Who is that bearded chap who comes on British TV trying to sell us Safestyle UK windows?

toughynutter

"Ken Bates is the new Ted Moult. Picking up, with typically brazen aplomb, the mantle of the late countryman who, back in the golden age of double-glazing adverts, urged the nation to “Fit the best, fit Everest”, the Leeds United chairman and perpetually bristling controversialist is the new face of Safestyle windows of Bradford. ...you, too, may be privileged to catch sight of a dashingly bearded gentleman with a twinkle in his eye and a window over his shoulder. (I mean behind him. We don’t see Bates humping the things around. That wouldn’t be dignified.) " http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/giles_smith/article1421024.ece Mar 19 07, 12:09 AM

gmackematix

I haven't yet seen "beloved" football chairman Ken Bates in such adverts yet. I was, in fact, referring to the notorious stary-eyed town crier type who comes on shouting in a Yorkshire accent: "YOU BUY ONE YOU GET ONE FREE! ...I SAID YOU BUY ONE YOU GET ONE FREE!" I think he is probably the "Windowman" mentioned in your article. Anyway, as he is one of the people most likely to make me put my foot through the TV, I would like to know who this git is. And I would suggest that the next advert sees him plummeting head first through one of the said windows... Mar 19 07, 4:47 PM