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Cindy Crawford is heading back to the Super Bowl: The model has re-created her iconic 1992
Super Bowl ad for Pepsi, now featuring her
18-year-old son. Crawford recently filmed the commercial, which will debut at Super Bowl LII on Feb. 4. It includes her son Presley Walker
Gerber, as well as footage from Michael Jackson’s own memorable
Pepsi commercial. The
51-year-old said she didn’t hesitate to re-create the ad 26 years later, especially since she was able to work with her son. “Just as a mother, we drove to work together that day and we shared the same trailer. And when he was doing his thing, I was just a proud mom watching from the sidelines, trying not to annoy him,” she said Wednesday. The new Super Bowl ad, dubbed “This Is The Pepsi,” is part of the company’s Pepsi Generation campaign honoring the brand’s 120-year history in pop culture. The original features Crawford in a tank top and jean shorts driving a Lamborghini and stopping at a gas station to buy a can of soda. Crawford also plans to attend the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, where her father lives. “I think probably that will be the highlight for me is just getting to see my dad,” she said. “I took him to a Super Bowl before I had kids … and it’s not like he ever wanted to go to an awards show or something like that, but if I can take him to the Super Bowl, that’s a pretty cool thing for me to be able to do with my dad.”
Comedian Bill Cosby, facing an April retrial on criminal charges he drugged and molested a woman in 2004, referenced the #MeToo movement after a dinner at an Italian restaurant in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Cosby, 80, was dining with a friend and his publicist, and some members of the media were tipped off to document the event. One reporter said Cosby shook her hand and said, “Please don’t put me on #MeToo,” the social media movement denouncing sexual assault. He told her, “I just shook your hand like a man.” Asked about his coming trial, Cosby replied, “We’re ready.” When jurors deadlocked in June during his first trial on sexual assault charges, the judge declared a mistrial. The case involves Cosby’s sexual encounter with Andrea Constand, 44, at his suburban Philadelphia home. Constand says Cosby gave her pills that made her woozy, then violated her. Cosby has said the encounter was consensual. Cosby’s second trial was supposed to begin in November but was delayed until this spring so his new legal team could get up to speed.