Has Trevor Mcdonald Sold Out?

[Bathsheba]

I was shocked to see him in this advert for Vision Express earlier tonight.
At first it seems like a trailer for a TV programme.
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2015/06/06/ad-day-vision-express-sir-trevor-mcdonald

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[gingejbee]

Why "sold out"? Sir T. still has to make a living somehow!

[andy-hughes]

It is a ludicrously overblown affair - rather like TM himself - I always think if a listed building could talk, this is what it would sound like.

I'm not sure he has 'sold out' - but the implied notion that his sight is more valuable because of the things he has seen is derisory.

I go to Specsavers because Vision Express are like their ads - overblown and overpriced.

[Prudie]

I think gone are the days when we used to think celebrities in ads meant their careers were on a downward slope and they needed the money. I think now it's on the 'got to do list' and at least it's a serious thing to be selling.

[Hopkirk]

Michael Burke is doing annoying radio ads for 3 mobile.

[gingejbee]

...I should have said that I haven't seen the ad (so can't comment on the actual content)....we don't watch any of the ads, at all.

[Bathsheba]

@ginge....you'll see the ad if you click on the link

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[-Talbot-]

Perhaps if he was painted orange and was running round like a demented gibbon occasionally stopping to slap someone round the face or shout 'ORANGES' in their earhole...then I would say yes.
But as it's only glasses I think it's ok

[gingejbee]

Baths....I can't blame him for doing ads, although I agree that the style/content was inappropriate for selling specs.

[retrocop]

Trevor Mc Donut is an honoury member of the Bank of England Sports club which is situated in Priory Lane ,Roehampton He has been described to me as a person who is most obnoxious when frequently inebriated and has a massive chip on his shoulder.Nothing surprises me about people of his kind.
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[FrogNog]

Chip on his shoulder about what Retro?

[Bathsheba]

off to watch Midland Hotel prog now....was good last week ;)

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[douglas9401]

Funny how some folk become national treasures for reading out loud.

[Prudie]

I've never liked him

[retrocop]

Frognog
You tell me. I do not approach obnoxious drunks and ask what their problem is.
I just stand back and form my own opinions as to the pathetic persona they really portray outside of the tv camera lense

[FrogNog]

Okay.
You seem to have formed your opinion based on hearsay though.

[retrocop]

Baths
I frequently stayed at the Midland Hotel on Police business.There was a disco in the evening in the basement bar. I remember being approached by a lady who looked like my mother who asked if I would like a b... job back in my room .She said I would have to wear a rubber though. My wife and I still laugh about this. I told her that would be like eating a ham sandwich with the cling film wrapping on. She replied, "Yes chuck but it is me who is eating the sandwich". Hope you're son doesn't come across these wanton Jezibels in his career . On second thoughts I hope he does. It is times like that which helps you get over the stress and have a laugh afterwards. :-)

[retrocop]

For anyone who is interested or even left wondering the answer is NO. I joined my companions for a few ales and then went to bed alone. :-)

[retrocop]

Frognog @ 2108
I also was an honoury guest at that club.I saw Mc Donut a few times there drunk. He wasn't particularly obnoxious to me but I have come across many sots in my lifetime.He was obnoxious to others, believe me, but as a fellow guest I felt it was not my place to object.If he had been obnoxious to me then I would have had a polite word in his ear.

[Bathsheba]

Well, I'm a bit shocked + surprised at some of these posts! I always regarded Trevor as a National Treasure, although Douglas thinks he definitely isn't!

@Retro...lol! I'm sure there's plenty going on in my son's job that he doesn't tell me about ;) But the lovely Trevor drunk?? Wow, that does surprise me!

Thanks for all your input

Baths
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[-Talbot-]

Well, I'm a bit shocked + surprised at some of these posts!

Just in case my post confused/shocked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV8zGNe7Ebg