I’ve been getting a sardonic smile out of that since I first heard about that whole mess. Pure graveyard humor.
I thought she was in the aerobics earlier than that, but anyway she was already a celebrity in the true sense of the word.
Actually, I believe it. Take a close look at her neck the next time the commercial comes on. The skin has the distinctive sag of an older woman.
Moderator speaketh: I have to confess, I’m a little torn here. On the one hand, a celebrity is a celebrity, and is thus “fair game”, alive or dead.
On the other hand, we’ve had a major catastrophe that’s had global impact, and the man seems to have perished in it. Snide remarks or nasty comments about the recently deceased – especially under the circs – seem out of place.
I’m going to vote for good taste over unfettered speech, and close this thread.
Just to put “CLOSED” to this for real. On the John Basedow website at http://www.fitnessmadesimple.com/ , they now have an “Important Notice” on their front page which says, in part:
So we learn what we have always known: the internet is a powerful source of both information and misinformation.
I’ll re-open the thread.
Good god. How could his own ‘people’ be soooooo wrong?
What’s intersting to me is that before the tsunami his commercials were on TV 50 times a day…since that time I haven’t seen his commercials once.
Even though he creeps me out I’m glad to hear that he’s okay.
I have and I remember thinking how odd that they would continue to use a newly dead man to flog a product.
It hasn’t stopped TNT from using Jerry Orbach to plug L&O repeats. He’s still appearing in those “What id Drama?” ads. You’d think by now TNT would either have pulled them or re-edited them.
But he is in the repeats. Should TNT not plug Steve McQueen the next time they run “Bullitt”?
He truly is a freaky Photshop accident. I think it is the coloring that bothers me most…his head is so white, and the rest of his body is so whatever color that is.
Sort of like he was out sunning on the beach wearing a bag over his head.
My guess is the biggest consumers of his products are teenage boys hopelessly trying to beef up to impress the local neighborhood girls…anybody remember those ads on the back of comic books with the guy getting sand kicked in his face?
I saw them just as often “after,” so they actually seemed a bit more creepy. Now I guess I’ll go back to my earlier level of creepedness.
The ads I’m talking about feature Orbach and other actors addressing the camera. It’s not just clips of Briscoe.
By the way, who exactly was monitoring the website to see if Basedow was alive so as to alert Dex to re-open the thread?
That is a little different. How do you feel about dead celebs hawking products in commercials?
Good question. Maybe Dex had a note to check on John Basdow’s life status in his bring forward file.
One of the Members alerted me. You don’t think I’d voluntarily waste time tracking that kinda thing, do you?
I wouldn’t think that anybody would. Yet, here we are.
Hey!
Is there some sort of law that he has to be referred to as “Fitness Celebrity John Basedow”? You never hear “fitness model John Basedow”, or “Detroit native John Basedow”. What happens if you introduce him as “along-the-same-lines-as-Chef-Tony John Basedow”?
Kind of reminds me of what Joe DiMaggio used to do. He wouldn’t make an appearance unless he was introduced as “The Greatest Living Ballplayer”, since Ted Williams held title to “The Greatest Hitter That Ever Lived” or words to that effect.
I think it’s gross.
Well, now that CreppyChest is okay, here’s hoping he’ll work the upper chest in his next video series.
Or at least stop posing at odd angles.