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-Additional reporting by Sinéad O’Carroll
Banned
Too sexy, too violent or plain offensive: 20 ads banned in the UK
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THE UK’S SEEMINGLY easy-to-offend Advertising Standards Authority recently deemed Ryanair’s flight-attendants-in-their-underwear calendar campaign too offensive for public consumption.
The ASA pulled the plug on the airline’s newspaper ad which features underwear-clad staffers pose under the headline, “RED HOT FARES & CREW”. It had received just 17 complaints and the Jezebel blog noted, “meh, I’ve seen worse”.
The watchdog examines between ten to 15 ads each week and it only takes one complaint for an ad to be axed.
Here are 20 of the sexy/violent/offensive ads that have been banned in the UK:
Ryanair
Drop Dead
Lynx
Marc Jacobs
Miu Miu
Israel
Palestine
Apple
l'Oreal
L'Oreal - Repeat Offenders
Olay
Yves Saint Laurent
YSL - Repeat Offenders
Beyonce Heat
Phones4U
Tesco
Final Destination 5
Boobs
Diesel
Newspaper Marketing Agency
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