michael bloody winner.

[max]

who is this idiot?
He made two or three "join the dots" thrillers in the seventies called " eath wish" (and i had one after watching "Death Wish 17" for about five minutes) and now he's doing really stupid adverts for car insurance that must have cost about ten pounds to make and that would have looked dated in about 1974.

Any product that needs a blonde running around with a "hello mum" placard is way off target.

can we have him shot ? He's utterly pointless.

[SweatShop]

I wonder how many customers esure have lost after they brought out these adverts?

[rondette]

i saw one of those car baby sunscreen thingies today, with him dressed as a woman saying 'CALM DOWN' .....so I think we should not be annoyed by these adverts, but grateful that such a pompous old git has, in one fell swoop, utterly shattered any remaining shred of dignity he might have once had.

Or maybe Esure are going for the Ferrero Rocher slant, and hoping to revive them in 10 years time with an 'ironic' tag.



*shudder*

[mikemk]

The one good point in Winner's favour is his interview with Richard Littlebrain of the Sun. He was on Littlebrain's chat show and a couple of lesbians came in for the usual homophobic sniggering from the host; Winner staunchly defended the two women and ridiculed Littlebrain (to the support of the audience, which was good).
And the adverts may be crap, but it's amazing just how popular the phrase "Calm down, dear, it's only a commercial" has become. Not sure he's sold them much insurance however.

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

MikeMK said:

The one good point in Winner's favour is his interview with Richard Littlebrain of the Sun. He was on Littlebrain's chat show and a couple of lesbians came in for the usual homophobic sniggering from the host; Winner staunchly defended the two women and ridiculed Littlebrain (to the support of the audience, which was good).

This is the point at which most people completely changed their preception of Michael Winner. I thought he was an arse until his heroic antics on Littlejohn; his butt-kicking in the name of lesbianity was so fab it seems to have excused alll previous and future sins against mediadom.

I kind of like the back-to-basics honesty of the esure adverts, but I do hate the "I'm not his sister" ones.

[QuincyMD]

Winner also shagged the girl who played Callie on Grange Hill, she sold her story to the newspapers and the NotW focussed on the fact that he wears alarmingly sized Y fronts.

[max]

"Simone Hyams", who blossomed into quite a looker.

www.grangehill.net/starfile/hyams.html

[QuincyMD]

I'll never forget the photo of her on the front page of the NotW holding an XXXL pair of manky Y fronts.

[mikemk]

Calm down, dear, it's only a pair of pants.

[max]

just like his commerical then....

[Lita]

ScissorSister said:

I wonder how many customers esure have lost after they brought out these adverts?

probably not very many.

esure has been hugely succesfull on the back of those adverts, much to the annoyance of most people in the advertising industry, who hate it, and don't like to see case studies of bad adverts doing very well.

[David Hunter]

The latest eSure ad has that girl from Brookside who played Adele Murray, on a trolley being taken to hospital saying, 'Hello Mum! Hello Mum!" due to over exposure to the ads. Very strange indeed.

[max]

thats practically surreal - you'd have to have seen the others to make any sense of it at all

[Jonny]

Is Mel C in the new esure advert?

[Steven]

David said:

The latest eSure ad has that girl from Brookside who played Adele Murray, on a trolley being taken to hospital saying, 'Hello Mum! Hello Mum!" due to over exposure to the ads. Very strange indeed.

Didn't she crop up in Footballers' Wives last series? Aww. And there I was having high hopes for her.

I like the esure adverts. At least the people who are in them appear to be in on the joke, which is more than can be said for the Charmin sisters.