You’ve undoubtedly seen their commercials before and you’ve also heard about the products they endorse. Celebrities who serve as spokespeople for diet plans are extremely common these days. For some reason people feel they can trust well-known actresses and singers when it comes to weight loss. Let’s just ignore the fact that it might be better to trust a nutritionist or physician. This article deals with some of the “top” celebrities who appear in weight loss commercials these days. But “top” might be a little bit misleading, because none of them are A-list celebrities. It would be more accurate to title this article as “Some Celebrities who Endorse Diet Plans” – but that would sound a lot more boring.
Valerie Bertinelli – Jenny Craig
Seriously, what was Valerie Bertinelli doing before she got her gig with Jenny Craig? Her career was in the toilet and she was overweight on top of that. Somehow she came back from obscurity to land the gate golf celebrity spokesperson. It was related to the Kirstie Alley fiasco where their previous spokesperson couldn’t live up to her promises anymore. But this was good news for Bertinelli because now she would have a chance to step up to the plate. This is a prime example where exposure can lead to good things because now Bertinelli is back on TV as part of the sitcom.
Jenny McCarthy – Weight Watchers
We’re not really sure who fans of Jenny McCarthy are. You might suspect they are man, but you guys really want someone who is so disgusting? Nobody who thinks of Jenny McCarthy thinks of a sex symbol who once posed in Playboy. Every chance she gets, she appears on live television picking your nose or making fark noises. There really is nothing sexy about her, and we don’t imagine women find are particularly relatable. And yet she is a spokesperson for Weight Watchers – is that really a good choice?
Queen Latifah – Jenny Craig
The first lady of hip-hop is perfectly affable and there’s really nothing to complain about when it comes to her. There’s just one slight problem, hasn’t she always been kind of big? We haven’t really noticed any type of weight loss, or at least not enough to warrant a gig with Jenny Craig.
Kirstie Alley – Jenny Craig
Up and down, up and down, down and up. We’ve pretty much stopped expecting any consistency from Kirstie Alley. But we’ll cut her some slack too because she’s 60 years old. It’s probably best for her to just ignore her weight because that’s all we hear about. It’s really only an issue now if she chooses to bring it up, and she was smart she move on to something else.
Larry The Cable Guy – NutriSystem
Who loves money? Larry the cable Guy that’s who. He is one of arguably the worst standup comics of all time, and why on earth would anyone listen to him when it comes to weight loss? His act isn’t even real unbeknownst to many of his fans. He doesn’t really talk like that, and you can bet he doesn’t go throughout the day behaving anything remotely to what you see on stage. And unfunny hack – oh let’s listen to him tell us about weight loss.
Tori Spelling – NutriSystem
Gross, just gross. Have you seen her body? It’s not about weight, it’s about loose skin and horrible plastic surgery. Why on earth would anybody listen to anything this grotesque beast has to say about weight loss? She is so horrible to look at that she is likely to send people away from a product rather than attracting them. With no discernible talents and a face that would scare the devil, this is probably one of the worst celebrity endorsement choices out there.
Jennifer Hudson – Weight Watchers
This is a good choice for a celebrity endorsement although her commercials are rather annoying. It seems that she can’t stop shouting throughout them. Some people might call it singing, but to the untrained ear it sounds like she’s shouting everything at the top of her lungs. Okay so you lost some weight, we get it, how about talking in a normal voice.
Carrie Fisher – Jenny Craig
If she can pull it off, this is one success story we definitely like to see. In the beginning stages of her endorsement deal, it was actually pretty sad. We knew her history and how much weight she gain, and it was rather shocking to see how far she had come. This was definitely not the Carrie Fisher we wanted to remember, so it’s nice that she starting to get some results. She still got a long way to go and it depends on our ultimate goals, but really hope that she can get back to looking like Princess Leia.
Marie Osmond – Nurtisystem
Although were not terribly excited about this choice, it does seem like a good one from a business standpoint. Marie Osmond has fans across North America, and many of them are in the exact demographic that weight loss programs target. People tend to trust her and there is still a lot of goodwill left over from when she was actually famous.
Jason Alexander – Jenny Craig
This is probably the most bizarre choice that any weight-loss company has ever made. Who in their right mind would watch a commercial for weight loss featuring Jason Alexander and be so enthralled that they feel compelled to sign up for the program? He has almost no impact on the female demographic, and the guys who enjoyed him from Seinfeld are the type to join up for Jenny Craig. Why this choice? We will probably never know, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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