Will They Deliver to the Bench?
He’s out again.
Baseball pariah Pete Rose won’t be joining Pizza Hut’s roster of advertising spokesmen, the leading pizza chain said .
It abruptly canceled plans this week to make a commercial featuring the former baseball superstar, who was banned from the game for life in 1989 for gambling.
The chain had planned to shoot a commercial with Rose in New Jersey but backed off after its executives reconsidered the plans.
The pizza chain found other celebrities it will use who can command attention and better project its fun family image, spokesman Rob Doughty said. Doughty said Rose “just doesn’t fit our image right now.”
A call to Rose at his restaurant in Boca Raton, Fla., was not returned.
Pizza Hut introduced Stuffed Crust pizza in April with commercials that featured Donald Trump and his ex-wife, Ivana, and San Antonio Spurs superstar David Robinson with his offbeat teammate Dennis Rodman.
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