Andy Park (Mr. Christmas)

Andy Park, an electrician from Melksham, Wiltshire, England, styles himself "Mr. Christmas" after having celebrated Christmas day every day since 1994.

In 2001, Mr. Park estimated that since he started celebrating, he had got through 30 artificial Christmas trees, 10,000m of tinsel and 10,000 balloons, at a (then) estimated cost of £100,000.

Each day he eats breakfast (turkey sandwich and mince pies), then goes to work, until returning around at lunchtime to eat a full roast turkey dinner before watching a recording of the Queen's Christmas speech, sherry in hand. In 2006, it was reported that the Queen had politely declined an invitation to broadcast her speech from his house.

In an interview published in 2006, Mr. Park was quoted as saying that over the previous 13 years, he had consumed 4,380 turkeys (one a day), 87,600 mince pies (20 a day), 2,190 pints of gravy (half a pint a day), 26,280 roast potatoes (six a day), 30,660 stuffing balls, 219,000 mushy peas, 4,380 bottles of champagne, 4,380 bottles of sherry and 5,000 bottles of wine. However, in 2001, he was warned by his doctor that the diet was affecting his health after his weight increased to 19 stone (121 kg).

In 2005, he released a single entitled "It's Christmas Every Day", with a video featuring Mike Reid and produced by Andy Whitmore. There were suggestions in the media that much of the information was an attempt by Mr. Park to attract publicity for the single [http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/3831/ Museum of Hoaxes] .

On 15 December, 2007, in an interview on the BBC Radio 4 program "Saturday Live", Mr. Park confirmed he was still celebrating every day.

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*cite web | title = The Forgotten Christmas | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1102465.stm
accessdate = December 15 | accessyear = 2007
*cite web | title = Christmas addict to get cold turkey | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1731057.stm
accessdate = December 15 | accessyear = 2007
*cite web | title = Mr Christmas 'devastated ' as Queen declines speech offer
url = http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=422895&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490 | accessdate = December 15 | accessyear = 2007
*cite web | title = The man who has Christmas every day | url = http://www.abc.net.au/perth/stories/s1525159.htm
accessdate = December 15 | accessyear = 2007