Jarvis Cocker hanging from a lamp-post in new BT Broadband ad, C/D

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Aside from the obvious question of "Is he skint already?", why is it that after spending two albums and 6 years trying to escape from his old "Common People"-esque image, and claiming in interviews that he's moved on from that and everything and he's not a celebrity anymore, he has to appear in a British Telecom Broadband ad appearing as his old 1995 self (glasses, suit and hair and all)?

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

to say nothing of tonight Matthew I'll be Rolf on Stars In Their Eyes.

The fact that Island Records have just dropped Pulp may not be unrelated.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 23 September 2002 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Remember he was in an advert for... Nat West (I think) a few years back. In cartoon form, but still...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

> Remember he was in an advert for... Nat West (I think) a few years back. In cartoon form, but still...

i think that was done without his permission - after a week or so a new version of the ad appeared with all his bits cut out.

andy

― koogs, Monday, 23 September 2002 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i stand corrected:

nme.com pulp biog:
Jun 1999: With his permission, a Jarvis lookalike figure appears in a NatWest bank TV commercial, while another, unsanctioned Cocker doppelganger is appearing in a Eurostar ad.

andy

― koogs, Monday, 23 September 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't believe any 1 thought he'd do it for the money.
pulp still split everything 5 ways. can't think of
many others doing *that* these days.

― piscesboy, Monday, 23 September 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

...with all his bits cut out.
Just let it go, Dan ;-)

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I have not seen it but BTinternet are dud so I declare everything to do with them dud.

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 September 2002 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Does Rebecca have to right about EVERYTHING?
(My dad's gonna kill me etc)

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― Graham (graham), Friday, 27 September 2002 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 27 September 2002 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Finally saw the ad round Suzy's the other day. It is hysterically funny. You could have nightmares about popstars errupting out of the internet like that...

― kate, Friday, 27 September 2002 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

Never knew that his mother was an important member of the Conservative Party in Sheffield.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 12:36 (seventeen years ago)

there needs to be a moratorium on jarvis' presence in the media for the next twelve months.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 12:39 (seventeen years ago)

You've just made Marcello's day (xp)

― Tom D., Wednesday, 4 June 2008 13:02 (seventeen years ago)

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