LeAnn Rimes decorates for Christmas right after Halloween: tacky or fine?

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God help me, but I’ve fallen in love with LeAnn’s cream sweater. That’s a really beautiful sweater, damn it. Anyway, these are photos of LeAnn Rimes outside of The View yesterday. LeAnn is BEYOND pleased that she has a reason to do some press these days: she’s releasing her super-sad Christmas-themed EP, full of random Christmas-yodeling, of course. LeAnn is trying to market herself as Miss Christmas, when we all know that there can only be ONE Miss Christmas and that’s Mariah Carey. Still, LeAnn is trying. She’s trying to make it seem like she’s all about Christmas everything and please oh God buy this stupid album.

With a new Christmas album available, LeAnn Rimes is obviously a big fan of the holiday season, especially now that she has two stepsons to celebrate with! The 33-year-old singer joined the ladies of The View on Monday morning and gushed about being able to spend her favorite time of year with her husband, Eddie Cibrian, and his two sons, Mason and Jake.

In fact, LeAnn joked that she’s totally the type who starts decorating around Halloween. “People get really angry, about that, too! They’re like, ‘You cannot decorate before Thanksgiving!’ But I like to extend the holiday. I’m very thankful for my Christmas tree and my decorations!”

Other than making sure the décor gets up early, LeAnn says she also has some holiday traditions she’s started with Eddie and her stepsons.

“The first year we actually spent together with the kids at Christmas, he went out to the mall and picked up this little ornament that’s four peas in a pod and put our names on it,” she revealed. “It was the sweetest thing ever he brought home! Since then, we’ve been kind of doing that same thing, that tradition of getting an ornament to commemorate every year.”

As for their plans this Christmas, Mason and Jake—who will be splitting time with their mother, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville—will join them on Christmas day.

“They’ll be with us! We get them, like, Christmas mid-day,” LeAnn explains.” So we’ll have Christmas morning all on our own which will be kind of nice.”

This time of year is also really important to LeAnn and Eddie, as they got engaged on Christmas Eve in 2010.

“We sometimes will go down to the place where he proposed to me, actually,” she explains. “We’ve gone and had a little drink down there and hung out before we go to his parents’ house because his mom always cooks this big Cuban feast.”

[From E! News]

I’m of two minds on the early-Christmas-decorators. I genuinely enjoy the fact that many of my neighbors love to decorate for their homes for the Christmas, and I love seeing tasteful (and even not-so-tasteful) Christmas light displays, etc. I enjoy it because I have literally no interest in doing that to my home. I’m Ms. Scrooge about my own Christmas decorations at this point (Bah Cumberbug!). Now, all that being said, decorating for Christmas right after Halloween? Nope. The earliest should be around Thanksgiving, in my opinion. If it’s the first week of November and you’re hanging up Christmas lights…well, your neighbors might hate you.

And LeAnn never fails to irritate me when she claims her stepsons as her own. I did chuckle at the part where Eddie picked up a (cheap, tacky) Christmas ornament and LeAnn acted like he brought home the Hope Diamond.

If you want to cringe at LeAnn’s low-quality production values, check out her video for “Today Is Christmas.” It is… SO BAD.

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  1. Lama Bean says:

    Is it just me or does her face look different? I didn’t even recognize her in the top pic.

    • Chelly says:

      She needs to stay fine for her man…gag

    • Kitten says:

      Yeah I actually think she’s been looking (GASP!) better lately.
      Well, at least in the photos..that video still is giving me joker vibes…

    • coconut says:

      Her eyebrows are way better now than they were. Just noticed that.

    • DIRTNAP says:

      Her eyes have seemed different as of late. I could be way off base, but in certain photos, she looks like she is wearing colored contact lenses. It wouldn’t surprise me; wasn’t Brandi wearing blue contacts for a bit? I did wonder why LeAnn would chose such a terrible photo of herself for her new Christmas album cover, but maybe it’s because the color of her eyes stand out and she’s copying Brandi again? Anyway, I’m taking off my tinfoil hat now to simply shake my head at her pathetic attempt to bite off some small corner the Christmas mall music market. Aim high there, Leann.

      • Christin says:

        I hear her older songs occasionally played at the farm supply store and once at a discount grocery store. At least they will now have some holiday selections.

    • prissa says:

      I was thinking the same thing. She has that smooth, mannequin looking skin. Her hair is nice and healthy looking though.

      I wonder will she ever have a child of her own???

    • LeAnn Stinks says:

      I am breaking my self imposed ban on commenting, or even clicking on her stories, because I wanted to say that I think she got her nose fixed.

      Since everyone was always making fun of her huge flared nostrils, it’s obvious she had them reduced in size and the tip made more narrow and straight. It doesn’t matter though, you can’t fix ugly. Especially, when it comes from the inside as well as the outside.

  2. Chelly says:

    I guess every household is different. In mine, we put the tree up & decorate the day after Thanksgiving & take it down on 3 Kings Day

    • Karen says:

      ^ we do the same.

      I say it’s her house she can decorate as she pleases.

    • Snowflake says:

      What’s 3 kings day? Never heard of it.

      • Jwoolman says:

        We always called it The Epiphany, January 6. Celebrates the arrival of the three kings (magi, wise men) with gold, frankincense, and myrrh for the baby Jesus.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        Also known as 12th Night, if that is more familiar.
        The Three Kings were just a little late (they refused to ask for directions. 😉 )

  3. kcarp says:

    Do we really believe he brought home that ornament?

    It probably went down like this…Leann ordered off personal creations, she has her assistant wrap it up and stick a from Eddie tag on it, she opens it in front of the boys and Eddie, Leann starts crying from the joy and heartfelt meaning behind it, he hears the theme song to the Twilight Zone, and realizes he is so screwed.

    • Gina says:

      Haha, so true!

    • coco says:

      Agreed! Seriously doubt he bought her a campy “peas in a pod” ornament and then went to the trouble of writing their names on it.

    • funcakes says:

      Leann claimed that Eddie bought it for her in the early part of their relationship and has been doing it as a yearly tradition. But we know this is not true because she would have showed this on her twitter.

    • Tate says:

      You are probably not that far off of the truth. Eddie always has that desperate “help me” look in their pics now.

  4. Loopy says:

    I actually love the coat cant see much of the sweater.

  5. JH says:

    That video was so terribly embarrassing I couldn’t believe my eyes. She must be joking.

    • jess22 says:

      Haha I couldn’t get through the video it was so bad it was like waiting for a train wreck to happen and realizing it already occurred . . I was wondering when someone was going to mention how awful it was lol.

    • ya says:

      Ya I think she was – like those kitschy old 70s/80s xmas videos.

  6. Idon'tCare says:

    She keeps trying to sell that “happy family” crap, but for her few remaining fans, nobody really buys it. She’s giving it that old college try though.

    • claire says:

      She so obsessively uses the word family. It’s weird. No one talks like that. It’s all just to make sure people know when Ed has the kids.

    • funcakes says:

      She did it to sell her CD because the holidays are about family. Then after the new year you’ll see little of the boys.
      She’s also been lying about how well her CD is selling. Of course she was busted on twitter several times.

    • ya says:

      I think most people just don’t care – except for her haters.

  7. Allie says:

    I wish I could wear that type of sweater but I have huge boobs and it would look terrible. Also, why are people so upset about when others put up their Christmas decorations? If I could, I would leave them up all year round, because it makes me happy. Stop trying to rain on my parade!

    • Nayru says:

      My mother has Christmas lights on the bannisters inside that house that she keeps up all year round. It’s your house. There should be less policing of other people’s properties.

    • NorthernGirl_20 says:

      Yes I agree, to each their own. I’ve seen this movement here in my hometown where some grumps are trying to get people to see that decorating before Nov 11th is disrespectful to veterans.. I really don’t see how and I think its ridiculous.

      • Kassidy says:

        I know plenty of veterans and they couldn’t give a damn if someone decorates before Veterans Day. Its rude to ignore veterans and their needs such as medical care but I doubt seeing a house decorated before Veterans Day even makes the list of their concerns. Some people just like to complain.

      • TotallyBiased says:

        I AM a veteran, and Kassidy has it exactly right.

  8. Harryg says:

    Fine! Why not.

  9. kri says:

    Since that is the LEAST tacky thing I have ever heard about her, I say hey,it’s fine.

  10. Nev says:

    She just sang Celebrate Me Home on the Today Show. It was so nice.

  11. Tough Cookie says:

    Last year I bought a black Christmas in September and decorated it for Halloween. Then In November I decorated it for Christmas…then after Christmas I made it into a Valentine’s Day tree and left it up until March 1. So I can’t shade her for decorating…but I really hate those jeans she’s wearing.

    • FLORC says:

      The jeans are the worst part imo. The rest looks comfy and I’d wear the hell out of it all.

      And decorating is fine. Mostly because I do it too. I theme out the whole house! And outside decorations go up before it’s too cold and too snowy. My neighbors are the same. It’s not like we turn the lights on as soon as we put them up. That’s for post Thanksgiving.

      Now if she has those inflating santa and snowmen on the lawn up pre halloween or post mid January I’ll cast super shade.

    • Vampi says:

      Yassssss!! Lol! That is SO me! Trees and lights color coordinated for the occasion, all year round!!!
      /My now adult kids think I’m weird but I LOVE it! *smiles*

  12. claire says:

    I don’t even remotely believe her motives. She started getting super into crafty Pinteresty decorating and giftbaskets and all that stuff around the holidays when she was in uber-mom-replacement mode and I think it’s just something she’s latched onto. It’s all part of her trying to be what she believes is the best wife/mom stuff, and she starts it all early because she seems to focus a lot on getting things out on social media first. Like, when she’ll wake up at 4am to post happy birthday (mason or jake) messages on Twitter, so she can get all the congratulations/tell him HB message replies rolling in, how she always rushes to get out there first day of school posts, etc. She’s pathological. Nothing she does is innocent. It’s always part of her narcissistic web of wonky behaviors.

    And, yeah, she’s irrelevant and dated music-wise, so the Christmas music thing is really her last attempt to try to find her place in an industry that largely doesn’t care about her anymore.

    • Elisamoore says:

      This video is very bad. Her dance moves have an awkwardness to them. She does not have charisma on the TV screen to be successful. The song did not even want me to replay it.

    • funcakes says:

      She’s selling merchandise again this year of over priced items. Someone already busted her that she took the logo “jingle jangle”, that she uses in her song and on the front of sweat shirts ,off a box of Trader Joe’s chocolates.
      She also has a shirt with her sitting on Santa’s lap when she was a child. Who wants that?

      • Deanne says:

        I know a certain uber fan who’ll probably order three, just like she did the Christmas CD. She can wear one, put another in a frame on her shrine wall and make the other one into a pillow for her foot. BTW, did anyone see the “crowd” who showed up for her CD sigining at NBC? There were maybe 6 people. She was there less than 15 minutes. So sad.

      • funcakes says:

        I think more people have showed up to buy Girl Scout cookies.

      • claire says:

        and the chalk talk candles are a ripoff of an existing chalk talk candle. she’s basically just buying wholesale crap and marking it up.

      • Jane says:

        @Deanne Yes, Johanna, the uber fan already snatched up an over-priced sweatshirt and a candle, but bought 2 or 3 CDs. She even had a nuclear meltdown praying session with another fan not to get a cracked jewel case like hers. She was devastated….and don’t get me started on her 1500 mile trip to see her “love” Leann in concert and meet and greet which she said sucked. She gave Leann a child’s unicorn blanket for Christmas. Gag me…

  13. Sway says:

    She had to mention the FIRST Christmas they spent with “the kids”… the same Christmas that Brandi describes as the worst in her entire life – first one without her children, first one since her family fell apart. I remember how she described that she spent Christmas Eve crying on her laptop, reading Leann’s Twitter, alone, with a glass of wine.

    • yep says:

      Yes. Leeann is well known for being self absorbed. And that was a bad year for Brandi..not that Im a Brandi fan, but as a human being, and finding my friends in a simular situation, it is heartbreaking.

      • claire says:

        I just can’t get over how weird it’s got to be for a parent to see your kids constantly marketed, talked about and shown on tv and interviews by this person who is not their parent. Sure, she’s a stepparent, but she’s not their mom, not their dad, but has taken them on as this huge piece of her marketing and publicizes them to an extent that none of their actual parents do. It’s so WTF, I just couldn’t even imagine having two parents who aren’t doing this with them and then seeing this lady doing it. It just has to feel so incredibly bizarre.

  14. GoodNamesAllTaken says:

    I love to decorate for Christmas, but right after New Year’s I just need it gone. To each their own, though.

    • JudyK says:

      I do it early, but I agree with you, I want it down the day after New Year’s.

    • FLORC says:

      GNAT
      Because I decorate everything I do transition seasons. Like Halloween has autumn themes that go into Thanksgiving. And Christmas has an easy transition into snowman season. Which is really just winter style wall stuff, table settings, candles, etc… For me it helps with the storage and time for changing out the decorations. So nothing because a rush or burden to pack/unpack.

  15. JudyK says:

    Why is that tacky? I always get compliments for my décor and decorating ability. I had everything, including outdoor lights, up at Thanksgiving.

  16. SapphireJD says:

    Heinous jeans-they belong inthe trash. Why would you wear them with those boots? I can’t see enough of the sweatertocomment but I like the coat. There, I’ve said something nice.

    She also had an album signing where less than a handful of people showed up-including Darrell and a pap. Definitely bargin bin material.

    Itt’s also obvious she’s so invested in “Happy family”‘, she doesn’t even notice being called out on inconsistencies or obvious BS.

    • Byte Me says:

      Oh, I do believe she notices everything written about her…is that phone EVER out of her hand?

  17. Christin says:

    I do a bit of outside decoration in early to mid November, simply because the weather is typically warmer then. I don’t think it matters when it’s your own home. Do what makes you happy.

  18. Rita says:

    The reason for her failing career is obvious in the video. The only place it should be viewed is on Saturday mornings between cartoon programs, perhaps with large stuffed animals dancing in the back ground.

    Note to LeAnn: Six year olds can’t buy your crap because they don’t have credit cards.

    • Elisamoore says:

      The number one reason for her failing career is her vindictive nature. Men run from vindictive women, the fans only left because of her absurd nature of canceling concerts and blaming everything and everyone else for the reason, normal fans left when they witnessed her vindictive nature to radio hosts, Brandi, anyone who disagreed with her. All of this documented on social media and her reality show. She is her own worst enemy, meaning the awful things she does, brings her likability factor down, and she can’t see this to change herself.

      • Kristen820 says:

        She’s apparently booked to perform at a casino by my house (saw the advertisement on my way home last night). My first thought was, “Wonder if she’ll actually show,”

      • claire says:

        Even if she wasn’t a horrible person, who would be her market? For her to be more successful?

        She’s a has-been and very dated in everything. There’s nothing particularly current, interesting or relevant about her. She doesn’t have that coolness, that IT factor. Her current market is definitely not cool either. It’s basically people who go see has-beens at casinos. If you look at the current music scene, I just don’t even see where she fits in music-wise.

    • MichLynn says:

      She was supposed to have a CD signing for an hour yesterday at NBC but only 5 people showed up and she wouldn’t sit at the empty table so she made people go outside to get signed. She stayed less than 10 minutes. Total FAIL and so embarrassing for her. Bless her cold Grinch heart.

  19. tschic says:

    it is the worst video I have ever seen. It is ridicolous.
    Who wants to buy music like this???

    • funcakes says:

      It reminds me of the “Friday” song that was played on YouTube. I have to admit I watch until the Today show staff start to sing. Maybe if she showed less of herself and had pictures of happy families it would have more play.

    • arabella says:

      I need to wash my eyes out with soap! This is the worst!

    • Rita says:

      Leann’s problem career-wise is Darrell. Everything is low-budget, ill planned, and tacky. All Darrell. A competent manager should have been able to spin and package her talent despite the negative press.
      She’s sticking with Darrell and therefore, she’s screwed.

  20. Pandy says:

    I can see why she found the ornament sweet – it is. I don’t fault her enjoying the step kids – I’d really dislike her if she wasn’t interested in them. That would be terrible for the boys.

    Leanne looks great lately!! She seems happy and it shows in her face. I don’t find her irritating any more. I think the cray cray has settled down lol.

    • claire says:

      I really hate that idea though. It always seems to be a defense for her by people: well, she could hate the kids. that’d be worse. As if, there’s no in-between?? You can like someone’s kids, treat them as you would your own, and still have boundaries and respect for their parents and your place in their lives. Hating or treating them badly is not the only alternative for Leann.

      Tons of celebrities have stepkids. Tons. But you don’t hear about them all the time. Leann is the only one I can think of who obsessively makes them the whole of her social media and interview fodder, and uses them as marketing material. We know more about these kids from her than from their own parents. It’s disgusting that Eddie is cool with their exploitation by her.

    • Lady D says:

      Her face looks shiny, plastic, tight and hard. Am I the only one that thinks she is starting to look like the housewifes?

  21. Nana says:

    Yesterday I saw Karma hit Leann Rimes. 2 friends were there off to the side of her CD signing at NBC in NY, neither knew of the other was there. Her signing was at 1:00 to 2 pm, she showed up at 1:03, she left at 1:15. I swear to god, 1st she was late coming down, she always is, when she realized only less then 10 people were there, they played it off and had those 10 fans go outside in front of the studio, hoping she would get bombarded with more fans, noone cared, or stoped, she got into a car and sped off, a little miffed I was told.
    Ohhh and Leann stop telling the The View, Today show and others that Mason and Jakey is (My Boys) they are not, Brandi & Ed had them, you are just the temp wife, until Ed is done using you up.

    • Rita says:

      Ohhhhh, the nostalgia she must cling to during those heady days of just a few years ago when throngs of paps would chase her down to capture those glorious moments of her taunting another man’s wife and stalking her at the children’s school. The glee she must remember of flaunting her “bikini body” sprawled across the man whose home she wrecked.

      Now, alas, instead of sitting at a card table on the sidewalk hawking her CD, she would surely find more money ringing a bell standing next to a little red kettle.

      • FLORC says:

        He wrecked his own home. She was not th 1st affair eddie had. Or the 1st Brandy knew about. Just the richest the eddie pursued joint checking with.

        Why do we always blame the woman like the man was simply prey who didn’t know any better?

      • claire says:

        LOLOLOL

    • Byte Me says:

      I watched her performance and interview on the View. I am no body language expert by any means but I swear she told lie after lie to those 2 women. Could she be any more figgity, playing with her hair, etc.???

      • MichLynn says:

        @FLORC she wrecked her own home cheating on Dean. I blame Ediot for wrecking his and going with the richest sidepiece. Leann is getting her karma though now with a lazy out of work rapidly aging douchebag.

  22. Anon says:

    Amazing Giselle can talk her step son as one of them and have pics all over and Leanne cannot acknowledge the same..Interesting. Let’s face it she truly loves the boys and if she was a stepmother who didn’t give a damn what would the comments be..be thankful the boys are acknowledge and loved by all.

    • OneNonBlonde says:

      The difference is that Leann uses those boys to intentionally hurt their mother. As much as I dislike Giselle, she doesn’t do that.

      • schmoopy says:

        Also Giselle didn’t aggressively pursue a man who was married with two young children, then turn around and act as if she is the best thing to ever happen to the family. So, ya know, there’s that.

      • funcakes says:

        And Giselle can sell a seven hundred dollar book when Leann is unable to sell CDs.
        It’s also reported that Giselle has a good relationship with her stepson’s mother. She respects boundaries and openly communicates with one another.

      • LeAnn Stinks says:

        Yes, but she still uses that awful “bonus son” expression.

    • anne_000 says:

      The difference between apples and poisoned oranges with sharp needles sticking out of it.

    • Deanne says:

      You can’t really “love” your stepchildren, when you openly shade their real Mother and interfere with co-parenting the way LeAnn does. She favourites tweets and IG posts that insult and degrade the real Mother. She’s had her friends, staff and even her record producer harass and taunt the Mother. That isn’t love. That’s not only pathetic, but indicates severe insecurity. The fact that it continues years later, makes me wonder how secure she is in her marriage. One of the most difficult things about being a good step-parent, is being able to accept that you can’t just step in and take over. That the children who come along with your spouse, came from his previous reletionship and that they are still a family unit, but in a different way. LeAnn seems determined to pretend that she’s equal to the boys Mother, when she isn’t Even if the boys really like her, she’s their Father’s wife. She doesn’t have 50/50 custody, her husband does. If they split, she’d have no legal right to ever see they boys again. If something ever happened to Eddie, same thing applies. Claiming ownership isn’t love. It’s actually really selfish. I’ve lived this from the kid’s perspective. My own Step-Mother makes LeAnn look like an amateur.

      • Elisamoore says:

        Like Brandi said, leanne is the boys stepmom, FOR NOW!

      • Vampi says:

        Wow…that musta been rough for you. I’m so sorry you went through that. Too bad MeAnn can’r see the damage she is doing to those kids.

    • Rita says:

      Giselle never passive aggressively shades biomom, or “like” insults against biomom on twitter.
      Tom wasn’t married when they met, and no existing children and no family was broken. Different scenario altogether.

  23. OneNonBlonde says:

    You missed the best part of her NY visit yesterday. She had a CD signing and literally less than 20 people showed up. They made everyone move outside so she signed on the street, surrounded by a handful of people.

    Someone who was there even said the staff was wandering around the store trying to get customers who weren’t interested in her to go get in line. There are pictures of the non crowd and her and Barrel standing on the sidewalk looking stupid. LMAO

    • Macey says:

      I read about that on another site. Someone who was there tweeted that the hotdog stand had more of a crowd than she did.

      another commentor on another site who worked for some hotel claimed LR couldnt even get her own security team and didnt really need one since no one was bothering with her but the she bribed/paid the hotel staff to pose as her security detail for the pap pics so some of those ppl around her are not her security (or fans) but hotel staff…lmao!

    • funcakes says:

      I read it was ten people and that she didn’t even stay the full hour. It was reported she walked around outside in hope of being recognized to wrangle more to show up.

    • LeAnn Stinks says:

      Thank you for posting that, that made my day. She is a horrible person.

  24. My Two Cents says:

    The video is so amatuerish just like the singing. She really just doesn’t have that “it” factor any more, if she ever did. Her novelty was being a child with a golden voice. I guess her lazy hubs is retired now? He doesn’t even try to claim he does anything any more. Ah, but such a happy happy home and happy happy life! And I still can’t understand most words in her song except today today today!

    • funcakes says:

      So happy he was pictured at a card game on Thanksgiving.

      • Byte Me says:

        I saw that pic this morning and wondered when it was taken. They were in Montana at the time right?
        How funny!

      • puravidacostarica says:

        And if you look at the photo, you’ll notice that Ediot is pointing his middle finger at his head. He loves the flip the bird when photographed. So mature.

  25. kimbers says:

    For the price of somw of these decorations. ..ya its fine to gdt your $$ worth. 🙂

  26. Bettyrose says:

    I think it makes more sense in a cold climate to start decorating as soon as the trees are bare. Cheers things up.

  27. Cinderella says:

    So now she’s best buds with Matt and the Today crew? Ugh.

  28. anne_000 says:

    Imo, she’s pushing the Xmas theme early in order to try to get publicity to help sell her Xmas CD.

    If she had a Halloween CD to sell, she’d be celebrating the holiday on July 4th.

    • funcakes says:

      She was pushing it on twitter since last year. I’m sure she’ll be pushing the next Christmas CD right after the New Year.
      I wonder if after all the concerts she’s had if she repaid the loan.

    • Christin says:

      Yep. More time = more sales. Except in this case, it might mean a dozen more sold.

  29. sauvage says:

    The combination she is wearing looks atrocious, plus my ankles hurt from just looking at her heels. But if you have to wear those ugly cowgirl stripper boots paired with such a lovely coat and sweater, how about please at least bringing a nice pair of skinny jeans into the mix? Torn boyfriends, really? UGH!

  30. me says:

    Christmas is one day…ONE DAY in the year. Why does it have to be celebrated for 2 months? I think stores get the Christmas stuff out as soon as possible to get people into the shopping spirit and to get them to spend as much as possible. As soon as people see stores have their decorations up, they go and put their decorations up at home as well. It’s all mindgames…and the end result is money and greed.

    • funcakes says:

      Most definitely. This is the reason advertiser no longer try to sell thanksgiving and go straight for Xmas.
      I use to be in retail when they would play Xmas music in September. Then the black Friday sales would bring the worst out in people. It was pretty disgusting to watch people act so greedy for items they can still get cheaper later on in December.
      Then the days after Xmas with people returning or exchanging items that was given was just as bad.
      I just enjoy the holidays quietly now without a lot of fanfare.

  31. deezee says:

    In Canada, we tend to wait until after Remembrance Day (Nov 11) but the stores go all out Nov 1 so why not regular people!?

  32. Kerry says:

    Can someone please explain why other people care if decorations are put up “early” or taken down “late”? Who cares??? How does it affect others? Christmas is my favorite holiday and I play the music all year round and if I could, I’d keep my decorations up (parents hate that, though).

    Who cares? Seriously?

  33. Heidi says:

    I’m in Australia and this is the best time of year, hands down. The kids get a 6 week summer holiday, the trays of mangoes and peaches and cherries are in the shops, the koel bird starts his early morning call, there are barbies and beach outings, Greek salads for dinner, you go round barefoot, the skies are big and blue, there is an air of festivity and relaxation.

    Leann is still an idiot, will always be an idiot but if she gets excited about Christmas, whatevs. These peeps are so Z list now they are barely worth reading about (and I used to be a card carrying Leann gossip nut ; )

    Ps I’m pretty sure Leann stinks up above is right and she’s had a nose job.

  34. Christin says:

    The real question is, did the poor guy standing behind the mini-fence get his two (count ’em, TWO) decade-old WeWe photos signed?

  35. Jwoolman says:

    Well, the local grocery store sure started on Christmas right after Halloween. There’s no easy way to push Thanksgiving cookies and candy…. Just real food! So Christmas cookies and candy it is. Although they do have pumpkin cookies available just at this time, I suppose that covers both Thanksgiving and Christmas.

    I’m a grinch myself, but I wish people would keep up their Christmas lights through the dark and dreary winter.

  36. Zooyork says:

    She is the same age as me, but in the header photo looks like my mother’s generation.

  37. why? says:

    Leann isn’t excited about Christmas that is just a storyline. Like the storyline on her show where she said she was stopped taking her birth control to try to get pregnant, but wasn’t true because she didn’t make any adjustments in her Psoriasis meds. Leann released 3 non holiday CDs. How did they do? Leann only makes Christmas music because for her it means less competition and more opportunities. If Leann was promoting just another one of her CDs, do you really think that the Today show would have partnered with her? What is this weird relationship that Leann has going on with the Today show? Why are they being so nice to Leann? If her Christmas album was that good, she would need extra help fromthe Today show to sell it.

    Didn’t Leann release a Christmas album last year? So wouldn’t she have told some of these stories last year, especially when she was doing all that promotion for her reality show? Leann makes up these stories as she goes.

    Leann has competition in NYC. Scheana was in NYC yesterday, was Eddie going to see Scheana when he was papped coming out of their hotel?

    Throughout 2009, Leann and Eddie were always papped together because Leann was buying Eddie’s attention by taking him on shopping sprees and to concerts, so when did Eddie go to the mall with his kids without Leann? He didn’t. Leann purchased the ornament on some personalized ornament site. You can’t blame Leann for trying to make Eddie appear to be a loving husband, she was trying to compete with Scheana. What can she do when her husband would rather skip all of her promotions to be with one of his mistresses? Create fake memories.

    The best thing about Leann’s interview is how she makes the blogs look silly. If Leann and Eddie went back to the place where Eddie proposed, Leann would have had it all over twitter and instagram and would have talked about it last year when she released her Christmas album. Instead she posted photos of herself in her closet and in the driveway with Brandi’s kids. Leann’s marriage to Eddie is so bad that she has to create fake memories.

    • ya says:

      Of course it’s a storyline – that’s what all celebs do to sell their stuff. In her case though she’s insecure about it and can’t hide it well enough – she just needs better PR.

  38. Vampi says:

    I love Christmas lights!! They stay up all year. Even have ’em in our bedroom. Depending on the time of year, I decide which colors to plug in… but they are always up. Nothing cozier than snuggling up beneath the glow of whatever color lights strike your mood. *smiles*

  39. Jane says:

    Something was slightly irking me about this CD signing issue, so I went back into her Twitter feed to check and make sure. Sure enough…she posted on November 6 a picture of spread out stacks of “This is Christmas” cards, but called them CDs instead.

    Her caption read: Signed 300 albums this AM… These will be part of a secret something I can’t wait to share!

    OMG: This wacka-doodle thought she was going to have 300 people show up to see her in NYC? ROTFLMAO!!!!!

  40. why? says:

    If Leann’s hairstyle and makeup in these photos looks familiar it’s because she copied it from one of the models from the 2015 Miami Swim show. The model wore her hair slicked back for the Acacia show. Leann even showed up wearing the very same outfit that the model wore for her walk down the runway, like she literally stalked the stylist to find out what the model was going to wear. In 2013 the model took a photo with Eddie backstage at the Swim show and ever since then, Leann has been stalking her instagram account and copying her photos. If Eddie loves Leann and does all these nice things for her like buys ornaments, why does Leann feel the need to transform into those women just to get Eddie’s attention? Instead of exposing Leann’s marriage for farce that it truly is, some blogs keep trying to insist that they are happy and in love. Happy and in love women don’t feel the need to literally take over another woman’s life, hair, clothing style, or friends.

    Leann befriends these people on twitter and brings those people around Eddie. Leann’s job in the marriage is to supply Eddie with woman. One woman in particular was always posting photos of herself posing with Eddie. Notice that Leann never posted these photos on her instagram account. Today Leann became that woman, wearing that woman’s signature bun with hair out look. Why the need to become all these other women if Eddie adores Leann?

    Leann took Eddie on another shopping spree today, that’s his payment for letting Leann talk about his kids and post photos of them.

  41. Rita says:

    Also, just a little tip to Darrell.
    If you want your homewrecking client to look redeemed…don’t stand her next to Matt-Cheater-Lauer and thus highlight their cheater similarities.
    It’s not that hard, people!

  42. msw says:

    Huh. I wonder why she never cancels national TV appearances? Statistically, she should have missed a few of those by now.

    Her voice is nothing special anymore. She doesn’t enunciate at all. She can still hit the dead center of a note, though (not that you can tell from the prerecorded video here).

  43. Kudzuqueen says:

    Well, I needed some dirty Santa gifts so it looks like it is hers or a Kathie Lee CD…

    For her look, I swear, I think it may be the best I have ever seen her. And I promise I cannot stand her.