Michael Winner hates Christmas, so heads to Sandy Lane, the celeb-infested luxury hotel in Barbados to escape. 'I lie on the beach thinking about the awful weather back in London, then eat the whole suckling pig for Christmas lunch.'

Angelina Jolie has rejected the materialism of Christmas by giving her son Maddox a more experiential present each year. 'I ended up deciding that I would show him the world every Christmas, and so I took him to see the Pyramids on Christmas Day. Every year I will take him somewhere else,' she said.

'I hate Christmas, I hate the silly music on the radio, I hate the adverts, I don't like mince pies involved,' says Noel Gallagher. Luckily he owns a house in Ibiza to escape to instead, and once spent the holiday in Malaysia.

Tracey Emin complains: 'I want to be a million miles away. It's something I've inherited from my mum who always detested it.' Last Christmas she went to The Grove country-house hotel in Hertfordshire.