To all of those celebrating Thanksgiving Day all the best to you and yours for a safe and happy holiday. This is the time to be with family and friends and give thanks for the wonderful blessings we all have in our lives.
Some of your favourite celebrities are sharing how they will be spending this holiday. How will you be spending the holiday?
Lauren Conrad’s most cherished holiday tradition
“My favorite holiday tradition is anything to do with food,” the reality star, 24, says. “Anything to do with Thanksgiving, or Christmas treats, pumpkin pie with whipped cream. My holiday ritual is to make it into my ‘eat whatever you want day!’ ”
Gwyneth Paltrow’s favorite Christmas creation
“Besides the mulled wine, I make a really delicious fresh cranberry sauce with fresh cranberries and orange zest,” Paltrow, 38, says. “It’s one of those meals where it all has to come together – the turkey has to be perfectly roasted, you know what I mean, you have a little bit of everything in one bite.”
• Gilles Marini on an American Thanksgiving
“I really love Thanksgiving because I love being with [a] real American family that knows how to celebrate, and the love and the thanks and the kindness,” the French actor, 34, says. “I rarely see that in France. I really love Thanksgiving for that. I usually spend my Thanksgiving with Victor Nelli … the executive producer of Ugly Betty.”
• Crystal Bowersox on the joy of cooking
“Last year before I came out to Hollywood was my first Thanksgiving that I hosted,” the singer, 25, says. “[I] woke up at 7 a.m., cooked all day, had dinner at 7 p.m. I did the whole thing, did all the fixings and had family and friends over. I love to cook … and I think family has become so much more important to me now. Being in the public, you realize who your friends and family are very quickly.”
• Malin Akerman on her Swedish Christmas Smörgåsbord
“I’m a huge Christmas fan. It’s my favorite holiday. I’m from Sweden so we do a Swedish Christmas and we celebrate on the 24th in the evening,” the actress, 32, says. “We do dinner and after dinner we open gifts in the evening and it’s so beautiful. But part of our traditional smörgåsbord that I love is always having ham and pickled herring and potatoes. And I’ve just got to say it’s a really great-tasting meal. I know it sounds really gross! I’m a big foodie, so I’m happy that the Swedish sort of Christmas delicacy is fish and ham. It’s really good. And the best thing about Christmas is I pig out! There’s no way that I’m going to watch what I eat. I just can’t. I have to let myself go.”
• Tommy Lee on Thanksgiving fun
“I love all [holidays], but probably Thanksgiving dinner the most – I love to cook and I love not going over to somebody else’s house,” the rocker, 48, says. “I love doing it at home, cooking, doing that whole celebration. I love to have everyone over, I really dig that. Usually [I cook] the main stuff. I let other people bring or make the sides.”
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“I plan to eat, relax and just do nothing, which is so exciting because that really doesn’t happen often! On Thanksgiving I’ll cook an entire feast, a 12 course meal; it’s hard to pick a favorite, but my sweet potato casserole is pretty good.”
KHLOE KARDASHIAN
“We’re going to my mom’s house for an early dinner.Lamar [Odom] has a game the next day but he has to leave on Thanksgiving, so we have to work around his schedule. But it’s good!”
ANNALYNNE MCCORD
“I might be in Africa building wells for Thirst Project, a group fighting the clean-water crisis. It’s the only time I can get away!”
DAVE ANNABLE
“Odette [Yustman], her mom and my mom will cook. The guys will watch football, and I’ll see if my fantasy team is doing all right.”
PAUL WESLEY
“I’m a East Coast guy and I don’t get home very often, so I’ll probably be doing the family thing. When you’re traveling, food can get bland — there’s nothing like home cooking.”
HILARY DUFF
“Mike [Comrie] has a game the day after Thanksgiving, so my family is flying to Pittsburgh. I think we’ll go out for Italian.”
NATE BERKUS
“I’m not going to have an American Thanksgiving this year. My boyfriend is from Mexico City, so we’re going to Mexico and I’ll be looking for StoveTop stuffing if anyone can help me figure that out!”
RACHEL DRATCH
“I go to Vermont every year with my family. They’re actually getting a big tent this year because there are so many people.”
TENLEY MOLZAHN
“My sister, her fiance and I are joining Kiptyn [Locke]‘s family, so that’ll be fun. My parents are up in Oregon. They will be missed, but it will be kind of fun to see how everybody does that.”
KIM KARDASHIAN
“Thanksgiving is all about family! We used to go skiing in colorado with our dad, so being in L.A. is newer for us. I love cranberry sauce!”
PENN BADGLEY
“I’m actually trying to see if I can get to Iceland for Thanksgiving. My friend Sean Pyfrom from Desperate Housewives has been kind of… meeting friends all around the world, but he’s alone in Iceland. So I’m going to try to get there with him.”
MENA SUVARI
“My husband [Simone Sestito] is Italian and also Canadian, so he’s learning the American Thanksgiving traditions. Since we’ve been working and traveling so much, we’re just going to stay at home and develop our own traditions.”
JESSICA SZOHR
“I’m going to New York for Thanksgiving and celebrating it with ten friends. We have no parents who will be there, so we have to do it all on our own and do a good job.”
JENNA DEWAN
“I will be cooking some vegan Thanksgiving dishes for everybody. I will be doing some vegan mashed potatoes and a mac ‘n’ cheese casserole that’s vegan.”
KATY PERRY
“I’m going to get stuffed! I’m going to eat until I fall into a food coma.”
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS
“I love eating! I heard the average woman eats 4,000 calories at Thanksgiving. I can’t afford that — it would stay with me forever!”
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