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If you see Mariah Carey or the Coca-Cola truck, you can start looking forward to Christmas – is it time to add Dawn French and her Marks & Spencer’s advert to that list?

The British actress and comic, 68, has been involved with M&S Christmas adverts since 2021, voicing the magical Fairy who makes festive dreams come true.

She has been subbed out for Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Hannah Waddingham in the past, but then made her first on-screen appearance in the advert last year.

For 2025, she’s returned once more – not just as herself but as her fairy alter-ego – and she’s brought a TV chef along with her, who was the favourite to become a new MasterChef judge before bowing

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