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Wednesday 7 December 2011

Corrie cast help ITV smash Secret Santa World Record

The cast and crew of Coronation Street helped ITV smash the Guinness World Record for the biggest Secret Santa, ever.

ITV Staff supported the Text SANTA appeal and smashed the record for the largest Secret Santa ever.

It took place live on ITV's This Morning with a link-up to to Emmerdale and Coronation Street and hundreds of ITV staff took part in an attempt to break a world record.

Staff who took part bought a small present for someone else in the company and at 11.30am on This Morning, they all opened their gifts. 1270 people with presents were needed to take break the record and ITV smashed it with 1562 people taking part!

Find out more about the ITV Secret Santa and watch the video here

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's cute. Ever been on Reddit? Last year's Reddit Secret Santa exchange had 17,000 participants.

SomeCompletelyRandomPerson said...

Go check out http://redditgifts.com/statistics/secret-santa-2011/.

We've matched over 35,000 people...

By tonight your "record" should be easily surpassed.

Anonymous said...

Snooze you loose.. Reddit has it beat..

http://redditgifts.com/exchanges/secret-santa-2011/

Anonymous said...

Only need to get another 33,500 to equal RedditGifts. Might want to research the record before you try to break it next time

Glenda Young said...

Well done Reddit! But don't shoot us - we're the messenger and a fan site. Your comments are probably best directed at ITV, not us.

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