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BBC1, 8pm
Christmas is all about excess, right? But this family will make you feel a whole lot better about your spending.
Alex Jones and Steph McGovern are in South Yorkshire with the AtwalBrice family – Paul, Michael and their adopted sons, twins Levi and Lucas, 12, and one-year-old twins Lance and Lotan.
Paul and Michael want to take the four kids, two of whom have severe autism and epilepsy, to Disney World in Florida, but they’ll need to make some cutbacks to achieve it.
They have 10 Christmas trees, with over 500 baubles, thousands of tree lights and a Santa’s grotto in the garden. Then there are the Gucci kids’ tops and Versace dressing gowns... not to mention Harrods crackers at £100 a box.
Alex and Steph go all Grinch and steal Christmas, replacing it with a budget version. And when the couple find out what they could save on baubles alone, they might just choke on their Christmas dinner. Alex, Paul and Steph