So, I’m reading my RSS-pulled news pages, and find a story about one of the actors from the Sopranos who is sued by a company that paid him more than $300,000 to promote the Stacker 2 diet drug. Now, I have no problems with celebrity endorsements, but… why would you want an overweight spokesperson to chat up your diet pill? I guess it works for Dr. Weil and Dr. Phil, who also make millions talking expertly about the weight loss they seem incapable of doing themselves.

A quick online search shows this actor lost 30ish pounds on a celebrity weight loss reality show which, to my knowledge, tends to be about diet and exercise, not what are essentially caffeine pills.

But, I guess I’m wrong. The actor has already switched over to another company to endorse a competing diet pill. By the way, I didn’t go on Google and try to find a photo that made him too extra large or anything. That is a pic from the main page of his official website.

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