Playboy Bunny Kendra Wilkinson Does Olive Garden
Unwanted Celeb Endorsements Are the Bane of Existence for Olive Garden and Barack Obama
The Wall Street Journal reports that there are some closed door discussion about walking the fine line between ignoring the enthusiastic endorsement of an outspoken fan who does not align well with the public image the company seeks to portray, and taking the bull by the horns and running with it.
The Olive Garden, with its talented waitresses who give a whole new meaning to the birthday song, seeks to portray a family image. Couples visit there to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, and this is where we take the out of town family friends when they visit. It is not the kind of place Olive Garden higher ups want you to associate with an 82-year-old playboy and his 23-year-young live-in girlfriend who doubles as a reality TV actress.
Unscheduled celebrity endorsements of the famous and infamous are not new to the restaurant industry but during the Presidential campaigns they are a bona fide source of hilarity for onlookers when it is a candidate that receives them. Some of these endorsements are well meaning, but I cannot help but wonder if in the privacy of their homes, both John McCain and Barack Obama have a wall dedicated for repeatedly hitting their heads against when yet another person in front of a TV camera opens his or her mouth.
There was Barbara Streisand who jumped shipped off the Hillary campaign and termed Barack Obama a "trailblazer", as reported by Reuters. Since this defection was highly publicized, it had a less than desirable effect. Rapper Ludacris and his ludicrous statement of wanting to "paint the White House black" is another endorsement Obama could have done without.
Much like the Olive Garden restaurant, Obama has to walk the fine line between dissing the supporter and embracing the endorsement; and just like the politician, the restaurant has adopted the approach of smiling, nodding, and not commenting.
Sources:
http://www.olivegarden.com/default_f.asp
http://www.kendrawilkinson.com/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121863813894536893.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/07/01/barbra-streisand-backs-obama/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/920371/ludacris_wants_voters_to_paint_white.html?cat=33
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7 Comments
Post a CommentThe Olive Garden should be happy to have anyone sing the praises of the food in their restaurant. Just because Kendra likes the Olive Garden doesn't mean that only young girls with sugar daddies like going to the Olive Garden. I thought it was kind of cute that Kendra liked it so much. The Olive Garden honchos should chill out a bit and welcome the compliment.
hi my name is helena and o live in hokitika on the westcoast and i think that the putuers are really coll and u put more on tipe back love helena mason mwah
Most folks who eat at Olive Garden probably haven't heard of her. The executives at OG need to lighten up.
Misleading in what way? Because it mentioned a political candidate you support? Because it talks about undesired celeb endorsements that businesses as well as politicians must endure? If you really believe that this is an opinion piece on Obama and McCain, what exactly IS the opinion I stated? Sorry Rose, I don't see your point but I sure appreciate your commenting.
Great work~!
Thanks for this very interesting and funny article!
Excellent reporting on this but I don't see how the Olive Garden can stop people from giving their Seal of Approval to them. They are getting more publicity from their unwillingness to have a Playboy speak well or seem to endorse them....then if they'd kept quiet about it. Publicity...hmm...could this be the whole point? No couldn't be, could it? :)