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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Nancy Durrant

M&S Christmas advert 2023 review: the Wrexham owners are muscling in on the Xmas ad market

In a move that is sure to enrage fans of, well, mostly Notts County FC, the ubiquitous proprietors and co-chairmen of the club's arch rivals Wrexham have inevitably muscled in on the British Christmas Advert market. And they are going big. This is not just a Christmas ad...

This first, modest little spot, released this morning, is the first in M&S Food's new 'six-part blockbuster ad series', helmed for the third year running by Dawn French's bob-wearing Christmas fairy, and introducing Right and Left, a pair of mittens owned by a young girl named Lily (I assume eventually we will meet Lily. So far we are mostly taking a tour through M&S food, not something I would do in a pair of polyester gloves but the Christmas ad logic is not to be questioned) voiced by Hollywood superstar Ryan Reynolds and the other one (Rob McElhenney).

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