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The sound of sobbing fills the air. I lie on the sofa, a heaving mass of sobs and snot. It must be Christmas. More specifically, it must be <strong>Noel's Christmas Presents</strong> (Sky1).</p><p>For the uninitiated, this is the annual justification for the continued existence of Noel Edmonds. Every year, his sins – and they are legion – are expiated by his provision of extravagant presents to deserving people. By doing so, he also performs the invaluable service of providing those of us who prefer to stay a very great distance from feelings of any sort (in order to allow life to run smoothly from day to day) with a chance to release a year's pent-up emotion in one good, 90-minute cry. Trust me, if we didn't have such a safety valve, the traditional sound of Christmas would not be of sleigh bells and carols, it would be of popping heads and brain splatter sliding slowly down the wall.</p><p>Noel's Christmas Presents lets your heart live again. It reminds you, after yet another year spent shovelling one's way through the shit-strewn gully of life, every headline adding another layer to the rotting banks of hopelessness, depravity and despair that rise around us, that there are still good and wonderful people out there.</p><p>This year, 71-year-old Olive and her octogenarian friend Margaret, who have raised £1m for their local children's charity in Newcastle over the last 36 years, got a trip to Tennessee to met their heroine Dolly Parton, and the charity got a roomful of IT equipment. Val Lepedat, a breast-cancer survivor who set up a charity to help others, was reunited with her emigrant son, and her centre's long-dreamed-of extension was built while she was away. Three sisters who helped the youngest through leukaemia, twice, got an almost truly magical day out in London, and Great Ormond Street Hospital got a veritable heap of toys for their isolation ward.</p><p>I'll have to stop before I fuse the keyboard with my tears. 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I love that special, special man !</p> </div> </li> <li class="pluck-comment-tools"> <ul id="CommentKey:a3371db9-eb36-4d08-95af-a18697932e9e"> <li class="recomended"> <a id="pluck-single-comment-CommentKey:a3371db9-eb36-4d08-95af-a18697932e9e" href="javascript:void(0)" title="Recommend this comment." onclick="return onClickRecommendation('CommentKey:a3371db9-eb36-4d08-95af-a18697932e9e')" class="recommend"> Recommend? </a> <span id="pluck-single-comment-no-CommentKey:a3371db9-eb36-4d08-95af-a18697932e9e" class="normal-recommended">(1)</span> </li> <li class="abuse-report"> <a href="javascript:void(0)" title="Report abuse" class="report-abuse">Report abuse </a> </li> <li class="clip"><a class="anchor-based-login-required" href="/web/20091225204624/http://www.guardian.co.uk/users/clippings/add?commentId=a3371db9-eb36-4d08-95af-a18697932e9e&commenterUserName=slinky501&r2ContentIdForSSP=357233618" name="" title="Clip this comment.">Clip</a> | </li> <li class="link"><a href="?showallcomments=true#CommentKey:a3371db9-eb36-4d08-95af-a18697932e9e" name="" title="Link this comment.">Link</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class="pluck-content" id="comment-2"> <li class="pluck-comment">  <div class="pluck-comment-author"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091225204624/http://www.guardian.co.uk/users/mrpiffin" class="author-profile-picture"> <img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091225204624im_/http://sitelife.guardian.co.uk/ver1.0/Content/images/store/0/1/a08fd4d4-be52-4dc1-817c-fbccec640e7b.Small.jpg" height="60" width="60" alt="mrpiffin"> </a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091225204624/http://www.guardian.co.uk/users/mrpiffin"> mrpiffin </a> </h3> <p class="posted-time">22 Dec 2009, 5:35PM</p> </div> <span class="author-tier"> <a class="rollover" title="Featured"> </a> </span> <div class="pluck-comment-body"> <p>I'd like to second that comment, there's really nothing wrong with nice telly. </p><p>There was a good local news story on Edmunds a while back in Bristol where deal or no deal is filmed (or as it's alternatively known 22 unemployed people). </p><p>Edmunds had bought himself a Hackney Carriage because, and I roughly quote "as an important celebrity I don't have the time or patience to sit in traffic..." (despite it being against the law and everything) I imagine this means he'll be able to deliver those Christmas Gifts all the quicker. Still, he's a cracking quizmaster.</p> </div> </li> <li class="pluck-comment-tools"> <ul id="CommentKey:1acba39c-9d61-4297-9302-8d853722a30e"> <li class="recomended"> <a id="pluck-single-comment-CommentKey:1acba39c-9d61-4297-9302-8d853722a30e" href="javascript:void(0)" title="Recommend this comment." onclick="return onClickRecommendation('CommentKey:1acba39c-9d61-4297-9302-8d853722a30e')" class="recommend"> Recommend? </a> <span id="pluck-single-comment-no-CommentKey:1acba39c-9d61-4297-9302-8d853722a30e" class="normal-recommended">(0)</span> </li> <li class="abuse-report"> <a href="javascript:void(0)" title="Report abuse" class="report-abuse">Report abuse </a> </li> <li class="clip"><a class="anchor-based-login-required" href="/web/20091225204624/http://www.guardian.co.uk/users/clippings/add?commentId=1acba39c-9d61-4297-9302-8d853722a30e&commenterUserName=mrpiffin&r2ContentIdForSSP=357233618" name="" title="Clip this comment.">Clip</a> | </li> <li class="link"><a href="?showallcomments=true#CommentKey:1acba39c-9d61-4297-9302-8d853722a30e" name="" title="Link this comment.">Link</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class="pluck-content" id="comment-3"> <li class="pluck-comment">  <div class="pluck-comment-author"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091225204624/http://www.guardian.co.uk/users/eagleone" class="author-profile-picture"> <img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20091225204624im_/http://sitelife.guardian.co.uk/ver1.0/Content/images/store/15/11/7f4c62cf-aae1-4acf-ab5a-d1d8e56162e4.Small.gif" height="60" width="60" alt="eagleone"> </a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20091225204624/http://www.guardian.co.uk/users/eagleone"> eagleone </a> </h3> <p class="posted-time">22 Dec 2009, 8:30PM</p> </div> <span class="author-tier"> <a class="rollover" title="Featured"> </a> </span> <div class="pluck-comment-body"> <p><i>Edmunds had bought himself a Hackney Carriage because, and I roughly quote "as an important celebrity I don't have the time or patience to sit in traffic..." </i> </p><p>Perhaps he should consider, oh I don't know, a helicopter?</p> </div> </li> <li class="pluck-comment-tools"> <ul id="CommentKey:010db375-d6cd-465b-9ae8-0b0e6034c5a0"> <li class="recomended"> <a id="pluck-single-comment-CommentKey:010db375-d6cd-465b-9ae8-0b0e6034c5a0" href="javascript:void(0)" title="Recommend this comment." onclick="return onClickRecommendation('CommentKey:010db375-d6cd-465b-9ae8-0b0e6034c5a0')" class="recommend"> Recommend? 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Real people being recognised for good work is something to be lauded, regardless of any cynical musings about TV execs reasons for broadcasting them. I always cry. My son always laughs at me. 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