Coffee and Ice Cream?

In a previous (and perhaps future) life, I was a celebrity reporter.*

And, in these pages, I have written about some of the fairly clear delineations between the different levels of celebrity. 

But here's another tip, one that is really not a new story, but one I started thinking about as we were wandering through Nice this week....

Many celebrities do some kind of advertising in other parts of the world, often in markets and in mediums that would be considered career suicide,** if they took part in them in the United States.  

And up until recently, most included a clause in the contract forbidding the ads from running in the US. 

But who could blame them for signing up for the ads?  It's piles of dough for relatively little work.  

For instance, just for a few tiny examples...Michael J. Fox shills for a Japanese energy drink whose slogan is "Good Afternoon!" Jennifer Aniston starred in Heineken beer commercials around the world and credit cards in the UK. And Japan is a huge market for the ads, many of which can be seen on Japander (which doesn't seen to be running well right now...)  

But it's widely accepted and usually really funny, too and often a slight indication of the level of celebrity enjoyed by the star....

So here's your quiz question...

Which celebrity is on the fairly untouchable REALLY BIG LIST, which is even higher than A level? Which celebrity is firmly settled (for now at least) on one of the slightly less prestigious letters of the alphabet?

Example A)

An advertising campaign for a coffee-like beverage---seen on giant groupings of poster panels in French airports, hilarious prime time commercials and back covers of major magazines.

Example B)

An advertising campaign for ice cream---seen on a stand-alone poster outside of a cafe on the top of Nice's Castle Hill, which is a hill, but is no longer home to a castle.

  

*To be clear:

Celebrity reporter does not equal paparazzi. 

To be more clear:

Paparazzi jump out of bushes armed with cameras, I used to knock on doors (among other adventures, which included but were not limited to red carpets, nightclubs, fried chicken in kitchens, backstages, etc....) armed with a tape recorder and a pad of paper.

**Or perhaps merely a fairly serious form of cutting.