Playboy Bunny Kendra Wilkinson Does Olive Garden

Unwanted Celeb Endorsements Are the Bane of Existence for Olive Garden and Barack Obama

You would think that any business would be thrilled by having a blond buxom beauty sing its praises. Olive Garden is not one of them. When Kendra Wilkinson -- Playboy Bunny and one of Hugh Hefner's three shack-up honeys -- could not stop gushing about her love for the Olive Garden restaurant, those in charge of advertising are purportedly making noises about not being happy with the celeb endorsement.

The Wall Street Journal reports that there are some closed door discussion about walking the fine line between ignoring the enthusiastic endorsement of an outspoken fan who does not align well with the public image the company seeks to portray, and taking the bull by the horns and running with it.

The Olive Garden, with its talented waitresses who give a whole new meaning to the birthday song, seeks to portray a family image. Couples visit there to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries, and this is where we take the out of town family friends when they visit. It is not the kind of place Olive Garden higher ups want you to associate with an 82-year-old playboy and his 23-year-young live-in girlfriend who doubles as a reality TV actress.

Unscheduled celebrity endorsements of the famous and infamous are not new to the restaurant industry but during the Presidential campaigns they are a bona fide source of hilarity for onlookers when it is a candidate that receives them. Some of these endorsements are well meaning, but I cannot help but wonder if in the privacy of their homes, both John McCain and Barack Obama have a wall dedicated for repeatedly hitting their heads against when yet another person in front of a TV camera opens his or her mouth.

There was Barbara Streisand who jumped shipped off the Hillary campaign and termed Barack Obama a "trailblazer", as reported by Reuters. Since this defection was highly publicized, it had a less than desirable effect. Rapper Ludacris and his ludicrous statement of wanting to "paint the White House black" is another endorsement Obama could have done without.