Edward Snowden Channel 4 "alternative Christmas message"
Since 1993, Channel 4 has broadcast an "alternative Christmas message" usually featuring a contemporary, often controversial celebrity, delivering a message in the manner of Her Majesty.
List of past message presenters
1993 – Quentin Crisp
1994 – Rev. Jesse Jackson
1995 – Brigitte Bardot
1996 – Rory Bremner as Diana, Princess of Wales
1997 – Margaret Gibney, a Belfast schoolgirl who broadcast a plea for peace in Northern Ireland
1998 – Doreen Lawrence and Neville Lawrence, parents of Stephen Lawrence
1999 – Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G
2000 – Helen Jeffries, mother of a Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease victim
2001 – Genelle Guzman, survivor of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center
2002 – Sharon Osbourne
2003 – Barry and Michelle Seabourn, a Merseyside couple who appeared on Channel 4 reality show Wife Swap.
2004 – Marge Simpson with Lisa Simpson
2005 – Jamie Oliver
2006 – Khadijah
2007 – Major Andrew Stockton, a British soldier who lost his arm fighting in Afghanistan
2008 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran
2009 – Katie Piper, television presenter who underwent surgery after sulphuric acid was thrown in her face.
2010 – A team of midwives, from Channel 4's One Born Every Minute programme
2011
Message one: Max Laird, Susan Campbell-Duncan, Karen Gale and Katie Piper
Message two: Vic Goddard and Stephen Drew of Educating Essex
2012 – Adam Hills, from Channel 4's The Last Leg with Adam Hills
2013 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden
