In preventing an imminent new Super Bowl nudity scandal, Fox has axed the planned broadcast of an "Airborne"-ad showing 84-year-old Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney´s nude butt. It appeared inappropriate, a network spokesman claimed.
A year after Janet Jackson´s nude breast incident, the network pulled the plug on the TV ad as precautionary measure. Therein Rooney is shown in a sauna, wearing nothing but a towel.
As a man behind him coughs, he overreacts, screams and tries to leave, dropping his towel and baring his behind for two seconds. The maker of Airborne natural cold remedy defended it as unsexual as showing a baby´s butt. Rooney protested the decision.
