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Billy Mays Health Insurance Ads Pulled

Posted Aug 13th 2009 12:29PM by TMZ Staff

Today is the last day you'll be seeing the late, great Billy Mays endorse health insurance -- the company behind one of the legendary pitchman's most recent commercials has officially pulled the spot off the air.

Billy claimed his work for the iCAN benefit group was "the most important product I have ever endorsed" -- but now, 6 weeks after Mays passed away, the company has decided to go another direction.

For the record, the company did get the OK from the family to continue running Billy's ad -- and Billy's son also made the following point on his Twitter page, "When actors die, their movies continue to play, right?"

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1. First! HA!

Posted at 12:47PM on Aug 13th 2009 by aloui

2. Hence the reasoning behind why his family is legally disputing that there were a dozen different kinds of prescription drugs in his blood system when he died...shocking.

Posted at 12:48PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Sono

3. Billy Mays for Health Insurance is like George Bush for higher education.

Per your story please be advised Robin Motola, one of the nurses suing Las Encinas Hospital, is herself guilty of a great deal of negligence in regards to patient care and unspeakable breaches of psychiatric ethics. With a little investigation you'll find she was widely known for taking home discharged patients for drugs and sex. My friend, Tamar Hirsch, who Robin illegally treated outside of the hospital because her father paid for it (she was only interested in these types of patients if they could provide money or drugs or she had a sexual attraction to them) witnessed this many times. The story deserves further investigation as well as criminal investigation.

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Posted at 12:50PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Rodney Peterson

4. ALL Billy Mays ads should be pulled.

I'm NOT buying anything a dead guy recommends. In fact, I boycott any products still using Billy Mays as a spokeperson.

Posted at 12:58PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Adamant

5. I liked him... Party on..

Posted at 1:01PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Wiggles

6. MIghty Health Insurance - heart attacks brought on by coke binge, your covered!

Posted at 1:01PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Mikey

7.
B.M. was waaaayyyy over the top...now it all makes sense...
feel sorry for the family...but...it was the right thing to do for the insurance co !!!

Posted at 1:01PM on Aug 13th 2009 by northern gypsy

8. This had *nothing* to do with the fact that the toxicology report took 6 reams of paper to complete.

Posted at 1:02PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Cyril Whack

9. Still just so sad! He was so funny to watch!

Posted at 1:03PM on Aug 13th 2009 by TwoStepsRight.com

10. I'm sorry for the family's loss but this guy GOT ON MY DAMN NERVES!!! All those drugs in his system explains ALOT!! Won't be sad to see the end of ALL his commercials!

Posted at 1:11PM on Aug 13th 2009 by jana

11. Billy Mays was the most annoying person ever on TV. Now we know he was a druggie....explains his volume.

Posted at 1:14PM on Aug 13th 2009 by TVgirl

12. Thank god the ads were pulled. I never want to hear his annoying voice again.

Posted at 1:14PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Monkeynoodle

13. I can't believe Betty Crocker is advertising on this sleazy website.

BOYCOTT BETTY CROCKER!!!!

Posted at 1:15PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Winsome Davis III

14. LOL YET SMH @ SOME OF THE COMMENTS

Posted at 1:20PM on Aug 13th 2009 by brooklynlady

15. HEY Rodney Peterson - CON BEHALF OF EVERYBODY THAT READS TMZ...COULD YA STOP PUSHING YOUR Robin Motola Issues ON EVERY THREAD STORY ON TMZ...!!!!

Or In THE WORDS OF THE INCOMPARABLE NANCY GRACE: "BREAKING ....NEWS ....BREAKING NEWS..TMZ CUT HIS MICROPHONE...CUT HIS MIC"!!!!!!

This is about Billy Mays..NOT Robin Motola !~!~!~!

If People were interested in Robin Motola, TMZ would write a story on HER!!!! Save that crap for YOUR web page..which you are obviously trying to push!!!
"And NOW FRIENDS...A PICTURE OF THE TWINS"

Posted at 1:22PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Kevin

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