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PR Tariff update: if it's good enough for Anthea...

Published Friday 1st September 2000 10:17 GMT

Small-fry TV presenter Anthea Turner and her cheesemonger new husband Grant Bovey have been lambasted in the press because the only released picture of their wedding consisting of the pair eating a new chocolate bar. Well, we're not going to be outdone, so we were straight on the phone to Cadbury's.

It wasn't so impressed, but we did manage to get the Costa Rican Banana Marketing Board, represented by Lynne Thomas of Lexicon Communications, to rush two of their finest bananas right round and took this exclusive shot for an undisclosed two-figure sum.

Proof that once again, we are unafraid of bad publicity and are, in fact, media whores.

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