Bret Michaels and 'Jersey Shore' Stars Share Christmas Memories (and Photos!)

Saturday December 22, 2012 6:00 PM EST
Jersey Shore star Pauly D rips open presents on Christmas morning.
'Jersey Shore' star DJ Pauly D opens up presents on Christmas morning as a child.

Christmas isn’t complete without digging up old photos of Christmases past! Tons of celebrities from Bret Michaels to Jersey Shore stars Sammi Gianocola and DJ Pauly D have opened up about their favorite holiday memories, but In Touch can bring you sweet snapshots of them, too!

"No doubt I enjoy all holidays, but Christmas is my favorite— you can't top the spirit of the season,” Bret Michaels tells In Touch. “My parents always made Christmas morning great for me as a kid (with a little help from Santa).”

Bret describes the 1972 Christmas photo seen here: “After opening presents, we would go out and play football, then eat too much. Now that's all come full circle for me with my kid and it's awesome. I love it."

Jersey Shore’s Sammi "Sweetheart" admits her biggest thrill was opening presents on Christmas morning, too!

“Christmas time is huge in my family!” she tells In Touch of her 4-year-old self in this photo, circa 1991. “My sister and I used to love to wake up early on Christmas morning. We’d run downstairs to tear open the boxes and see what Santa left us.”

And a picture says a thousand words, so it’s not hard to figure out that Sammi’s Jersey Shore co-star Pauly D went crazy on Christmas morning, too... look at him go!

See… the stars are just like us. Have a very Merry Christmas weekend!