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Hertfordshire Mother Sets £250 Christmas Dinner Fee, Now Including Her Adult Children

She frames the fee as a cost-covering boundary against freeloaders.

Overview

  • Carla Bellucci told What's The Jam she will host 10 friends and relatives for a four-course meal with canapés and champagne.
  • Guests must leave by 8pm, and her children would be charged £80 each if they choose to stay overnight.
  • The per-person charge has increased over three consecutive years from £150 to £200 and now to £250.
  • She says her 20-year-old daughter and 19-year-old son must pay because they no longer live at her home.
  • Bellucci says her children are disappointed and that other relatives were angered when she laid out the rules.