Ant and Dec, The Muppets and The Spice Girls were the stars of some of our favourite vintage Christmas adverts

As is the cast every Christmas season, we’re currently being flooded with near-constant festive ads every time we switch on the TV.

While some of them might well surprise and delight us, come next Christmas we’ll likely have forgotten about most of them.

However, there are a select few that stand the test of time and even provide some seasonal nostalgia when we look back on them.

With that in mind, we’re talking a trip down (a snowy) memory lane with a round-up of ads that will take you right back to Christmases past...

Tesco (2007)

Yes, that really is Vicky Beckham pushing a trolley up and down the aisles of Tesco.

Posh teamed up with her fellow Spice Girls for a series of ads for Tesco in 2007 ahead of their reunion world tour the following year.

Watching this back now, we can’t help but feel we were robbed of a festive sequel to their film Spiceworld.

Andrex (1992)

A cute puppy frolicking in the snow chasing loo roll with a duck – what’s not to love?

Actually, maybe the Slade soundtrack, but let’s not get into that one.

Yellow Pages (1992)

Younger readers probably have no idea what the Yellow Pages even was, but before the days of Google, people had to look up phone numbers in a big book that would get dropped off at your house a couple of times a year.

It also came in handy for a number of other things too, as their 1992 Christmas ad proved.

Marks & Spencer (2002)

The early 2000s M&S Christmas adverts regularly featured a hefty roll-call of celebrities, but they really scored in 2002 when they signed up David Beckham to appear alongside the likes of Graham Norton, Denise Van Outen,

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