Talk to Cadbury about the modern Milk Tray Man and you could win a £200 Experience Day Gift Card NOW CLOSED

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Thirty-five years since his first appearance, the Milk Tray Man is back and is being re-imagined for the 21st century. Cadbury are keen to hear from Mumsnetters about who they think best represents the modern Milk Tray Man (or woman!).

Cadbury say “The Milk Tray man is back and he’ll be daring but caring, thoughtful yet thrill-seeking - and he’ll go to any lengths to deliver a box of Milk Tray to a loved one.”

What traits do you think the modern Milk Tray Man or woman should have, and who do you think best embodies these qualities? Your favourite actor, dressed to thrill in a smart black polo neck and grappling hooks . Your best friend, who’s helped you through some tough times? Maybe your partner has all the key qualities?

Whomever you think represents the modern Milk Tray Man, Cadbury would love to hear about it.

Everyone who adds a comment will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £200 Experience Day Gift Card for you and your loved one(s).*

Find out more about the search for the new Milk Tray man here :

You can make your own nomination over here and don't forget to tell us on this thread too.

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as this is old fashioned it might as well be mr blobby

Bradley Cooper or David Beckham would be my choice.

Would it be wrong to say the modern "Milk Tray" man would bring much nicer chocolates. Gone are the days when anyone's impressed by a box of 60% sugar, 20% cocoa (just guessing!) chocolates.

Roger Federer he is as smooth as the chocolate

Someone who has done heroic deeds

Alexander Skarsgard!!

It's a cliche but then it's a very tongue-in-cheek ad, so I'd go for gorgeous George Clooney who has that cheeky smirk.

Holly Willoughby could leave me chocolates whenever she wanted!

Alezander Skarsgaard - he is stunning, fit, tall, emancipated (he doesn't mind doing his equal share of nudity! :) )

Matt Damon

I think it's about time we had a milk tray lady...I'd choose Keira knightley.

If I had to be a man then Idris Elba ( Luther ,Mandela ) or Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 years a slave).

I would love to see the milk tray man doing exceptional acrobatics into window to deliver box of chocolates, to then find he had delivered to next door neighbour, a lovely old lady who hits him over the head with her handbag and calls the police.

Simon Baker (from Mentalist) would be my ideal milk tray man ...

Yup I have to agree that any milk tray man, even if he was George Clooney would have to bring me some quality chocolate like Cadburys used to make

A spoof version with Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English would be fun!

What about male role models in a range of vocations - firefighters, teachers, soldiers, vets, doctors,nurses, policemen, athletes.

Gerard Butler would do for me, but update the choccys, they need a makeover as well as the advert

You could have a woman doing it too, or a man delivering to a man. That would be fun!

TBF, I'd much rather have Bendick's.

Okay, here's my suggestion!

Milk Tray Man should be a normal (preferably still fairly hunky) bloke, going about his everyday business as a builder, a police officer or an office worker etc. Someone a bit rugged like Richard Madden but doesn't have to be a well known actor.

He is going about his own merry day but suddenly spots a lady having a crap day - e.g. high heel breaks walking past the building site and falls in the mud, or wrestling a toddler into a buggy and getting nowhere, or just snowed under at work and getting pressure from her boss.

He gets out his gadget watch and pings Milk Tray Men HQ to call his team to action, dispatching any resources he needs. He gets changed in the nearest phonebox a la Superman and HQ navigate him exactly where to go to deliver the chocolates at just the right location with perfect timing.

I envisage it a bit like the Kingsmen secret service where there are several of them all acting for one secret organisation with a good cause... Except instead of being suited and booted they are 'undercover' agents in normal clothes and professions.

Well, I'd certainly like it if all that happened to me when I'm having a bad day

However I do agree with the PP who said "you don't need to wait for Mr Milktray man because we are capable of buying our own now if we want to" because I did actually buy myself a box of Milk Tray to guzzle while DH went away on a business trip recently...

George Clooney for me every time!

It should be a milk tray woman delivering to a man or a woman doesn't matter. The woman should be funny, friendly and intelligent...Jennifer Saunders springs to mind! I'd love her to deliver to me we could have a long chat and share the chocs!

He should be suave, devilishly debonair and witty…. With a raised eyebrow or two at amusing moments
The ability to be pulsing monument of testosterone but with the ability to rescue a kitten from a tree and soothe it afterwards

Ideally dressed in a navy pin stripe suit with a double windsor tie in a sharp magenta or turquoise. Double cuffs and sharp white shirt. Drool

Pierce Brosnan remains my ultimate milk tray man fantasy….. One day he will climb in through my bedroom window…. happy sigh

Bruce Willis

Jeremy Irons in a sweaty vest. And he's got to read out the description of each chocolate to me.

Um, Poldark, clearly. He has a stallion, breeches, smouldering eyes, sexy curls, rippling chest and a social conscience. The only thing missing from the equation now I come to think about it is the chocolate. So, perfect.

And yes, I know he's a fictional character, so his alter ego Aiden Turner.

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