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Originally Posted by Pedro the Fisherman
A UK TV commercial for Persil washing powder, which sounds rather dull. However this was a take on the BBC TV Castaway programme and the people concerned only have one set of clothes! It was on terrestrial TV, so only rear views are seen. However, one of the girls looks like a young Rebecca Front, from lots of more recent comedy shows on TV, any thoughts?
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If people like this, I posted a couple of different VHS scans of this ad in the thread starting from this post:
https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/sho...#post27 89877
The woman definitely isn't Rebecca Front, though I agree there's a slight resemblance. Her CV is online - not sure if I should post it, though it is publicly available - but if you search for 'persil' and 'blowing in the wind', which was one of the official names for the ad, you'll be able to work out who it is.
Actually, the guy who was the creative director for it recently described the advert on an Instagram post:
'This Persil & Hotpoint ad was a parody of BBC's reality TV show Castaway (2000-01). It was shot during winter on a cliff top in Ireland 😱 and was the first UK commercial with lots of nudity. The casting process was excruciating as I had to ask total strangers to remove all their clothing in front of me. I reckon if they could do it without embarrassment they'd be okay to do it in front of a film crew. At the shoot, the wind machine used to blow the clothes off the line 'exploded' and a flying shard missed me by an inch and stuck in the portacabin next to me. Close shave.'
Sadly the version included on the post was no different - I was hoping for another edit - and in worse resolution. But fun to know about the casting process.