Celebrities get in the festive mood

Some of the world's biggest stars have revealed how they like to spend the festive season.

Jada Pinkett Smith said she and husband Will Smith gather the children around and make it an all-family affair.

"We spend Christmas in the snow every year, we spend it together. Sometimes we have a full one with the extended family and everyone but this year it will be pretty intimate," she said.

Narnia star Ben Barnes said he likes a traditional Christmas: "I get very fervent about it being traditional. I want the tree in the same place, in the same corner, in the same room.

"I want to sit in the same chair and listen to the same music. It's very, very boring but I like it a certain way."

Noel Edmonds also said a family Christmas is on the cards.

Speaking with his wife he said: "It will be a family Christmas at our home and we will thoroughly enjoy sitting down and crying our eyes out watching Christmas movies."

Sir Ben Kingsley said he is hoping for snow.

"We are going to have a very tall Christmas tree. We live in the countryside so we hope it snows. And Daniella, my wife's Mum, is coming so it will be very traditional," he said.

Norton takes Eurovision reins from Wogan

Chat show host Graham Norton has been named as the replacement commentator on the Eurovision Song Contest, taking the reins from Sir Terry Wogan.

Fellow Irishman Norton will take the role in the 2009 contest, which will be hosted in Moscow.

Veteran presenter Sir Terry, 70, had cast doubt on whether he would be involved in covering the event again at this year's contest.

He said it was "no longer a music contest" and that prospects for Western European participants were "poor".

The show has been dogged by accusations of bloc voting, which was blamed by some for leaving Britain's 2008 contestant, Andy Abraham, with only 14 points.

Sir Terry, who has spent more than three decades guiding viewers through the contest, said he would be "sad to leave it all behind".

He said: "I've had 35 wonderful years commentating on the Eurovision for radio and television.

"From my first, in a small music-hall in Dublin, to my last, in the huge arena in Belgrade, it has been nothing but laughter and fun."

Norton, a long time Eurovision fan, described it as "an amazing job and a huge honour".

He said: "Sir Terry is nothing less than legend and is an impossible act to follow, but somebody must and I just couldn't say no.

"I can't wait to get to Moscow. With a combination of cheap vodka and a language barrier what could possibly go wrong?"

I like being enigmatic, says Cliff

Sir Cliff Richard said he likes the fact that speculation about his sexuality makes him "an enigma after all these years".

I like being enigmatic, says Cliff In a BBC interview he said that he understood that the fact he has never married had given rise to intense curiosity about his relationships.

"I know but I don't care, that's the thing," he said.

To applause from an invited audience in a Songs of Praise special, he said: "It is just none of your business."

Speaking to Sally Magnusson to mark his 50th year in showbusiness, he said: "This year has been a huge watershed in my relationship with the press. I'm an enigma and I love it. I love that after all these years they still don't think they know everything about me."

He said that his recent autobiography in which he explained his views on same-sex relationships had been interpreted by some as a statement about his own sexuality.

"I was trying to be very philosophical about a lot of things, including same-sex relationships. There have been changes within my faith, I was at one time quite judgmental."

The committed Christian singer performed some of his favourite religious songs and hymns, including Faithful One and Little Town.