Katherine Heigl is now doing kitty litter commercials: sad or schadenfreude?
Katherine Heigl’s career is not going so well. She’s now doing kitty litter commercials. Let’s see how we got here? First, she was an award-winning TV actress. Then she made the jump to films and some people thought she was going to be the next rom-com princess. Then Heigl basically alienated everyone she ever worked with. She was rude, unpleasant and unprofessional, and even the trade papers were writing pieces about how awful she is to work with, and how her momager makes her even worse. Heigl tried to make the movie-star thing happen for years, then she finally deigned to come back to TV, only to see her big comeback role (on a budget Homeland-esque network show) canceled quickly.
So now Heigl is hawking Cat’s Pride Fresh & Light Ultimate Care kitty litter. To be absolutely fair to Heigl, she can and does say that she’s doing these commercials because Cat’s Pride is donating a portion of the profits to her animal charity, The Jason Debus Heigl Foundation. But the one thing we know for sure about Heigl and her momager is that they only show up if they’re getting a payday too. This isn’t even Heigl’s first foray into “seriously, she’s doing commercials now?” She was also in a ZzzQuil commercial a few years ago. I guess money is tight? Here are the kitty little commercials:
Some will say that the schadenfreude is misplaced, or something something sexism. While I do think that there was an element of sexism in some of the Heigl stories – like, how dare this young woman be so “mouthy”? – at the end of the day, she alienated so many people in the industry and general public, it feels like we’ve earned our schadenfreude. And guess what? When Shonda Rhimes calls you an a—hole, chances are pretty good that you are, in fact, an a—hole. When Shonda was creating Scandal, she told THR that after working with Katherine Heigl, she developed a “no a—holes policy” and that on Scandal, “There are no Heigls in this situation… I don’t put up with bullshi–t or nasty people. I don’t have time for it.” I guess the Cat’s Pride kitty litter people did have time for it.
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