"As soon as Santa comes along, everybody melts. One little girl brought her guinea pig, who leapt off her hand and dived straight into my Santa beard. The parents were in stitches while we tried to get him out. My favourite Christmas songs are Eartha Kitt's sultry version of Santa Baby, because it gets all the adults in the mood to get up and have a boogie with Santa, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, because the lyrics are so pure."
"I wear the green Santa outfit from before Coca-Cola turned him red and white to match their branding, but if I just put a Christmas hat on, people shout Oi Santa! at me. Someone said I look more like a fat elf, which is fair enough. I've had lots of funny incidents. I once felt a tug on my beard, looked down and there was a two-year-old dangling from it. I do Santa for the domestic abuse charity IDAS, distributing donated presents to child survivors."
"I was teaching at a school for kids with special educational needs and they asked me to be Santa. I wasn't sure how the kids would process a Black Santa, so I made up this jokey character, Rasta Claus. The parents loved it their children are classed as different so it made sense for them to have a different Santa. One kid once said, You're not the real Santa, so I said I was Santa's cousin and worked for him. He believe"
Paul Fessi performs as Santa at schools, universities, supermarkets and Christmas light switch-ons, creating warm reactions and playful moments such as a guinea pig diving into his beard. He enjoys Eartha Kitt's sultry 'Santa Baby' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' and dislikes no Christmas songs. Arnold Warneken, known as Green Santa, wears a pre-Coca-Cola green outfit, has endured humorous incidents including a two-year-old tugging his beard, and distributes donated presents for the domestic abuse charity IDAS. His preferred song is 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'; he dislikes 'All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.' Cleve Freckleton created a Rasta Claus persona for children with special educational needs.
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