Gransnet forums

No. I'm sick of the sight of the young woman in the current toothpaste ad - 'I know how to look after my body....' Grr.

Oh NotTooOld you and me both! And as for saying"I didn't even know Oral B made toothpaste! " So, you go shopping with you eyes closed, do you?I

Sorry, deviating from OP!

Is that the slim, tall elegant woman with long grey/white hair?
Getting out of assisted chairs, stair lifts etc?

I think when she's finished prancing around on here, she slips into a pair of Tena knicknocks and goes out with her friends to spend the day laughing a lot.

The best I saw was her and her male mate standing on the deck of a yacht advertising a block of extra assistance retirement living flats

She's not that ancient but she's got that many wrinkles she must screw her hat on !

I'm deviating too. sorry. what annoys me is all the travel programmes that are presented by celebrities. Why not let some of us ordinary folk have the opportunity to visit these amazing places.
And yes I often wonder how she didnt know about Oral B toothpaste.

It's all the adverts presented or voiced by celebrities that annoy me annep! They definitely don't need the money.

I think 'I don't care if someone famous is advertising your product - give a chance to a young out-of-work actor with a lovely voice'!

I don't know this woman 🤔
I don't watch tv except Only Connect and maybe Vera -
where else is she?

Have you heard the advert that’s always on Classic FM radio station for some kind of over 50s vitamin and mineral supplement?

The voice of the women in the advert really irks me, it sounds like they have chosen someone with what they think is the voice of a little old lady, she sounds like she has a mouth full of apple crumble or her dentures are loose. It really feels patronising and stereotyped.

She says something like ‘it’s got all the vitamins and minerals that we over 50s need’ and then goes on to list them, but she sounds like an advertising executive’s stereotype of an over 90.

It gives me the creeps every morning.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-47172239/niamh-mcgrady-rant-over-ad-for-still-attractive-woman

MissAdventure I did lol at your post! 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, yes, IreneAdler - that ad on Classic FM and the doddery-old-dear voice! I have Classic on a lot and so many of the ads drive me mad - I'm forever switching off, or turning the volume right down - often while uttering a very rude expletive!

What also irritates me (just a bit) is that the woman advertising whatever it is for the over 55s on TV/in print, often looks about 46 at the most, but because she's got (beautifully styled) grey/white hair, she's deemed to look fine to flog stuff to the poor old wrinklies.

Agree Jalima it is greedy. Can't think of another reason celebrities would do ads.

I hate adverts for wrinkle cream with some model without a crease on her face. 👎

Irene, I think the voice on Classic FM advertising vitamins is Annette Crosbie. 🤔 Sounds very like her.
Oh, and the one about the Tena pants 🙄.... "I feel 'pratty/prutty'" (not 'pretty'). Maybe she does feel 'pratty'. 😁

Michael Parkinson with that oh-so-cosy voice, selling financial products to the sort of people who'd be worried about how to pay for their funeral, really used to enrage me.

Ditto to any very well paid 'celeb' (I hate that word) being paid even more to flog such things to such people.

However nowadays I record just about everything and zoom through the ads.

I hate the add seeing a gnarled old woman using a Zimmer frame and having the most grotesque red nail varnish on.

Beau she is everywhere, magazines, newspapers, hoardings, catalogues.

I am amazed she ever finds time to sleep. That or she has been cloned and there are a dozen of her, all identical.

Charlie, why shouldn't a gnarled(!!!!!!!!!!) old woman with a zimmer frame wear red nail varnish? Your comment sounds very ageist.

I think celebs are sought by these companies to front the sales campaigns. They must think it is worth it in increased sales! Much as I respect Annette Cosbie..she is not my personal role model!

To be honest, who gives a toss what products some celebrity or another uses. It is like that point of sale nudge you get in shops 'As seen on tv,' so what? Being seen on tv, with or without a celebrity is no guarantee of the effectiveness
or durability of the product.