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Student’s fake John Lewis Christmas advert is runaway hit

The annual anticipation ahead of the release of John Lewis’s Christmas ad in itself is faintly ludicrous, providing plenty of opportunity for mashups and parodies rapidly deployed online. Yet this year Christmas has come early for one A-level student who has racked up hundreds of thousands of views for an ad many believed was genuinely the much loved retailer’s latest offering long before the real thing is released.