Gocompare.com Gocompare.com GoCompare is a British financial services comparison website, established in Wales in 2006. It provides comparison details for financial products including car insurance, home and pet insurance and breakdown cover. Since 2009 its adverts have featured a fictional Italian tenor named Gio Compario (played by Welsh tenor Wynne Evans), which have been voted "most irritating advertisement". It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. GoCompare was established in November 2006 and is based in Newport, Wales. The company's founder was Hayley Parsons, who worked for Admiral Insurance for 14 years, and was formerly head of business development at Confused.com.
The Office (UK TV series) The Office (UK TV series) The Office is a British television mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the UK on BBC Two on 9 July 2001. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the program is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough branch of the fictional Wernham Hogg Paper Company. Gervais also stars in the series, playing the central character, David Brent. Two six-episode series were made, along with a pair of 58-minute Christmas specials. When it was first shown on BBC Two, it was nearly cancelled due to low ratings, but it has