United Kingdom, Dec. 9 -- Sir Elton John has hit back at social media comments about his "dirty" kitchen.

The music legend took to Instagram to show how serious he takes cleanliness as users criticised the dirt on his oven after he shared a video at his home set to his classic festive hit Step Into Christmas.

In the video - captioned "Step Into Christmas PSA" - Elton said: "Hello people, it's Elton John here. A couple of weeks ago, I did some videos in this kitchen about how crazy Step Into Christmas was driving me, and it got an incredible response, which I was quite startled about.

"A lot of the response was kind of negative about how dirty my oven was. My oven door, my oven window. And I can assure you, I don't have anything dirty i...