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• Katie Price Instagram post banned by advertising watchdog over diet claim

  03-04-2024 13:51
  
  Sponsored video promoted ultra low calorie diet without encouraging users to take medical advice, regulator rulesA post on Katie Price’s Instagram account has been banned by the UK’s advertising regulator for irresponsibly encouraging a low calorie diet, while simultaneously failing to disclose it was an advert and making unauthorised weight loss claims.The Instagram reel, a video shared on the glamour model’s account in August 2023, depicts her making meals throughout the day
  
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• Nationwide TV ads starring Dominic West banned as misleading

  03-04-2024 01:01
  
  ASA says sneering bank manager character wrongly suggests building society has not closed any branchesAdverts featuring the actor Dominic West as a sneering bank manager will be pulled from TV in their current form after the advertising watchdog ruled they were misleading because they wrongly suggest that the building society had not closed branches.The Advertising Standards Authority (Asa) received 281 complaints, including one from rival lender Santander, about the advert, which ran in October
  
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