I’m happy to report that we have our first Super Bowl attention whore sighting. USA TODAY inexplicably reports that a female comedian is trying to use a website to raise $3M so she can run a personal ad during the Super Bowl telecast. (She’s raised $500 so far.)
(If you’re keeping score, here’s the last Super Bowl attention whore)
USAT notes someone named Amy Borkowsky hopes to ignite her non-existent show business career by getting national publications to pick up her lame p.r. ploy “hopes to land Mr. Right with a personal ad” during the Super Bowl XLIII broadcast.
A photo of Ms. Borkowsky, whose entertainment credits include … um, after the jump.
USAT goes on to report that her site, called SuperBowlSingleGirl.com, includes “personal data on the fortysomething … as well as details on how to donate.” And that NBC said “fewer than eight spots remain unsold, so the funding must come quickly.”
After reading reportage like that, I just don’t get why all those copies of the national daily remain on the floor in front of every hotel room in the Lower 48.
OK, here’s a pic of Ms. Borkowsky:
(Post-op?)
Don’t shoot the messenger!
So what have we learned from all this? Hire a good enough publicist and you can get your latest career move, no matter how sad and desperate, published by the main media. (Now if I can only get that publicist’s number myself!)
4:52 pm on October 20th, 2008
Thanks. Just when I had put Sarah Spain out of my head, you bring her back! And uh, that 'comedian" ain't gonna get $3 let alone $3 million.
4:52 pm on October 20th, 2008
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
4:52 pm on October 20th, 2008
Someone needs to pass the plate to get her to pull those pics down.
Nice going USA Today!
5:03 pm on October 20th, 2008
More like Amy Bow-wow-kowsky.
5:06 pm on October 20th, 2008
I'd rather see 30 seconds of last year's SBAW than this year's.
5:09 pm on October 20th, 2008
If she can get people to donate to her chances at a Super Bowl ad, then more power to her.
5:13 pm on October 20th, 2008
If someone wants to pay me $3 million, I'll marry her and save the Super Bowl viewing public from watching her ad.
Just doing my part for national defense.
5:15 pm on October 20th, 2008
I actually feel bad for her. What a complete disaster. Raising no money. Yikes. For all I know she's a great comedian, but this kind of thing is embarrassing.
5:15 pm on October 20th, 2008
Really, Ms. Borkowsky's ad couldn't be any worse than last year's Life Water spot featuring lizards dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Seriously, what the hell was that all about?
5:18 pm on October 20th, 2008
After reading about the other planned Super Bowl ads, Amy's actually looks like it could be the most entertaining.
5:21 pm on October 20th, 2008
I can think of two big reasons why Sarah Spain would garner so much attention.
5:23 pm on October 20th, 2008
I admire Ann's clever attempt at a Super Bowl ad. And I bet Sarah would have been a fun companion at the game.
5:25 pm on October 20th, 2008
I'd love to go explore the mountains of Spain.
5:29 pm on October 20th, 2008
Dan:
Until said companion bolted from you as soon as you got through the gate.
5:30 pm on October 20th, 2008
Sarah Spain? Who?
5:34 pm on October 20th, 2008
I might pay Sarah Spain for companionship, but not for the Super Bowl, and definitelty not for $20,000.
7:10 pm on October 20th, 2008
I find Amy's Super Bowl stunt amusing, while Sarah's Super Bowl dating auction seemed pathetic.
7:18 pm on October 20th, 2008
Sarah should take out an ad during the division playoffs, and try that Super Bowl date stunt again.
11:38 am on October 21st, 2008
If Sarah & Amy really want my Super Bowl attention, they should compete in the halftime Lingerie Bowl.
6:15 pm on October 21st, 2008
Half of the people who watch the Super Bowl only watch it for the commercials, anyway. So Amy Borkowsky's ad should entertain plenty of viewers.
8:39 pm on October 21st, 2008
I once saw Sarah Spain out at a bar, surrounded by six guys. Couldn't one of these fellas have floated her a Super Bowl ticket?