Sylvester Stallone had a fun Christmas with his family.
To commemorate the holiday, the 76-year-old Tulsa King actor posted a video on Instagram on Sunday. In the video, Stallone stands with his arms around two of his daughters, with wife Jennifer Flavin smiling alongside them as they show off their various fuzzy slippers.
When Stallone’s 72-year-old brother Frank says off-camera, “Okay, who needs a pedicure?” he pans down to their feet to show off the ridiculous slippers. “Not me,” Stallone jokes. I certainly don’t require one.
“Hope everyone’s having a wonderful Christmas day!” he captioned the post. Frank, meanwhile, shared the same video on his page, writing, “Family that plays together stays together. The Stallone family wishes everyone a merry Christmas.”
Frank shared another post on Instagram about spending the holiday with his brother and nieces, writing, “I’m very blessed and lucky at this time in my life to have such a caring family especially around the holidays, it was a beautiful day with the family and friends, just what the doctor ordered.”
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Stallone and Flavin, both 54, have three nieces: Sophia (26), Sistine (24), and Scarlet (20). (From his previous marriage to Sasha Czack, he has a son named Seargeoh. Sage, his oldest son who he shares with Czack, died in 2012.)
Stallone told The Hollywood Reporter last month that his family’s ups and downs this year, including when Flavin filed for divorce and then reconciled with Stallone one month later, will be featured in their upcoming family reality show.
“Of course it’s part of the show,” he said. “It’s the John Lennon thing: ‘Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.’ Hopefully you’re involved with people who understand the foibles of life and the fragility of it and how rare a real good relationship is.”
“Sometimes I put the work ahead of [my family], and that is a tragic mistake which won’t happen again,” he added.
The actor explained to THR that he felt “as though I wasted a lot of time” in his career and “now I realize there are only so many bullets left in the gun.”
“When you’re young, you’re just haphazardly shooting wildly and hope you hit something. Now you don’t have the luxury of missing — especially with the family and the kids. I find that to be my biggest regret,” said Stallone. “Everyone goes, ‘I wish I’d shown love more,’ or ‘I wish I’d spent more time with the kids.’ I’m riding that boat. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to do the reality show that I’ve been taking a lot of s— for.”
He added of the reality show, “This is a chance where I’m going to be with my kids under a work condition where they get to see me in action and I get to see them in action. What you will see is the real truth. This is a great opportunity.”