And for good reason! Our dear little ones are cherished and spoiled with gifts on that day by Santa Claus. Santa Claus? “But tell me Nice-Première, aren’t you too old to believe in Santa Claus?” And why should there be a specific age? Santa Claus exists, right Clémentine Célarié? During a showcase at the Fnac in Nice, the mother of the “Family Groove” defended his existence to us: “My first memory is when someone told me that Santa Claus didn’t exist. So, I tell everyone that it’s false, Santa Claus exists because otherwise why would we invent something like that only to be told later it doesn’t exist? It’s ridiculous. There are people who say he doesn’t exist and others who say he does. But, you should know there are people who lie all the time.” Case closed: Santa Claus exists in the hearts of all who believe. “It’s a dream!”
On December 25th, “the divine child is born” and Catholics celebrate his birth. For many of us, as for Pascal Mono, who will set the 700-room NIKAIA alight on January 20, 2007, it’s “the symbol of nativity.” “It’s gifts, it’s the children’s party” and the most beautiful gift life has given him: “it’s my son.” “Merry Christmas to all!”
Rose, the Nice singer who offered us her “List” as a bouquet doesn’t “really have any Christmas memories, I have celebrated it very rarely … I am not Catholic, and we have other equally joyous celebrations … But for me, Christmas is mainly the rush of shopping, and stress in big stores!” Quickly, I still haven’t bought gifts for my grandfather … Rose will be doing a showcase at the Fnac in Nice on January 15, 2007.
And you Franck? What does Christmas inspire in you? “For me, when you say Christmas, I think of New York … snow … Bing Crosby singing for me … a little pot at the Red Cross … a little tree next to it … and me doing my last shopping before going home to stuff the turkey. (Smile)” An eternal Romantic, this Dubosc!
And to close this parenthesis on the Christmas of the stars, we leave the floor to the one who opened it: Clémentine Célarié. “I’m having more and more trouble with Christmas. I think it’s a sign of aging (Smile). It’s become something that no longer has anything to do with Christmas. It’s become an incredible commercial carnival.” “Like all the holidays! Soon, there will be a festival for uncles, cousins, teenagers … We’ll spend our time celebrating (Laugh). It’s becoming comical people start their shopping in September. That means it’s a chore, it’s not a pleasure!”, points out Abraham, her son. Clémentine smiles and continues: “Like a mandated thing! This year I’m going to tell my parents we’re not going to bother. We will do things, you see: cook, share, be together, laugh, a small symbolic gift each because afterwards it becomes mandatory. It must not be an obligation. This year, I will spend it with my parents. I still have my parents and I know how important that is and my children are there too. I’m very lucky. Christmas, it’s love first? It’s not the gifts. It’s love. It’s being together with the people we love, the rest is nonsense.” Jouious Calèna!
