I feel that I should draw your attention to this fellow:
His name is Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. Well of course it is! You don't cultivate a look like this and call yourself Bruce Bloggs. He is an interior designer and appears to be somewhat of a minor celebrity in the UK. I'm sure that he's a perfectly decent person in real life but they have really made him look an absolute twit here.
Photographed to endorse various companies making "bespoke" furniture; the advertisements are memorable but not in the way they intended, I'm sure. . . I actually look for the ads each time I get a copy of this mag but couldn't actually tell you what the rooms look like as I can't take my eyes of Laurence.
In his awkward, overdressed glory.
Here he is looking relaxed in a kitchen. Just about to whip up a batch of scones...obviously.
Hey, hey in a bathroom. Oops someone maybe should have cropped out the chinless profile reflection.
And my personal favourite, "Chika chika boom, ladies here's a bedroom...with me in it". I'll just make it look like I'm buttoning up my jacket - next to this purposely tousled bed (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
Snort!
That's funny! As you know I am quite an insomniac and on a couple of occasions I caught a 'reality' show with him and his family renovating a charming country house- they are all quite mad and despite all the 'overdressedness' and poncing there was a part where he was playing dress ups with his little girls and another of him being playful with his tubby gin and tonic drinking wife, I have to say I developed quite a soft spot for him.
ReplyDeleteYes, you see when I googled him I got the impression that he wasn't an awful chap (his g&t wife has also lost mega weight btw by stopping the g&ts). Anyhow, it is just how absurd they make him look in these ads makes me giggle.
ReplyDeleteme too!
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