Gwen Stefani’s grandmother would make gingerbread villages, each kid got a house
Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have a Christmas special coming up on December 12 on NBC called Gwen Stefani’s You Make It Feel Like Christmas. She also has that Christmas album out, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, with the title song a duet with Blake. I finally listened to it, and it’s so bad you guys! It made me grimace so much. I’m listening to it now and I can barely finish my breakfast cereal. (Honey Nut Cheerios, but I eat the generic brand because I’m fancy like that.) A lot of people must agree with me as the song has less than a million views on YouTube and it’s been out since the end of September. It’s just awful.
Anyway I buy that Gwen and Blake are the real deal, she worships that basic guy and she convinced him to accept People’s Sexiest title, although she realizes that sexy is subjective. Gwen told Ellen on her show last week that Blake is sexy because of his “big old heart and that sense of humor. He doesn’t even like take himself seriously, and he’s just such an incredible person.” I think Gwen appreciates Blake because she was stuck in a difficult marriage for years, and for what it’s worth the feeling seems to be mutual.
Gwen also did an interview at a Spotify Listening Party for her album (I wonder how many people had to stifle grimaces) where she talked about her family’s Christmas traditions. Her grandmother had one that she can’t quite live up to:
“I don’t like to brag, but I did have an incredible family and parents and grandparents,” Stefani shared during a Q&A at the Spotify Listening Party for her album, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, hosted by Fred Segal and Domino Magazine on Thursday. “I can remember my grandma, my mom’s mom, she was a redhead, Irish. I would call her crazy lady, she would probably like that, I think.”
“She used to do gingerbread villages. Like she would start and there would be the church and each one of us got our own gingerbread house and at Christmas, we would take it home and eat it. It was over the top,” she recalled, adding that she tried to recreate the tradition two years ago — but it was “a complete disaster.”
“[It had a] horrifying taste. I don’t even know how I did it. I think I used the wrong molasses. It was different molasses in it, so I’m trying to figure it out,” Stefani said. “This year is the year though! I have to do it.”
[From ET Online]
I’m not a baker, I’m just a middling cook and haven’t done much baking, and I can screw up a gingerbread kit. That said, now I want to make a kit with my kid. One of my favorite memories as a child was my grandfather making a huge gingerbread house with my brother and me. I’m pretty sure he made it from scratch. That’s amazing that Gwen’s grandmother made entire gingerbread villages like that! So much work and detailing must have gone into that, and it also takes incredible skill as Gwen learned the hard way. What a special memory. I just try to decorate my house and make Christmastime special and I hope that’s enough. We’re not religious at all in my family but we love Christmas and being together at the holidays. There’s no “war on Christmas” in America, but when Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are headlining Christmas specials, that’s a sign that it’s headed toward mediocrity.
Got my Christmas present already gx #youmakeitfeellikechristmas @blakeshelton #yum
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Did we need Gwen Stefani’s version of Jingle Bells? No
Excited to have my version of ‘Jingle Bells’ featured in @Hallmark ’s holiday commercial! ❤️ Tomorrow at 11am PST I’m going live on Facebook with Hallmark to talk about my new album #YouMakeItFeelLikeChristmas & share some of my favorite holiday traditions.
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Oh look, Chelsea Handler is in it.
Cannot wait for you all to see my #YouMakeItFeelLikeChristmas special with @blakeshelton @chelseahandler @kenjeong @macfarlaneseth & @NeYo!! December 12 at 9/8c on @NBC ❄️
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