The news came in a somewhat unexpected way, in the middle of the day on Sunday: Clive ArendelleThe actor who appeared on Spanish television between 1998 and 2006 in a Christmas Lottery commercial as the “Bald Lottery Man”, He carries … Dead since 2024. The source was, to say the least, questionable: a lottery player from Murcia who, when he tried to contact him, learned that he had died a year earlier.
The only information that can be considered official in this regard is his appearance at the “anniversary” ceremony of the 2024 World Cup. UK theatrethe equivalent of an actors’ union, and a school The ancient AugustiniansWhere he studied in Arendelle.
One month before the Christmas Lottery draw took place, suspicions that this news was “fake” and had a well-executed advertising campaign hidden in it began to grow. Given the aggressiveness of some communication and advertising agencies, this cannot be ruled out.
However, this newspaper has been able to confirm with 100% certainty that Clive Arendelle, the beloved ‘Bald Lottery Man’, did in fact pass away in 2024. His final times were by no means pleasant.
A “highly sensitive” soul.
Arendelle didn’t just live on those ads he remembered. Long before he practiced the profession of a theater actor: his performances were in Shakespeare’s works They have earned it a certain place at the ever-demanding British tables. But he also did many jobs in Spain.
In 2014, he filmed a short film, “cowboy”next to Maria Adaniz Among other things. In the film, Arendelle was a professional and character actor. He is divorced, has no friends, and has a son whom he has not treated in over a year. But one day he receives an offer that his agent won’t let him refuse: to accompany a 5-year-old boy to a costume contest at an amusement park. This is the official synopsis for the film, which he directed and produced Barnabas Ricoa good friend of Arendelle, and, for practical purposes, his agent in Spain.
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“Unfortunately, it is true: Clive died in 2024,” the director confirmed in a telephone conversation with this newspaper. Riku and Arendelle met years ago, and developed a certain friendship: it was more than strong, and it was constant. The last conversation they had was at Christmas 2023, a time when they always exchanged letters and talked a little. “I was a bit deaf, and I had a bit of an old phone, it wasn’t a modern smartphone. “We talked through letters,” Rico says.
By then, he had already noticed that he was not feeling well. “I was very frustrated. He stopped having a representative years agoI did little to act as an intermediary.
“He told me that physically he was not feeling well and that he had not left the house for a month.”
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Director and producer
In the same conversation, Arendelle admitted his true situation. He told her: “He told me that physically he was not feeling well and that he had not left the house for a month.” “It left me very anxious. I told him that I would help him with everything he needed, but…” he confesses, before leaving in the air the answer to the question implicitly posed by these confessions: “Depression? No, I don’t know…it wasn’t exactly like that. He explained that he was a very sensitive person, nothing more.
“Take it or we’ll do it with AI.”
Rico helped Arrindell with many of his jobs. Although he was not officially so, he acted as an intermediary or representative for his friend. For example, it was he who helped him regain his most famous character to make a Christmas ad again, but in this case not for the lottery but for another booming product for this time of festivities: shrimp. In addition to being bald, on this occasion they gave him an A mustache.
But like many other actors, the beloved “Bald Lottery Man” experienced the cruelty of the industry firsthand.
The best example of this is specifically that last conversation they had together. At the end of 2023, an advertising agency contacted Rico for a place. Although it has not been traded for years —His exclusive contract with Loterías y Apuestas del Estado expired in 2006— He was still in the collective imagination and at the height of nostalgia, he was a perfect character for Christmas adverts. This was one of the last times Riku and Arendelle worked together, and it wasn’t pretty.
“Even the agency was harsh. They told me: Look, we will give you 6,000 euros. Catch him or we will do it using artificial intelligence. He agreed.” And the end of Clive Arendelle, actor in theatre, cinema, television commercials and even famous soap operas – Participated in an episode of the series “The Crown”As the owner of a television channel, he had no choice but to accept the few jobs that came his way.
Clive Arendelle appears in an episode of The Crown
Sadly, Riku recounts the harsh confession Arendelle made to him: “I’ll welcome anything you can get for me. I’m so bad.” A few months later, at an unspecified time in the second part of 2024, Clive Arendelle has died. He was 74 years old.
Thus the story of the “Bald Lottery Man” ended. That version of the wish-granting genius gradually faded away to the point that his name was buried in the list of the deceased, if not unknown, let alone very famous. Despite his absence, which is now final, he will continue to enjoy his place in the hearts and memories of those who, come the Christmas holidays, still dream of drawing their breath in the form of millions of euros.
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