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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

Food retailers enlist celebrities as Christmas ad rivalry moves online

Graham Norton holds a Christmas party dish in the advert
Waitrose has hired Saatchi & Saatchi to make an ad based around a stylised slick party, featuring a cameo by the chatshow host Graham Norton. Photograph: Waitrose

Food retailers have recruited an army of celebrities with internet clout for their festive advertising campaigns as they battle for digital influence this Christmas and try to tap into a burgeoning market for partying at home.

Marks & Spencer has signed up Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, the US actors whose purchase of Wrexham AFC and accompanying Disney+ documentary have increased their fame in the UK, for its food Christmas ad.

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