Ted Cruz’s campaign has pulled an advertisement, not because of complaints about the ad, but because one of the ads stars is formerly a softcore porn actress.
Buzzfeed reports Amy Linsday, who appeared in a latest Ted Cruz spot which took shots at Marco Rubio titled “Conservatives Anonymous,” also appeared in multiple softcore porn films including Erotic Confessions, Secrets of a Chambermaid, and Insatiable Desires.
Lindsay told Buzzfeed the campaign hired her knowing “absolutely everything that I had done,” but she later called back and told them that wasn’t the case.
A Cruz spokesperson told the New York Times Linsday wasn’t vetted and the campaign wouldn’t have proceeded with her in the ad if they’d known about her past.
“The actress responded to an open casting call,” Cruz spokesman Catherine Frazier told the New York Times. “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.”
Lindsay wasn’t purely a porn actress as she’s appeared on Star Trek: Voyager among many non-porn credits. Linsday has taken to Twitter to retweet shots at Cruz for pulling the ad and said herself she’s disappointed with the result.
Extremely disappointed the #TedCruz campaign pulled the national television spot I had a role in… @CNN @Foxnews #moretocome #myvotecounts
— Amy Lindsay (@amylindsayLA) February 12, 2016
I don’t blame her. I get why Cruz wouldn’t want to be associated with a former porn actress as that might turn off Conservative voters, but she’s a legitimate actress and (at least was) a Cruz supporter. By pulling the ad, it just makes the story bigger than it ever would be.
