And what a world it is ... How could Faisel have know that a chance opportunity to serve a tourist in distress would resort in a meeting with his hero? NOW... who is Faisels hero ? its Myleen Klass of course, the poor man we are told sits at home wondering what it would be like to meet Myleen Klass, the girl from hearsay. More respect could be offered were it Danny or Noel even but Myleen klass. On another up pops Martin Clunes and looks to camera and says its exciting , its surprising its exhilirating its different its , its, its . NOW.. martin clunes is an inteligent man and should know better than allow someones hand up the back of his shirt for cash and a free holiday, but that aside. He is known as one of the two dim charachters who starred in Men behaving badly a 90's sitcom that put back male sterotype decades and made thousands of men everywhere happy to pretend to be beer monsters interested in little else. It was the tv equivilant of the baseball cap with holders each side for a can of beer and a long tube running to your mouth. Do the PR agency responsible for those adds feel that thet are selecting the type of add and type of celebrity that racing fans relate to? if so pity us all.
Its not an advert that the average person relates too.The city does look stunning,with Meydan racecourse inc. But Myleen Klass is a nice looking girl if a bit of a ZZZZ-list celeb.A random person on the street wouldn't know who she was.Fat Freddy flintoff being somebodies hero seems a bit far fetched.FF then picks a shirt out of his bag and signs it.How the hell did he know that this random guy hero worshiped him?....bit presumptuous of flintoff i think.
Interesting that all 3 girls from that group did themselves well but the two lads were never heard of again, as far as I know.
Last time i saw Suzanne she was getting her kit off on the net....didnt know she was doing alright for herself.
The 3 girls were all pretty tasty, that's probably why they done well for themselves! These Dubai adverts are pretty pointless don't they realise that most people watching the racing spend all there money gambling, they don't have spare cash to waist on trips to Dubai. Personally I wouldn't go to Dubai even If I was a multi millionaire, when I go to Spain I spend half the time sat in my room with the air con on full whack. So I wouldn't last 5 mins in Dubai
These Dubai ads leading into and coming out of the main ad breaks have been doing my head in for ages. Every single time its matey boy taxi driver finds Mylene’s purse and determined to return it to her (it must be 100/1 that happening in this country) calls his chum who arranges for him to access the old VIP area of the racecourse. Mylene is, of course, delighted by his honesty and generosity of spirit. Dear old Freddie Flintoff, who happens to be standing nearby, is similarly overcome and immediately scrawls his name on a shirt, he happens to have nearby, and hands it to matey boy taxi driver. And they all live happily ever after... But despite this wonderful message can they please come up with some new ‘episodes’.
The taxi driver’s hero must be Freddie Flintoff because he had Myleene Klass in his cab – he could have just locked the doors and driven off with her into the desert. I am not sure how the dizzy mare manages to get into a cab with only her handbag and then get out and leave it. She is not short of a few quid if she can afford to visit Dubai but she must be really dippy to forget her money, her ID and her lipstick in such an authoritarian country. If he rented pedallos instead of driving a taxi, our hero would be Freddie’s best friend in Dubai. If Dubai’s sponsorship is what is keeping racing on Channel 4 then so be it, but I do not see me visiting there anytime soon simply on the principle of “if you can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen”. Hot, expensive part of the World stuffed with religious nutters – as a deathly shade of white European I would be easy to spot five times a day when I did not get my prayer mat out.
On a separate point re Channel 4 and sport do you know that they have spent £5 million to secure the rights to show next summer ‘Paralympic Games’??? Don’t know if this will effect their racing budget in any way.
Im still wating for the final installment of the Dubai adverts: Man (aged mid 30s) and woman (aged early 30s) walking along the road, holding hands, enjoying the heat. Man leans over and romatically pecks the girl on the cheek. A policeman stops and asks them if the are married, the couple reply no. Next scene they are being taken away in a police car, back to the station where a sweaty man interviews them under on of those lamps. Then shows them being thrown in jail. 3 months later they are in the same clothes and are finally freed by the embassy.
SBC....5 million quid for that load of bollocks, I can see it now, the racing coverage being cut short to take in live coverage of the men's 1 armed swimming final
I'm looking forward to the one where they show an Indian man arriving at the airport on the promise of a job in the construction industry. The voice over can say "How could sanjay have known that the job he was promised involved having his passport confiscated, working 17 hours a day in searing heat with little or no safety measures, being paid no money and living on the floor of a squalid decrepit tenement building the likes of which nobody actually knew existed in Dubai?"
Excellent post Chippy - a man after my own heart. I despise Dubai and all it stands for. Back to TV adverts - I actually like the one with the woman with the cane and flip chart. Very tastefully shot.
