Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg’s new role, advertising incontinence pads

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With a successful film career behind her, an Oscar on her mantelpiece and a primetime daily chatshow, Whoopi Goldberg is surely not short of a bit of money.

So there must be another reason why Whoopi chose to take a new role advertising incontinence pads.

The comedienne plays a series of historical characters as she makes jokes about her ‘little secret’ in the light-hearted web advert.

While many celebrities, conscious of their public image, might be embarrassed to be associated with any type of intimate hygiene product, Whoopi seems determined to remove the stigma attached to using them.

Playing Eve, the Mona Lisa, Joan of Arc, the Statue Of Liberty and Cleopatra, Whoopi finds a light-hearted way of dealing with a serious issue.

In the advert, which she mostly wrote, the Sister Act star admits: ‘I have a little secret, I leak. Just a little spritzer.