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Celebrities who don’t celebrate Christmas from Natalie Portman to Serena Williams

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Christmas is representative of several Christian traditions, as well as secular traditions, but not everyone gets into the holiday spirit.

Here is a selection of celebrities who either don’t celebrate the holiday due to religious reasons or personal choices.

Actress Natalie Portman is Jewish and also considers herself an individual of science and reason over any declared religious faith.

It is presumed Natalie celebrates Hanukkah during the traditional holiday season because she celebrates all other traditional, Jewish holidays.

At present, we imagine Natalie is celebrating the holiday season, surrounded by kith and kin, and enjoying motherhood while preparing for things like the Hollywood awards season.

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Adam Sandler, similarly, is another member of the Jewish faith and he takes a pass on a large, familial, Christmas celebration.

Barba Streisand was also born to Jewish parents so does not celebrate the holiday.

However, she did get into the Christmas spirit when she recorded her popular festive album in the late 1960s.

Serena Williams is part of a Christian tradition that was started in the late 1800s, known as Jehovah’s Witness.

This was a restorative movement in Christianity, but unlike other movements that attempted to tear down the hierarchy of organized religion stemming from Catholicism, they mixed it up and made it work.

Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate traditional Christian holidays that were passed down from the Roman church, Christmas being one of them.

It’s assumed Serena’s family might do some gift exchanging around the festive period but there is no religion tied to it.

Rapper Drake was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish Canadian mother and commemorates Hanukkah and other Jewish occasions.

Hollywood actor Colin Firth has also previously shared his dislike of the holidays, with the season making him feel like “Scrooge”.

He told the Daily Mail in 2009: “I have a profound loathing of Christmas — it’s sad really.

“At this time of year, I am careful not to switch on the radio because these novelty jingles make me homicidal and plunge me into the heart of Scrooge territory.

“I think Christmas turns us all into Scrooge. Everyone is trying to throw happy stuff at you, and that’s when I come over all humbug.”

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