garon michael played the gorilla in the cadbury advert.
garon michael played the gorilla in the cadbury advert.
who played the gorilla in the cadbury advert?
garon michael
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gorilla is a british advertising campaign launched by cadbury schweppes in 2007, to promote cadbury dairy milk-brand chocolate. the 90-second television and cinema advertisement, which formed the centrepiece of the £6.2 million campaign, was created and directed by juan cabral and starred actor garon michael. the campaign itself, which comprised appearances on billboards, print newspapers and magazines, television and cinema spots, event sponsorships and an internet presence, was handled by advertising agency fallon london, with the online segment contracted out to hyper.
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the campaign was well received by the british public. the commercial was uploaded to video sharing website youtube shortly after it first aired, and was viewed over 500,000 times in the first week. as of november 2007, it has been viewed over six million times across a large number of video sharing webhosts. 70 facebook groups appreciating the ad have been set up, with one, named "we love the cadbury's drumming gorilla", boasting 200 members. a number of spoofs and parodies were quickly uploaded by amateurs with the tacit approval of cadbury, and the british branch of wonderbra created and uploaded their own, dan cadan-directed version of the advertisement, replacing the gorilla with wonderbra model (and musician) jentina with the cadbury strapline "a glass and half full of joy" being replaced with "two cups full of joy." while cadbury tacitly permitted limited display and modification of the commercial without authorisation, the wonderbra spot was later removed from youtube following notification from phil collins limited that the piece infringed their copyright to "in the air tonight." "gorilla" was further parodied as an introduction to the second half of the 2007 children in need special, with an actor dressed as pudsey bear taking the central role. british comedy series the mighty boosh features a drumming gorilla named bollo, played by dave brown, and the actor appeared as bollo in a viral video auditioning for the cadbury advert to promote the third series of the show. this video was later included as an easter egg on the dvd release of series three.
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