An ad for an online bingo site has been banned for suggesting that gambling could provide an escape from depression and a way of paying off debt and medical bills.
The Gala Bingo ad, seen on the 365dailynews website, was in the form of an article with the headline: “On their wedding night he delivered a secret she wasn’t ready for. The result will have you in tears.”
It went on to describe a man named William who was more than £130,000 in debt after having to sell his house to pay for his wife’s cancer related medical bills, and who “stumbled upon” an ad for Gala Bingo while on Facebook one evening updating friends and family on his wife’s condition from the hospital lobby.
The ad said: “With little to no m…
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