Ted Cruz campaign pulls ad after learning actress did porn
The Ted Cruz presidential campaign pulled a recent advertisement after realizing that one of its actresses appeared in adult films.
In “Conservatives Anonymous,” which parodies Alcoholics Anonymous, a group of conservatives meets to discuss feelings of betrayal after voting for candidates who profess to stand for conservative values but swiftly compromise after arriving in Washington, D.C.
Actress Amy Lindsay has a speaking role in the TV spot for the Texas senator’s presidential campaign, telling another conservative, “Maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time.”
At the end of the ad, a new arrival enters the room wearing a shirt in support of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, asking if the group has room for one more.
The Daily Caller was among the first to report that Lindsay has had an extensive career in soft-core pornography, appearing in “Erotic Confessions,” “Insatiable Obsession,” “Secrets of a Chambermaid” and other similar titles.
Catherine Frazier, the national press secretary for the Cruz campaign, told the news site in a statement that they were unaware of her erotic past before releasing the ad.
“The actress responded to an open casting call,” the statement reads. “She passed her audition and got the job. Unfortunately, she was not vetted by the casting company. Had the campaign known of her full filmography, we obviously would not have let her appear in the ad. The campaign is taking the ad down and will replace it with a different commercial.”
After the clip was taken off YouTube, the Los Angeles-based actress tweeted that she was disappointed in the campaign’s decision.
Ted Cruz speaks at the Carolina Values Summit at Winthrop University on Thursday in Rock Hill, S.C. (Photo: John Bazemore/AP)
“Extremely disappointed the #TedCruz campaign pulled the national television spot I had a role in,” she tweeted.
According to her IMDb page, Lindsay has also appeared in non-erotic, mainstream TV series and films, such as “Star Trek: Voyager” and “The Portrait of a Lady.”
She told BuzzFeed News that she is a conservative Christian and a Republican and has not performed in hardcore porn films.
The actress said that her appearance in Cruz’s ad is actually cool because it shows that not all Republicans fit neatly into a stereotype.
“In a cool way, then hey, then it’s not just some old, white Christian bigot that people want to say, ‘It could be, maybe, a cool kind of open-minded woman like me,’” she said to BuzzFeed of Cruz supporters.
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