Do some celebrity endorsements make you go, "hell no!"?

How about all of the Kardashian endorsements .. including Kris Jenner pushing a sexual “enhancer” for women. What WON’T they endorse????

I refuse to buy anything that people who do endorsements for a living push…

@JustPlainBarb So you wouldn’t, for example, buy Nike because of the host of retired sportspeople who make their living by endorsing Nike crap?

Wouldn’t that include any advertisement that involved real people? I don’t know of any of them don’t get paid. You’ll have to buy only from companies that use cartoons or drawings or inanimate object to sell their products. Better not buy any clothes, for example. They are usually modeled by real people. Foods, ditto. Cleaning products? Or am I generalizing and you meant something more specific? Or perhaps I missed the point.

@Sunny2 Whom are you asking for clarification? If me then let me be clearer.

If someone chooses Hulk Hogan to represent them, then I already don’t like their product.

If Kim Kardashian tells me what car she likes, I don’t care.

If Kim Kardashian tells me she likes a particular financial services company, then she accomplishes the same effect Hulk Hogan does. The company that chooses her loses my confidence.

But If Kim Kardashian tells me what PR firm she likes, I am all ears.

So I guess there are actually two questions: 1). Are there celebrity endorsers so wrong that you are turned off by any product they applaud. 2). Are there specific endorsements by specific celebrities for specific products that are so wrong that you don’t like the product anymore. And then the bonus question would be “why?”

What does a boxer know of grilling?
How many of you have George Foreman grills?

Interesting article about George Foreman’s money and references to Hulk Hogan . .

@anartist Well, honestly, I have the sense he knows about eating.

and there was that thing where Kevin Costner invented those oil sucking machines, and Zeppo Mark co-invented a cardiac pulse rate monitor and Heddy Lamar…. wait a sec. Which side am I on???

Courtney Thorne Smith for Atkins Diet. Granted I probably wouldn’t do the diet, however, using a former anorexic and bulimic to endorse a diet program?! WTF?

Robert Wagner and Fred Thompson endorsing the “reverse mortgage” for older folks that are short on money to live out their lives on. It just puts me off that they probably will never know what being short of money actually feels like.

Nope.

hulkster gotta get paid yo’ . . .

Not really related, but can you endorse pink vitamin water and still call yosself a gangsta?

@Symbeline Wow. That really says something about our society. Haven’t a clue what. But it’s saying it with volume up, hard core and well hydrated!

Yeah. ’‘gangster hand gesture’’ Drink dat shit up, yo.

Beyonce endorsing Vizio TV brand. I was actually thinking about going to Costco and buying one until I saw her shakin her groove thang to endorse the brand. I think her and Jay-Z have enough money they don’t need my little $300 bucks.

I try not to let the Oprah label influence me, especially because I’ve read some Oprah Book Club books incidentally in the past and they’re mostly pretty good reads. But nonetheless, back when I went into physical bookstores, that little O always was a bit of a turn-off.

The first thing that crosses my mind when a celebrity endorses a product is to think that their real career has dried up and they must be desperate for money. Which leads to the second corollary thought – that the product wouldn’t be endorsed by that same celebrity without a bribe. So no, it usually puts me off a product, but if after I’ve reviewed all other factors and it still comes out better & cheaper, then I would consider it.

I agree @wildpotato. When I see a book was recommended by Oprah’s book club I always think ‘it will probably be sappy’.

And I am sure George Clooney does not drink coffee that comes from little pods.

Stephen Hawking home trampolining kit?

@ucme It’s a lot better than you think. Instead of bouncing off the surface, you actually become a projection on two the two-dimension canvas. And it’s machine washable.

On the other side of the coin, the Michael Phelps/Subway bong picture thing confused the hell out of me. Who among the Subway execs is unaware that stoners are the main reason that place is in business?