Most pointless personal appearance

[Gwylan]

My local branch of the Halifax is advertisng that Howard Brown will be making a personal appearance there next week.

Anyone got any idea why? I can understand people making PAs at bookstores or musicstores as they're going to sell more books but do the Halifax really think that HB is going to shift more mortgages?

And is he that big a draw anyway? All he's famous for is appearing in a few ads - he seems to have managed to become a celeb for no apparent reason and with no discernible talents. I've nothing against the guy, good luck to him for striking lucky, but this rise of 'celebrity' culture is beginning to piss me off.

I've half a mind to take my business away from Halifax in protest.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Howard Brown played himself in an episode of The Office. That means he's a big star.

 

[Cian]

Curly Watts opened a local supermarket here... why, I dunno. Probably got paid 10K for the occasion and all.

 

[MattBackHome]

Apparently he's turning up, like he does in the advert, in his bling-mobile to Western Road branch sometime soon. The staff have been given fake bling gold chains and cuff links and are none too pleased about having to wear them I am reliably informed. So there you go.

 

[JJ McClure]

I'd quite like to see him make a personal appearance. Just so I could beat the living shit out of the smug specky irritating wanker.

 

[Easy 10]

Eamonn Holmes opened that branch of Sock Shop which was on the corner of Churchil Square (think its a mobile phone shop now).

I was going to go along, but I had to boil a pan of water.

 

[Hampden Park]

Eamonn Holmes opened that branch of Sock Shop which was on the corner of Churchil Square (think its a mobile phone shop now).

I was going to go along, but I had to boil a pan of water.

to wash your hair with

 

[Easy 10]

Something like that. I can't remember. That or an egg.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Kitten from Big Brother appearing at Carphone Warehouse after she had been evicted.

Was hilarious because she was in the argus saying how she hated big business etc then at the bottom in small font it said 'Kitten will be appearing at Carphone Warehouse on Saturday to meet fans'.

 

[Gwylan]

But why? Do these people really have fans?

What sort of sad gimp do you have to be to want to go along to a bank branch because some nonentity is there?

 

[Meade's Ball]

Christopher Biggins started a fun-run i was in. Why that huge tart was needed to fire a gun i don't know. Unless it was into his own wobbling jowls.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I could sort-of maybe possibly just about think about considering this not to be entirely cretinously pointless if we were talking about such figures advertising fairly insignificant products - sweets, toilet cleaner, instant coffee or lager.

But is there really anyone stupid enough to think, "Hmm, now I WOULD have gone with the Portland with my £350,000 loan and saved myself £700 a year. But did they have a grinning, eager-to-please bespectacled tone-deaf singing himbo like the Halifax? Did they f***. Screw them."

 

[pasty]

I'd quite like to see him make a personal appearance. Just so I could beat the living shit out of the smug specky irritating wanker.

Get in the queue.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Does anyone remember George Cohen doing his after-dinner speech at the Albion end of season bash at the Brighton Centre in 2001?

1,000 pissed punters not listening at all. Marvellous scenes.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

There have been two adverts in five minutes with Howard Brown in, on C4. wHY is he famous?