Valerie Bertinelli is running the Boston Marathon. One kilometre for every pound she lost eating prepackaged food. Okay, I made that last part up because I liked it when numbers intersect in random but seemingly meaningful ways. She didn’t qualify her way in, but is raising money to support cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The team of 500 runners wish to add another $4.4 million to the $43 million raised since the marathon challenge began in 1990. If my mental math is correct, that’s an average of $8,880 per person. That’s a tough goal for the average runner. I hope Jenny Craig is feeling generous.
Jenny Craig sure lucked out with this spokesperson. Excuse me Wikipedia, I mean activist: “she considers herself a health and weight-loss activist rather than a hired weight-loss spokesperson“. They say no publicity is bad publicity, but I’m not sure that holds in the weight loss industry. No offense Kirstie Alley and your near fatal fall off the boxed food wagon. I wonder if the newest addition to the Jenny Craig family, Jason Alexander, will lace up for New York 2010? Imagine the Seinfeld inspired alarm clock jokes. I give the Jenny Craig food producers a year before we see some sort of marathon power bar in their line of products. p.s. That last sentence entitles me to a cut of the profits.
To my celebrity-obsessed readers, what do you predict for her finish time? Will she beat Oprah?
Title Reference: Polly Cutter – This Is It. Theme Song from One Day at a Time .
Of course she didn’t qualify her way in. No comment. Except that I’m leaving a comment. Slightly ironic.
This gets me wondering … have any Boston Marathon celeb runners qualified? Lance I suppose, but he’s a celebrity athlete.
JENNY JELS!!!!!!!!
completed a half in 2:12:19, so doing the math i’m guessing it’ll take $3,600 in delicious Jenny Craig meals.
p.s. as i was snooping around to find more about jenny craig, I came across the news that the company is now owned not by cute little Jenny herself, but by NESTLE!!!!! The same world’s biggest company that bought Powerbar from good Canadian Brian Maxwell. In protest, I vow to no longer watch “one day at a time” reruns. now i just wish i could vow to get the theme song out of my head on today’s run.
Forget the newspaper game, marketing may be your calling. Jenny Jels sounds diet a dieter’s dream. And now I want to know what happened to Jenny post Nestle.