Nicole Kidman: "Face of the meerkats"

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I forgave Paul Whitehouse for the awful Aviva / Norwich Union ads as it'd been a while since the Fast Show but I've just seen Nicole Kidman on a "Compare The Market / Meerkat" ad. AIBU to be a bit

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why insurance costs so bloody much]]

What's most shocking about it is that it uses the music from Tom Cruise's Top Gun!

I can't get over the fact that the 'love theme' music in the ad is from Top Gun and therefore associated with her EX-HUSBAND Tom Cruise. Seems a bit insensitive to me .

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I wondered about the Top Gun music as well, but decided she must have agreed to it and was taking the piss out of him by pretending to date a really short, irritating, hamster faced creature.

hygge

Bloody hell = I hadn't even spotted that!

not just Nicole, Arnold Sch. too! sorry can't spell the surname ha.

Is it me or does she look like she's had some work done on her face?

Is it me or does she look like she's had some work done on her face?

Yeah, video filters. They smooth out the skin and make people look younger.

Her dress could have been a better fit.

They don't actually sell car insurance they're just a comparison site. The prices come from the insurers themselves.

True, but the cost of running the comparison site and all their advertising is still ultimately paid by insurance customers

I was more shocked when Sly Stallone popped up to advertise bread

Are these Hollywood stars skint?

I thought the OP was going to be a comment on La Kidman's use of botox and fillers ie her jazzed up face looks like that of a meerkat.

I thought it was taking the piss out of TC too!

AnyoneButAndre
True, but the cost of running the comparison site and all their advertising is still ultimately paid by insurance customers

That is true, but they market themselves on finding you the cheapest quote (and seems to work) - therefore, paying large amounts on marketing is still cheaper for the end customer than using a company who doesn't use large amounts of advertising. Those smaller, less-advertised, more expensive companies, what are they charging for?

I knew what this thread would be about as soon as I read the title because I was so shocked to see her in a meerkats advert with her 'filter-improved' face that I Googled to check it was actually her. And then I was a bit disappointed that she was in a meerkats advert although I love Hygge's interpretation

I think when your career's on the decline, you do ads abroad that no-one in Hollywood will see, if you're one of these people...

Sadder to see Willem Dafoe on the BT ad as BT are nothing more than shysters and I loved him in 'Platoon' and also rated him as a decent actor. Nothing wrong with paying their mortgage/divorce settlements etc, but... BT? I also loathe the BT ad as it is one of those self indulgent ads-about-marketing-men the marketing men so love.

Always hated those fecking meerkats but rather loved Nicole ever since she was in that BMX film as a little ginger Aussie kid. It's the same feeling I got when she sang that duet with Robbie Williams. Oh no, Nicole, why did you do that?

'that no-one else will see' - that was before You-tube, surely....

I loved that duet with Robbie.

I dunno. I doubt Hollywood producers are combing YouTube for anyone's dodgy European ads back catalogue...

American stars have always done this. It's a quick way to make a nice wodge of cash in Japan or wherever.

The Al Pacino ad for Sky Broadband was depressing though.

Kavin Bacon and EE makes me go

I quite like the Kevin Bacon ads.

Plus he needs the money, Bernie Madoff stole all his savings apparently.