06/24/2008

Not only can Neil Patrick Harris convincingly play a heterosexual womanizer on TV, he can also hawk traditionally macho brands to consumers. Harris appears in a really great ad for Old Spice antiperspirant in this month's GQ (p. 47).

The ad references back to his Doogie days, reading, as he's pictured placing a stethoscope on a patient's nose: "Body odor protection recommended by former TV doctors, like me."

It also reads, in the small print, "Take it from me, I used to be a fake doctor."

(AfterElton also spotted the ad in Entertainment Weekly)

Posted 9:24 AM EST by Andy in Advertising, Grooming, Neil Patrick Harris, News | Permalink

Comments

I saw this in print, and that peek of chest hair makes that ad completely hot. I'm a new fan of the grown up Doogie.

Posted by: yummers | Jun 24, 2008 9:56:34 AM

I prefer the Bruce Campbell ones, tbh

Posted by: DNfromMN | Jun 24, 2008 10:36:41 AM

Although I love my NPS's good sense of self-deprecation and I always sit up when he speaks, I would like to believe that he would never have tolerated such bad grammar had he been allowed to proof-read that punch line first. Use a semi-colon, people, and stop the run-ons!

Posted by: PJ | Jun 24, 2008 11:37:37 AM

Man that picture is massively airbrushed. In real life he looks like a withered troll. Gross.

Posted by: Larry | Jun 24, 2008 12:17:19 PM

Larry, doth the lady protest too much? "Withered troll" indeed. Looking in the mirror, are we?

NPH is hot, funny, smart and endearing. The world would be better with more like him

Posted by: Patrick M | Jun 24, 2008 2:23:44 PM

NPH can listen to my nose anytime.

Posted by: JeffRob | Jun 24, 2008 2:30:06 PM

Is that Anthony Stewart Head on the gurney?

Posted by: Wilson | Jun 24, 2008 2:52:09 PM

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