Male model Simon Spalding is demanding an apology from fast food giants Burger King after a children's CD stopped him doing his banking.

Simon, who stars in the latest Vauxhall adverts, was horrified when he tried to check his internet bank account and found his computer files had been corrupted.

He discovered vital programmes used by internet service provider AOL had been replaced by a company called KZUK.net.

Former Page Seven Fella Simon, 39, and hairdresser wife Jo, 36, realised that the problem was caused by a Burger King promotional CD-rom.

They were given it when they went for a meal at the chain's branch at the Goldstone retail park in Hove with their sons Sam, eight, and Ben, four.

It contained children's games, a picture of singer Louise and the Internet server programme.

Sam and Ben wanted to play the games on the disc when they got back home to St Leonard's Gardens, Hove.

Simon, who has worked with top Page Three models including Sam Fox and Maria Whittaker, said: "They popped it into the computer and went through the games.

"Ben was going through the programmes and clicked on the internet icon. A window came up asking him to click on 'yes' to run the program.

"He thought it was another game and clicked on 'yes'. As a result, it went through every Internet-related file in the system and replaced it with the new server.

"It meant I could not do any Internet banking and a lot of the programmes on the computer would not work because they were linked to AOL.

"A friend and I spent more than two hours going deleting the affected files and trying to re-install the AOL programme.

"But every time we turned the computer back on the unwanted files were still there."

They rang Burger King who gave them a premium phone line number for KZUK.net which charged 50p per minute for calls.

Simon said: "Once I had got through, it only took three minutes for them to solve the problem, but that is not the point.

"It cost me a lot of time and £1.50 to sort this out. How many other £1.50s are these people making from other parents who have been caught out like this?

"There is no parental warning on the disc that it contains files which could affect existing programmes if they are accidentally installed by children.

"I think both Burger King and the internet server are irresponsible for including it on a disc aimed at young children."

Burger King spokeswoman Emma Vickers said: "We have had a few problems with this and we have now withdrawn the CD-rom.

"The disc had a net nanny installed which allows parental control with passwords, and has instructions clearly saying it should be installed by an adult."