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Mr Christmas releases festive single

Andy Park aka Mr Christmas

The new song by hit-hungry crooner Andy Park, aka Mr Christmas, is fittingly called It's Christmas Every Day.

And no-one can question the 45-year-old electrician's devotion to its theme.

For since "becoming Mr Christmas" in 1993, he has eaten 109,500 sprouts.

He devours 25 of them with a full roast turkey dinner every day before watching a recording of the Queen's speech, sherry in hand.

"I've been doing this for 12 years and I'm going to be doing it for another 12. I've never, ever got bored of it. I absolutely love Christmas," he said.

But despite his year-round festive joy, his number one Christmas wish remains sadly unfulfilled after more than a decade.

"I would love to sing just one song with Des O'Connor - but so far Santa hasn't delivered on this one," said the divorced father of one, from Melksham, Wiltshire.

"I love Des. He's my hero and I've been trying to persuade him to let me sing with him for years.

"While celebrating Christmas every day for 12 years, I've had many great presents but a chance to croon with Des would top them all.

"We could do one of his love songs, or even one of mine."

He said his new track is set to go on sale nationwide on December 9.

Previous efforts

It follows previous efforts like The Christmas Man, Yuletide Oh Yeah and Alleluia It's Christmas, a B-side on the current CD single.

"It's Christmas Every Day is BBC Radio 2 style. It's very professional - the video features Mike Reid and the producer was Andy Whitmore who has worked with Peter Andre. I want to be number one."

So deep is his love for Christmas that, over the past 12 years of celebrating the festival every day, he reckons he has consumed 4,380 turkeys (one a day), 87,600 mince pies (20 a day), 2,190 pints of gravy (half a pint a day), 26,280 roast potatoes (six a day), 30,660 stuffing balls (seven a day), 219,000 mushy peas (50 a day), 4,380 bottles of champagne (one daily), 4,380 bottles of sherry and 5,000 bottles of wine.

He has given 21,900 presents, mainly to himself, and spent £12,000 on lights and effects.

"I've spent about £250,000 in total celebrating Christmas every day for the past 12 years," he said.

"I've also got through 36 ovens and 42 video recorders by watching the Queen's speech every day as well as Christmas films."

His daily routine consists of breakfast - six mince pies and a turkey sandwich - then doing his work as an electrician until around 11.30am when he returns home to cook his roast.

Lunch is at 2pm. Crackers - 40 a day (175,200 over 12 years) - are then pulled, usually on his own.

A video of the Queen's speech is played at 3pm.

Presents

And at 8pm he lays his presents under the Christmas tree.

Today he gave himself a new dinner jacket. Tomorrow he is getting a suit, he said.

He ignores his girlfriend, 44-year-old carer Janet Lancaster, and his daughter, Caz, 20, when they call him a "crackpot", he said.

"If I go to a restaurant or a friend's for dinner, even if I go abroad, I always insist on a full Christmas dinner," he said.

Daily feasting initially made him balloon from 12 and a half stone to 21 stone, he said.

But he is now a trim 15 and a half stone, thanks to twice-weekly trips to the gym.

As for moves to "do away with Christmas" by renaming it the Winter Festival, he said: "It's rubbish. Christmas will always be with us. It's lovely seeing people happy."

He added: "I also haven't forgotten that it's the birthday of Jesus so I always make it along to midnight mass on Christmas Eve (the real one, that is, on December 24/25)."