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The All New Adverts that Grind my Gears

Any ad containing Peter Kay, especially his 'cameo' appearance in the Christmas M&S ad.

Ant & Dec (and JLS) Wii ads.

Tim Lovejoy in Giovanni Riva pasts ad.

There's Method in The Magners.

RED Driving School.

Omid Djalili - Money Supermarket
 
Any Iceland advert, especially the recent Christmas advert which was truly abysmal.
 
John Lydon should be slapped hard and repeatedly for his ads for some shabby butter company
 
What about the Redknaps dreaming about their Thomas Cook holiday ???
 
The new Direct Line advert with comedian Chris Addison in it. If that isn't selling out I don't know what is.
 
SSB said:
The new Direct Line advert with comedian Chris Addison in it. If that isn't selling out I don't know what is.
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Bloody hell, do you sound like a roaring luvvie or what? All those wonderful darlings suddenly prostituting themselves on the televisuuaal. :icon_wink:

In Stephen Fry's autobiog he recalls the first ad he got booked up for. £20-odd grand for 3 days work, back in something like 1982. Blimey.
 
Other ads that make the world just that little bit less special:

Helen Mirren/Wii
Dustin Hoffman/Sky
Samuel L. Jackson/Virgin
George Clooney/Nespresso.

I know they're all jobbing actors and I have no right to expect them to turn down paying work, but I'd like to think there was someone who, once they'd reach a certain level, could say no to the big bucks.

I imagine the conversation went something like this:

Nintendo: We'll give you £1 mil. to advertise Wii Fit.
Mirren: An advert? Darling, don't you know who I am?
Nintendo: OK, £2 mil.
Mirren: I'd love to, luvvie, but I have a very full schedule right now.
Nintendo: £3 mil.?
Mirren: How's Thursday?
 
I can't decide which i hate the worst, Thomas Cook (redknapps) or go compare (fat cunt) adverts. Either one makes me never want to use any of their services .

To quote Mr Hicks "every word you say is like a turd falling into my drink!"

I quite like the IKEA advert though.....
 
Have to agree on Thomas Cook and Go Comparte WLJM drive me mad!
 
yabbadabbadoo said:
Bloody hell, do you sound like a roaring luvvie or what? All those wonderful darlings suddenly prostituting themselves on the televisuuaal. :icon_wink:

In Stephen Fry's autobiog he recalls the first ad he got booked up for. £20-odd grand for 3 days work, back in something like 1982. Blimey.
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Just to add a little further perspective to your comment, I was told by some fairly senior staff at the Daily Mirror that the average familiy income for their readership is a total of £24k pa.
If only I could be accused of selling out for £20k for 3 days work......
 
So Long Architect said:
Other ads that make the world just that little bit less special:

Helen Mirren/Wii
Dustin Hoffman/Sky
Samuel L. Jackson/Virgin
George Clooney/Nespresso.

I know they're all jobbing actors and I have no right to expect them to turn down paying work, but I'd like to think there was someone who, once they'd reach a certain level, could say no to the big bucks.

I imagine the conversation went something like this:

Nintendo: We'll give you £1 mil. to advertise Wii Fit.
Mirren: An advert? Darling, don't you know who I am?
Nintendo: OK, £2 mil.
Mirren: I'd love to, luvvie, but I have a very full schedule right now.
Nintendo: £3 mil.?
Mirren: How's Thursday?
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And there you have it,everyone has their price no matter how "above all that" they would like to appear,as someone said,thank god for sky+,i try to watch as little commercial TV as possible.
 
I can't stand it when you are engrossed in a live football match on the TV and the commentator starts to ignore the game and starts advertising forthcoming fixtures that they will be showing.
 
And since when has some fat cockney saying 'Wonga' appealing to anyone outside of the Bow Bells area ?
 
I have a cousin who is the daughter and sister of a well known tv producer. (One was her father, the 2nd is her brother).
She wasn't really an actress, but had appeared in a bit part in a couple of small sitcoms.

She was invited to 'do' a refrigerator advert. In California. for 4 days.

And in the finished advert the camera showed a fantastic blue sky, it panned down to show a blindingly hot desert, then it panned sideways to show a white cube that slowly appeared to be a fridge.

Then it pulled back to show this fridge sitting there in the desert, then my cousin's hand (JUST her hand!) appeared on top of the fridge and someone's voiceover came on, blah blah blah.

So everyone got flown out to California out into the desert for a week, and my cousin got £4 grand for putting her hand on a fridge for about 15 seconds.

And that was about 35 years ago! Astronomical!
 
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