9. Bullfighting Ad Leads To Trouble With Animal Rights Activists
When you earn approximately $28 million annually in endorsements, alone, you know you’ll be promoting a variety of unheard products. Now getting paid to promote some random product isn’t that bad of a gig, unless you’re Ronaldo and the company paying your salary decides to portray you as a bullfighter.
In 2008, Ronaldo starred in a television commercial for Fuji Xerox in which he portrayed a bullfighter who taunted a bull with a ball rather than a matador cape. As bullfighting is banned and illegal in many countries, animal rights activists had a field day in condemning Ronaldo, Fuji Xerox, and the ad.
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