Celebrities seeming to promote gambling

Duju I totally agree with you, why is gambling being promoted. In my opinion it should be stopped completely on the TV. Alcohol was stopped and this is another addiction that can bring terrible misery to families I just don't understand it.
Many years ago I had a boy friend who gambled, I wasn't really aware of the dangers until one Saturday he took me to visit his parents. and
I heard him say to his mother that he had run out of money(he had only been paid the day before)and could she give him some money as he had a dead cert for the next race. His mother gave him £10 when I spoke to him about this he told me he had spent all his money on gambling.

My dad used to say, "Why do you think that most bookmakers are in the poorer part of town, not in the well-to-do areas? Because they're selling a dream."

And "You never see a bookie on a bike"

We should never, ever have allowed gambling to take such a hold in this country or allowed it to be televised let alone advertised. Often it is the poor who get hooked in an attempt to find a way out of their poverty.

Every time I hear Harry Rednapps voice on KBC I want to shake him
He certainly knows he’s promoting dozens of times a day and the bit that makes me want to spit is when he says ‘gamble responsibly’ and ‘have a rest from it now and then’ No gambling is responsible and a lot of people can’t have a rest from it once hooked

Gambling is glamourised but losing is never shown. They don't tell us how many losing lottery tickets were bought to subsidise the one lucky winner.

If you report them, they are sometimes removed as the celebrities don't always realise they are being used to promote them!

My long dead and born in the 19th century grandmother used to say “A gambler is worse than a drinker and he’s bad enough”. Her premise was that a drinker can only drink a finite amount whereas a gambler can keep going until everything’s gone. Sound Victorian advice! ?

I hate to see any of them promoting funeral plans or equity release.
It does particularly rile me when some actor whose voice I recognise (unless I’m very much mistaken, Kevin Whately, aka Inspector Morse’s Lewis is one such) refers to whatever business it is as ‘we’ - as if he were a bona fide employee, not simply someone presumably amply paid for doing the voice over.

I thought I detected Judi Dench’s voice in this capacity the other day - I sincerely hope I’m wrong.,

I would also ban gambling adverts because I think they lure people in by making it appear exciting and daring. Think of the old time smoking adverts! The very fact that something is fronted by a so called celebrity would put me off it.

Advertising for gambling should definitely be banned. And even more so, advertising which gives away free bets to get people started and hooked.

I have seen first hand what happens when people get hooked- and know some who have destroyed their relationship, their family, and ended up in prison.

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Hetty58

duju, it seems to me that it's just the latest version of ads for addiction - replacing all the cigarette and alcohol ones - so I agree, and think these celebrities should be ashamed of themselves.

Are Holly and Phil baddies too or Andy Peters?

duju, it seems to me that it's just the latest version of ads for addiction - replacing all the cigarette and alcohol ones - so I agree, and think these celebrities should be ashamed of themselves.

Oldwoman, your post reminded me of something my Dad used to say ‘you never see a poor bookmaker’.

On morning, and sometimes afternoon, itv programmes we are encouraged to phone a number with a chance of winning a big prize. Calls cost money. This is gambling. Where do we stop with promoting this culture? Is this any better or worse than promoting bingo?
Are Holly and Phil baddies too or Andy Peters?
Personally I am torn between calling it a bit of fun and we are all responsible for our own behaviour or calling it encouragement to addiction.
Having written that, the thought occurred to me that we don’t advertise heroin or cocaine. Another bit of fun to some, in control so no I wouldn’t touch it to others and the slippery slope to addiction for the more vulnerable.
Think I’ve now formed an opinion and agree with banning the advertising.

I agree the advertising of gambling on TV should be stopped. There are plenty of ways people can find out about gambling without it being encouraged by "celebrities". I have never been a much of a gambler myself (some would say I am too mean!), on a visit to a racecourse I took an amount of cash with the intention that when that was gone I would stop - in fact I came away with a slight profit! I always remember my father's advice to never gamble more money than I was prepared to lose.

I agree-all advertising for gambling, wherever it is, should be banned IMHO. Addictive gambling is a terrible mental health problem for which there is little help. It ruins lives-I don’t know how these folk can sleep at night. They must know the harm it causes surely?

I think all gambling adverts should be banned too.

As for celebrities endorsing these horrible businesses, I think they are greedy and unprincipled.

There is simply no need to advertise gambling anyone wanting to do it will find it and how
I abhor all the celebrities making more and more money from all the adverts they are all greedy so and so’s

i used to play bingo each morning in a 5p room, i talked to friends and had great support as i am going through cancer, gambling aware blocked my account and will not re-open it until i show 3 months bank statements, any benefits i get and any property i own, no celebs ever advertised it and you never see any adverts for it, no amount of celebrity advertising would make me want to bet on horses or play in a casino.

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Ultimately people have to take responsibility for their own actions but I agree gambling adverts should not be glamourised and promoted by celebrities. In fact I’m always irritated to see Ant and Dec and other sports stars promoting Santander and probably being paid obscene amounts of money when they pay me zero interest!

duju
You are spot on!
They have banned cigarette adverts, only have alcohol adverts at special times like Christmas, yet gambling seems to have taken over our screens!
'Only £10' yeah, til it's not only £10 & suddenly you've overspent and can't pay your rent or mortgage!
'Stop when the fun stops' oh right, like these gamblers are going to just stop when the next shot could make them rich!
Unfortunately, I started to refuse to go out with my estranged husband as I was often sat alone in pubs, looking like a right plonker, while he and the fruit machines were having a relationship - "It's about to pay out, I can hear it....give me £1!"
Friends are constantly gambling on sports and are overjoyed when they win.
But how much have they put into the stupid machines or on the horses and football before they won? And how many times have they lost, or run out of money, before the wins?
Gambling shouldn't be advertised on tv, especially with celebrities pumping it up to be something great, or on Facebook/any social media as it soon gets way over their heads!!

I don’t like gambling being advertised on t.v. My Dad used to say it was a mugs game and always drummed into us as kids not to get involved.