In my case, that's an even more ridiculous project — I always felt fortunate enough to get everything I needed in my childhood Christmases — but here we are.

"Gail has had a hard life. She had a difficult childhood and disastrous marriages. So, we thought what viewers really want is a happy ending for her, so that's what we're doing."

"The greatest moments in life are when you overcome fear," he says, admitting his own childhood terror was the shark in Jaws.

Alongside a childhood holiday photo of himself and his sister, he wrote: "Over the years, we have climbed many mountains together. As a family, we will climb this one with you too."

He recalled a childhood where his dad would half-jokingly tell him: "I don't care if you don't like guns, it's the law."