Billy Eichner explains why he’s happy to “completely fetishize Christmas”
Musafa: The Lion King. The gay comic and actor appeared on Seth Meyers last week and waxed lyrical about loving Christmas, despite his Jewish upbringing.
Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.“I am obsessed with Christmas,” Eichner admitted to Meyers. “I had the best, most amazing parents.
They were super liberal,” he continues. “They let me see and do anything I wanted to do, right. The only thing they wouldn’t let me do is have a Christmas tree.”“Really?” asks a shocked Meyers.“Because we were Jewish,” shrugs Eichner. “We weren’t even religious.” He says he thinks his parents were worried about what other Jewish neighbors might say if they were to go as far as allowing little Billy a Christmas tree. “So as an adult, I completely fetishize Christmas,” Eichner continued. “Because they withheld it from me.
So, like, now, Christmas is my kink … I’m sure Jesus would be thrilled about that.“Elf on the Shelf is my type,” he quipped.Eichner also made an Instagram posting on the same subject.
