{"id":345289,"date":"2011-03-28T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/28\/serena-williams-serena-williams-ad-deemed-too-sexy-after-all\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T18:09:27","slug":"serena-williams-serena-williams-ad-deemed-too-sexy-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/serena-williams-serena-williams-ad-deemed-too-sexy-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams &#8211; Serena Williams&#8217; Ad Deemed Too Sexy After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dimewars.com\/Blog\/Serena-Williams---Serena-Williams--Ad-Deemed-Too-Sexy-After-All.aspx?BlogID=223e5be3-f2e7-4718-a7d0-10b3e4a00503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><br \/>\nDimewars.com<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n Serena Williams &#8211; Tennis star Serena Williams&#8217; new ad for 2K Sports \u201cTop Spin 4\u201d game  won&#8217;t see the light of day on broadcast TV.<\/p>\n<p>The video features Serena Williams as \u201cthe world\u2019s sexiest tennis player\u201d facing off against Rileah Vanderbilt, as \u201cthe world\u2019s sexiest tennis gamer.\u201d  The women are dressed in tight leotards making suggestive movements and sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Rileah Vanderbilt, &#8220;the sexiest gamer&#8221;, reportedly posted\/leaked the video link on her Twitter page. Soon after many deemed the ad to be too risky and sexy for a video game commercial. 2K Sports had this say,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the process for creating marketing campaigns to support our titles, we pursue a variety of creative avenues,\u201d the company said in a statement.  \u201cThis video is not part of the title&#8217;s final marketing campaign and its distribution was unauthorized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1746-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/entertainment\/201103\/148588.php\" title=\"Serena Williams - Serena Williams' Ad Deemed Too Sexy After All\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Serena Williams &#8211; Serena Williams&#8217; Ad Deemed Too Sexy After All<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Dimewars.com : \u00a0\u00a0 Serena Williams &#8211; Tennis star Serena Williams&#8217; new ad for 2K Sports \u201cTop Spin 4\u201d game won&#8217;t see the light of day on broadcast TV. The video features Serena Williams as \u201cthe world\u2019s sexiest tennis player\u201d facing off against Rileah Vanderbilt, as \u201cthe world\u2019s sexiest tennis gamer.\u201d The women are dressed in tight leotards making suggestive movements and sounds. Rileah Vanderbilt, &#8220;the sexiest gamer&#8221;, reportedly posted\/leaked the video link on her Twitter page. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Serena Williams - Serena Williams&#039; Ad Deemed Too Sexy After All - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/serena-williams-serena-williams-ad-deemed-too-sexy-after-all\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Serena Williams - Serena Williams&#039; Ad Deemed Too Sexy After All - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Dimewars.com : \u00a0\u00a0 Serena Williams - Tennis star Serena Williams&#039; new ad for 2K Sports \u201cTop Spin 4\u201d game won&#039;t see the light of day on broadcast TV. 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