Courteney Cox's Traditional Irish Christmas

She'll be just slightly hungover, wrestling a turkey into an oven at 9am, and getting to grips with some slippery spiced beef, scoring the underside of countless sprouts, while assembling some contraption or other for Coco, and will spend the rest of the day shoveling discarded wrapping paper into a perma-gripped bin bag while smiling dutifully at the in-laws, so.

The former Friends star, in her reported quest to enjoy "a traditional Irish Christmas"  is planning to celebrate the festive season with fiance Johnny McDaid and his extended family and is planning to pull out all the stops to fit in with the customs.

A (very reliable, I'm sure) source said: "Courteney and David had only started dating last December and spent the holidays apart. So this is their first Christmas together and Courteney is eager to go big. She's invited all of Johnny's Irish family to join them. She wants a traditional Irish day and is planning to bake an Irish Christmas cake with Guinness, Irish soda bread with smoked salmon and black pudding." What? NO SPICED BEEF??!

As well as the Snow Patrol star and his family, Courteney has also invited her ex-husband David Arquette, his fiancée Christina McLarty and their eight-month-old son Charlie to join the festivities for their nine-year-old daughter Coco.

The source added to Closer magazine: "Courteney wants Coco to spend the day with both her parents so she's told David and Christina they are welcome for Christmas dinner and is hoping they can make it."

She's potentially nailed the final ingredient to the quintessential 'Traditional Irish Chrimbo' - some family drama or other. Then again, the Americans are a lot more emotionally mature than us in that regard. Fair play to them.

My family turns to faction fighting half way through the game of Trivial Pursuit...

Do you have any family traditions that have stood the test of time? We'd love to hear all about your customs, good, bad and otherwise!