The Answer
02-07-2005, 08:42 PM
Daddy’s Girl
WWE’s Candice is too hot for Fox
By Jeremy Brown
It was the talk around water coolers, message boards and blogspots around the country this morning. GoDaddy.com’s devilish new ad that, in addition to promoting the site, pokes fun at the Puritanical mindset that has pervaded the post-Janet America.
In the ad, a well-endowed, tank-top-clad brunette flounces about before a stuffy Senate committee, touting the benefits of GoDaddy while desperately trying to prevent, shall we say, a “wardrobe malfunction.” The brunette in question is none other than Candace Michelle, one of Raw’s newest Divas, and she took a few minutes out of her increasingly hectic schedule to talk about the commercial.
"I totally had to get into character,” she said, regarding the persona of Nikki Cappelli. “But it’s kind of my normal-life character in a way. I mean, I’m not giddy and weird like that, but if you put me in front of a committee like that, it’s like…this is who I am!”
Candice thinks the ad is a timely one, and one that exposes the hypocrisy surrounding the new, moral America. “When you watch the video,” she remarked, “all you see is cleavage, which you see on a daily basis on TV and in real life. So I think it’s funny that there’s such a big controversy over cleavage.” In fact, she noted, the silliness of the whole situation was something she decided to play off of when filming the ad. “I wanted to just go out there and make fun of the whole thing,” she said, “and just sort of be like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so sorry. Am I upsetting the committee because I have on a tank top?”
Filming the commercial, Candice was given free reign to create the “Ms. Cappelli” character any way she wanted. “I made up the whole commercial,” Candice said. “The script is the part that said ‘It’s $8.95 for a year.’ Everything that was said after that, I made up. It was all me and whatever I could come up with.”
A thirty-second version of the ad ran during the game’s first quarter. A second, longer version, slated to air at the two-minute warning, was pulled; a move that many think helped generate even more publicity. “Because they pulled it,” Candice said, “it’s getting more press than it would have if they’d just played it!” Of course, Candice is elated at the turn of events. “At first I was thinking, ‘Oh, they didn’t play it,’” she said. “Now I’m glad they didn’t play it because everybody’s calling me!”
And it seems as though the calls will keep on coming. Candice hopes to parlay the exposure into more work (she’s already filmed two more GoDaddy ads), but also wants to put her fame to good use in WWE. “Everybody who knows who I am knows that a huge part of my life is Raw,” she said. “So hopefully it’ll bring in more people who don’t know that much about wrestling.”
Whatever comes of it, for now, Candice is simply enjoying the ride. “It’s overwhelming to know that I can do one commercial and so much can come out of it,” she observed, “But it’s exciting to see what’s going to happen, what’s going to come next, and all that fun stuff.”
I knew that chick looked familiar but I never thought it was a WWE diva
WWE’s Candice is too hot for Fox
By Jeremy Brown
It was the talk around water coolers, message boards and blogspots around the country this morning. GoDaddy.com’s devilish new ad that, in addition to promoting the site, pokes fun at the Puritanical mindset that has pervaded the post-Janet America.
In the ad, a well-endowed, tank-top-clad brunette flounces about before a stuffy Senate committee, touting the benefits of GoDaddy while desperately trying to prevent, shall we say, a “wardrobe malfunction.” The brunette in question is none other than Candace Michelle, one of Raw’s newest Divas, and she took a few minutes out of her increasingly hectic schedule to talk about the commercial.
"I totally had to get into character,” she said, regarding the persona of Nikki Cappelli. “But it’s kind of my normal-life character in a way. I mean, I’m not giddy and weird like that, but if you put me in front of a committee like that, it’s like…this is who I am!”
Candice thinks the ad is a timely one, and one that exposes the hypocrisy surrounding the new, moral America. “When you watch the video,” she remarked, “all you see is cleavage, which you see on a daily basis on TV and in real life. So I think it’s funny that there’s such a big controversy over cleavage.” In fact, she noted, the silliness of the whole situation was something she decided to play off of when filming the ad. “I wanted to just go out there and make fun of the whole thing,” she said, “and just sort of be like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so sorry. Am I upsetting the committee because I have on a tank top?”
Filming the commercial, Candice was given free reign to create the “Ms. Cappelli” character any way she wanted. “I made up the whole commercial,” Candice said. “The script is the part that said ‘It’s $8.95 for a year.’ Everything that was said after that, I made up. It was all me and whatever I could come up with.”
A thirty-second version of the ad ran during the game’s first quarter. A second, longer version, slated to air at the two-minute warning, was pulled; a move that many think helped generate even more publicity. “Because they pulled it,” Candice said, “it’s getting more press than it would have if they’d just played it!” Of course, Candice is elated at the turn of events. “At first I was thinking, ‘Oh, they didn’t play it,’” she said. “Now I’m glad they didn’t play it because everybody’s calling me!”
And it seems as though the calls will keep on coming. Candice hopes to parlay the exposure into more work (she’s already filmed two more GoDaddy ads), but also wants to put her fame to good use in WWE. “Everybody who knows who I am knows that a huge part of my life is Raw,” she said. “So hopefully it’ll bring in more people who don’t know that much about wrestling.”
Whatever comes of it, for now, Candice is simply enjoying the ride. “It’s overwhelming to know that I can do one commercial and so much can come out of it,” she observed, “But it’s exciting to see what’s going to happen, what’s going to come next, and all that fun stuff.”
I knew that chick looked familiar but I never thought it was a WWE diva