Three Lions legend films McDonald’s advert 25 years after classic World Cup ad
FOOTIE star Alan Shearer has rebooted his classic McDonald’s TV ad with the actor who played a cheeky autograph-hunter 25 years ago.
The burger chain’s original 1998 World Cup commercial featured Steve Hoyle, a teenage fan who would stop at nothing to get his hero’s signature.
In the new sequel, Steve, now 42, plays the dad of a girl who vows to go one better than her father by getting a selfie with the former England and Newcastle ace.
The online ad echoes the telly original, with the determined lass using her job at McDonald’s to trick the Match of the Day pundit, 52, into posing for a photograph.
Viewers also hear Shearer’s daughter Chloe, who is now in her 30s but was just five in the original ad, reprise her role of begging her dad to get a McDonald’s.
Shearer said: “Times have changed since I shot the first advert.
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I don’t get many people asking me for signatures any more — now they’re all after selfies.”
“Steve said meeting the football star again after 25 years was “pretty emotional”.
He added: “As soon as Alan walked through the door, he waved and acknowledged me.”
The actor showed his hero a cheque he’d signed — part of a ruse to get his autograph in the original ad — which the married dad-of-two had kept as a souvenir.
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Steve said: “I pulled out the cheque and said, ‘Do you recognise this?’
“He was like, ‘Oh my, God! Yeah, that’s definitely mine’.”
The new advert, which is being launched on social media, marks McDonald's customers donating the equivalent of 100,000 meals to its FareShare redistribution project since the launch of the MyMcDonald’s Rewards scheme last year.
