Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut ad is the weirdest celebrity endorsement of all time
In one of those “How the heck is this not common knowledge?” moments, we’ve discovered that the former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, once featured in a Pizza Hut advert. Here it is, in all its glory.
The advert, filmed in 1997, saw the politician alongside his granddaughter in a Moscow Pizza Hut, an establishment that would never have been allowed in the old USSR before Gorbachev introduced widespread reforms and a new openness to other cultures. It came to our attention when @zei_nabq tweeted this:
just found out gorbachev did a commercial for pizza hut pic.twitter.com/jqwVVTpM8t
— ☀️👀 (@zei_nabq) August 13, 2019
A lot of other people were as surprised as we were, and promptly reacted to the tweet.
I can't quite believe what I've just seen https://t.co/TvpwO5SRJs
— Ryan James Harris (@ryjharris) August 14, 2019
This will tell you more about why Russia has Putin than anything in the New York Times https://t.co/3kiBIuqY6Y
— Aaron Freedman🌹 (@freedaaron) August 14, 2019
this is incredibly dark https://t.co/LfqcFHBeqe
— hot mess communism ☭ (@communoah) August 14, 2019
Sometimes you just stare at the screen agog don’t you https://t.co/KTo5by5rpc
— Stephen Collins (@stephen_collins) August 14, 2019
We really have to wonder what former presidents get paid, because there was another revelation.
lmao he also did a louis vuitton ad pic.twitter.com/NMqgTgP56i
— ☀️👀 (@zei_nabq) August 13, 2019
Stay tuned for Theresa May’s Shredded Wheat commercial.
Source: YouTube Image: Screengrab