{"id":287412,"date":"2020-01-30T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1117820"},"modified":"2020-01-30T12:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:08:10","slug":"chrissy-teigen-and-john-legend-super-bowl-ad-edits-out-helicopter-after-kobe-bryants-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/chrissy-teigen-and-john-legend-super-bowl-ad-edits-out-helicopter-after-kobe-bryants-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrissy Teigen and John Legend Super Bowl Ad Edits Out Helicopter After Kobe Bryant&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020026\/rs_600x600-200126165701-600-Chrissy-Teigen-and-John-Legend.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.507470651014\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"24.521878335112\">\n<p>A <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/2020_super_bowl\">2020 Super Bowl<\/a><\/strong> ad starring&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chrissy_teigen\">Chrissy Teigen<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_legend\">John Legend<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;has undergone a substantial edit before the&nbsp;big game in wake of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kobe_bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s death.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial, advertising Hyundai&#8217;s luxury&nbsp;vehicle brand Genesis&#8217;&nbsp;first SUV, the Genesis GV80, no longer contains a helicopter in its opening scene. The original version of the full ad was posted earlier this week and was recently replaced with&nbsp;the edited version.<\/p>\n<p>Kobe, 41, his 13-year-old daughter&nbsp;<strong>Gianna<\/strong> and seven other people, including two other teenage girls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1115856\/kobe-bryant-dead-in-helicopter-crash-at-age-41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died in a helicopter crash<\/a> in Calabasas, California this past Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we re-cut our Super Bowl ad, to remove a stationary helicopter that was in the opening two seconds of the commercial,&#8221; a Genesis spokesperson told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/Ad-Meter\/2020\/01\/29\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-prompts-genesis-alter-super-bowl-ad\/4615507002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a><\/em> in an statement on Wednesday. &#8220;The ad had been filmed, produced and delivered well before Sunday&#8217;s tragedy, so we took down the spot out of compassion and sensitivity to the families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.213903743316\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8.3689839572193\">\n<p>Following the crash, Hard Rock International also edited&nbsp;its first Super Bowl ad to &#8220;remove scenes including [fellow NBA legend]&nbsp;<strong>Kareem Abdul Jabbar<\/strong> that could be considered insensitive,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/adage.com\/article\/special-report-super-bowl\/super-bowl-advertisers-edit-commercials-wake-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash\/2232371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ad Age<\/a> reported.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/michael_bay\">Michael Bay<\/a><\/strong> directed the commercial, which also stars 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show co-headliner&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_lopez\">Jennifer Lopez<\/a><\/strong>, her fianc\u00e9 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/alex_rodriguez\">Alex Rodriguez<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/pitbull\">Pitbull<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/dj_khaled\">DJ Khaled<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"30.153846153846\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"1.0769230769231\">\n<p>Kobe&nbsp;is set to&nbsp;receive a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1117403\/2020-super-bowl-will-pay-tribute-to-kobe-bryant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special tribute during the 2020 Super Bowl<\/a> in Miami this Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m. and don&#8217;t miss our <i>2020 Oscars: E&#8217;s Inside Guide<\/i> special Friday, Feb. 7 at 11 p.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1117820\/chrissy-teigen-and-john-legend-super-bowl-ad-edits-out-helicopter-after-kobe-bryant-s-death?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2020 Super Bowl ad starring&nbsp;Chrissy Teigen and&nbsp;John Legend&nbsp;has undergone a substantial edit before the&nbsp;big game in wake of Kobe Bryant&#8216;s death. The commercial, advertising Hyundai&#8217;s luxury&nbsp;vehicle brand Genesis&#8217;&nbsp;first SUV, the Genesis GV80, no longer contains a helicopter in its opening scene. 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