Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio was the promotional face of Mr. Coffee and actor Wilford Brimley did the same for Quaker Oats. Who are some other celebrities, playing themselves, who have been paid to promote a specific product, excluding sports gear?
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If you turn on TV you see this all day. Alec Baldwin was with Capital One. Catherine Zeta Jones was with T-Mobile… Shaquille O’Neal promotes like everything Icy-Hot, General’s Insurance… Reggie Miller Wendy’s… I mean this is all day, every day. I could list 50 of them if I really had to.
Right off the top of my head, I think of Hanes underwear and Michael Jordan together constantly. Drew Brees did some Nyquil ads, but he’s not as much the “face” of Nyquil as Jordan is of Hanes; and Gatorade for that matter.
Right now its Shaquille for printing ink. The Lincoln by actor McConaughey. There has been Gillette actors and soort celebrities or hair coloring or Jennifer Aniston for beaty cream and all the cologne / perfumescenarios! Crazy!
Lots of US actors featured in commercial campaigns in Japan because they didn’t want to “cheapen” their profile as actors in the US. I remember Arnold Schwarzenegger in commercials for some Japanese soft drink, for example. I think de Nero did a commercial or two for either Visa or Amex as well as for the niche bakers called Warburtons (as did Sylvester Stallone), and the Welsh-American Catherine Zeta-Jones has done a number of them for T Mobile.