Stuart Broad has opened up on his Christmas plans after failing to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award on Tuesday.
The England icon quit cricket earlier in the year after a stirring 2-2 Ashes series draw against Australia.
Broad was, however, unable to beat Earps to be crowned BBC SPOTY at a ceremony in Salford.
The 37-year-old finished second, ahead of rivals such as Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Rory McIlroy, Frankie Dettori and Alfie Hewett.
Stuart Broad has opened up on his Christmas plans with Mollie King
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Broad is now looking forward to his first Christmas since leaving cricket behind.
He will be spending the festive period with pop star fiancee Mollie King, with the pair getting engaged back in 2021.
The couple also have a young daughter, named Annabella.
And Broad, per the Daily Mail, has revealed Christmas will involve cooking, drinking wine and watching Home Alone.
"I’ll be cooking, chilling out, eating the cheese," joked the former bowler.
"Boxing Day Tests, in particular, are one of the most famous you can play in, they’re great.
"But you wake up on Christmas morning, generally the other side of the world, you have a bit of training, get back and have a team Christmas lunch and then go back to your room and try to find Home Alone.
"Home Alone will still be getting watched but it might be getting watched with a glass of red, which I’ve not been allowed before."
Broad also hinted that he could return to cricket.
He said he wants to stay in the game he's loved for so many years.
And he kept his cards close to his chest when discussing coaching the current generation of England stars.
"Cricket is my greatest hobby so I want to stay involved in the game somehow," added the Three Lions icon.
"I don’t know exactly what that will be as of yet but I love talking about the game, I love the insights and diving into why things are happening and how things are happening.
"Coaching… it’s quite hard to know exactly what route I’ll go down because it was a bit of an unplanned move away from the playing side.
"Ultimately, I’m 37 now but I definitely felt like I had another couple more years left in me.
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Stuart Broad was joined by Mollie King on the red carpet for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards
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"But the most important thing for me was controlling.
"I wanted to finish in an England shirt, I wanted to finish at the top. I didn’t want to start that downward spiral.
"England versus Australia is the pinnacle for me and I wanted to finish at that time."
Meanwhile, in a separate interview with the BBC, Broad also provided his verdict on Nottingham Forest's decision to sack Steve Cooper.
Cooper was axed on Tuesday, with Nuno Espirito Santo drafted in as his replacement.
Stuart Broad bowed out of cricket on a high with the England star quitting the sport back in the summer
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And Broad, who is a Nottingham Forest fan, admitted he was 'gutted' by the club's decision.
"I'm pretty gutted," he said when quizzed on the news.
"What he's done for our football club has been outstanding.
"He's let us fans live the dream, [Forest were] 23 years without being in the Premier League and he was the guy that got our team there.
"Rather than feeling too sad that he's gone - although we'll all feel that for a little bit of time - we need to look back on his reign as one of the most remarkable since the Cloughie [Brian Clough] era."
