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Elton John Scrubs Oven in Playful Rebuttal to Comments on Viral Kitchen Video

The exchange underscores how a 1973 holiday single keeps resurfacing through social media virality.

Overview

  • The late-November clip showed John opening cupboards to the sound of Step Into Christmas and has drawn roughly eight million views.
  • Viewers zeroed in on the inside of his oven door, prompting jokey remarks about grime in the kitchen footage.
  • On December 7, John posted a follow-up video rejecting the criticism, saying he doesn’t keep anything dirty in his house.
  • He donned pink, feather-trimmed Marigold-style gloves and vigorously cleaned the door, quipping that he now has the cleanest oven window in Windsor.
  • Coverage notes Step Into Christmas, written with Bernie Taupin and released in the 1970s, remains a UK seasonal staple and is tracking back into the Top 40.