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Ryan Reynolds Made a Gin Commercial Starring the Woman From the Peloton Commercial

You’ve probably seen the holiday Peloton ad – the one that definitely didn’t go the way the company wanted. It features a wife and mother who receives an exercise bike, then goes on to document her fitness journey online.

The problem is that it sort of plays like a horror movie in which the woman is forced to act like a happy wife and mother who loves working out, but is in fact being held against her will.

Monica Ruiz, the actress, blames her eyebrows, but it turns out the odd commercial might be great for her career – because Ryan Reynolds already hired her to make a commercial for Aviation American Gin.

In it, the Peloton-gifted wife is drinking gin at a bar with her friends after (maybe?) separating from her kidnapper/spouse. Or at least recovering from her traumatic year with the Peloton.

“You are safe here,” one friend says as the women share a toast “to new beginnings.”

Ruiz drains her glass and asks for another, and all’s well that ends well, I suppose.

Most people think it’s hilarious…except Sean Hunter, who played the husband in the original ad. He isn’t as amused by the situation as everyone else.

“Five seconds of air time has created an array of malicious feedback that is all associated with my face. As it continues to be screenshot online, I wonder what repercussions will come back to me. I pride myself on being a great teacher and developing actor and I can only hope this affects neither.”

Time will tell, but I mean, maybe he’ll get a second, better commercial opportunity as well?

You never know, but as for Reynolds and Ruiz, the internet is loving the addition to the “Peloton Cinematic Universe.”

And you know, I do feel a little bad for both actors, who likely never expected that booking an innocuous Christmas ad for an exercise bike would blow up online, for better or worse. But this is who we are as a society now.

Watch your face, folks. There are repercussions for days.

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The “Peloton Wife” Said That Her Face Might Have Been the Real Problem in Those Commercials

You’ve probably seen that Peloton ad and read all of the jokes by now. Just in case, here’s a recap: a husband gifts his wife a Peloton exercise bike for Christmas, and she then makes home videos of her exercise journey.

As opposed to seeing a nice moment between spouses, the internet sees something more akin to a hostage video or a horror film.

Now, Monica Ruiz, the actress who plays “the wife,” is taking the blame for the whole ruckus.

“Honestly, I think it was just my face,” Ruiz told the Today show’s Hoda Kotb. “It was my fault. My eyebrows looked worried, I guess. People were like, ‘She looked scared.’”

She also says she can see how people think she looked worried in the ad, because her eyebrows “move.” That said, she hates that her performance might have ruined a company (Peloton lost over a billion dollars in market capitalization after the commercial came out, which is insane), and that’s why she decided to speak out for herself.

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“I was like, Ok, I’ll just let everyone know I’m fine,” she said. “I’m OK, I’m not in a rehab for mental health anywhere.”

She’s just an actress who hopes to book more work soon, god love her.

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“I hope people can remember that I’m not actually the ‘Peloton lady’ and let me work other jobs,” she said (Ryan Reynolds was clearly listening).

Peloton stood by the ad saying it was “disappointed in how some have misinterpreted” it.

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