- - Happy Chrismukkah! 17 Celebrity Families Who Celebrate Both Christmas and Hanukkah

Sophie Dodd, Paris C., Stephanie Sengwe, Emily KrauserDecember 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis attend the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester, England, on July 14, 2024; Adam Brody and Leighton Meester attend the 31st annual SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles on Feb. 23, 2025. -

Hanukkah starts on the night of Dec. 14, 2025, and ends on Dec. 22, so it won't overlap with Christmas

The term "Chrismukkah" was popularized in 2003 by the character Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) on The O.C.

Celebrity couples who celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas include Brody and Leighton Meester, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher and Pink and Carey Hart

It's the merriest time of year — Chrismukkah!

The term, a fusion of Christmas and Hanukkah, originated from Adam Brody's character on The O.C. in 2003 and has remained a part of the cultural zeitgeist, as well as Brody's celebrations both on- and off-screen.

On Netflix's Nobody Wants This, the actor portrays a rabbi named Noah, who is dating a non-Jewish podcaster (Kristen Bell). In real life, Brody has been married to Leighton Meester since 2014, and they celebrate both traditions during the holidays with their two children.

The acting duo is far from the only stars who observe Christmas and Hanukkah, which starts the evening of Dec. 14, 2025.

Interfaith couples like Ashton Kutcher, who was raised Christian and later studied Judaism, and Mila Kunis, who is Jewish, have their own blended family rituals.

" ... Whether it's Easter, which we've now all accepted into our Jewish household, or Christmas, it doesn't matter," Kunis told Entertainment Tonight in October 2017. "It's all family time, but having kids, we're building up our own little versions of tradition."

However, the idea of a joint celebration existed before The O.C. According to the National WWI Museum and Memorial, in the 19th century, German Jews used the term "Weihnukkah," combining the German word for Christmas (Weihnachten) with Hanukkah.

From musicians to actors to athletes, here are some of the celebrities who trim the tree and light a menorah during the holiday season.

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Leighton Meester and Adam Brody

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Leighton Meester and Adam Brody attend Netflix's Golden Globe afterparty at Spago in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 5, 2025.

Brody is the reason for the Chrismukkah season (well, at least the use of the portmanteau).

Famously coined on season 1 of The O.C., Seth (Brody) —whose dad Sandy (Peter Gallagher) is Jewish and mom Kirsten (Kelly Rowan) is Christian and "didn't really know how to raise Seth," as Kirsten explained — tells Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie) that his invented "greatest super-holiday" is "sweeping the nation ... or at least the living room."

"So, what's it gonna be, huh? You want your menorah or a candy cane?" Seth asks Ryan during the now-iconic speech while holding up one of each item. "Christmas or Hanukkah? Don't worry about it, buddy, because in this house, you don't have to choose. Allow me to introduce you to a little something that I like to call Chrismukkah."

After that, the teen soap celebrated with annual Chrismukkah episodes.

Brody, who plays a rabbi in an interfaith relationship on Nobody Wants This, has been celebrating off-camera for years, too. The San Diego native was raised Jewish, but his wife, Gossip Girl alum Meester, was not, so they enjoy both holidays with their two children.

Still, it took two decades for Meester to realize her husband had something to do with Chrismukkah's popularity.

"It's so funny because I have heard that word before. I mean, I can put two and two together, I get what that is," Meester reportedly told the now-defunct outlet The Messenger in November 2023. "I didn't know [The O.C.] was the origin of it."

Meester went on to explain that while some of her and Brody's Christmas activities are "the most L.A.," like taking a walk on the beach or pier or hanging by the pool, much of what they do is "to some extent what a lot of people probably celebrate without even knowing."

"[Adam] seems like he appreciates Christmas and Christmas trees and thinks that it's a beautiful holiday," the actress said. "We're not religious in any way. So part of it is lost, but we'll do all the other stuff, too. We kind of combined, so I guess that we do it."

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Pink and Carey Hart

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Pink and daughter Willow light candles on the menorah during Hanukkah in December 2023.

Pink and former pro motorcycle racer Carey Hart, who tied the knot in 2006, have raised daughter Willow Sage and son Jameson Moon to celebrate traditions of both Pink's Jewish roots and Hart's Christian background.

On the first night of the holiday in December 2023, the "So What" singer shared a photo of her menorah and bedazzled giant dreidel on Instagram, as well as a video showing her lighting candles and praying with her family.

"Happy Chanukah to all those who celebrate," she captioned the post. "May there be light in darkness always. May there be peace in our hearts, our homes, and in the world."

Previously, in 2021, the Grammy Award-winning singer shared a video on Instagram of her and Willow singing Hanukkah blessings together.

Pink has also posted about Christmas and shared a photo of her Christmas tree.

In 2024, she posted adorable snaps on Instagram with Willow and Jameson visiting Santa's Village, complete with the trio in festive holiday sweaters.

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis attend the ninth Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in L.A. on April 15, 2023.

The former That '70s Show costars and real-life couple celebrate both holidays with their children, daughter Wyatt Isabelle and son Dimitri Portwood, as Kunis is Jewish and Kutcher was raised Christian but has studied Judaism.

Kunis actually began celebrating Christmas years earlier.

She moved to the U.S. from Ukraine at age 8 with her parents, Mark and Elvira Kunis, and discovered that "Christmas has a magical quality to it."

"In Russia, back in the day, it was a very religious holiday, so you don't celebrate Christmas if you're not Christian and if you're not at Mass. So I, being Jewish, was like, 'Christmas is not for you,' " she told Entertainment Tonight in 2017.

After moving stateside, her family felt the holiday was more inclusive, so they "literally bought a Christmas tree."

In 2024, while lighting the Hanukkah candles with author and activist Noa Tishby, Kunis explained that, though she wasn't particularly religious growing up, especially while living in the Soviet Union, she and Kutcher now practice both the cultural and religious aspects of Judaism as a family.

The Wake Up Dead Man actress also admitted to being "ready for any holiday at any moment" during an appearance on The Tonight Show in December 2025, prompting host Jimmy Fallon to share a photo of one of Kunis' lawn decorations: a giant menorah taller than she is.

"We are all inclusive. We have all the decorations," Kunis explained.

When Fallon pointed out that Kunis was the same size as a dreidel on the blow-up, she said, "That's nothing! I have a seven- ... eight-foot Santa Claus. I have reindeer everywhere. I have Mickey Mouses. I have snowmen. I love holidays."

Kunis also shared that inside her home, she decorated with two evergreens: a "giant" Christmas tree and "a Charlie Brown Hanukkah bush," describing the latter as "a really beautiful blue-and-silver little tree."

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Zoey Deutch

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Zoey Deutch's dog; Zoey Deutch attends the Broadway opening of 'Our Town' at Barrymore Theatre in New York City on Oct. 10, 2024.

Zoey Deutch and her sister Madelyn Deutch were raised Jewish by their parents, actress Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch. Thompson grew up in the Christian faith, but Howard introduced her to his religion, Judaism, which Madelyn said made her mother "[feel] very at home."

"Our mom was really gung-ho about starting us in Hebrew school at an early age. When she met my dad, I think she felt very at home with [Judaism] and the Jewish community," Madelyn told the Jewish Journal in May 2018. "She grew up with Christianity in the Midwest in the '60s, and the whole idea that [Jews] are commanded to argue with God, I think, blew her mind. She just loved that. Artists are so much about challenging the norm."

Regarding her mom, Zoey told Vulture in April 2019, "I would say she's more Jewish than my dad."

The family proudly celebrates both holidays, and Zoey shares the tradition with pup Maybelle, even posting a photo to Instagram in 2024 of her dog napping with her Christmas- and Hanukkah-themed dog toys (pictured above).

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Madonna

Madonna was born and raised Catholic but has long practiced the Jewish mystic tradition of Kabbalah and adopted the Hebrew name Esther in 2004, per The Forward.

She proudly celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah and was excited about their overlap in 2024.

"The most wonderful day of the year ………..X-mas and Hanukkah all at once. 🎄🕎 🎁 ♥️!!" she wrote on Instagram alongside a slideshow of her celebrations with her four daughters — Lourdes Leon, Chifundo "Mercy" James and twins Stella and Estere — and her boyfriend, Akeem Morris, set to Andy Williams' Christmas classic, "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year."

Madonna also has two sons, Rocco and David.

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Eugene Levy and Deborah Divine

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From left: Eugene Levy, Sarah Levy, Dan Levy and Deborah Divine at the premiere of 'Good Grief' at the Egyptian Theatre in L.A. on Dec. 19, 2023.

Art imitates life for the Levy family. Off-screen, Eugene Levy and his wife, Deborah Divine, are an interfaith family, and they raised their children, actors Dan Levy and Sarah Levy, celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah. On Eugene and Dan's hit show Schitt's Creek — with appearances from Sarah — the Rose family also participates in both holidays.

In December 2012, Dan joked about the duality in a since-deleted tweet on X (formerly Twitter).

"One half of me is celebrating Hanukkah, the other half is decorating a tree. My body is confused. #halfie #chrismukkah," he wrote, per Hey Alma.

The Good Grief star and director later opened up about his Jewish dad's take on the winter festivities.

"My dad has really taken it upon himself to be the master of ceremonies for both holidays," Dan told CBC TV in December 2018. "Come mid-December, usually around his birthday, which is Dec. 17, he will start to ring-lead the holidays in a couple weeks of highly orchestrated, very specific, regulated holiday activities."

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Michael Turchin and Lance Bass

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Michael Turchin (left) and Lance Bass attend the FOX 11 presentation of the 23rd annual Christmas at the Grove Tree Lighting Celebration in L.A. on Nov. 25, 2024.

Lance Bass and Michael Turchin are all-in on Chrismukkah, with the former *NSYNC band member finding creative ways to honor his husband's Jewish heritage.

"The great thing about my husband is he knows how much of a Christmas freak I am, and he lets me do whatever I want, which is very nice," Bass told Decider in November 2019. "I throw in some Jewish things throughout the Christmas decorations too, we do Chrismukkah here, so you're gonna see menorahs and all that type of stuff all over the place."

While Bass enjoys decking the halls at Christmastime, the singer — who shares twins Violet Betty and Alexander James with Turchin — admitted he tends to go over the top.

"We do have a rule: From November 1st to Christmas, I can get one new decoration a week," Bass said. "Because wherever I go, I always find something like, 'Oh my God, I need that! Oh my God, I need that!' But I'm allowed to get just one decoration a week up until Christmas."

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Jamie Chung and Bryan Greenberg

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Bryan Greenberg and Jamie Chung at the premiere of 'Emperor of Ocean Park' at MGM Screening Room in L.A. on July 11, 2024; Jamie Chung shares a photo of her family's menorah during Hanukkah on Instagram Stories.

Actors Jamie Chung and Bryan Greenberg have been blending traditions from both of their heritages since tying the knot on Halloween in 2015, and they continued to do so after their twin sons were born in October 2021.

At the start of Hanukkah 2021, Chung posted a photo of the family's menorah on Instagram Stories, marking the start of the twins' first holiday season.

For the sons' second Chrismukkah in 2022, the Dexter: New Blood actress shared several adorable pictures on Instagram of her kids dressed in Rudolph onesies.

"Merry Christmas from our chunky reindeers to yours!! What did I get the boys for Christmas?" Chung captioned the post before sharing a video revealing their gifts. "They got a banana for Christmas, since they got so many noise-making toys for Hanukkah," she captioned the clip. "And let me tell you. This banana was a hit!"

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Tamron Hall and Steven Greener

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Steven Greener and Tamron Hall attend the opening night of 'Melissa Etheridge: My Window' at Square Theatre in N.Y.C. on Sept. 28, 2023.

Since marrying and welcoming son Moses in April 2019, talk show host Tamron Hall told PEOPLE that she and husband Steven Greener were raising their little one to embrace the traditions of both their heritages.

"He's Jewish, so we had a bris here at the house," Hall said of the Jewish ceremony of circumcision for their son.

"My mom nearly passed out," she continued. "We had both grandparents on each side there, and he's going to Texas to have a Christening or a Confirmation at my mom's Southern Baptist church. We've just combined our life experience, and we want to teach him tradition."

Hall also shared how the couple's interfaith bond inspired their son's name.

"We'd already decided on his name early on — my husband is Jewish, I'm Christian and Moses was the only prophet recognized by all seven religions," she shared on PEOPLE's Me Becoming Mom podcast in November 2021. "I could not imagine any other name, although we did bat around Bob, in honor of Bob Marley."

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Casey Wilson and David Caspe

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Casey Wilson and David Caspe at the premiere of Netflix's 'Blockbuster' at Netflix Tudum Theater in L.A. on Oct. 27, 2022.

Casey Wilson and David Caspe, who wed in 2014, observe Christmas and Hanukkah with their sons, Max Red and Henry Bear, and daughter, Frances Rose.

In 2014, the Happy Endings actress, who was raised Baptist, gave PEOPLE an exclusive look at her Christmas evergreen and referenced her family's blended celebrations.

"My dad helped me with my Christmas tree while I was at work," Wilson said at the time. "I couldn't really do anything for it this year. [My husband] is Jewish, so we're experimenting with a hybrid of the two holidays."

Since then, Wilson has become a big fan of decorating with vintage collectibles and blow molds, adding "three Hanukkah stations" amid the Christmas decorations, including one in an area of her home she described as "a breezeway."

"There's not a ton of Hanukkah decorations, but I'll tell you, I found a blow mold of a menorah. It's all white, and it lights up," she said on the Lemonada podcast in 2024. "It is the most comforting, gorgeous thing. Then I took light blue tinsel and silver tinsel, and then I took light blue, nice, shiny and bright Hanukkah ornaments, sprinkled around some gelt, put some dreidels and then I put blue lights."

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Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky

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Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky attend the School of American Ballet's winter ball at Lincoln Center in N.Y.C. on March 6, 2017.

Author and advocate Chelsea Clinton, who was raised Methodist, wed Marc Mezvinsky, who is Jewish, in July 2010. While Clinton didn't convert, she has documented the pair celebrating Hanukkah over the years with their three kids, daughter Charlotte and sons Aidan and Jasper.

"Getting ready to light our menorah and sending peace and light (and health) from our family to yours," she captioned a photo of their menorah on X (formerly Twitter) in December 2020.

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Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco

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Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco attend the 97th annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on March 2, 2025.

When Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco (born Benjamin Joseph Levi) tied the knot in September 2025, they incorporated elements from both their faiths, as the Only Murders in the Building actress is Christian, while the music producer is Jewish.

On Dec. 4, 2025, Gomez shared a slideshow of photos and videos on Instagram of the pair decorating their Christmas tree, which was full of blue and silver decorations.

She captioned the post, "Our first Christmas as a married couple 💒 🌲."

In December 2024, they spent their first and only Christmas as an engaged couple at composer Benj Pasek's annual Hanukkah party in N.Y.C.

Gomez told Interview Magazine that she wouldn't be converting to Judaism, a decision Blanco supported, as he believed their blended religions would positively impact their future children.

"We want our kids to have both of our values, both of our morals, and hopefully when we mix them up in a pot they'll — " Blanco began telling the publication for their joint March 2025 cover story, with Gomez adding, "Turn out good."

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Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson

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Nicolette Robinson and Leslie Odom Jr. attend the 77th annual Tony Awards at Lincoln Center in N.Y.C. on June 16, 2024.

Traditions are important to Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson, and they shared as much when they published their first picture book, I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know, in 2023.

When it came to writing the book, the parents told PEOPLE in June 2022 they were inspired by their "sacred" family nighttime ritual, where they "do bath-time, jammies, we read together and then we sing together."

Celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah has been an essential tradition for Robinson, who grew up with a Jewish mother and a Christian father. Her parents instilled in her the importance of understanding her background, which is something the couple is passing along to their children.

"It's been a beautiful thing that I want to continue because being Jewish is also a big part of my life and my kids' lives, and we celebrate the Christian holidays as well, and even more so I feel like holidays are about family and connecting and your heritage and your culture and telling stories, and so that's mostly our focus," Robinson told Nordstrom for their 2022 holiday campaign.

The Grammy and Tony Award winner added to his wife's sentiment, telling Nordstrom, "Nicolette has an aunt that also celebrates both holidays, and she says that she celebrates all the fierce miracles. I loved that, [so] I adopted that saying."

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Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas

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Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas attend the 'Vanity Fair' Oscar party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 24, 2019.

Raised Jewish, Zootopia 2 voice actress Ginnifer Goodwin reconnected with her faith at Temple Israel's Shabbat service in 2013. However, her husband and former Once Upon a Time costar, Josh Dallas, is Christian. The couple, who have been married since 2014, honor both religions while celebrating the holidays with their two sons, Oliver Finlay and Hugo Wilson.

In November 2022, Dallas revealed during an appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show that his wife "likes to set up [the Christmas tree] super early."

Goodwin, who participated in the Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade, told E! News in December 2025 that her family's holiday plans were "lots of PJs, lots of sleeping in, lots of cooking and, like, not answering the phone."

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Gwyneth Paltrow

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Gwyneth Paltrow (left) and Noa Tishby light candles on the first night of Hanukkah in December 2024.

In December 2024, Gwyneth Paltrow opened up about her experience growing up in a Jewish and Christian home while chatting with Tishby for the author's Bring on the Light YouTube series.

After recalling some of her favorite Hanukkah memories during her and Tishby's first night hang, Paltrow shared what it was like growing up in an interfaith household with famous parents, Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner.

"My mother is Christian, my father is Jewish, so it's interesting," Paltrow said. "I grew up in a time in the '70s, where I think interfaith marriage was still kind of a big deal, and so it was real hard for both of my parents' parents that they were marrying each other, and it was a bit scandalous. Nobody was happy about it."

After explaining that both sides eventually put their differences aside, Paltrow discussed how the experience affected her.

"I felt so fortunate because I got to grow up with these two very different worlds and very different faiths," the Oscar-winning actress added. "I always felt an incredible pull to my Jewish family. I still do. And just the traditions and the warmth and the unconditional love and the food and the yelling and the family."

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Kate Hudson and Danny Fujikawa

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Kate Hudson and Danny Fujikawa attend the Giorgio Armani Privé Haute Couture fashion show during Paris Fashion Week on July 4, 2023.

Kate Hudson and her fiancé, Danny Fujikawa, celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas with their blended family.

In 2023, the Running Point star shared a video lighting a menorah with her younger two children, daughter Rani Rose and son Bingham "Bing" Hawn. (She's also mom to an adult son, Ryder Russell, with ex-husband Chris Robinson.)

"Connecting to love, light, miracles and peace tonight on the first day of Hanukkah ✨ Happy Hanukkah everyone 🫶," she wrote on Instagram.

Hudson's family also celebrates Christmas. That same year, she posted photos of her family on Instagram wearing matching holiday pajamas, including one in which she and Fujikawa shared a kiss. Her mom, Goldie Hawn, and stepdad, Kurt Russell, were also captured in the series of photos decorating the Christmas tree.

"Christmas is love, and maybe a little friendly family competition…" Hudson wrote in the caption.

In 2022, Hudson told Vogue that she's "made up of" many religions, but "Judaism was the one I knew the most" because she grew up living with her Jewish maternal grandmother (Hawn's mother, Laura).

The actress added, "Gram was the best, so Judaism was everything that I ever knew."

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Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell

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Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah in N.Y.C. in December 2024.

Sir Paul McCartney kept his holiday messaging quite simple in 2024, posting two photos on Instagram.

The first was a picture of himself and his wife, Nancy Shevell, posing in front of a Christmas tree in Manhattan, followed by a photo of a lit menorah. He captioned his post, "Happy Christmas all round the world and have a heck of a Hanukkah."

McCartney is Christian, while Shevell is Jewish, as was The Beatles musician's first wife, Linda Eastman.

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