inessential musings

I’ve been remiss in following up on the Cadbury Gorilla story that’s been one of the most popular posts on this site in some time. The ad was viewed almost 500,000 times on YouTube during the first week of its release! Everyone’s enjoyed it, but the burning question has been, “Who’s the guy in the gorilla suit?”

While many speculated it was Phil Collins himself, it apparently was Garon Michael, a relatively little-known actor who seems to specialize in playing primates, having appeared in Congo, Instinct, and the remake of Planet of the Apes. No stranger to film, he’s appeared with such heavyweights as Anthony Hopkins, Donald Sutherland and Mark Wahlberg.

Says Cadbury spokesman Tony Bilsborough, “We have been amazed by the way the advert has captured the public’s imagination.”

And so it has. It’ll be a tough act to follow!

Update on Oct 2, 2007 at 07:58AM by

Doug

This just in:

I have it on good authority that it was actually Dick Cheney in the gorilla suit (did you see the way he cracked his neck, those beady eyes?) living out a lifelong fantasy with the help of the CIA, the Secret Service and executives at Cadbury (which, btw, is a clever CIA front for their spook operations in Britain) who shared this highly classified information with me on condition of anonymity. “Garon Michael” is an alias and “Operation Choco-Monkey” is another diabolical right wing government coverup.

Wake up, people!