{"id":15861,"date":"2012-01-13T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=15861"},"modified":"2012-01-13T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T12:29:00","slug":"usain-bolt-richard-branson-team-up-for-hilarious-tv-ad-15861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/usain-bolt-richard-branson-team-up-for-hilarious-tv-ad-15861\/","title":{"rendered":"Usain Bolt , Richard Branson team up for hilarious TV ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15862\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15862\" title=\"Usain-Bolt-Richard-Branson-ad-nationalturk-0067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Usain-Bolt-Richard-Branson-ad-nationalturk-0067.jpg\" alt=\"Usain Bolt in his fake beard impersonating Sir Richard Branson\" width=\"610\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Usain Bolt in his fake beard impersonating Sir Richard Branson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Olympic champion and fastest man on the earth Usain Bolt impersonates billionaire Sir Richard Branson for a hilarious new TV advert for Virgin Media.<\/h1>\n<p>London \/ NationalTurk &#8211; The world\u2019s fastest man, the 25-year-old sprint king, a three-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt and Virgin Media founder, infinite money owner Sir Richard Branson teamed up for a new Virgin Media ad, as Usain Bolt dressed up as the 61-year-old tycoon for the Virgin Media ad, complete with Branson&#8217;s trademark goatee beard.<\/p>\n<p>The company is boosting its top broadband speed to 120Mb and doubling the speeds of over four million of its broadband customers without charge.<\/p>\n<p>The ad, which was filmed in Usain Bolt\u2019s hometown of Kingston in Jamaica, was shot in a fun atmosphere. A source said: \u201cUsain was great fun to be around &#8211; he kept the whole crew laughing between takes by showing off his break-dancing and robot dance moves. And because what we do is so boring, we laughed a lot at this jokes&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe even took the whole crew to his own Tracks &amp; Records restaurant one night and treated them all to dinner. Sir Richard and Usain really hit it off. There was a lot of mutual respect for what they have both achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sir Richard Branson added: \u201cVirgin Media is giving customers more so what better person to champion superfast broadband than Usain Bolt? As the fastest man on the planet, he\u2019s the living embodiment of speed.\u201d<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 14)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champion and fastest man on the earth Usain Bolt impersonates billionaire Sir Richard Branson for a hilarious new TV advert for Virgin Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,63,45,17,118,34,85,14],"tags":[20258,20259,1849,20254,20257,20260,20255,20256],"class_list":["post-15861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-entertainment","category-europe","category-hot","category-latin-america","category-media-news","category-world","tag-richard-branson-beard","tag-richard-branson-virgin","tag-usain-bolt","tag-usain-bolt-ad","tag-usain-bolt-fake-beard","tag-usain-bolt-jamaica","tag-usain-bolt-richard-branson","tag-usain-bolt-richard-branson-ad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}