Is there anything they won't endorse?

SMALL PRINT:A NEW URL-shortening service backed by Lady Gaga and 50 Cent, called Bre.ad, has just been launched. It makes us wonder – how many products celebrities can endorse, and who the heck needs another URL shortener to add to the endless ones already out there?

In honour of Bre.ad, let’s survey the Weirdest Celebrity Endorsements Ever . . .

Kiss Kaskets

Kiss are the most merchandised rock band in the world, selling everything from golf-club covers to lip balm, but their range of caskets turned endorsements up to 11. The initial Kiss Kasket branched out into a range of coffins that retail at about €3,000. The original product description said it could be used as a giant drink cooler or, you know, to bury someone.

Amanda Brunker designer sofas

Tabloid journalist, talent-show judge, racy chick-lit author, couch entrepreneur. Need we say more?

Mikhail Gorbachev and Pizza Hut

In 1997, Gorbachev appeared in a TV ad for Pizza Hut (above), or specifically, a Pizza Hut pizza with toppings that went all the way to the edge of the base, with the slogan: “Have you been to the edge?” More recently, Gorbachev appeared in a perplexing Louis Vuitton print campaign, which saw him driving past the Berlin Wall in a limo, with an open Louis Vuitton bag next to him. Cryptic.

Bill Wyman signature metal detector

Believe it or not, the former Rolling Stones bassist is an avid treasure hunter – and you thought Mick Jagger was the money man. Wyman has even written a book on British treasure and archeology. It makes sense then (kind of) that he developed a lightweight metal detector with the company C Scope.

Bob Dylan and Victoria’s Secret

In 2004, Bob Dylan appeared in the advertisement looking vaguely creepy and satanic, alongside a young half-naked female model sporting angel wings. The voice of counterculture and pants? Wrong. Three years later, he was pimping out Cadillac Escalades. Then he participated in a Pepsi ad during the Superbowl. The times really have a’ changed.