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Originally Posted by red-beard
Oxiclean commercial with images of Billy Mays in the background. Doesn't it seem wrong to use him in a commercial, now he's dead? I'm not talking about re-running old commercials. They have slipped his image into the new commercials, kind of ghost like.
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One would assume the producers cleared this with May's family/next of kin, and they are receiving payment for using his likeness as a result.
However, in TV, bad taste is just but a small distance from merely "okay".
I do hope they muted the audio though.
Sherwood