By Adam Sherwin, Media Reporter
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...794594,00.html
IS IT Ronald McDonald or Rhona? The gaudy clown who symbolises fast food has been replaced by a sleek, bikini-clad woman in Japanese advertisements in the latest attempt by the world’s biggest restaurant chain to improve its image.
Instead of baggy trousers and outsize shoes, there are leggings and high heels. All that is left of the traditional Ronald, who made his debut 42 years ago, are the muted stripes and red and yellow livery in which the new model is draped.
Disturbingly for the all-American Ronald, websites are speculating as to whether the lady in question is actually a cross-dressing “metrosexualâ€Â
