John Lewis has divided opinion with its 2026 Christmas advert featuring ‘rude and entitled’ grandchildren and a glamorous grandmother who can’t seem to impress them.
Titled ‘Gloria and Pickles’, the three-minute advert features Oscar-nominated actress Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, 66, who has everything in life bar the approval of her grandchildren.
In need of gift-giving inspiration, Gloria enlists the help of her childhood toy pull- along, Pickles the sausage dog, voiced by Paul Whitehouse.
The old friends rush off together in a rickshaw in a last-minute hunt for presents and arrive at John Lewis where Gloria finds her much needed spark.
But since its
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