She said the theme felt timely and that parents struggled to connect with their teens. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the time it\u2019s because kids are walking around with blooming headphones on listening to their own music.\u201d<\/p>\n
The John Lewis ad has become a fixture the British festive season, described by the Independent as \u201cthe UK\u2019s equivalent to Hallmark movies\u201d.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s ad plays on themes of family bonding and unspoken communication, the pair sharing a moment of genuine connection through music.<\/p>\n
The father finds one last present addressed to him under the tree – a vinyl of Allison Limerick\u2019s iconic dance track Where Love Lives gifted to him by his son.<\/p>\n
When he listens to the record, he is transported back through his memories, from his youth in the 90s raving, to the birth of his son.<\/p>\n
It ends with the pair sharing a touching hug, text sharing the sentiment \u201cif you can\u2019t find the words, find the gift\u201d.<\/p>\n
Actor Jack Alridge, who played the son, appeared on ITV\u2019s This Morning to discuss the ad, the Daily Mail reports, relating the experience to his own life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was raised on The Beatles by my dad, I\u2019ve introduced him to Sam Fender\u201d, he said, going on to share his excitement at starring in the popular ad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember the John Lewis ads when I was growing up and talking about it the next day at school, comparing it to the previous ones.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said the theme felt timely and that parents struggled to connect with their teens. \u201cMost of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85097,74,6190,14801,46300,3595,18399,6097,156,85096,12022,5126,27494,32033,111,43,139,69,10903,41167,73172,1961,61,413,65508,1530],"class_list":["post-120904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-advert","tag-after","tag-bev","tag-british","tag-broke","tag-by","tag-christmas","tag-down","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-host","tag-john","tag-lewis","tag-moved","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-popular","tag-presenter","tag-tears","tag-this","tag-to","tag-turner","tag-watching","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}