A Comprehensive List of All the Charming Christmas TV Adverts of 2021

Produced in partnership with Mind and YoungMinds, ITV's star-studded Christmas advert for 2021 highlights the importance of checking in with and listening to loved ones during the festive season. The advert follows a makeup artist at ITV as celebs like Lorraine Kelly, Maya Jama, and Emily Atack stop by her chair throughout the day and rant about their days.

"We're delighted to make a Christmas campaign with a difference, reminding people to give the generous gift of listening this Christmas. After the last couple of years, we could all use an ear," Susie Braun, director of social purpose at ITV, said of the campaign.

Footasylum's Christmas advert is centred around the theme of family, and it stars comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg, YouTube duo Chunkz and Filly, and even features a cameo from TV chef Gino D'Acampo.

Sainsbury's highly anticipated Christmas 2021 advert is finally here, and once again, it depicts a super sweet family setting. This time though, there's a sneaky cameo from one of our favourite drag queens: Bimini Bon Boulash. Boulash appears in the advert in the form of a post-it note, seemingly as part of a "who am I game".

Aldi's Christmas advert has a lot going on, from Cuthbert the Caterpillar being arrested, to Marcus Rashford starring as a radish. The advert is loosely based on Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, and seeks to spread the positive message of kindness.

Lidl's Christmas advert is an intergalactic explosion. Featuring a happy family sat around the Christmas table, halfway through, the advert takes a tech turn that makes the festive occasion bigger and better than ever before.

The Lush Christmas advert is an adorable animation, welcoming back the snow fairy for the festive season. Based around one of the brand's most popular products, it's a sweet story for all to enjoy.

OK, JD just made its way up the top of our favourites list with its advert "King of The Streets". Soundtracked by Todla T and Shaybo, the two minute ad follows a teenager who has been sent out by his mum to fetch a turkey. Instead, he gets distracted on his journey down the high street by some of the best and up and coming British talent , including Maya Jama, Aitch, Little Simz, Ms Banks — to name a few.

Barbour's beautifully illustrated ad was an expected heart-warmer this year. In this story, we follow Paddington as he gives Mr. Brown's Barbour jacket, which has been passed down for generations, a new lease of life by re-waxing. Of course, there is quite a bit of mess once Paddington has finished his masterpiece but with such a thoughtful gift and such a sweet face, how could anyone be mad at the clean up?

This year, Disney is exploring the tricky topic of blended families. The Stepdad story is heartwarming with an undertone of festive fun. The story follows stepdad Mike moving into mum Nicole's house with her two kids Max and Ella. We see them slowly all find common ground through Disney stories coming to live. Cute.

Jenna Coleman is a festive Mary Poppins in the Boots Christmas ad. After discovering her red handbag is actually a magical bag making everyone's Christmas wishes come true, Coleman spreads joy to friends and family gifting them what they've always wished for.

Sports Direct went all out with its ad this year, recruiting dozens of famous faces for the occasion. Go All Out shows off the most epic snowball fight to ever go down featuring (among many others) Emma Raducanu, Jack Grealish, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Big Narstie, and Jessica Ennis-Hill.

TK Maxx's 2020 Lil' Goat advert was pretty much impossible to beat in our eyes, but the 2021 ad was still fun. This year's "Christmas To The Maxx" ad follows Laurie the organist who puts on a show at his local festive concert. At first, Laurie is nervous to begin his performance but plucks up some confidence after getting a glimpse of his incredible blue iridescent boots.

Year after year, the M&S Christmas adverts get more enticing and 2021 is no different. This year's story follows Percy pig (voiced by Tom Holland) as he comes to life for the first time with his fairy friend (Dawn French). After the store closes up for the night, the pair take us through just a few of the delicious treats on offer at M&S — we're already dreaming of the triple chocolate panettone. After watching this charming ad, you'll love Percy even more than you did before.

John Lewis definitely produced a heartfelt advert this year, but it didn't quite tug on our heartstrings as much as previous ads. Nevertheless, it was definitely heartwarming. The story follows a young boy named Nathan and an intrepid space traveller named Skye who happens to land her space ship in the wood behind his house. Nathan makes it his mission to introduce Skye to all of the best things Christmas has to offer — Christmas lights, mince pies, movies, and snowball fights.