The actress who starred in a controversial Peloton bike ad appeared in a new ad Friday night for Aviation American Gin, seemingly drinking away her troubles.
Ryan Reynolds, who owns Aviation American Gin, tweeted out the new ad, saying "Exercise bike not included."
The ad starts with the woman staring at the camera, with her two friends sharing concerned looks. She says, "This gin is really smooth," and the women she's with tell her she's safe. They toast to "new beginnings," and the actress downs her beverage.
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At the end of the ad, a friend says, "You look great by the way."
The gin ad comes days after the Peloton bike ad went viral. That ad documented a woman's year-long cycling journey through a vlog she presents to her spouse as a way of saying thank you for gifting the bike to her. "A year ago, I didn't realize how much this would change me," the actress says in the Peloton ad.
The commercial faced a slew of backlash, with social media users criticizing it as sexist. The company said the ad reflects that many have been similarly, and happily, gifted one of its pieces of equipment. The spot is intended to "celebrate that fitness and wellness journey," Peloton said.
The latest gin ad received positive support from Peloton ad naysayers on Twitter.
It also features model and former America's Next Top Model contestant Mercedes Scelba-Shorte, a spokesperson for the Lupus Foundation of America.
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Our protagonist goes from the lush krill farms into a desert planet in search of a safe home for this child. Naturally, there are a few snags along the way. Who are the new characters in this episode of Disney+’s original series? Where is The Mandalorian off to next? Here’s what you might’ve missed in this week’s episode of Star Wars’ first-ever live-action television show, The Mandalorian.
Executive producer/writers Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau of ‘The Mandalorian’ | Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney
It feels like every bounty hunter is after this child
The Mandalorian officially left the serene pastures of the krill farm and is now caught in a battle somewhere in space. Another bounty hunter is shooting at him, damaging his ship, in an attempt to capture the child. The Mandalorian outsmarts this bounty hunter, but his ship is still severely damaged. As a result, our protagonist heads for Tatooine.
On this new, desert planet, he asks a woman to repair his ship and leaves the child asleep onboard while he goes out to look for work. Of course, while he’s gone, the baby stumbles out of the ship and into the arms of the mechanic. In addition to repairing the ship, she tells her droids, she’s going to look after the child. It’ll cost the Mandalorian more money but hey, at least he’s kind of safe.
The Mandalorian teams up with another bounty hunter to pay for the repairs to his ship
Our bounty hunter heads to a bar in search of work and he’s approached by a “member of the Guild.” Well, sort of. This guy is trying to get into the Guild and to do that, he has to bring in his first criminal. He shows the Mandalorian the chip and he quickly refuses, saying that this elite mercenary killed the Hutts and is super dangerous.
The bounty hunter pleads for the Mandalorian’s help, saying he doesn’t even care about the money, he just needs to get in. The Mandalorian agrees. Half an hour later, they’re outside of the Mandalorian’s ship, driving away on two speeders found by Toro, the bounty hunter. They run into some Tusken Raiders and the Mandalorian negotiates their way through the land.
On their way to find this girl, they run into the dead body of a bounty hunter, sniped by the mercenary, Fennec Shand. When the Mandalorian approaches the body, he finds the tracker beeping quickly, meaning that she’s closeby. He’s sniped and shot twice, but he’s protected by the Beskar armor. They decide to wait until nightfall to capture her.
That night, the Mandalorian has a plan. They’re going to drive the speeders as fast as they can towards Fennec Shand, shooting flairs along the way to blind her. The plan almost works, but Toro’s flair falls into the sand, giving the mercenary the chance to shoot the Mandalorian.
He falls off his speeder but Toro has a chance to make it to the woman and attack her. They end up capturing her, but the Mandalorian’s speeder is fried, so he goes out to find another form of transportation, leaving Toro and Fennec alone.
The other bounty hunter double crosses The Mandalorian, wanting to take him to the Guild instead
Toro and Fennec Shand starts talking, which can’t be a good thing. She tells him that the Mandalorian’s armor is worth so much more than her bounty. Toro tells her he’s not in it for the money. Fennec Shand says there’s a rogue Mandalorian who betrayed the Guild with a child.
She explains that if they capture him and bring him in together, Toro would become a legend. He just has to, you know, get her out of the handcuffs. Toro thinks about it and shoots her, with a resolve to capture the Mandalorian, get into the Guild, and bring glory to his name.
When the Mandalorian returns with an animal to ride on, Toro and his speeder are gone, leaving our protagonist to find the corpse of Fennec Shand.
He returns to his ship, where the woman and the child are being held at gunpoint. The Mandalorian uses the flair to blind Toro and shoots him, taking his money and giving it to the woman to pay for the repairs and the babysitting. With that, our duo is off again, without so much as a goodbye to the mechanic. The last thing viewers see is someone with a cape walking up to the body of Fennec Shand.
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One of R. Kelly's longtime live-in girlfriends has had enough of the circus surrounding his myriad of federal and state legal battles ... so she's moved out of his Trump Tower condo.
Sources close to Azriel Clary tell us she recently got her own place in Chicago and is no longer living with Joycelyn Savage. We're told Azriel wanted to distance herself from the ongoing Kelly saga -- including Joycelyn's fake Patreon page -- and focus on her life.
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Our sources say Azriel does still support R. Kelly ... but being in the condo with Joycelyn and being immersed in the drama at all times became too much. We're told Azriel is making money to support herself through a TV project and modeling gigs.
Azriel's main focus is now on her singing career, something she put a lot of effort into before meeting R. Kelly. She has plans to document her daily life, showcase her singing and start acting.
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Azriel's father, Angelo, told us back in July he would do anything to get his daughter out of Trump Tower ... including pay for her own apartment. The move certainly seems to be one in the direction of reuniting with her family.
It was just this week when TMZ obtained a video of R. Kelly's other girlfriend, Joycelyn Savage, making a statement in full support of the singer. Savage claimed she wasn't the one behind the pay account that claimed to have info on Kelly ... and that she and Azriel still fully supported him.
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Unlike Joycelyn, Azriel has really pushed her social media pages lately. She's started a Twitter and YouTube page ... and will restore her Instagram shortly.
When last we saw her, she was celebrating her yearlong fitness journey and thanking her husband for giving her an exercise bike for Christmas. Both the bike and the husband were nowhere to be found on Friday.
In a video posted to his Twitter, Actor Ryan Reynolds seemed to poke fun at the recent controversy around an ad for Peloton, the indoor bike start-up. The video, a commercial for his Aviation Gin brand of distilled spirits, opens with the woman now dubbed "the Peloton woman" staring blankly at the camera while out with two girlfriends before they toast to "new beginnings."
The caption: "Exercise bike not included."
Peloton has recently come under fire for a holiday commercial showing a woman documenting her year with the Peloton bike her husband gave her for Christmas. Critics have pointed to the ad's purported sexism and deafness to the privilege of its subjects. Some have said the woman appears to be pressured to work out by a husband who gifted her an exercise machine unprompted.
"We constantly hear from our members how their lives have been meaningfully and positively impacted after purchasing or being gifted a Peloton Bike or Tread, often in ways that surprise them," a Peloton spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. "Our holiday spot was created to that fitness and wellness journey."
In Reynold's commercial, the same actress is initially seen staring, expressionless.
She comes out of her daze and tells the two friends around her that the gin she is drinking is smooth.
The friends look concerned about her, one offering to get her another drink and the other telling her "You're safe here."
She toasts to new beginnings before downing her drink and taking the second offered to her.
Going from a punishing workout routine to a punishing number of martinis? Sounds like an American Woman’s Christmas to us! Social media went nuts over Peloton’s recent holiday-themed commercial “The Gift That Gives Back,” in which an anxious-looking woman thanks her husband profusely for giving her one of the brand’s exercise bikes, a present around which her entire life now revolves in a way that, to some, felt sexist. “I didn’t realize how much this would change me,” the woman, heretofore called Peloton Wife, says in the ad. “Thank you.” Well, if that commercial bummed you out, get ready, because this new parody spot from Ryan Reynolds’ Aviation Gin catches up with (a character that is obviously) Peloton Wife in what seems to be the aftermath of her marriage’s end.
“You’re safe here,” her friend tells her in the spoof. “To new beginnings,” our newly bike-free protagonist replies. “Exercise bike not included,” Reynolds tweeted along with the commercial. However, despite being an ad, no one in the spot looks particular happy to be staring down the barrel of a gin-soaked, post-split hang. “This is going to be a fun night,” her other friend sighs with dread. Well, hey, at least all those martinis are cheaper than a $2,245 exercise bike, right?
