WHAM!: Last Christmas Unwrapped

WHAM's 'Last Christmas' has always been one of the most popular Christmas records here in the UK, but in recent times this seems to have gone up a notch.

It was the Christmas Number One in 2023 and 2024 and there was even a film based upon its lyrics in 2019.

You can see therefore why some BBC exec in charge of filling out the corporations Christmas schedules would think to mark the 40th anniversary of the song it would be a good idea to reunite those involved to discuss how the song and the iconic video came to be.

Unfortunately, while this is all very nice and well-intentioned, it also misses the mark.

Like too many Christmas programmes in the schedules, this is stretched at an hour, and there's too much pointless chats that feels staged for the benefit of the camera crew.

It tries to cover too many things (the history of WHAM, George Michael as a person and an artist) and yet never really fully delivers what we wanted from this in the first place.

All involved in the video should have had a nice little holiday in the original video's location, and left the camera crew at home.

A disappointment.