Yahoo Finance Sam Heughan's Whisky is One Of Brooke Shields' Holiday Favorites
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Sam Heughan's Whisky is One Of Brooke Shields' Holiday Favorites
Brooke Shields spends all year looking forward to holiday movies. “Every year, we add new ones to the list of traditional things we watch, like A Charlie Brown Christmas or Holiday or Home Alone,” she says, “and they always bring me back to childhood.”
This year, Shields adds her own offering to the holiday-flick pantheon. A Castle for Christmas, streaming now on Netflix, follows Shields’s Sophie, an American novelist who flees to Scotland to escape a brouhaha over her most recent book and decides to stay and buy the castle she’s visiting from the cranky duke in residence. While the two initially find themselves at loggerheads, there’s a sense—especially if you’ve seen a romantic comedy before—that there might be something more brewing. Filming the story over two and a half months on location in South Queensferry, Scotland, didn’t diminish from Shields’s love of the genre: “Holiday movies don’t lose any of their allure,” she says, “when you’re in front of the camera.”
Visiting Scotland was more than just work, however. “I came home with every possible Scottish thing I could get my hands on,” Shields says. “From walking sticks to woolen blankets, fishermen’s sweaters, and whisky—I was in heaven.”
Here, she shares her necessary luxuries from the set of A Castle for Christmas.
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Rigaud Paris, Tournesol Large Candle
Rigaud
amazon.com
"Rigaud candles come in different fragrances; I love the green, which smells like cypress, but whenever I'm in a dressing room or a new hotel room, I bring the yellow with me. The oils in these are so beautiful and rich, the smell doesn't dissipate. The green one is what we use at home every Christmas."
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Double Face Check Lambswool Throw
Dunoon
johnstonsofelgin.com
"I’ve always wanted one of these blankets, but to find a really good one. When you’re in Scotland, if you’re on a horse or in an open carriage, it’s really hard to stay warm. These are incredible because they heat you up almost from the inside—they really work. And they’re all unique; they weave differently in all of the villages, so I went to a bunch of different shops and picked up my favorites."
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The Sassenach Blended Scotch Whisky
"I didn’t watch Outlander until I got to Scotland, and in two and a half months I watched five seasons—now I can't wait for the next one. There are things it gets into that are so unbelievable, and scenes that are so heart-rending; I became a complete addict. A lot of our crew also works on Outlander, so I was pumping them all for information or trying to get them to bring Tobias Menzies to come visit our set. This whisky wasn’t in existence when I was in Scotland—the name is a word that refers to someone not from Scotland—but when Outlander star Sam Heughan released it, I couldn’t wait to try it, and it’s really smooth and wonderful and I love the fact that it’s his. It’s a total fan move on my part."
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Liberty Puzzles
libertypuzzles.com
"I didn’t bring one to set, but my family and I are real puzzlers and these are the best. They’re wooden and really beautifully made—if you flip them over, all the shapes pertain to the message of the puzzle. During the pandemic there was a waiting list to get these puzzles because so many people were doing them. Once you’ve done a wooden puzzle, it’s hard to go back."
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The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
amazon.com
"Amor Towles's Rules of Civility is such a great book, and his A Gentleman in Moscow is one of my favorite books ever. I got to read this one, his latest, while I was filming, and it’s very different from the others but is incredibly engaging."
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True Botanicals Pure Radiance Body Butter
TRUE BOTANICALS
nordstrom.com
"I just discovered this body cream, and the smell is to die for. It’s so luxurious and rich and is made with the most beautiful ingredients."
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Prospect Farms Dream Tincture
prospectfarms.com
"I don’t sleep. So, I started investigating CBD oil and this brand, and they utilize more of the hemp plant than anyone else I looked into. If I just put a few drops under my tongue, it relaxes me and helps me sleep. Even just the ritual of it puts me in a place where I can relax, and that’s huge for me."
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Designer Collagen
designerwellness.com
"During the pandemic, I started drinking Designer Wellness protein powder mixed into a shake—I wanted to do something good for me that was easy. They recently came out with a collagen powder and now I add that to my shakes."
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28 Days Greater For Her
ngookafor.com
"Ngo Okafor runs the gym I work out in. I’ve worked out with him and done one of his physical transformations—he helps someone get ready for a wedding or a big job or whatever it is—and he has a series that you can buy online. I downloaded his workouts to do them where I was staying in Scotland."
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