Contactmusic.com – 24th December 2015

British Actor Richard E. Grant Goes Overboard During The Festive Season To Compensate For Years Of Unpleasant Christmas Days With His Alcoholic Father.

Picture: Richard E Grant – The Evening Standard Theatre Awards held at the Old Vic – Arrivals – London, United Kingdom – Sunday 22nd November 2015

The Withnail & I star did not experience happy Christmases growing up with his dad, so he goes all out to make sure his adult daughter Olivia and stepson Tom enjoy the festive season as much as possible.

Grant puts the Christmas tree up at the start of December every year and covers his home in decorations so it looks like a “b**ody Winter Wonderland”.

“It was so fraught when I was growing up because Christmas Day meant drunken mayhem on my father’s part by about eight o’clock at night,” he tells Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper. “So I have probably hugely overcompensated. The Christmas tree goes up on December 1. I love it.”