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David Wright Moonlights, Makes a Delivery
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Jen Chung
Published Jul 24, 2007
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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There was a fuss - and VitaminWater truck - at the FDNY's Ladder 20 Engine 13 firehouse on Lafayette Street. With good reason: Mets third baseman David Wright was filming a commercial for vitaminwater. Wright, New York's hottie come lately athlete, plays a vitaminwater delivery man - see how his uniform says "David"?
Firefighters were taking photographs with their cellphones and Wright seemed to be having a good time. We just hope he's well-rested for tonight's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Red Sox star David Ortiz and Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher appeared as badminton players in a vitaminwater ad (Slate's Seth Stevenson gave the ad a B), while 50 Cent played an orchestra conductor in another. The Queens-born rapper actually owns a stake in vitaminwater's parent company Glaceau (also based in Queens), so when Coca-Cola bought Glaceau, 50 made around $100 million. Wright has a 0.5% stake in Glaceau, which lead the Post to speculate he would make $20 million, though Wright has said it's much less.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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