All the things that are FAKE about The Holiday! After Jude Law's major revelation about the iconic Christmas movie - a look at the glaring plot holes, and impractical timelines that you won't be able to unsee

Featuring tons of romance, stunning scenery, and heartwarming storylines, The Holiday has cemented itself arsenic a classical Christmas comfortableness movie that each generations enjoy.

Brits inactive beryllium down to ticker the iconic rom com passim the festive season, 18 years aft its merchandise successful 2006 - but it turns retired that each is not what it seems. 

The beloved movie sees chronically unlucky successful emotion Amanda (Cameron Diaz) program a location swap and walk the holidays successful a cute state cottage successful the UK, which belongs to writer Iris (Kate Winslet).

Surrey-based Iris ditches her pictuesque English location for Amanda's Hollywood mansion and some lovelorn women are swept disconnected their feet with an breathtaking caller romance erstwhile they conscionable Graham and Miles.

However, the cleanable bubble was burst for immoderate fans erstwhile Jude Law spilled filming secrets from the Christmas classical connected BBC Radio 2 this week and revealed the cottage owned by Kate Winslet's quality Iris is not adjacent real.

Following the astonishing admission, MailOnline has rounded up each of the aspects of The Holiday that are not realistic...

Iris worked for a paper and could spend THAT cottage  

Time and clip again implicit the years, fans of the movie person hilariously pointed retired that determination is nary mode Iris would person been capable to spend her quaint countryside cottage connected a writer salary.

Despite it not being real, the cosy cottage that inspired it sold for a whopping £675,000. 

Not to notation the lengthy commute into cardinal London from Surrey each time - the country she lives successful does not look similar it's location to overmuch nationalist transport.

Rosehill Cottage was truthful stunning that it became somewhat of a improvement aft the movie was released, with fans calling it the cleanable English imagination location for Christmas. 

While the exterior was lightly dusted successful snow, the wrong had a rotation apical bath and a shabby chic kitchen. 

One seconds-long country took a full week to shoot 

At the extremity of the film, Amanda dramatically stops the car that was driving her to the airdrome to spell backmost to LA.

She insists the operator lets her retired truthful she tin sprint miles backmost to Graham astatine the cottage, each portion wearing precocious heels.

Although the country lone lasts a substance of specified seconds connected screen, Cameron Diaz has revealed that it took a full week, and tons of pain, to shoot.

The histrion told Vulture: 'Oh, girl. I was running, like, 7 miles a time successful heels. That full country took a week to shoot. That wasn’t adjacent successful the script.

'They lone utilized 2 shots, but we changeable similar 10 shots of maine moving crossed 10 antithetic fields. 

'And I’m wearing that Valentino cashmere, wool trench coat, a turtleneck cashmere sweater and jeans, and my high-heeled boots.'

The picturesque cottage was fake 

Jude Law, who starred arsenic widower Graham who falls successful emotion with Amanda successful the movie, precocious shared a shocking behind-the-scenes detail.

The actor, 51, appeared connected BBC Radio 2 with big Zoe Ball and comedian Kerry Godliman connected Friday.

Speaking astir the picturesque cottage wherever Amanda holidays, Kerry asked: 'Can you Airbnb that cottage?', portion Zoe replied: 'I deliberation so', Jude told them the truth.

'That cottage doesn’t exist. So the director, she's a spot of a perfectionist, toured that full country and didn't rather find the cocoa container cottage she was looking for,' helium revealed.

'So she conscionable hired a tract and drew it and had idiosyncratic physique it. But here's the comic happening if you ticker it.

'So, we were shooting successful the wintertime present and each clip I spell successful that door, we chopped and we changeable the interiors successful LA astir 3 months later.'

Stunned, Zoe said: 'We don’t privation to perceive anymore. We can’t carnivore it', portion Kerry added: 'That's precise upsetting'.

Looking sheepish, Jude replied: 'Just burst the bubble, sorry.'

Despite Rosehill Cottage not being real, the formed did movie successful the Surrey villages of Shere and Godalming.

The Honeysuckle Cottage successful Holmbury St Mary, which was enactment up for merchantability successful 2021 and present an Airbnb, provided the inspiration for the unit who designed it.

Rosehill Cottage became somewhat of a improvement aft the movie was released, with fans calling it the cleanable English imagination location for Christmas.

The location swap was organised wrong 24 hours 

The speedy location swap betwixt Iris and Amanda, which is cardinal to the movie's plot, was arguably the astir unrealistic portion of the film.

Both women person afloat clip jobs, with Iris moving arsenic a writer astatine the Telegraph, meantime Amanda is a movie trailer editor.

Despite this, the characters managed to organise their yearly leave, not to notation publication flights, wrong 24 hours.

Taking impulsive to the adjacent level, the full statement was cemented little than a time aft they decided to spell for it, seemingly with nary obstacles astatine all. 

They besides played a risky crippled by conducting zero probe astir who they were letting into their home, with not adjacent a speedy Google hunt successful sight.

Based connected Iris' elated absorption upon accomplishment to Amanda's mansion, it was wide she had not adjacent seen immoderate pictures of the place.

The snowfall was mostly fake 

In the aforesaid interview, the histrion revealed that the gorgeous broad of snowfall covering the hills surrounding the cottage, was besides fake.

She told the publication: 'And we covered each the hillside with this fake snow, which was wholly biodegradable. It was the astir unthinkable — it doesn’t snowfall successful England. It rains successful England. But determination are swabs of snow.'

Despite Cameron insisting that doesn't snowfall successful England, the unit did reportedly acquisition 3 tiny snowfalls during filming truthful immoderate of it was real.

However, a snowfall instrumentality had already been hired and brought on arsenic nary 1 thought it really would.  

The timeline is each implicit the place 

At the opening of The Holiday, Iris' brag astatine The Telegraph tells her: 'We are going to effort and get by this week with a smaller-than-normal staff'.

Cosmopolitan worked retired that this would person been Friday December 22, arsenic a paper office, if closing astatine all, volition beryllium closing arsenic adjacent to Christmas arsenic possible.

So, this means that 1 time aboriginal the women would beryllium starting their homeswap vacation connected December 23.

With this timeline successful mind, it would mean that the movie's astir important events, specified arsenic Amanda going connected a day with Graham, hap connected Christmas Eve oregon Christmas Day, with nary notation of it being those days successful the movie.

Not to notation Graham's 2 children and wherever they are, portion the azygous begetter is disconnected with Amanda. 

Graham's young daughters some person compartment phones successful 2006

Finally, plentifulness of eagle-eyed viewers person been near puzzled by the information that Graham's 5 and 7 twelvemonth aged daughters successful the movie, Sophie and Olivia, person compartment phones.

While a batch much youngsters ain a mobile now, it was rather uncommon successful 2006 for children nether the property of 10 to person them.

In the movie, Amanda grows suspicious erstwhile Graham keps receiving calls from enigma women, which crook retired to beryllium his daughters.

However, erstwhile she does yet conscionable them, the phones they are expected to person are besides obscurity successful sight.