A MUM revealed she spends £5,000 a year decorating her home and says it irks her neighbours, who loathe the excessive designs.
Carla Bellucci, 42, is used to rubbing people up the wrong way, having been dubbed “Britain’s most hated woman.”
Carla Bellucci, 42, pictured, spends £5,000 each year on Halloween decorations[/caption]
Carla said her neighbours think her Halloween decorations are ‘over the top’ but she loves horror[/caption]
The former glamour model has now angered her neighbours, many of whom don’t enjoy her “obsession” with the scary holiday.
“I love Halloween, I’m a horror fanatic, so this is ideal for me,” Carla, from Hertfordshire, told What’s The Jam.
“They [my neighbours] don’t really like it and think it’s over the top.
“But they’re not very keen on me anyway, as they think everything I do is over the top.
“They don’t like the upheaval of it all when I’m putting the decorations up and close their curtains to shut themselves inside – either they’re worried people will come knocking on their doors or take snaps of them, or they just don’t want to look at it for any longer.
“I’ve had one of them say before that they weren’t impressed in the slightest, as they think my decorations are ‘stupid’ and are ‘too much’ for the little kids, as it will scare them easily.
“I just replied: ‘Screw you – don’t like it, then don’t look. It’s my house, I’ll do what I want.’
“A few people have moved from the area since I arrived, all the three houses up the road from me have since sold up.”
Carla goes all out – she picks a theme and hires actors every year.
And she isn’t afraid to stand by her choices.
In 2025, she recreated a haunted house with over 40 guests attending.
She’ll be putting on food and drink including steak, champagne and Halloween-themed canapés, made by a private chef.
And there’ll be a bouncy castle for the little ones, with a hot tub for the adults.
Carla previously said: “Personally, I [think] have the best house on the street, as kids love to come here and get sweets.
“I have always been obsessed with the celebrations and it’s one of my favourite times of the year.
“Everything about it I love, and I do like giving people the fright of their lives.
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WHILE some might be waiting for Mariah Carey to slowly defrost, I couldn’t care less that Christmas is less than 100 days away.
Has everyone forgotten that there are less than 50 sleeps until the best holiday of the year?
I’ve long preferred Halloween to Christmas and spend most of the year mourning the loss of spooky season.
Not that I don’t find ways to include it into my year.
In April I marked the halfway point to the best day of the year with a ‘half-o-ween’ picnic in a cemetery (where else?). Come July I needed to get my fix again and hosted a ‘Summerween’ barbecue complete with watermelon carving and Piña Ghoul-adas.
Christmas fanatics are often horrified by my snowy-season snub, but for me December is just a slew of stress and overspending.
I don’t know about you but wracking my brains for bigger and better present ideas and spending four times the amount of time and money at the supermarket is not my idea of a good time.
With Halloween there is no expectation to spend. Homemade costumes are often head and tails above the ones sold in the shops and when it comes to decorations what is better than a carved pumpkin that can cost just pennies to achieve?
In January kids return to school bragging about what Santa brought them this year, all with the hope of outdoing each other but November 1st is a different story.
Trick or treating is fair through and through. Unless you’re bribing the neighbours, children all receive the same, and whatsmore for free, eliminating any playground bragging rights.
Above all I love the chaos over curation when it comes to Halloween. There’s no obligation to strive for perfection, in fact the rule is the sillier the better. It’s all the childhood nostalgia of Christmas but without the pressure.
So spare me the Christmas spirit, I’ll opt for a fully fledged ghost any day.
“I’ll be chucking water over the parents and giving the kids a scare if they don’t like it.
The mum-of-four made headlines a few years ago after being “banned” from another Halloween party for dressing up her baby, Blu, as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
It appears she’s not fazed in the slightest, as her little girl’s costume choice for this year is Lyle Mendez, one half of the brothers who are currently the focus of the Netflix series: Monsters.
Carla said her house decorations, pictured, are one of the best on her street[/caption]
Carla added: “It will sure cause a stir, but I’m obsessed with their crime.
“I’m going to stick her in a suit, like the one Lyle wore during his trial, with a side sweep wig, pop some glasses on her and the mums will flip out.
“When I mentioned it in the school playground, they were flabbergasted.”
Carla said she’s always been ‘obsessed’ with Halloween and it’s one of her favourite times of the year[/caption]
Carla hires a private chef for her Halloween-themed canapes[/caption]
Carla said she enjoys giving people the ‘fright of their lives’ each Halloween[/caption]
Carla is dressing her little girl in a Lyle Mendez costume for Halloween[/caption]
