BACK TO THE FUTURE star CHRISTOPHER LLOYD won’t be going green for Christmas - he has pulled out of a festive production of DR. SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS in Los Angeles.

The actor, who played Scrooge in A Christmas Carol onstage last year (08), has quit the show due to a family illness.

He’ll be replaced by Stefan Karl, who has performed as The Grinch in the musical in Boston, Massachusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland, according to the Los Angeles Times.