Because celebrity gossip sells. I’m surprised you’ve been so taken in by this.
On second thought, I’d like to hear what Kim Kardashian thinks of this before I make my final judgement.
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What is the “gossip?”
She IS pregnant. She is the spokesperson for Jim Beam.
Maybe they should stop any re-broadcast of “That 70’s Show”. Pregnant lady smoking pot is a bad idea.
Are you under the impression that gossip can’t be true?
Is everyone who sees a Jim Beam ad also an US Weekly subscriber? How will anyone know she’s pregnant unless they tell us in the ads? She’s an actress and, as you may know, pregnancy is a temporary condition.
I don’t see a problem. What leads to more pregnancy than alcohol?
Tom Jones songs?
It can be. But celebrity endorsements are (IMO) more or less fictional constructs. I can’t imagine anyone is his right mind thinking that Mila Kunis is a bourbon expert who has dispassionately examined all the bourbons on the market and chosen this one as the best. She’s an actress. She makes a living pretending to be what she is not.
Therefore the character she portrays in public life is not pregnant, any more than the character she played in Black Swan is pregnant. “Mila Kunis drinks Jim Beam” is a fictional construct, just like “Mila Kunis is in love with Justin Timberlake” is.
Besides, isn’t the restriction on actually drinking alcohol in a commercial still in place? She never actually drinks the stuff, pregnant or not.
Regards,
Shodan
I didn’t know there was such a restriction, but thinking about it, it doesn’t surprise me that there is. Even still, it would be BAD! BAD! BAD! to have her holding an alcoholic drink (or even something that wasn’t a drink, but was meant to look like on) in a commercial while she was visibly pregnant.
Certainly. If she were visibly pregnant (or faked being pregnant) that would be making the fictional character who endorses Jim Beam pregnant. And then, every time the commercial played or was displayed, the story of “pregnant woman drinking” would be re-enacted, whether Mila Kunis is currently pregnant or not.
It’s pretty much the opposite. Mila Kunis is pregnant, but the character she plays in endorsing Jim Beam is not, and never will be. Because it is understood, or should be, that she is only endorsing Jim Beam because they paid her to do so, just like she only takes any acting role because they pay her.
What would be more interesting would be if she were arrested for drunk driving or something. In theory it’s the same - it should make no difference. But in practice it would violate the willing suspension of disbelief that holds that it is “really” Mila Kunis in the commercial ads.
Regards,
Shodan
Sex? I certainly never got pregnant and I’ve had quite a lot alcohol in my life.
Gossip can be true, but it is also by its nature unconfirmed.
I don’t understand why Kunis’s real-life pregnancy would be an issue. Were not the ads shot before she was pregnant (or at least before she knew she was)?
Obviously you’ve been spontaneously aborting because of all the drink.
Bricker agrees. He’s just hoping someone here will pick up the other side of the argument. I think he should probably just write a letter to the authors of those articles.
Originally, that was my goal. I now have a second, parallel goal: to get John Mace to acknowledge that the authors of those articles are advancing the second side of the argument that no one here will pick up.
But they are “advancing” it in the most uninvested way. And it’s true that Kunis showing up at trade shows in maternity clothes pushing liquor is probably a bad idea.
I don’t really see them doing anything you weren’t doing with the OP.
Stop disappointing Bricker, people!
Okay, fine, if no-one else will step up: YES, pull the ads and put the agency and all Jim Beam executives in jail for promoting turpitude and intemperence. Think of the children!