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(June 2005)

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steddenm
fanoftv posted:
steddenm posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
15...Yellow Pages - The same one thats been shown every Christmas since the early 1990's. (The boy and girl mistletoe one)


That is actually Robbie Williams in the ad!


No it isn't.


Erm, yes it is. It was filmed in the 1980s before he was in Take That. Hence the reason he plugs Yellow Pages in his songs...

So come on let me entertain you
Let me entertain you

Look me up in the yellow pages
I will be your rock of ages
Your see through fads and your crazy phases
Yeah
Little Bo Peep has lost his sheep
He popped a pill and fell asleep
The dew is wet but the grass is sweet my dear....

© RW.COM
BN
Breakfast News
steddenm posted:
fanoftv posted:
steddenm posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
15...Yellow Pages - The same one thats been shown every Christmas since the early 1990's. (The boy and girl mistletoe one)


That is actually Robbie Williams in the ad!


No it isn't.


Erm, yes it is. It was filmed in the 1980s before he was in Take That. Hence the reason he plugs Yellow Pages in his songs...

So come on let me entertain you
Let me entertain you

Look me up in the yellow pages
I will be your rock of ages
Your see through fads and your crazy phases
Yeah
Little Bo Peep has lost his sheep
He popped a pill and fell asleep
The dew is wet but the grass is sweet my dear....

© RW.COM


It isn't Robbie.
TV
TVN
One of the most annoying things EVER in the world is people talking about Christmas in July.
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steddenm
Breakfast News posted:
steddenm posted:
fanoftv posted:
steddenm posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
15...Yellow Pages - The same one thats been shown every Christmas since the early 1990's. (The boy and girl mistletoe one)


That is actually Robbie Williams in the ad!


No it isn't.


Erm, yes it is. It was filmed in the 1980s before he was in Take That. Hence the reason he plugs Yellow Pages in his songs...

So come on let me entertain you
Let me entertain you

Look me up in the yellow pages
I will be your rock of ages
Your see through fads and your crazy phases
Yeah
Little Bo Peep has lost his sheep
He popped a pill and fell asleep
The dew is wet but the grass is sweet my dear....

© RW.COM


It isn't Robbie.


Try reading his autobiography. It's available in large print. Rolling Eyes
BH
BillyH Founding member
Unless you're winding us up, I find it very hard to believe that that's Robbie. The advert first premiered in about 1992/3; by that time, not only was Robbie Williams in his late teens, but in Take That!
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A former member
steddenm posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
15...Yellow Pages - The same one thats been shown every Christmas since the early 1990's. (The boy and girl mistletoe one)


That is actually Robbie Williams in the ad!


Rubbish!
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steddenm
BillyH posted:
Unless you're winding us up, I find it very hard to believe that that's Robbie. The advert first premiered in about 1992/3; by that time, not only was Robbie Williams in his late teens, but in Take That!


The advert actually screened first in 1985.
BH
BillyH Founding member
Not according to the official Yellow Pages site:

http://www.yellgroup.com/pages/ukoperations-ukadvertisingpromotion-historicadvertising posted:
In 1992, the Mistletoe Christmas ad aired for the first time. The ad features a little boy standing on a copy of the directory to kiss a girl under the mistletoe. The ad was updated in 2001 with a more modern directory cover.
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steddenm
BillyH posted:
Not according to the official Yellow Pages site:

http://www.yellgroup.com/pages/ukoperations-ukadvertisingpromotion-historicadvertising posted:
In 1992, the Mistletoe Christmas ad aired for the first time. The ad features a little boy standing on a copy of the directory to kiss a girl under the mistletoe. The ad was updated in 2001 with a more modern directory cover.


Not what they said when I called them.
PT
Put The Telly On
Oh please stop talking rubbish! Rolling Eyes We have absolutely no proof of this.
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fanoftv
The boy featured on the advert is the boy who also featured in the advert for Screwball Scramble and many others, and has featured in quite a few programmes too, unfortunately I haven't a clue of his name!
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dodrade
steddenm posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
15...Yellow Pages - The same one thats been shown every Christmas since the early 1990's. (The boy and girl mistletoe one)


That is actually Robbie Williams in the ad!


I'd like this to be true but unless anyone can definitively prove it I suspect its an urban myth.

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