Celebrities share their favorite Thanksgiving traditions and holiday memories

Donnie Wahlberg is already fascinated with his post-Thanksgiving meal.

In an interview with Fox Information Digital, the 56-year-old star of the “Blue Bloods” spinoff, “Boston Blue,” shared his favourite a part of the vacations and what he appears to be like ahead to yearly.

“I’d say for Thanksgiving for me the most effective half was simply the leftovers,” he mentioned. “We take what’s left of the turkey and attempt to make it right into a sandwich a number of hours after the unique meal has been digested. And Jenny and I try this. We actually cannot anticipate the leftovers. We get up within the morning on Thanksgiving and he or she begins cooking as a result of she loves Thanksgiving. And we’re actually like, I can not wait to make a leftover sandwich at midnight.”

With their busy schedules, it isn’t all the time potential to get the entire household collectively in the course of the holidays. He and his spouse, Jenny McCarthy, dwell in Illinois, “so we’re making an attempt to give attention to our children and with the ability to have fun the vacations with them,” and in terms of his siblings, he says they are going to if they will.

Donnie Wahlberg cannot wait till the subsequent day to eat his Thanksgiving leftovers. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Pictures for iHeartRadio)

This is what different celebrities love about Thanksgiving.

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Candace Cameron Bure

Candace Cameron Bure is grateful for her household this Thanksgiving. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Pictures)

“Fuller Home” star Candace Cameron Bure has so much to be pleased about this vacation season.

Talking to Fox Information Digital, the actress joked that her reply to the query of what she’s grateful for is “in all probability so boring,” and that she “says[s] the identical yearly.”

“I simply say, there’s nothing extra essential to me than my household and my kids,” she mentioned. “And as my household grows, as a result of I’ve two youngsters who’re married now, I nonetheless have one, you already know, that has to go in that sense, however the rising household means a lot and also you simply cherish the moments as you become older. And so I am completely happy to be dwelling with my household this Thanksgiving.”

Bure’s daughter Natasha married actor Bradley Perry in September, whereas her eldest son, Lev, received married in January 2024. She shared one other son, Maxim, together with her 29-year-old husband, Valeri.

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Martina McBride

Martina McBride is grateful for her well being. (Photograph by Jason Kempin/Getty Pictures for CMT)

Nation famous person Martina McBride spoke with Fox Information Digital about all issues Thanksgiving.

In terms of meals, the “This One’s for the Ladies” singer mentioned her favourite dish is mashed potatoes and gravy. She defined, “We do not have mashed potatoes fairly often, in order that’s one thing particular.”

She additionally recalled her craziest Thanksgiving expertise: the yr she carried out within the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York within the morning, “and flew dwelling to Nashville that day,” the place she “cooked an entire Thanksgiving dinner.” After dinner, she received on the bus to begin her tour and mentioned, “I do not understand how I did it.”

“Household is on the prime of the listing, however moreover that, I’m grateful for my well being,” she mentioned. “I feel as we become older, that turns into increasingly essential to you. I am grateful for my well being and the well being and well-being of my household.”

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Richard Karn

Richard Karn has been retaining the identical Thanksgiving traditions alive for forty years. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Pictures)

House Enchancment’s Richard Karn instructed Fox Information Digital that the vacation is “all in regards to the custom” his household has created, including that his household’s “traditions have remained fairly constant for 40 years.”

“We’ve got the turkey, we now have the mashed potatoes, we now have inexperienced beans with slivered almonds. We’ve got one thing from my household, my grandma Ruth used to make shrimp salad, so I make a shrimp salad, quite simple shrimp salad with all the opposite issues.”

Karn additionally likes to maintain the Thanksgiving spirit going one other day by making turkey sandwiches with the leftovers. His Thanksgivings nowadays are so much smaller than when he was a child, which means he now has about 5 or 6 company, however when he was a child he was surrounded by his huge household with twelve or fifteen folks across the desk.

These huge household Thanksgivings and his childhood are a few of the issues he is grateful for this yr, noting, “My mother and pop did an important job. We did not have some huge cash… however we have been capable of make ends meet.” He later added that he’s grateful for “House Enchancment” and his chemistry with Tim Allen.

Karn mentioned he had nice chemistry with Tim Allen on “House Enchancment.” (ABC Photograph Archive/Disney Common Leisure Content material by way of Getty Pictures)

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“I rose to the event and did precisely what they anticipated me to do for the pilot, however a little bit extra, as a result of the viewers, who hadn’t seen the present, responded to Tim and my relationship,” he mentioned. “Though it wasn’t actually clear, it was all there within the subtext… and the way we stumbled upon one another… so I am grateful that that occurred.”

He added, “I am grateful that we have been married, you already know, forty years and we’re nonetheless, you now, totally on the identical web page. And my son, who continues to shock me on a regular basis.”

Erin Murphy

Murphy is not going to be internet hosting Thanksgiving this yr for the primary time in about 30 years. (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

For the primary time in about three many years, “Bewitched” star Erin Murphy is not doing “Thanksgiving and I prefer to eat myself.”

In an interview with Fox Information Digital, Murphy mentioned she embraces the “transitions” that include being a guardian and rising up along with your kids, saying she “lets them do their factor” and takes over the vacation internet hosting duties.

She is grateful for a lot of issues this Thanksgiving, together with her well being and her household.

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“Residing in a world the place we are able to type of recreate our lives and do no matter we wish. So I assume I am grateful. It sounds so easy,” she mentioned. “I am grateful for the liberty. That I can get up and resolve what I am going to do this day and whether or not which means, ‘Oh, I am going for a stroll’ or ‘I will get my buddies and let’s go to thrift shops and search for cool garments.’ It is like the power to seek out pleasure within the little issues in life.”

Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt is grateful for her household and her well being. (Getty Pictures)

Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt has so much to be pleased about this Thanksgiving.

Talking to Fox Information Digital, the mom of three mentioned one of many issues she’s grateful for this yr is her new ebook “Kat and Brandy,” which tells a heartwarming story in regards to the relationship between animals and folks.

“I am grateful for my well being, I am grateful for my household and I am very grateful for this ebook as a result of I feel it is one thing that I am very pleased with,” she mentioned.

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“I am very enthusiastic about it and likewise the message within the ebook and from the ebook that kids and adults will get is one thing that I am very grateful for and I feel that is why I am very grateful for the presence of animals in our lives,” she defined. “Phases of life as a result of it is such a blessing to have the ability to have that presence.”

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Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg is wanting ahead to having his kids underneath one roof in the course of the holidays. (Steve Granitz/FilmMagic)

Mark Wahlberg is wanting ahead to having all his kids underneath one roof this vacation season.

The ‘Household Plan’ actor shares 4 kids along with his spouse, Rhea Durham: Ella, 22, Michael, 19, Brendan, 17, and Grace, 15.

“All of them have their very own pursuits, however the holidays give us time to journey collectively, and we keep in very small, shut areas the place we now have to eat breakfast collectively day by day, we now have lunch collectively after which dinner collectively day by day, and so they can nonetheless do their factor,” he mentioned.

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He continued, “But it surely’s nonetheless a small place, so we’re all in one another’s firm and round one another on a regular basis. For my spouse and I, it is the most effective time of the yr and the children take pleasure in it too as a result of they will hang around with their buddies and do issues, however they’re caught with their mother and father.”

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Fox Information Digital’s Larry Fink, Christina Dougan Ramirez, Brie Stimson, Lauren Overhultz and Stephanie Giang contributed to this report.