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STREETS AHEAD
G
alaBingo.com’s partnership with UK
television soap opera Coronation Street
should be a winner given the millions of
viewers each episode attracts and the oh-sobingo demographic.
The operator clearly knows its target
audience, hiring two dashingly handsome men
(below) to promote the site, who will no doubt
turn viewers weak at the knees.
Gala also launched a Facebook app encouraging
players to upload photos of themselves dressed
as their favourite Corrie characters, with the best
lookalikes winning Corrie merchandise and
cash prizes.
For TSG to bother hiring a butcher’s uniform
and hat, shaving our head and holding a
cardboard cut-out of a bingo ball, those would
need to be pretty big cash prizes…
STOCKING FILLERS
The list of the biggest-selling
Christmas toys has become one
of the festive season’s traditions
in recent years, as the likes of
the Cabbage Patch Dolls and
Tamagotchis became the musthave item for kids across the
globe. All bets are on the Furby
Boom to top this year’s cha… ah,
as if we care!
Those Paddy Power scamps,
however, have got the right idea
by making a market on adult toys
set to fly off the shelves in 2013.
There’s no Lego bricks or Barbie
dolls in sight in this list – unless
that’s what you’re into – but
instead the bookie is currently
taking bets on which sex toy will
top Ann Summers’ sales chart
throughout December.
Although not exactly
surprised, TSG is at a loss as to
how traders at Paddys began
pricing this up. Did a jiggling joblot of Vibrating Knickers (evens)
and Mini Rampant Rabbits (9/2)
turn up at the operator’s Dublin
HQ, or was the team already
adequately acquainted with what
Ann Summers’ products have
to offer?
Whatever you buy your family,
folks, just be careful to put it in
the right stocking.
ELEMENTARY MY DEAR…
I
t’s fair to say that Labour MP and FOBT
denouncer Tom Watson had a tricky few days
in November, after he found himself engaged
in a Twitter spat with William Hill’s head of
public affairs and UK compliance Andrew
Lyman.
With the new UK gambling bill getting its
third reading, Lyman took it upon himself to
pick holes in Watson’s arguments surrounding
FOBTs and accused the MP of gambling with
the livelihoods of 50,000 retail employees.
In doing so Lyman inadvertently revealed
himself to be in possession of a note Watson
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issued to a select few MPs and members of
the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee
(CMSSC). Watson grabbed the chance to
turn the argume