Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and more stars who hate Christmas
Not everyone in Hollywood is decking out the halls this holiday season.
Some stars are more Grinch than Santa Claus, and they’re not shy about it.
Miley Cyrus openly admitted feeling lonely even in a house full of friends and family, channeling her heartbreak into her 2019 My Sad Christmas Song.
Meanwhile, Lady Gaga once bit off the head of a Santa Claus plush toy on stage to vent her holiday frustration.
Even Jennifer Aniston and Colin Firth voiced their displeasure with the season, proving that not every star is feeling joyful.
From heartbroken divas to holiday rebels, these Hollywood Grinches prove that Christmas isn’t always merry.
As the holiday season is in full swing, some Hollywood celebs like Miley Cyrus are openly skipping the holiday cheer
Some stars, including Lady Gaga, are more Grinch than Santa Claus, and they’re not shy about it.
Miley Cyrus
The singer got brutally honest about her struggles during Christmas.
In 2019, he released My Sad Christmas Song to share his feelings of loneliness.
“A sad Christmas song I wrote a few years ago right before the holidays,” Cyrus wrote on X (formerly Twitter). ‘I felt terrible because I couldn’t be with the person I loved.
‘Even though my house was full of family and friends, I still felt lonely. In ways that still feel relevant and that anyone reading this right now can probably relate to!’
She added, ‘If you’re feeling lonely this season, know that you’ve been TOTALLY SPELLED! You are as special as a snowflake, beautifully unique, and I hope you feel light, hope, peace, and joy within your soul knowing how amazing you are! ‘Love always wins!’
His disdain for the holidays extends to decorating.
It announced plans for a ‘gothic Christmas’ in 2020, featuring an all-black tree, rosaries, upside-down crosses and ‘medieval-style vibes’.
He joked that holiday gatherings with his family often ended in “fist fights and usually each of us dragging ourselves away and kind of slamming the door and a bunch of apologies.”
In 2019, Cyrus released My Sad Christmas Song to share her feelings of loneliness during the holidays.
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga’s relationship with Christmas was equally chaotic.
The Grammy winner bit off the head of a Santa Claus plush toy and ripped it off with his shoe at a 2010 London concert.
‘I hate holidays. ‘I’m lonely and miserable, you damn little toy,’ he growled onstage.
Despite her Grinch-like antics, Gaga found some joy in her 2009 release Christmas Tree.
Jennifer Aniston
Even the ever-smiling Jennifer Aniston has a complicated past with Christmas.
‘When I was a kid, they used to make me belly dance on Christmas Eve,’ she said E.W. In 2016.
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Lady Gaga bit off the head of a Santa Claus plush toy and cut it with her shoe during a 2010 London concert.
Even the ever-smiling Jennifer Aniston has a complicated past with Christmas
Aniston once admitted: “My dad’s family is all Greek, so I would dress up as a little Greek girl, and I would do that after taking belly dancing lessons for Christmas.”
‘My dad’s family is all Greek, so I used to dress up as a little Greek girl and I would do this after taking belly dancing lessons at Christmas.
‘This didn’t even have anything to do with Christmas. It was just, “Let’s humiliate Jen for Christmas.”
Marion Cotillard
The Inception actor isn’t feeling the Christmas spirit either.
He once admitted: ‘It was something from a very young age. I remember fighting with my mother because I didn’t want to buy a gift. He was very angry with me because he couldn’t stand me being among children who didn’t have gifts.
“And I said, ‘I’m fine, I don’t need anything, I don’t want anything.'”
Marion Cotillard says she remembers fighting with her mother because she ‘didn’t want to buy a gift’
Ozzy Osbourne
The late Black Sabbath frontman didn’t mince words about holiday consumerism.
‘I need to figure out all these damn presents. “What a fucking waste of paper,” he said. To express In 2009.
‘I hate Christmas. I hate this. Everything stops. When I drank, it was a good excuse to get fucked. ‘I hate this now.’
Rod Stewart
It may be a Christmas album, but Rod Stewart’s holiday spirit is short-lived.
His wife Penny Lancaster once explained: ‘Rod doesn’t like Christmas. ‘He can’t wait until the decorations are finished and his house is back to normal.’
‘I hate Christmas. I hate this. Everything stops. When I used to drink, it was a good excuse to get fucked. I hate it now,’ the late Ozzy Osbourne once said.
Rod Stewart’s wife Penny Lancaster once explained: ‘Rod doesn’t like Christmas. He can’t wait until the decorations are finished and his house is back to normal.’
Colin Firth
Even the star of Love, Actually and Mamma Mia! is not immune to seasonal Scrooge-ness.
“I’m careful not to turn on the radio at this time of year because this new music makes me homicidal and drives me into the heart of Scrooge territory,” Firth told the Daily Mail in 2009.
‘I think Christmas turns us all into Scrooge. Everybody tries to throw happy things at you and that’s when I get all the bullshit.’
Larry David
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star is perhaps the ultimate anti-holiday hero.
“I am a creature of habit and cannot tolerate anything that takes me out of my normal routine,” he wrote in a 2021 essay. A Very Larry David Christmas. ‘That’s why I hate all holidays, but none more than Christmas.
‘There is disgusting music. Movies with funny, pleasant emotions. ‘The gifts – thinking about them, shopping for them (never with resentment) and the pile of rubbish that accumulates upon opening them are simultaneously an environmental disaster in living rooms across the country.’
Love, Actually and Mamma Mia! Even movie star Colin Firth isn’t immune to seasonal Scrooge-ness
Firth in 2003’s Love Actually
“I am a creature of habit and cannot tolerate anything that takes me out of my normal routine,” David wrote in his 2021 essay titled A Very Larry David Christmas ; (picture 2024)
Diego Luna
The Star Wars and Narcos actor doesn’t have time for holiday fun, either.
‘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,’ Luna told Celestrellas in 2010.
He added that his father shared the same distaste, often “ruining someone else’s Christmas dinner” and enduring odd gifts such as VHS tapes of cheesy movies.
Christoph Waltz
The James Bond actor wants nothing to do with Noel.
‘There is no Christmas. This is my biggest wish, it won’t be Christmas. I am against this. “I’m against it even in milder forms, but at Christmas it turns into mass hysteria,” Waltz said in a 2014 interview.
Diego Luna doesn’t have time for holiday fun either; (picture 2025)
‘There is no Christmas. This is my biggest wish, it won’t be Christmas. I am against this. Christoph Waltz said in an interview in 2014: I’m against even milder forms, but at Christmas it turns into mass hysteria.
Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher has a bad thing about the festive season; (Taken in August 2025)
Marilyn Manson once admitted: ‘I hate Christmas’; (picture 2019)
Noel Gallagher
The Oasis rocker has a bad feeling about the festival season.
‘I hate this with a passion’, Gallagher said Far out magazine in 2021.
He called the 1998 holiday ad’s attempt to appropriate the Oasis track “s***” thanks to “too much food, too much ‘We Are the World’, skippers, TV presenters, terrible commercials, damn weather.”
Marilyn Manson
And of course, Marilyn Manson keeps things dark, even during the holidays.
“I hate Christmas,” he told The Associated Press in 2016.
‘Some of my friends celebrate Hanukkah, which to me feels like a more traditional and better holiday because you get more gifts.’
He added: ‘I think… I’ve spent every Christmas without a Christmas tree.’
