Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Diddy too dirty



A commercial with Diddy has been pulled after it was said to be too raunchy for department stores.

In the perfume ad, Combs is in bed with two half naked models acting like they are all having a threesome. Yikes. The Estee Lauder "publicity drive" was thought inappropriate for family stores, and a new shoot with just one model has replaced the dirty bird original.

John Demsey, global president of Estee Lauder, said, "It is unfortunate that some people were so uncomfortable with something with that much sexual presence. But we stand by it." Nice. The original image will remain on billboards.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good, I hope they smash the whole ad. If your product is good, you dont need sex to sell it.

Anonymous said...

I'm sure they know their target audience & know the ad will appeal to them. What rock have you been hiding under? Sex DOES sell.