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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Christmas is meant to be magical — but the reality is often far more complicated.
In this honest and unfiltered episode, Caroline Stanbury and Sergio Carrallo sit down together to talk about the side of Christmas that nobody really talks about.
From joy, connection, and beautiful moments, to loneliness, guilt, pressure, and emotional overwhelm — this conversation explores why the holidays can bring out both the best and the hardest parts of relationships.
They dive into the reality of blended families: navigating different traditions, split time with children, extended families, compromises, disagreements, and the unspoken expectations that often surface at Christmas. When everyone wants something different, it’s easy to feel torn between love, obligation, and what feels right.
This episode is for anyone who has ever felt that Christmas didn’t look the way it was “supposed to” — and wondered if they were the only one.
The good.
The bad.
And the ugly — finally said out loud.
Christmas isn’t always merry.
Caroline Stanbury and Sergio Carrallo talk honestly about love, guilt, loneliness, and the reality of blended families during the holidays — no filters, no pretending.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Uncut and Unscensored and today I'm joined by my Christmas husband. Ding a bird, dinga, dinga, all the way. How what fun, hit the rain and a hat-a-hopper's like, eh. Those are not the words. It's the 24th, honey. Yeah, but if you're going to sing it, which you ask to do, you need to know the words. It's, uh. But anyway... That's the Spanish version. That's not the Spanish version. That's nobody's version. Every version globally sings the same words, but that's okay. Merry Christmas to all of you. Today, the 24th is amazing. We are here full of color because yesterday was our five years wedding anniversary. That's not why we're full of color. We're always full of color because my husband lives in a very colorful world and truly loves every experience of everything. I literally love it. Look at my pajamas. I mean, look at the tree. Caroline has like a massive 500 flower bouquet. You can't not be happy in this house. Literally. You cannot not be happy in this house. I mean, it's not for everybody. I have to say we're building a house right now, and it's the exact opposite of this house. But this house is extremely special to us, and I think going through what we went through to get here, this colorful palace is just what we need. Oh my God, this is literally everything. |
| 1:11.3 | I just love coming down here every morning and just seeing all this color around. |
| 1:15.4 | We're like Paris Hilton in Dubai. |
| 1:17.8 | Literally. |
| 1:18.8 | So today is about the reality of Christmas that no one talks about, the good, the bad, the ugly. |
| 1:24.8 | And obviously, you know, everybody, it brings out different things and different people, right? Christmas can be really lonely for people. Christmas can be really |
| 1:31.5 | amazing for people. Christmas can bring feelings of guilt. It can bring feelings of like, you know, |
| 1:38.7 | what the fuck am I doing with my life? And it can be amazing and beautifully as well. |
| 1:44.8 | It can, darling. |
| 1:48.4 | But, you know, that's every reality for everyone. |
| 1:51.0 | If you have a blended family to what that looks like. |
| 1:56.0 | All my house right now, I think right upstairs, we have six teenagers in the house. |
| 1:56.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:57.1 | Six. |
| 2:00.4 | And I could not be, I was around the table last night. And what did I say to you? It's like, oh my God, there's nothing that makes me happier than just, you know, seeing everybody around, all the noise, even though we are on the top floor, the middle floor is like full of kids. So we just hear everything and it's honestly amazing. It's so fun. You know, even though like we're in Dubai right now, there's been a storm last night. It's a bit crazy. |
| 2:20.6 | No one has come to work. amazing. It's so fun. You know, even though like we're in Dubai right now, there's been a storm last night. |
| 2:19.7 | It's a bit crazy. No one has come to work. You know, we are so grateful to be here with all the children. |
| 2:27.0 | And, you know, I have to say, I was talking to my daughter yesterday. And this is like, I think the last year or the two years, because that, you know, my daughter's 19, my sons are 16. And, you know, I don't really do Christmas the same way. You know, we used to have Santa Claus and all of that. I know. That's something that I hate in a way because I think you have to always preserve the spirit of Christmas. I know, but, you know, it's, I have to say, I don't know about anyone else, |
| 2:51.4 | but even the little things are bloody expensive now. You know, I used to go to Sephora, fill up their stockings or wherever it is, you know, one of these shops, and fill up their stockings and make it really cute. But I have to say now, it's like last year I think I did, it was a thousand dollars each. |
| 3:07.5 | Yeah, it's crazy. |
| 3:08.2 | It's nuts. |
| 3:08.9 | The little stuff just adds up, |
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