want something a bit moody in the background. Something a little bit quiet. A little bit settling down.

01:32On Christmas Day, we both love to cook. My husband's a good cook. I love cooking.

01:36Because I'm a vegetarian, I obviously don't do turkey and chipotle and all those things.

01:39But my husband does, and the people who come and stay do.

01:42So there's always going to be traditional Christmas fare. But I love things.

01:45Yes, I love Brussels sprouts. And here's why. If you cook them.

01:49So they're al dente. Cringe. Dente. Teeth. You knew that. That's why you go to the dentist, darling.

01:55I'm incidentally a dentist as well. Nose. Liar.

01:58So you have those with sweet chestnuts. That's pretty gorgeous.

02:02But then when you've got lots of leftover, uncooked Brussels sprouts, toppy, toppy, toppy, very small.

02:07Mayonnaise, spring onion, maybe a few gherkins tossed in. It becomes the most beautiful coleslaw.

02:12Honestly, Brussels sprouts coleslaw cannot be better.

02:15I've got one which I treasure every year so much.

02:18I was in a film called The Wolf of Wall Street, in which I was forced to kiss Leonardo DiCaprio.

02:22And we got it wrong again and again. I had to kiss him 27 times.

02:27Anyway, Margot Robbie was in that as well. And she played, as you remember, Leo's wife in that film.

02:32And she made me, out of pastry, a little candy walking stick cane,

02:37which she had made a hole in it and put a loop on it, and painted it red and white.

02:41And she put it in a box to Aunt Emma, which is my character, Aunt Emma.

02:44And she put Margot Robbie, in case I didn't remember who she was.

02:47That is the sweetest thing. So that comes out every year.

02:49I come from a house of books. It has literally got books piled in every room.

02:53So I always long to get a book for Christmas, and somebody will always do that.

02:56But best of all, this year, I've written a book.

03:00And guess what it's called? It's called My Book of Treasures, which is exactly what it is.

03:05And what's on the top of my Christmas tree, you ask?

03:09Well, sometimes it's a robin, sometimes it's a star, and sometimes it's a Christmas fairy.

03:15It's a fairy.

03:16It's a fairy.

03:17It's a fairy.

03:18It's a fairy.

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