John Fardy

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834 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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The Claire Byrne Show · The most surprising celebrity endorsements of all time · 28 May 2026 podcast

But some of the people who've appeared in some of these ads, you think...

Wow.

Are you not worried by your legacy?

Exhibit A, Jackie Chan, one of the great martial arts turned actors in the world, bizarrely in the 90s, showed up in a Woolworths ad.

Hi, guys.

Poor Jack, he must have needed the money for the electricity bill.

He must have needed the money.

And like listening to it there, you could argue it's borderline racist because they start, you know, doing the karate kid, wax on, wax off.

And he's like, that wasn't even, I guess he needed the money.

And look, you can't fault him for that, really.

I mean, he was a movie star.

You know, they sold their image, but it's a bizarre one.

Woolworths doesn't exist anymore, as you know.

But you know,

Back in the day before the World Wide Web, the stars always went to like another part of the world very far away to do these endorsements and hoped that we didn't find out about it in the West or in Hollywood, say.

You know, that happened a lot, didn't it?

George Clooney would kind of make that claim with his Nespresso ads when it first began.

There's a movie called Lost in Translation where Bill Murray plays an actor who makes a whiskey commercial in Japan, hoping no one will notice and famously says, I'm getting paid two million dollars for it.

Yeah.

So it has changed.

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