Brace yourselves... it's the John Lewis Christmas ad

Sad snowman alert!

JOHN LEWIS, THE UK retailer, has form in making us cry with their Christmas ads.

Will this year’s effort succeed? Not since The Snowman have we felt so many feelings towards inanimate icy objects…

The music is a reworking of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s The Power of Love sung by Gabrielle Aplin.

Here’s last year’s The Long Wait. We can’t even…

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Brace yourselves... it's the John Lewis Christmas ad

Poll: Have you started your Christmas shopping>

Guilty pleasure alert: Olivia and John record Christmas album>