Breakaway Advert

[Hulk2k6]

Breakways mmm... Remember Mum would put them in my packed lunch throughout Primary School. Good times.

Probably only about a quarter as nice now as they were back then.

[antichris78]

Marks used to do a knock off version of Breakaways that was also available in plain choc. If the head honcho in charge of biscuits at Marks is reading this could you bring them back please?

[RhodesLives]

wow i didnt think it was that old,guess i am now as well lol

[brandybuck1984]

Gid I remember this!

[mattjshaw1980]

@IJKUxProductionz You sound like quite a bitter gent. lol

[mattjshaw1980]

@martinwilliamrandall Oh dear dear, bad experience with scousers eh?

[concretebabybaby]

Don't take away my breakaway

[1davidlfc]

I remember this advert more then any from when I was younger, I then called breakaways wicked's after seeing this advert! And still nickname then wicked's now haha great advert!

[bedfordcrusader]

Yeah we all open them up like that dont we?

[nutbaggish]

Hey Matt were your ears supposed to be squashed up under that hat like that?lol

[XGangstarX]

ill tell ya something breakaway arent that big for a start their small

[foxcell]

but can you still buy breakaways?

[vaguelyvintage]

@foxcell yeah I think so - but only in mulipacks

[Christoffski]

@chrismallyon Too easy wasn't it? :P

[RichardBUnique]

Oh, my goodness, I remember this one so well. Totally Love it.

[lesalgeo]

Hiya Matt, im not too sure if u remember me or not, i also did the breakaway advert with you, Leslie from liverpool, i was wondering if u have a copy of the ''These are my brothers hand-me-downs'' advert?

Over the last god knows how many years i've written to Rowntrees and Nestle and never heard anything back, Hope u can help, Thanks Les

[mattjshaw1980]

Hiya guys...this is me in this commercial. Thanks for the comments, good and bad!lol, ps......fiveofseven it was 1986. x

[fiveofseven]

@mattjshaw1980 Thanks for the info and for dropping by.:-)

(Although the ad may have been made a year earlier, this recording is from a TV-AM ad-break that went out in late 1987.)

[tenthplanet1995]

@mattjshaw1980 omg i remember this advert!!! This must have been on tv long after 1986. i was born in 82 and I remember thisso it must have been shown into the 90s as well?

[frenchfrieperson1]

@mattjshaw1980 this is you in that commercial?...COOL!

[mattjshaw1980]

er......hiya guys....this is me on this ad! thanks for the comments. Good and Bad! lol x

[johnnytenjobs]

Sometimes they went wrong and the biscuit was replaced by solid chocolate.

[tommy119]

its wicked!!! lol

[ItsLottiee]

hate these bars!!

[alexvegas]

I used to consider the kid in this advert to be older than me. Very odd to see how young he is!

[dannyday58218195]

was it club or was it break way that had the song...

"if ya like a lot of chocolate on your buscuit....join our club!"...

oh wait....answered my own question there.

[sminkyminky42]

Great Ad.. does anyone recall the 80's rap breakaway ad.

it went something like this -

He was the meanest geezer in the city,uh huh real rough stuff not too pretty uh huh.. but he still remembers the fateful day that his Mum did say " I'll take away your Breakaway" Thats real milk chocolate around a crunchy biscuit, she coulda been bluffing but he couldn't risk it.

"OK Mum I'll do as you say... but don't take away my Breakaway"

Now that was class

[abhard6]

Back around 1983 to about 1986 you could get dark chocolate Breakaways they were in a red wrapper and absolutely delicious!

[zlmjslz]

ITS wiiked

[ElvisLivesUpstairs]

haha I could watch those old ad's for ages. My older bro was addicted to these.

[HewittLTD]

How hard?..............Steven Gerrard!!

[PauldoyleQQ]

His name is Lesley Taylor went to same high school as me, Rainhill High.

[scouserfourteen]

Is right! He's my cousin's lad and lived in Whiston. He's not 'Matthew Shaw.'

[mattjshaw1980]

@scouserfourteen Really??? God I must have been dreaming!! lol Of course its me!

[maxi937]

Was Adam Maher there too?

[idt003]

Like i said i knew Matty a decade ago. Hopefully will hear from him soon Iain Taylor

[Striplight1980]

OMG!! I remember this advert so well!

[Draxius]

whats weird i know a lil kid who looks almost identical to him.

[VengaboysRbackINtown]

What happened to the boy in the advert? Can anybody tell me?

[VengaboysRbackINtown]

Really? How did you find out he was the kid in the ad? Did he tell you or did you recognise him from it?

[VengaboysRbackINtown]

So IS his name Matthew Shaw then? Someone further up sayes it is.

[VengaboysRbackINtown]

Never mind, I just looked it up and it is. What a small world. :-) Is that you in the title role?

[CADAVERHUSK]

lol

[idt0881]

His name was Matthew Shaw and he went on to work on crusie ships. At one point he was a very good friend of mine and went to St Anselms school in Birkenhead Wirral England. Havent seen him in a good long while. Good friend of Shane Ritchie as well

[spudcadet]

so good its wicked! eating one now (nestle on my wrapper thogh not rowntrees) :)

[andeegreen]

who was that kid & did he go on to be famous or not?