Don’t you find it freaky when dead stars turn up to appear in TV adverts. I always remember the very first one I saw back in the 1980s where Alfred Hitchcock (another Leytonstone boy) made a comeback to flog some product. Since then anyone from Marilyn Monroe to Gene Kelly has been digitally revived and employed by nefarious advertisers intent on parting you from your cash.
However, one good use of this virtual body-snatching technology is to revive the late, great Bob Monkhouse and to get him to warn us men about the perils of the disease that killed him, prostate cancer. Bob was a great and his brilliance is missed from our TV screens, so it was both nice and somewhat disturbing to see the advert:
But it is in a good cause and you can donate money at: www.giveafewbob.org.
Of course, The Missus told me that she’d read that one of the best ways to stave off the onset of prostate cancer is to keep your bits working properly and some experts recommend that frequent masturbation helps. This is why I am currently wanking like a safari park chimp in order to squeeze a few more years out of my pathetic life.
(That last bit was a joke, OK?)