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Before we left the newscast studio for the Christmas holidays, I got together with some of the newscast extended family for for a sort of pretend office Christmas party which is built around the idea of us answering your questions with the questions hidden in newscast branded Christmas crackers, which we pulled and then answered the questions.
But before we find out things like what's on Henry Zephyrman's Christmas list, we're going to have one last outing of our trademark newscast Christmas gimmick Father Chris Mason, where we asked you to send in pictures of a specially modified picture of Chris wearing a Santa hat.
And we've had some excellent, excellent responses to newscastbc.co.uk.
sarah emailed from New Zealand a picture of Chris Mason looking very Christmassy, but in a very summery backdrop.
He is wedged into a beach towel next to a very inviting looking swimming pool in the sunshine.
Then Rob got in touch to say, bonjour, we're on the last day of a festive trip to Disneyland Paris, or as people of a certain age, my age, call it, Euro Disney.
We took the chance to take a picture of Chris in the existential crisis section of Disneyland.
Sorry, what?
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He then says, this is the part where you're in a fake version of Paris while being in the real Paris.