{"id":178415,"date":"2025-12-07T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178415\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T00:22:09","slug":"pat-stacey-the-12-best-and-worst-christmas-ads-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178415\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Stacey: The 12 best and worst Christmas ads of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It\u2019s Kevin the Carrot vs Puss in Boots in the battle of the festive telly adverts\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kevin the Carrot and his fianc\u00e9e Katie finally tie the knot in this year\u2019s Aldi Christmas advert; presumably they didn\u2019t celebrate with a slice of carrot cake. Photo: Aldi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ifkevin married.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kevin the Carrot and his fianc\u00e9e Katie finally tie the knot in this year\u2019s Aldi Christmas advert; presumably they didn\u2019t celebrate with a slice of carrot cake. Photo: Aldi<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s time again for the round-up of the retailers\u2019 Christmas adverts that will eventually have you scrambling to hit the mute button on your remote control whenever they appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Kevin the Carrot vs Puss in Boots in the battle of the festive telly adverts Kevin the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9484,93,61,60,9617],"class_list":["post-178415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-christmas","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}