M&S launches Christmas advert with James Norton as Santa

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M&S has debuted its 2026 Christmas advert, starring actors James Norton and Lucy Punch as Mr and Mrs Claus. 

M&S launched the advert on social media today (6 November), which shows Santa, played by Norton, shave off his beard and experience an incognito Christmas outside of the North Pole for the first time. 

 

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