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Kids (or adults) You Knew From Adverts in Real Life

Started by St_Eddie, November 27, 2017, 09:53:30 PM

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St_Eddie

This thread is inspired by @Sebastian Cobb's post in the Mystery Modelling Bollocks thread...

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on November 27, 2017, 08:14:54 PM
When we were in middle school some kid with a mushroom haircut modelled a phone in the index catalogue and got the piss mercilessly ripped out of them for it.

So, how many of you knew a kid (or an adult) who was known for being in an advert/on television/modelling some pantaloons in a catalogue?

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When I was a kid, my parents sent me to one of those summer camp places during the school holidays.  There was a kid there who was in the Push Pop adverts.  He was the one who was sat on a swing and was pushed by someone behind him and then turned around, holding a Push Pop and said "don't push me, push a Push Pop!".

It wasn't long until one of the kids at the summer camp regonised him as the kid from the advert (which was playing on TV around that time).  For the next two weeks, this poor fucker was constantly being pushed around by a baying group of bullies, as they all mockingly screamed at him "DON'T PUSH ME, PUSH A PUSH POP".  It was harrowing, even to my young eyes back then and I still think about him from time to time and feel depressed and sad.

I certainly can't watch this Partridge skit without thinking of what became of that poor little Push Pop sod as an adult...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk-NlvY6O4k

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The other kid who I knew as being in an advert was a good friend of mine at primary school, named Ben.  Thankfully this story isn't horribly sad like the one above.  He and a group of other kids were in an advert for chocolate bars (I can't remember which brand) and he basically said that he had to sit around all day, on camera, eating endless chocolate bars.  He told me "it was fun at first but after a while we all started to feel really sick and then it was difficult to keep going".  Ah, the steady decline of a life in show business, right there.

poo

Yeah loads. In the 80s, kids from the Rhondda were doing TV ads all the time.


Kelvin

Quote from: Steven on November 27, 2017, 10:24:06 PM
Now runs own Anti-Bullying workshops..


Laughed out loud at the absurdity of the last line in this paragraph.

QuoteWhat was the worst rumour you heard about yourself?
I think the ones about the manner in which I died were quite disturbing. People said I stuck two pencils up my nose and slammed my head on the desk, nose-first. Others said I got the job because my mother was dying of cancer and it was her last dying wish to have her child in a Frosties commercial.

Sebastian Cobb

I remember rumours of him killing himself with pencils before he even done the advert!

pancreas


Kelvin


pancreas

Quote from: Kelvin on November 27, 2017, 10:40:24 PM
The picture of him in army cameos is grrreat.

Makes me want to pour the milk over my cereal.

Sorry this is appalling.

canadagoose

Quote from: poo on November 27, 2017, 10:01:15 PM
Yeah loads. In the 80s, kids from the Rhondda were doing TV ads all the time.
That's a hotter poo burn than that Morrisons curry could ever make.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: canadagoose on November 27, 2017, 10:47:32 PM
That's a hotter poo burn than that Morrisons curry could ever make.

k, want the new Morrisons advert to be Brian Blessed eating a gallon of Morrisons vindaloo then giving Richard Hammond a 'California Tan'.

St_Eddie

Quote from: Kelvin on November 27, 2017, 10:33:00 PM
Laughed out loud at the absurdity of the last line in this paragraph.

QuoteWhat was the worst rumour you heard about yourself?
I think the ones about the manner in which I died were quite disturbing. People said I stuck two pencils up my nose and slammed my head on the desk, nose-first. Others said I got the job because my mother was dying of cancer and it was her last dying wish to have her child in a Frosties commercial.

It must have been Frosties PR department who spread that rumour out and into the wild.  After all, everyone knows that people dying of cancer would rather have a bowl of Coco Pops.

hamfist

Went to school with actual finger of fudge conker kid. Real.

salr

A mate of mine went to a (posh private) school in Sevenoaks along side the milky bar kid.

touchingcloth

The greatest things that ever happened at the church where I used to go as a teenager were: a man from the worship band appearing in a Compare the Market TV ad (pre-meerkunt); and a woman in the worship band's daughter appearing in a porn mag (with a sticker proclaiming "The Angel of The North!" covering her self-fingered snatch on the front cover).

Actually, other things on a par with those happened at that church now I come to think of it. For a fictionary creature, god is really quite a great bunch of lads.

nero

Oooh, this is probably more for Birdie and/or any other kiwi birds, but there was a girl in a long running series of ads for anchor butter. She was 'Hannah from the butter ads.'
Unfortunately the one time I met her was when she crashed a party at our flat where we had all ingested far too much liquid acid - which sent everyone into a spiral of 'Are We Living In The Butter Ad?'  existentialist crisis.

Poor girl had a line of wide eyed party goers confronting her all night demanding to know 'the truth.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aTVBSBRmcg

studpuppet

My nephew!

He had a pushy mum that got him signed up to kids talent agency, and even now and then he gets a little role (though not so much since being at secondary school).

Pre-Peter Kay Warburtons

Volkswagen

Meanwhile his older brother got the staring role in this video - pretty much the only thing he did while signed up the the agency, but a young teenager's dream come true, 'playing' live with the band at Camden Palace or whatever it's called these days:

Modestep - Another Day

biggytitbo

I went to school with the Honeymonster, nice monster but teased mercilessly about his ads.

hard rocx and mettals

Lad in our Year 5 class had thick glasses and a buttery blonde helmet of hair, so of course we called him the Milkybar Kid. Incidentally he appeared in a series of United Utilities stock photos so I suppose he was the United Utilities Kid.

Shit Good Nose

Mentioned it before, but one of the kids from the late 80s/90s Walkers Crisps run with the schoolkids was in my year.  Second from left in this ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfOw8uTnkQo

We didn't circle in the same groups so didn't socialise, but we shared an appreciation of ska and two-tone, which set us both aside from the majority and enabled the respectful nod of the head to each other.

I've also mentioned my mate's aunt, who was in some of the Cleaner Close Daz ads.  She played the stereotypical Essex wife.  She did them because doing a couple of those a year enabled her to spend the rest of her time focusing on her main acting passion as part of the RSC B-team.

imitationleather

Not an advert, but I did A level Politics with the kid who played the lead in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Charlie

He was a Tory in the days when Michael fucking Howard was leader.

Icehaven

For some reason my Uni (Lampeter) made a TV advert during my time there. It was only shown on local television (S4C.) (The channel.) and only about twice given they'd presumably have had to pay for the slot. It was of course awful and looked like it had been made by a few 1st year media studies students and starred a couple of the union hacks, including a friend, the Entertainments Officer, running around in a graduation gown and mortar board like something out of Porterhouse Blue. He later said it was the most embarrassing thing he'd ever done and literally couldn't watch it. I think we were prewarned when it was first going to be on so we sat round waiting for it, and of course unanimously declared had we seen it prior to applying to Uni none of us would be sitting there now.

Bosco13

The woman from that Daniel O'Donnell gas safety and used to work in the same shop as me.
We weren't there at the same time but she popped in a few times when I was working.

https://youtu.be/3FmwMTuyszk

Dr Rock

I know one of the now possibly transphobic 'Bounty Strong Kitchen Tissues' ads.

#23
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popcorn

Used to work with the brother of the guy who played Adrian Mole in the 80s TV series, he said it had ruined his life and was relentlessly bitter about it.

Jockice

This woman worked round the corner from where I did. I stood behind her in a paper shop queue once. We didn't converse so I can't really claim I know her, but it's the best I've got.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsOQXwakYQ

holyzombiejesus

If anyone was at school with that little shit who was in the Fruitella I'm Too Juicy adverts, please tell me he was bullied mercilessly. I fucking loathe that horrible wanker.

EDIT: Only just seen this is a 3 1/2 year old thread.

EDIT2: Oh no, he's doing really well for himself :(

Pijlstaart

No adverts, a couple of people became the butt of jokes for TV appearances, but didn't get paid for the privilege. A fellow sixth former was widely mocked after making an arse of himself on question time, shami chakrabarti made a joke at his expense and the whole audience laughed at him. A teacher publicly outed himself on one of these reality TV shows, jigging about with glowsticks and a fauxhawk in a gay club.

Someone from my school later appeared on The Work Experience and it consumed her, the heady heights were too great and nearly a full decade later her social media consists only of references to the show. It broke her. I saw Diane Morgan finagling with a very fluffy dog outside great ormond street hospital some weeks ago, presumably to taunt the sick children, when will she be held to account?

Well I used to work with a bloke who claimed to have been an occasional stand-in for the Phantom Flan Flinger (one for the kids there). I have my doubts though.

studpuppet

I've just been reminded that my brother was at school with the kid that played Damien Thorn in Damien: Omen II.
As you can imagine, he didn't get bullied at school after that role.