{"id":285118,"date":"2025-11-26T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285118\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:22:08","slug":"olivia-colman-bans-phones-at-the-claridges-christmas-tree-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/285118\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Colman bans phones at the Claridge&#8217;s Christmas tree party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/christmas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas<\/a> trees has begun in earnest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/lifestyle\/fashion\/claridges-christmas-tree-burberry-daniel-lee-b1256191.html\" title=\"Claridge&#039;s reveals 2025 Christmas tree designed by Burberry&#039;s Daniel Lee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claridge\u2019s enlisted Burberry to design its offering this year<\/a>: a 16-footer covered in purple and yellow bows, foliage and thistles. Burberry\u2019s director Daniel Lee said the look was inspired by \u201cthe beauty of the rugged British landscape\u201d. Trees clearly pull a good crowd: the unveiling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/party\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">party<\/a> was packed to the rafters with stars including Dame Joan Collins, actor turned faithful Celia Imrie, model Rosie Huntington Whiteley and singer Pink Pantheress. Midway through the evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/olivia-colman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Colman<\/a> materialised to give a surprise reading, but not before enforcing Berghain-style rules. \u201cI know this isn\u2019t going to be a popular opinion, but would you mind putting your phones down?\u201d she told the crowd, who dutifully obliged. \u201cNow we\u2019ll feel Christmassy together,\u201d Colman said with a beatific smile, before reading the lesser known \u2018Twas the Night After Christmas, complete with a gruff Cockney accent for Santa Claus. (\u201cWe don\u2019t know what he sounds like, he could sound like that,\u201d she reasoned). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The battle of the Christmas trees has begun in earnest. Claridge\u2019s enlisted Burberry to design its offering this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,3462,96,9612,44230,749,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-285118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-christmas","tag-entertainment","tag-jeremy-corbyn","tag-olivia-colman","tag-party","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}