UPDATE: The tattoo was a big publicity stunt after all.
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Publicity stunt or otherwise, people were pretty unamused on Weibo.
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Some critics have described the lawsuit as a publicity stunt.
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MP Millie Odhiambo called his funeral revelations a publicity stunt.
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We will move for sanctions for this latest publicity stunt.
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Publicity stunt or otherwise, it's still pretty entertaining to watch.
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This seems to be little more than a publicity stunt.
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"It's not a publicity stunt," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
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This is all a publicity stunt for the movie #RogueOne!
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Was Mr. Musk's offer real, or merely a publicity stunt?
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Was Mr. Musk's offer real, or merely a publicity stunt?
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For this reason, today's "publicity stunt" may be tomorrow's law.
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A few people wondered if it was a publicity stunt.
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"This isn't a publicity stunt," she told United Press International.
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"This isn't a publicity stunt," she told United Press International.
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" Cohen's attorney in that lawsuit called Daniels' litigation a "publicity stunt.
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"It doesn't feel like a publicity stunt for us," Ron said.
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"I think the Mayweather thing is a publicity stunt," Diaz said.
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It's the greatest publicity stunt we've seen in a long time.
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This could all just be a massive publicity stunt for B.o.
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Remarkably, this is more than just a one-off publicity stunt.
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It appears to be yet another publicity stunt, and nothing more.
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He rejected the notion that the case is a publicity stunt.
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In turn, Veeck was immediately accused of staging a publicity stunt.
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"This was no mere publicity stunt," Automotive News wrote in 21.8.
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Indian opposition leaders meanwhile dismissed the announcement as a publicity stunt.
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The move was dismissed, in some quarters, as a publicity stunt.
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I am now convinced this is not just a publicity stunt.
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It was just a publicity stunt, and it was a huge mistake.
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It's a shocking video of a publicity stunt that spreads throughout Facebook.
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Or maybe this whole thing has just been a huge publicity stunt.
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Like I said, this whole "break up" is an orchestrated publicity stunt.
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Domino's says this test flight was way more than a publicity stunt.
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I don&apost know if it&aposs a publicity stunt or not.
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The publicity stunt worked, turning the sleepy settlement into a tourist attraction.
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" I said, "Let me tell you, this is a great publicity stunt.
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He once sent a dwarf to the plate as a publicity stunt.
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The Senate already doesn't agree with that.... This is a publicity stunt.
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"Probably for three months, everybody thought it was a publicity stunt," Andrews testified.
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To do something for a publicity stunt to sell records, it's absolutely disgusting.
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"I think the Mayweather thing is a publicity stunt," Diaz told "MMA Hour".
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The sit-in by House Democrats is nothing more than a publicity stunt.
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Republicans dismissed the protest as a publicity stunt, and Ryan refused to budge.
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It "is not a publicity stunt," Hiddleston told The Hollywood Reporter last week.
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This is not a smash-and-grab; this is not a publicity stunt.
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It's very much a publicity stunt, though a fun one — but who knows?
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It started as a publicity stunt to promote the New York City Marathon.
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It was set up as a publicity stunt by a sex toy company.
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A publicity stunt it may be; but is it not a righteous one?
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The publicity stunt worked and turned the sleepy settlement into a tourist attraction.
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The publicity stunt worked and he had the defining year of his career.
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And we're certainly not going to be a pawn in someone's publicity stunt.
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He denied that it was a publicity stunt ahead of the exhibition's opening.
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Sessions' announcement yesterday is not: it amounts to a government-sanctioned publicity stunt.
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Initially people in the running community saw it as an expensive publicity stunt.
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Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, characterized the pilgrimage as a publicity stunt.
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"I don't think it's impossible to talk to [Donald Trump] about issues, but I won't be used as a publicity stunt, and I think Kanye was a publicity stunt," said Legend, who campaigned for Hillary Clinton with wife Chrissy Teigen.
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Is this an elaborate publicity stunt that I fell for by writing this article?
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Bad situation to be sure but Ben Shapiro says that was a publicity stunt.
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Himes also described the boycott as a publicity stunt and an example of trolling.
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If the publicity stunt does not attract the public's attention, then nothing else matters.
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But for a publicity stunt to get more attention, that's the real annoying thing.
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Maybe the whole thing is just a publicity stunt, but we don't think so.
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Some saw it as a publicity stunt, confirming their worst fears about private spaceflight.
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" He added, "This is about a publicity stunt and now a fund-raising scheme.
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He said the firm's involvement is not a publicity stunt or to generate business.
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It's not the first time a fast food joint has pulled a unique publicity stunt.
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He also told The Hollywood Reporter that their whirlwind relationship "is not a publicity stunt."
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"To do something for a publicity stunt to sell records, it's absolutely disgusting," he continues.
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UFC's Nate Diaz, a rival of McGregor, said it was all just a publicity stunt.
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He's already insisted that this isn't a publicity stunt, so what else can he do?
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The payload was criticized as a wasteful publicity stunt by some in the scientific community.
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"I don't know why he did it; maybe it was a publicity stunt," she continues.
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"Ariana and Mac are just a publicity stunt it's so obvious lol," tweeted one skeptic.
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Fiji Water starting off the year right with the best publicity stunt ever pulled. pic.twitter.
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Many wondered if the two were actually together or just yanking the publicity stunt reigns.
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A $100,000 fine for turning a game into a publicity stunt is a good punishment.
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Mr. Ryan, in an interview on CNN, dismissed the sit-in as a publicity stunt.
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That's led some to question whether the plane crash was a calculated, planned publicity stunt.
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"It's a super publicity stunt to get eyes on the Juggalos [not ICP]," Shaggy explained.
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Basically, the burden of proof is on you to show it's not a publicity stunt.
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The GOP's publicity stunt succeeded in capturing the media's attention and temporarily delaying Cooper's testimony.
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"They thought it was a publicity stunt," Ms. Trump said of a disdainful news media.
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The publicity stunt is said to have cost the company some 376,000 euros (nearly $430,000).
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Unsworth told a CNN reporter that Musk's plan was a publicity stunt that wouldn't work.
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This year's Cards Against Humanity publicity stunt involves a livestream that began at 11 a.m.
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He invited his second wife Sophie onto his balloon in 1804 as a publicity stunt.
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After the publicity stunt naturally attracted inquiries, the museum decided to make the hire official.
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When Trump's candidacy looked like a publicity stunt, Trump University mostly flew under the radar.
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"This publicity stunt was a scar that Chicago didn't earn and didn't deserve," Johnson said.
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After yesterday's game, he called the vice president's actions exactly what they were: a publicity stunt.
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Some say this is a publicity stunt orchestrated by Promobot Labs, and they're probably not wrong.
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Sullivan questioned Hogan about rumors that he might have staged the tape as a publicity stunt.
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Some victims' families were angered by the July 3 announcement, describing it as a publicity stunt.
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"This publicity stunt was a scar that Chicago didn't earn and certainly didn't deserve," he said.
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Is this kind of a publicity stunt for Judicial Watch or is this a real thing?
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A lot of people thought that was a publicity stunt, and we're still not convinced otherwise.
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Verdict: If this is all an elaborate Island Gems publicity stunt, we think it's T-rexxic.
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Sparkle said that at the time, she thought talk of the marriage was a publicity stunt.
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In reality, the Finnish trial was poorly designed, and is little more than a publicity stunt.
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Some wondered if it was just a giant publicity stunt for the upcoming Jungle Cruise movie.
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Warner Bros isn't saying if this is a publicity stunt, referring questions to Mr. Ritchie's team.
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He made sure a reporter at The Washington Post was there to record the infamous publicity stunt.
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Surely, we laughed and wished and prayed, Trump's campaign would be a publicity stunt, but it wasn't.
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And it's not a bad publicity stunt for Facebook and its new push into messaging bots, either.
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The act of "running away" or "hiding from the spotlight" is often seen as a publicity stunt.
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While some analysts called it a publicity stunt, other experts noted that he had some natural talent.
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With little else to offer, the Sinai operation has the whiff of an election-eve publicity stunt.
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Andrews said on the stand that some people think she engineered the video as a publicity stunt.
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" Jones, who coached the Edmonton Eskimos to the 2015 Grey Cup, added, "This wasn't a publicity stunt.
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This relationship doesn't scream "publicity stunt" because they seem like two regular youths enjoying each others company.
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The submersible robot got its moniker when it became the consolation prize in a 2016 publicity stunt.
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A revision patch was implemented immediately as we have absolutely no intent to stage a publicity stunt.
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Or is this a publicity stunt to help the buzz around Kim K and Kanye's clothing line?
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The exact thing that he said was that she was using the son as a publicity stunt.
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Harvey, who appeared emotional at times, said the gaffe wasn't a publicity stunt, as some have theorized.
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When he entered the Republican presidential primaries, many of us wrote it off as a publicity stunt.
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John called Kanye out right after West had his chitchat with Trump, calling it a publicity stunt.
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To us, this all seemed more like a cute publicity stunt to introduce their reindeer-decorated scooters.
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For now it's hard not to see the mini-submarine as anything more than a publicity stunt.
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Government lawyers say the case is a publicity stunt that would cost jobs if it is successful.
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But the event turned out to be a publicity stunt where Assange touted his organization's 10th anniversary.
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People have shamed Kardashian, questioned her behavior, and even claimed that the crime was a publicity stunt.
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Some people are calling bullshit on the whole thing, however, accusing Kardashian of staging a publicity stunt.
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Lesh told CNN affiliate KPIX that he has heard rumors what happened next was a publicity stunt.
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Some speculated it was a publicity stunt to promote Disney's upcoming "Jungle Cruise" movie featuring Dwayne Johnson.
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Democrats criticized Kirk's meeting with Garland, suggesting the powwow amounted to little more than a publicity stunt.
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"We don't know if this is real or just a publicity stunt," the email to supporters continued.
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Grandson could be either the most convenient and album-friendly relationship ever, or a savvy publicity stunt.
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I just want to keep creating things even if this is chalked up to a publicity stunt.
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Whether all this is economically viable, or just a publicity stunt by Rwanda's tech-loving government, is unclear.
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"That was just some made up press," says Abraham of the claims her overexposure was a publicity stunt.
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The designer editions are not quite as gaudy as they sound, but still are in publicity stunt territory.
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Most of them referred to 'dating' Hef as a big publicity stunt to help them launch their careers.
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FAMILIES' ANGER Some victims' families were angered by the July 3 announcement, describing it as a publicity stunt.
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Jeune's son, Elie Jeune, says that the law was just a publicity stunt that persists to this day.
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What is the damage to presumably her being called out as using a child as a publicity stunt?
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"I like Rand, but I think he's looking for a publicity stunt here," Ryan said on Fox News.
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"I've seen the criticism from people (on social media), saying this is a publicity stunt," Nystrom told CNN.
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So, I'll be honest, we don't know if this is real, a joke, or a bizarre publicity stunt.
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Alere is now asking to speed up proceedings for the case, which Abbott has called a publicity stunt.
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It's still unclear whether this was a failed publicity stunt or the first signs of something more severe.
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Does it seem like a publicity stunt or a genuine effort to make its stores more inclusive spaces?
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I served in the military, honorably, for eight years, but I think this was one big publicity stunt.
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Was the strikeout real, or was it orchestrated by Joe Engel, the Lookouts' owner, as a publicity stunt?
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"As a publicity stunt, the Recruit was tremendously successful," Mr. Christenson said, bringing 25,000 recruits to the Navy.
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"We don't know if this is real or just a publicity stunt," the fundraising pitch to supporters continued.
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The doctor was David Shulkin, the new secretary of veterans affairs, and this was not some publicity stunt.
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And Senate Democrats' campaign arm labeled Scott's meeting with Zinke as a "publicity stunt" that threatened Florida's beaches.
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Some critics argued the move was a publicity stunt to deflect attention from the closure of Sam's Club.
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Instead, their posts often scream "publicity stunt" and make us feel icky about following them in the first place.
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It's a neat publicity stunt, but it'll also demonstrate the rocket's ability to send payloads directly to geostationary orbit.
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I personally think that our Kardashian kulture has us hurling the word "publicity stunt" around a little too frequently.
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IHOb has officially returned to calling itself IHOP – and admitted the change was all part of a publicity stunt.
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It's time to draw the line when the show's producers start supporting what feels increasingly like a publicity stunt.
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"Some people have said I got drafted because it was a publicity stunt and stuff like that," said Evans.
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They insist the hookup is NOT a publicity stunt, and explained why they decided to go all the way.
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She's had to battle an ongoing media narrative suggesting that she leaked the footage herself as a publicity stunt.
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"Probably for, like, three months, everybody thought it was a publicity stunt," Andrews said in court, holding back tears.
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Some, however, saw the personal matter as a publicity stunt — one potentially orchestrated by Koko's famous momager, Kris Jenner.
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A diver who rescued boys from the flooded Thai cave said Elon Musk's submarine plan was a publicity stunt.
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" When a Twitter user accused CrossFit of pulling a publicity stunt, Berger shot back: "Everything said was factually accurate.
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Verizon criticized the launch, which saw 5G phones given to a small number of celebrities, as a publicity stunt.
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In what was partly a publicity stunt, he started delivering the sports report on a local network television affiliate.
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And that's probably the best explanation for this whole thing, which—you might have guessed—is a publicity stunt.
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That's in addition to what he says was about $20,000 that he shelled out to produce the publicity stunt.
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"This is nothing more than a publicity stunt," Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told CNN of the protest.
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Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, called it 'a wild publicity stunt completely lacking in legal merit.
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Some critics said the program was a publicity stunt and wouldn't solve the underlying problems of poverty in Africa.
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"If this is a hoax or publicity stunt it is not funny," Greensboro police spokeswoman Susan Danielsen tells PEOPLE.
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Twitter was, after all, the last platform to ban Alex Jones, and only because of a dumb publicity stunt.
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Depending on your point of view, it was either a touching sign of sisterly bonding or a publicity stunt.
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Critics of the legislation, who refrained from casting votes, decried it as being a "publicity stunt," the outlet reported.
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This is not how you test something that's supposed to have society-wide effects—it's basically a publicity stunt.
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It's a publicity stunt for H. Moser's custom watch business that lets the ultra-rich develop one-off timepieces.
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But Mr. Trump, the officials said, was suspicious of a publicity stunt that would play to North Korea's advantage.
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Tekashi229's kidnapping last summer was a staged publicity stunt, a suspect in the case said through his lawyer.
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" Villaraigosa called the Department of Justice lawsuit "a publicity stunt" that amounted to Sessions "trying to keep his job.
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"I like Rand, but I think he's looking for a publicity stunt here," Ryan told Fox News's Bret Baier.
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Others questioned Gucci's motivations, suggesting that the sweater and the ensuing mea culpa were part of a publicity stunt.
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But if you choose to do so...this group's cheap publicity stunt is beyond the pale of legitimate public discourse.
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Earlier, Republicans branded the move as a publicity stunt before summarily adjourning the chamber until after the Fourth of July.
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"If this is a hoax or publicity stunt it is not funny," Greensboro police spokeswoman Susan Danielsen previously told PEOPLE.
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There's the oddly hypnotizing relationship that may or may not be a publicity stunt/ I'm Still Here-esque performance art.
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Details: Police have described the event as a publicity stunt, saying the actor paid 2 men, Ola and Abel Osundairo.
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Timberlake was eventually allowed to perform after he apologized to Moonves, who perceived the event as a purposeful publicity stunt.
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After decades of hate speech, cynics deride this volte face as a publicity stunt by Arab dictators seeking Western approval.
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Several people I spoke with, and many people on Twitter, even seem to think it was all a publicity stunt.
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It's highly possible that this has been an elaborate publicity stunt to promote his company's AI and neural network technologies.
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The publicity stunt aimed to spread awareness of an upstart new force in Argentinan politics, the Partido de la Red.
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We asked him about Ryan saying the Dems were just pulling a "publicity stunt," and that's when he went off.
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As you know ... 6ix9ine says he was pistol whipped, kidnapped and robbed ... and maintains it was NOT a publicity stunt.
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Ryan has dismissed the sit-in as a "publicity stunt" and said Republicans will be ready for the next one.
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He used the presidential forum to plug his new hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington — a routine campaign publicity stunt.
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But more importantly, it's a pretty solid publicity stunt, funded by Google — a company that likes making a grand entrance.
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She said the tool completely thwarted Republicans' attempt to stifle the protest, which the GOP branded as a publicity stunt.
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Some experts praised the team for taking AI risks seriously; others said delaying the full release was a publicity stunt.
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"One of the things we talked about yesterday as a team, it's not a publicity stunt," Manager Terry Collins said.
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Cattelan, for his part, seems amused by the theft, deflecting speculation that he somehow orchestrated it as a publicity stunt.
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"Being bisexual or sexually fluid, people automatically think it is a publicity stunt," she told the Daily Telegraph last May.
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Vincent Delieuvin, one of the exhibition's two curators, rejected the suggestion that the special opening hours were a publicity stunt.
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The government's lawyers had argued that the case was a publicity stunt that would cost jobs if it was successful.
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Some critics have accused Nike of staging a publicity stunt, or a marketing campaign, instead of a credible sporting event.
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"We watched a publicity stunt, a fundraising stunt, descend an institution that many of us care a great deal about."
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Some have called Caner's announcement a publicity stunt because the 2,600-student school had already signed a deal with Adidas.
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The demonstrations of workers remotely operating robots that scoop ice cream or make tacos is little more than a publicity stunt.
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OnePlus dropped the phone in a water bucket as a publicity stunt, claiming that IP ratings are a waste of money.
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Galifianakis was initially reluctant to participate in the documentary, fearing his friendship with Mimi could be misconstrued as a publicity stunt.
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Match writes in yesterday's notice that it sees Bumble's countersuit as serving only as a publicity stunt to bolster its reputation.
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Ever since the bot grabbed headlines back in June, people have speculated that its rebellious ways are just a publicity stunt.
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When it comes to gun control, Democrats are willing to suspend civil liberties just to stage an ultimately ineffective publicity stunt.
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"When I have a mental breakdown in public," another joked in response to Woods stressing this was not a publicity stunt.
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Qatar earlier on Monday dismissed the accusations against it as a "publicity stunt" aimed solely at sulllying its image and reputation.
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Turned out to be a publicity stunt, but apparently, they're bucking to replace Key & Peele -- because the duo's still in character.
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If it's merely a publicity stunt to generate buzz for her new album ... well, I wrote about it, so mission accomplished.
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It wasn't even cheap: rather than applauding his publicity stunt, Citibike fines Tanenhaus the maximum $1,200 late return charge, plus taxes.
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"I object to them calling what we did 'just a publicity stunt,'" Ross said in an interview with the New Republic.
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"McDonald's publicity stunt has turned out to be a sham," said an employee named Kuper in a statement sent to CBS.
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And they continue to show that the action is nothing more than an ill-conceived publicity stunt guised as a lawsuit.
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They think it's all a publicity stunt: Hadid's two previous beaus, Joe Jonas and Cody Simpson, seemed to face less criticism.
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" In the same article, her personal secretary angrily denied that the whole thing was a publicity stunt: "It is ridiculous. Mrs.
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The letters seemed to be part of a defiant publicity stunt by Mr. Okovacs, who spoke cryptically and evasively with reporters.
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Fox News also said that the case was a "publicity stunt of a lawsuit" by Ms. Hughes's lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor.
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This has nothing to do with anyone else including JAY-Z, stop deflecting and trying to make this a publicity stunt.
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Her critics praised the soldier's restraint and dismissed the video of the incident, shot by Tamimi's mother, as a publicity stunt.
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They dismissed the chairman's quixotic bid as a publicity stunt designed to raise his profile ahead of a possible gubernatorial run.
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Usher proved to be a good sport though -- and apparently this publicity stunt hasn't gotten anybody busted ... at least not yet.
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Attorney Douglas H. Wigdor, who represents several of Weinstein's alleged victims, on Sunday said the producer's interview was a publicity stunt.
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It's also highly possible that Olympios and Jackson's turn on the red carpet was a publicity stunt designed to draw headlines (hi).
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" Manjinder Singh Sirsa, the author of the letter, claimed in his writing that the series name was a "bad-tasting publicity stunt.
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"I don't think it's impossible to talk to him about issues, but I won't be used as a publicity stunt," he added.
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"The latest publicity stunt of a lawsuit filed by Doug Wigdor has absolutely no merit and is downright shameful," the spokesperson said.
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And we now know that's because at least one of these protests—Nelson's protest in New York—was just a publicity stunt.
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Although, Chinese netizens have reacted positively to this publicity stunt, it seems that other Chinese authorities are not sharing the people's sentiments.
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Brie Bella insists that her twin sister Nikki Bella's breakup from John Cena was not a publicity stunt for their reality show.
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Twitter users questioned why she needed to raise the money at all while others wondered whether the wedding was a publicity stunt.
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Most assuredly, Beck will also be evaluating the extent to which this publicity stunt serves the interests of his fledgling rocket company.
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Detractors called it a publicity stunt, some mocked a singalong atmosphere and some outlets even implied that it was simply Beyoncé worship.
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This week Uber offered free access to its taxi-hailing app to the cabbies, but this was rejected as a publicity stunt.
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Joyce told her fans on Thursday night that if it was a publicity stunt, it was crafted by her viewers, not her.
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But when the couple got divorced just 72 days later, however, cynical audiences accused Kim of getting married as a publicity stunt.
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The island's fiscal oversight committee rejected the offer, calling it a "publicity stunt" and criticizing the repayment and interest terms as unfavorable.
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" "I think Donald Trump has never seen veterans as anything more than the backdrop for a publicity stunt or a photo op.
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The University of Chicago letter is not a publicity stunt but rather should serve as a model for institutions across the country.
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Kaepernick's former teammate, Eric Reid, however, expressed concern that the NFL arranging a workout for the former quarterback was a publicity stunt.
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Some law experts chalked up the move as a publicity stunt since he could have filed this motion in the criminal case.
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" Sean B. Tipton, chief advocacy and policy officer at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, calls Loeb's lawsuit "a ridiculous publicity stunt.
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Saturday's attempt was viewed by some critics as a publicity stunt rather than a valid sporting contest, emphasizing audacious performance over competition.
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Opinion When Donald Trump first announced his presidential campaign, I, like most people, thought it would be a short-lived publicity stunt.
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"This publicity stunt was a scar that Chicago didn't earn, and certainly didn't deserve," Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said on Thursday.
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My friend is represented by the 81st star on the Memorial Wall, which served as the background of Mr. Trump's publicity stunt.
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"Tom Arnold clearly manufacturing a publicity stunt to promote his show that only lunatics will watch," one person wrote in a tweet.
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Candice Broce, the press secretary and a staff attorney with Kemp's office, called the lawsuit a "publicity stunt" full of "bogus" claims.
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" He told a room full of kids that "Obamacare is death" during a publicity stunt that paraded children as "victims of Obamacare.
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So, kudos to our camera guy who asked Jerry directly if it was a publicity stunt -- and this is how Jones responded.
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The briefly viral photo of her tattooed cheek was a publicity stunt for her new single "Harry," unsurprisingly named after the singer himself.
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At the time, skeptics dismissed it as a publicity stunt and doubted that the company would ever pursue the seemingly nutty scheme. Whoops.
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" Johnson referred to the alleged staged attack as "a publicity stunt" that was "a scar that Chicago didn't earn and certainly didn't deserve.
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Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner pretty much rolled into every paparazzi hot spot in Hollywood Friday night, but it's not a publicity stunt.
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We've been positively dying to watch it after its totally cool and not at all out of touch publicity stunt earlier this week.
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Did kids and parents pan-handling for candy or making mischief in their neighborhoods do it as a publicity stunt for a corporation?
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This was a publicity stunt aimed at delegitimizing the impeachment investigation that Mr. Trump and his defenders have portrayed as a partisan inquisition.
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" His spokeswoman, Candice Broce, has denied the accusations of voter suppression, telling Axios in a statement that the lawsuit is a "publicity stunt.
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During an interview on Australia's Kyle and Jackie O Show, the singer hinted that the feud was simply part of a publicity stunt.
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I showed up to his "special announcement" at Trump Tower more than a year ago half expecting it to be a publicity stunt.
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Is "Sex Instruments" by Perlita—this very well-executed publicity stunt from Pornhub to promote their range of sex toys—actually any good?
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Pour the rest of the red wine in glasses, eat, enjoy, and reflect on whether you really think Hiddleswift was a publicity stunt.
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"Plaintiffs' request for entry of default was an improper publicity stunt, and this Court should vacate the entry of default," Clinton's lawyers wrote.
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"This may sound like a publicity stunt, but nothing could be further from the truth," said Wagenen, in a statement through Tebow's agent.
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" Barstool president Dave Portnoy told TMZ Sports at the time the move was not a publicity stunt -- "To me, it was very personal.
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The whole thing was a publicity stunt, the band revealed yesterday in an unapologetic statement that they today replaced with an apologetic one.
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At which point, the Vivid Cabaret had completed its publicity stunt, Gooden had his money and it was one day closer to Christmas.
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"This publicity stunt was a scar that Chicago didn't earn and didn't deserve," Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters at the time.
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Although her family quickly announced that she was suffering from amnesia, many assumed the disappearance had been a calculated and irresponsible publicity stunt.
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She proves that 300 years after Fanny Furnival's famous turn, casting a woman as Hamlet can be far more than a publicity stunt.
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Some believe the Manhattan shoot was done purely as a publicity stunt, which was made even more sensational when Mr. DiMaggio showed up.
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And now, they seem intent on using the momentum to leverage it from a publicity stunt to the next phase of their career.
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They were slighted on purpose because of research showing that any time a Kardashian is on television, many in the public tend to think it is a publicity stunt to make money… After all of the time it took to get here, I needed to make clear that this was real, this is my life and not some publicity stunt.
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Or, is this a hint the entire Hiddleswift madness, including Harris' many, many tweets last summer, was all a publicity stunt among clandestine pals?
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" Kwon also said the two leaders were on good terms, even as he castigated Pompeo for "fabricated" stories as part of a "publicity stunt.
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Photo: GettyA Sherpa man who helped lead a team up Mount Everest as a part of an ASKfm cryptocurrency publicity stunt is presumed dead.
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For a while we thought it could be a publicity stunt, but then she posted on Instagram right before arriving and everyone freaked out!
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Criss Angel wasn't pulling a publicity stunt when he passed out during his straight jacket act and says the proof is in the audience.
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Kwon also said the two leaders were on good terms, even as he castigated Pompeo for "fabricated" stories as part of a "publicity stunt".
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Also on Thursday, police allege Smollett staged a bias attack on himself as a publicity stunt to boost his salary on the Fox show.
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"The latest publicity stunt of a lawsuit filed by [Hughes's attorney] Doug Wigdor has absolutely no merit and is downright shameful," the spokesperson said.
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The mission, which critics call a publicity stunt, is the latest in a series of accusations and media attacks against the non-governmental rescuers.
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Hiddleston has flat out denied that possibility, telling The Hollywood Reporter that the relationship's "not a publicity stunt" and that they're "very happy" together.
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While the home rental sounds like a decent April Fools' day prank, the listing is real, and perhaps better classified as a publicity stunt.
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As people started to slowly realize that the leak was nothing more than a wrongheaded publicity stunt, reactions to it were almost uniformly negative.
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Boeing's initial announcement of the $100 million fund was met with anger by some victims' families, who described the offer as a publicity stunt.
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In fact, some are downright wondering if the whole waist-shrinking mess might just be a publicity stunt designed to make Trainor more sympathetic.
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"I think Donald Trump has never seen veterans as anything more than the backdrop for a publicity stunt or a photo op," Kauffmann said.
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He shut down claims that this was all one, long publicity stunt—he was doing this out of the goodness of his own heart.
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Kaepernick, who has not played since the 2016 season, wants to ensure the tryout is legitimate and not a publicity stunt, the person said.
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But in July 2011, the couple said that the whole breakup and divorce was a publicity stunt to make money because they were broke.
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Clearly angered by the heist, Bernat and Fratini published a 13-point rebuttal on Bernat's website to denounce the act as a publicity stunt.
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" Kwon also said the two leaders were on good terms, even as he castigated Pompeo for "fabricated" stories as part of a "publicity stunt.
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He also wrote a memoir, originally published in 2002 as "Every Midget Has an Uncle Sam Costume," a reference to an aborted publicity stunt.
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Because the allegations in the memo are legally irrelevant, I would be surprised if the memo was more than a short-lived publicity stunt.
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And, according to Baker, he did not want to make the publicity stunt trip to the Texas border zone that is scheduled for Thursday.
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I think that's important because people tried to make to make this seem like he was doing this as part of a publicity stunt.
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Bolt's open-ended trial with the Mariners has been dismissed as a publicity stunt by skeptics but there were few detractors in Ackerley's squad.
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In some ways, however, this announcement and even this deployment is a publicity stunt meant to drum up support for the merger with Sprint.
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Ms. Kardashian West's lawyer in France said the arrests would cut short "shameful speculation" that the $9 million jewelry heist was a publicity stunt.
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The authorities turned him down, but a year later, in a publicity stunt worthy of Barnum, elephants and other animals marched across the bridge.
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Visiting the fish-pickling plant was part of that effort — with the bonus of being a great publicity stunt complete with multiple photo ops.
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Though it's possible Musk and Tesla could achieve what they guaranteed in that short time frame, it could also just be a publicity stunt.
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But what was supposed to be a simple act of generosity devolved into accusations that the "Turn It Up" singer was pulling a publicity stunt.
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In a Tuesday publicity stunt with his running mate, Mandela Barnes, he drove a 24-mile route that Walker traveled by state airplane in 2016.
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While we could chalk this up to a publicity stunt by a publicity-savvy company, LifeStream does offer a compelling use case for live streaming.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan may brush off this sit-in as a "publicity stunt," but what it's really an example of effective emotional political messaging.
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But the problem is that much of this rhetoric — and the wild, thoughtless way it's being delivered without fact-checking — feels like a publicity stunt.
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Simply put this was a dumb publicity stunt designed to play on the fears surrounding the ongoing investigation into Russia's interference with the 2016 election.
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Some had speculated that the appearance of Kid Rock for Senate site may have been a publicity stunt, as he'd not yet released a statement.
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Alternate political reality America's favorite fake president had a photo shoot with a real ex-White House photog for a "House of Cards" publicity stunt.
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Kardashian West sued the gossip website for publishing articles that suggested she staged the robbery in Paris as a publicity stunt or insurance fraud scheme.
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At trial, their defense team claimed it was a publicity stunt to help the young singer's career, but there was no evidence to support that.
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" Meanwhile, Payne's lawyer told the Times that the former anchor "vehemently denies any wrongdoing," and the network labeled it a "publicity stunt of a lawsuit.
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The skit began with Baldwin saying that the meeting was "in no way a publicity stunt," before Redd as West launched into a freewheeling monologue.
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"The latest publicity stunt of a lawsuit filed by Doug Wigdor has absolutely no merit and is downright shameful," a spokesperson for the network said.
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I've been talking about this new tax with people in the French tech ecosystem and they think it's a publicity stunt more than anything else.
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V. Selvarajan, the founder of Green Circle, an environmental organization in New Delhi, said he did not think the green crackers were a publicity stunt.
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"Publicity stunt or not, this is puppeteering the dead for their 'clout' alone and it sets such an awful precedent for the future of performance."
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When asked by a CNN reporter for comment, Unsworth said Musk's mini-sub scheme wouldn't work, and that the whole thing was a publicity stunt.
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"This is nothing more than a publicity stunt," Ryan said, saying House Democrats would infringe on Second Amendment rights and do nothing to prevent terrorist attacks.
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He also became known for his publicity stunt—he patrolled his city in a Harley-Davidson, then from inside a taxi after drivers started getting robbed.
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"As God is my witness on my mother's grave, so help me almighty God, it has nothing to do with being a publicity stunt," Miller said.
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That's evident in the flurry of YouTube channels and record-breaking worldwide stacks (that combine excitement for the sport with the excitement of a publicity stunt).
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On Monday, Andrews testified that before anyone was arrested in the case, many media members speculated Andrews herself had arranged the video as a publicity stunt.
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"Canceling the wedding was not a hoax or a publicity stunt," said the source, adding that they lost deposits on the wedding planned for May 5.
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Little did I know.... And in case anyone thought this whole thing might have been a publicity stunt , notice that I only shared it with friends.
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Accusations of playing a couple for a giant publicity stunt may have been just theories, but have followed the now silent Swift, even a year later.
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Most importantly, if The Secrets of My Life is perceived as being a publicity stunt, that will prevent Jenner's message, and history, from being taken seriously.
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That vanishing act made the Alpine glacier the site of a publicity stunt on Friday: the creation of what organizers say is the world's largest postcard.
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Whether he realized it at the time or not, the Leap of Faith was at once a display of skill as well as a publicity stunt.
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Don't forget they stormed the room where Democrats were holding those hearings in a publicity stunt to derail the depositions and slam them over process complaints.
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The episode appears to be an untimely publicity stunt as the Indian government limits Kashmir's access to food and the internet for the ninth consecutive day.
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Back in San Diego, Annese kicked off what he dubbed Project H.M. with what was possibly the most successful publicity stunt in the history of neuroscience.
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Less than a month after the incident, Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson said Smollett staged a "publicity stunt" because he wasn't happy with his "Empire" salary.
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"Part of me is feeling like it was just a publicity stunt on the UK government side to show they are trying to help," she said.
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We're told Josie knows about Logan's photos with Tana and feels they are just hanging out as a publicity stunt and aren't actually into each other.
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" Of the false reports and clown sightings, Greensboro police spokeswoman Susan Danielsen previously told PEOPLE, "If this is a hoax or publicity stunt it is not funny.
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The person who instagrammed the picture went so far as to theorize that the pair's rumored breakup is just a publicity stunt to promote the fashion show.
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"Above and beyond the motives, this publicity stunt, in the current climate, exposes faults in the security arrangements at the Eiffel Tower," police prefect Michel Delpuech said.
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At best, his earlier statements about immigration reform were a publicity stunt designed to gin up interest (and ratings, which Trump is obsessed with) in his speech.
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It's not clear exactly how many drones have been ordered, but this doesn't appear to be a publicity stunt: test flights are reportedly ongoing across Dubai's skies.
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Fuss said he thought the controversy over Mueller had blown over by now, but also admitted "maybe a tiny bit" that the hiring was a publicity stunt.
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The presenter then said he feels as though she has given herself an opportunity, raising doubt as to whether this was a mistake or a publicity stunt.
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Dana White is adamant the UFC had nothing to do with planning the Conor McGregor melee -- and slams theories it was all a publicity stunt gone sideways.
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Angel told the network that the accident was not a publicity stunt, noting that his doctors wanted him to stay away from the stage for another day.
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Lesnar famously stormed the Octagon back in July 2018 and shoved Cormier in what appeared to be an obvious publicity stunt to drive interest in the fight.
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While the government has played down the announcement, suggesting that it was a mere publicity stunt, the implications, should China decide to play ball, are far reaching.
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"This is a publicity stunt that the media falls for year after year," the spokeswoman added on Thursday when asked for comment about the NAACP prepared lawsuit.
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With such a publicity stunt as this, it's crystal damn clear how much of a gross opportunist Ivanka is and calling her anything less is too kind.
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Media outlets selectively edited an apology interview CBS forced her to tape, making it seem as though the incident was a publicity stunt, rather than an accident.
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Sources close to Shawn tell TMZ ... he's not putting on a show for the cameras, and his relationship with Camila is genuine and not a publicity stunt.
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The representatives' stunt was not perceived as a show of resistance but widely mocked and denounced as a publicity stunt that compromised national security and revealed hypocrisy.
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The official called Mr. Kulter's disappearance a publicity stunt orchestrated by Kurdish militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., to discredit the Turkish government's counterterrorism efforts.
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From 1922 to 1934, the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers named more than a dozen promising young actresses Wampas Baby Stars as an annual publicity stunt.
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It feels like fan theories that their breakup is a publicity stunt are only becoming more believable as Jenner gets our hopes up with these mixed signals.
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Mr. Salvini, the leader of the Northern League, mocked the proposal as a publicity stunt allowing the government to feign a tougher, and now more popular, posture.
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But one of the site's personalities still managed to disrupt the House impeachment hearing on Monday, using his verified Twitter account to carry out a publicity stunt.
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Indiana Democratic Party senior media strategist Will Baskin-Gerwitz responded to use of a mariachi band Wednesday evening, calling it a "cheap publicity stunt" in a statement.
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Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston were such an odd couple that Hiddleston had to say it wasn't a publicity stunt in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
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If this is a publicity stunt — which it may be, given the lack of concrete steps that a serious candidate would normally take — no one is saying.
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During the awards ceremony, host Ricky Gervais made a joke about Schumer and Lawrence's friendship being a publicity stunt (one of his better lines of the evening).
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An artist projected "Pay Trump Bribes Here" as well as "Emoluments Welcome" onto the wall of President Trump's Washington D.C. hotel in a controversial publicity stunt Monday evening.
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There are many things we're hoping stay in 2018 forever: the Tide Pod Challenge, Kanye West's twitter rants, and restaurants tricking people with a name-change publicity stunt.
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Comedian Corey Holcomb says Maria Bamford's restraining order request against President Trump is just a publicity stunt that she can get away with because she's a white lady.
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When the dust settles, we'll all realise that the re-launch of the nostalgia-inducing Nokia 3310 by HMD was simply a publicity stunt for its other phones.
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Chicago police blasted the actor for staging a "publicity stunt," adding that Smollett paid two brothers $3,500 to stage the attack because he was unhappy with his salary.
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UFC star Ben Askren thinks Conor McGregor's most recent retirement announcement is a bunch of BS ... telling TMZ Sports it's either a publicity stunt or a negotiating tactic.
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McDonald's Rick and Morty-inspired publicity stunt has gotten the fast food chain a bit of negative attention along with all the nostalgia surrounding its fabled Szechuan sauce.
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This isn't a publicity stunt and I'm not sure where my dog is or what happened to my dog but you would have to call David and ask.
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"It is unfortunate that our neighbours have chosen to invest their time and resources in a baseless propaganda campaign," he said, calling the terrorism accusations a "publicity stunt".
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We reached out to Genesis Mining with the hope of getting a little more background info on what appears to be, in effect, a well executed publicity stunt.
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But the new Perth-London flights are no publicity stunt, says Andrew Charlton, a former chief legal officer at Qantas who now runs an aviation consultancy in Europe.
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Needless to say, the chili farm's publicity stunt has prompted outrage from Church officials, who regard Easter as the most important Christian holiday, the Daily Record is reporting.
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He says the first breakthrough stalker clown was in 2013 in Northampton, England, in what later turned out to be a combination of performance art and publicity stunt.
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"Republican politicians seem just as baffled by the reality TV star's future as they were the day he first launched this publicity stunt gone wildly wrong," he writes.
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" Babaz added that he believed the halt was a response to public outrage over the initial plan to lift the import restrictions, something he called "a publicity stunt.
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" Babaz added that he believed the halt is a response to public outrage over the initial plan to lift the import restrictions, something he called "a publicity stunt.
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At the same time, Sodhi, like many students and faculty, feels Coulter's speech was a publicity stunt, aimed at painting the nation's cradle of free speech as intolerant.
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Three men, Barry Worthington Keenan, Joseph Clyde Amsler and John William Irwin, were convicted of the kidnapping, despite defense lawyers' claim that it had been a publicity stunt.
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There is every reason to think the whole thing is a whim or a publicity stunt, like McGregor's sudden "retirement" last spring, which lasted a day or two.
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Until last year, when her creators orchestrated a publicity stunt to reveal her provenance, many of her fans assumed she was a flesh-and-blood 19-year-old.
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"If I lost it to the right at all, I'm hitting some car," Woods said at the time of the publicity stunt to promote the first Turkish Open.
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It may also be playing a role in the network's staunch disavowal of Hughes's suit against Payne, which it has dismissed as a "publicity stunt" in a statement.
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When its boss, Jeff Bezos, revealed his plans for drones in December 211 on "6003 Minutes", an American television programme, they were widely assumed to be a publicity stunt.
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However, the countersuit claims the "hangman's noose" incident was a sham complaint the stuff of tabloid fodder and was a publicity stunt aimed at gaining leverage in BamBrogan's case.
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The measure is seen as nothing more than a publicity stunt, according to former trustee Mike LaChapelle, but it is likely to get people talking one way or another.
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Kid Rock, the profane, Trump-supporting musician from the Detroit area, teased a possible bid that amounted to little more than a publicity stunt to promote a new album.
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Critics called it a publicity stunt and said Trump wasted an important symbolic move when there has been little sign that North Korea has taken meaningful steps toward denuclearization.
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" And despite speculation that the former couple called off their wedding as a publicity stunt for their show Total Bellas — the source told PEOPLE that "they truly broke up.
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When Donald Trump officially began running for president back in June of 2015, many hypothesized that it was all an elaborate publicity stunt designed to help his business ventures.
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Or maybe I'm falling into their trap as we speak, as a seemingly crazy request to delete an entire Instagram history is inherently a bit of a publicity stunt.
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However, Caitlyn Jenner is aware of the criticism being lobbed at her: that this entire physical and emotional transition is – at the age of 65 – an elaborate publicity stunt.
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The actor, 35, opened up about his highly publicized romance with the "Bad Blood" singer, defending against critics who speculated that the relationship was nothing but a publicity stunt.
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In an interview with Vanity Fair, Garner said that the 10-year marriage wasn't a publicity stunt — it was a genuine relationship, and one that she wanted to survive.
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The Marshall Mathers LP 2, from 2013, has a few inspired moments, like the opener "Bad Guy," where he slyly acknowledges the album's title as a sad publicity stunt.
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Hyped as the "Battle of the Sexes," the hundred-thousand-dollar winner-take-all showdown began as a publicity stunt, but it soon became a referendum on women's lib.
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A transition official told Politico that Hurt seemed as if he were "trying to instigate" something throughout the situation, also suggesting it was a publicity stunt on Hurt's part.
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"Publicity stunt or not, this is puppeteering the dead for their 'clout' alone and it sets such an awful precedent for the future of performance," she said on Twitter.
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It quickly became clear that this was a publicity stunt meant to revive the issue of anthem protests, which had once again begun to fade out of the news.
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The man responsible for bringing him to combat sports, David Green, told Business Insider that this is no publicity stunt and that the former flanker is a hard puncher.
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Only Birdie himself, who was inspired by Elvis Presley but named in emulation of Conway Twitty, remains blissfully unchanged by his short, publicity-stunt visit to small-town Ohio.
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But aside from the fight ... Meth had an interesting take on the Kraft situation -- and blasted the critics who've chalked the whole thing up to a shameless publicity stunt.
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Because, even in during a tragedy, the internet can be terrible, Good Guy Fieri was accused of serving up nothing but a publicity stunt—allegations which he wholeheartedly disputes.
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Liz Krueger, a New York state senator who is one of Airbnb's strongest opponents, called Wednesday's proposals "a publicity stunt" and a "desperate attempt" to change anti-Airbnb sentiment.
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Some considered this proposal at the Vatican a publicity stunt ahead of Peña Nieto's eventual presidential bid as the couple announced their engagement to the world in dramatic fashion.
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Critics, and there are many, may regard it as yet another publicity stunt by the electric car marker, which has struggled to meet production targets for its Model 3.
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Mr. Cosby's publicist, Andrew Wyatt, and his lawyer, Joseph P. Green, issued a statement dismissing the prosecution motion as "another publicity stunt" that was unsupported by any Pennsylvania law.
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In a sharply worded statement, the International Rescue Committee denounced coalition plans to protect Al Hudaydah residents during the offensive as a "publicity stunt" intended to divert international attention.
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TOKYO — Forty-one years ago, Antonio Inoki, one of Japan's most popular professional wrestlers, faced off against Muhammad Ali in a bout that critics called a farcical publicity stunt.
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" The teenager's parents, Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles, met with Mr. Raab two weeks ago, an exchange that Ms. Charles said had felt in part like "a publicity stunt.
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After videos and pictures of a topless Sri Reddy, 28, spread quickly on the internet, the question turned to whether this was about changing society or a publicity stunt.
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And she is about to be the object of a publicity stunt befitting her colossal size and in service of her original mission: attracting visitors to the Jersey Shore.
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He proposed that Lang use some of his UFA studio budget to fund an experimental liquid-fueled rocket, to be launched as a publicity stunt for the film's premiere.
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He proposed that Lang use some of his UFA studio budget to fund an experimental liquid-fueled rocket, to be launched as a publicity stunt for the film's premiere.
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And a conversation with her best friend that appears to be from around the time Rob deleted her from his Instagram, which was widely thought to be a publicity stunt.
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This is the awards show where bizarre publicity stunt occur — like Madonna and Britney's kiss at the 2003 ceremony, or Miley Cyrus's foam finger and attempts at "twerking" in 2013.
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It's no easy feat to pull off matching looks, but Plaza and Olsen killed it, and this stylish publicity stunt makes us even more excited to see Ingrid Goes West.
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On Sunday, an otherwise unremarkable publicity stunt at a Brazilian shopping mall went viral when a skydiver dressed as Santa Claus missed his mark and slammed into a parked car.
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There was plenty of anger, but there was also a ton of people who were calling it a publicity stunt, and were totally cognizant that IHOP was leveraging internet outrage.
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And in a reflection of the network's strength, only one of those comedies is new: The Mayor, about a rapper who becomes mayor of his hometown as a publicity stunt.
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Father Thomas Markle, half-sister Samantha Grant, half-brother Thomas Markle Jr., and even Meghan's ex-husband Trevor Engelson made the media rounds in one horrifying publicity stunt after another.
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Lohan issued an invite on Twitter, though the jury's still out on whether this is some sort of publicity stunt or a genuine attempt to amass the ultimate girl squad.
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ANTONIA TAMPLIN Bronx To the Editor: Speaker Paul Ryan's description of the sit-in by House Democrats seeking a vote on gun control legislation as a publicity stunt is unconscionable.
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In what could have been a clout-chasing publicity stunt, the peak of a whirlwind romance, or somewhere in-between, YouTubers Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau got married last weekend.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, deployed to Texas in a blatant publicity stunt, was asked by Fox News if American soldiers were prepared to use force to stop the caravan.
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Though it's largely a tourist attraction for the city and a publicity stunt for celebrities, the Walk of Fame is still, at least to the fans, a really big deal.
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Despite workers using 1,109 gallons of blue paint to coat the town, according to Lonely Planet, Sony Pictures hoped to use the municipality of Júzcar as a temporary publicity stunt.
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Tebow said that he was humbled by all the attention he was getting for trying to switch sports and denied that his attempt to play baseball was a publicity stunt.
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Users of Weibo, a popular microblogging site, suggested that Mr. Feng had delayed the release as a publicity stunt, or in fear of a poor showing at the box office.
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The corporation that created Okja, and hundreds of her kind, wants the creature back and plans to use her as a green-washed publicity stunt to sell industrially produced meat.
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It was also a publicity stunt, exactly the opposite of how the Justice Department is supposed to carry out investigations in ways that protect the confidentiality of those under investigation.
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Make no mistake, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Siri's mini film is a huge publicity stunt — a reminder that, hey, Siri is still a thing and it does more now.
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"Ryanair's public offer to conduct negotiations with V.C. can only be classified as a further publicity stunt," Ingolf Schumacher, the head of the union's industrial department, said in a statement.
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Since the group's inception in 2013, some critics have accused them of being a mere publicity stunt or hoax—a criticism they address on the FAQ page of their website.
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An expert on restaurant lobbying who requested anonymity because of McDonald's power in the industry said the chain's repositioning appeared to be at least in part a political publicity stunt.
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Even a 30-year-old jobless man who recently gained notoriety after his parents went to court to evict him was offered work by a pizza chain as a publicity stunt.
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So in November, when Patagonia announced jaw-dropping plans for the corporate tax cut it received courtesy of the Trump administration, the announcement did not come across as a publicity stunt.
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Every few months or so, once a certain cultural tipping point is hit, the porn industry decides to film themed parody porn in what could charitably be called a publicity stunt.
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Knowing this, bakers took to the streets of Melbourne in December 2015 to protest against the early baking of hot cross buns, in what may have been a clever publicity stunt.
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However, cops say Jenelle disclosed she just wanted the whole thing to go away ... so it's possible the publicity stunt excuse was just to end the investigation and protect her family.
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The surveillance footage is interesting, considering Tekashi's haters doubted his story ... calling it a publicity stunt to drum up attention for his single with Nicki Minaj that came out on Sunday.
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Later revealed as an LA-based model, Kelleth Cuthbert pulled off the brazen publicity stunt by continuously posing with a tray of bottles of Fiji Water intended for the thirsty guests.
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The professional diver had criticized Musk's proposal to rescue a Thai soccer team trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand using a submarine — a move Unsworth described as a publicity stunt.
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But there is also a whiff of publicity stunt here, especially since Stenson seems to have a flair for offensive Facebook posts that get inflamed responses and plenty of media attention.
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At the time, the company called the lawsuit "a wild publicity stunt completely lacking in legal merit," and Mr. Trump's lawyers claimed that the president was immune to such legal challenges.
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But the program has many in Japan wondering if the government is serious about changing the national work culture and improving work-life balance — or simply staging an easy publicity stunt.
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His latest, "Kinky Cadavers," is about a homeless serial killer, and as a publicity stunt some associates of his have arranged a photo shoot of a buffet for some genuine unfortunates.
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After the Duterte administration gleefully turned it into a publicity stunt, the Kuwaitis accused the Philippines of extrajudicial action and a violation of sovereignty, expelling our ambassador and arresting embassy staff.
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In the wake of the bombshell, there are rumors that Jenner is hanging out with ex Tyga, getting close with Jaden Smith, and that the whole thing is a publicity stunt.
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"I will never forget the look of utter disbelief that came over Cain's face as he finally realized that this was for real," wrote Bill Veeck, who envisioned the publicity stunt.
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" Tamara Rojo, the director of English National Ballet who offered Mr. Johnsey a short-term contract in March, said she was "very sensitive about this being seen as a publicity stunt.
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There is a growing conspiracy theory that it could have been the artist himself grabbing the print, or that it could be a publicity stunt by the organizers—something they roundly deny.
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From calling the crime a publicity stunt to weighing whether she should be on television again, many people both on and off camera — even her bosses — appointed themselves critics of Andrews's actions.
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His mention of embarrassing his daughter is likely referring to last week's publicity stunt gone wrong, where he posed in a myriad of cheesy "wedding prep" situations for a planted paparazzi photographer.
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But before Keenan picked up the loot, Irwin panicked and released Frank Jr. At his trial, Keenan tried to portray the crime as a publicity stunt to boost Frank Jr.'s career.
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It was mostly a publicity stunt and a proof of concept, but it also called attention to the fact that most women in Poland have no safe, legal abortion options in practice.
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But before Keenan picked up the loot, Irwin panicked and released Frank Jr. At his trial, Keenan tried to portray the crime as a publicity stunt to boost Frank Jr.'s career.
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That prize has inspired its share of controversy over the years—some AI researchers call it a publicity stunt—along with plenty of wistful, poetic ruminations on what divides humans from machines.
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Barely brighter than other chunks of metal we've put in space, and with an achingly short six-month lifespan, the giant "disco ball," is more of a publicity stunt than anything else.
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In Stoke-on-Trent, for example, the local council has so many empty homes that it sometimes sells them for £1 each, in a publicity stunt aimed at attracting economically active people.
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When our guy straight-up asks if this is all an NFL publicity stunt, Daymond scoffs ... saying Jay-Z's too smart, and would walk from the deal if that were the case.
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During the news briefing, Johnson expressed his anger at Smollett for creating this publicity stunt and taking advantage of very real hatred against people and suffering of those people for personal gain.
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It's also the second time in the past couple months that Amazon has made what is usually a relatively mundane and routine part of business into an over-the-top publicity stunt.
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PARK CITY, Utah — There's a scene in Tokyo Idols where Rio Hiiragi, a pop star trying to make it big, bikes to small provinces as a publicity stunt to meet her fans.
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" When Baier repeated Paul's characterization of the bill as being a watered-down version of the existing healthcare law, Ryan repeated, "I think that's a publicity stunt, as far as I'm concerned.
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A publicity stunt encouraging "crypto enthusiasts" to climb Mount Everest and bury a hard drive holding $50,000 worth of cryptocurrency reportedly indirectly led to a man's death, the Financial Times said Friday.
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Putting our name on a promise that we know we can't keep would be a disingenuous act, painting the Paris Agreement not as a serious undertaking, but as a global publicity stunt.
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I figured that maybe if I asked them what they thought of the Whopperito that they might unwittingly help me have something to say about this unremarkable publicity stunt by Burger King.
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For decades in the late 1800s, the newly established Commission on Fisheries gave goldfish to Washington, D.C., residents as a publicity stunt, handing out as many as 20,000 fish in some years.
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"Despite the publicity stunt on the floor, House Republicans were intent on not allowing these tactics to stop us from completing this important business," Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said in a statement.
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In September, Fox staged a publicity stunt at the Toronto International Film Festival, showing 20 minutes of the film followed by a free concert by Pharrell Williams, who contributed to the score.
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"It seems like a publicity stunt, on some level," said "View" co-host Meghan McCain to Daniels, noting the adult-film actress has embarked on a nationwide stripping tour in recent weeks.
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It may well be a publicity stunt to buoy the sales of their duet single and raise their respective profiles as insurance against the label's upstart talents like Nessa and Freda Gatz.
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Skeptics who see the Kochs' sentencing-reform effort as a publicity stunt note that they have continued to give money to groups and candidates that have run scurrilous tough-on-crime campaigns.
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Mr. Maduro called the convoys a publicity stunt and a pretext for an American-backed invasion to replace him with Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who declared himself president a month ago.
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From BuzzFeed: After liberals began criticizing Turner on Twitter for her rejection of the DNC's donuts (and for engaging in what they saw as a publicity stunt), a new meme was born.
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In what is clearly a (very cool) publicity stunt, Match is opening a pop-up coffee shop where it will 3D print the face of single users on the foam of your latte.
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Speaking with TMZ Live on Friday, Evans, 27, said that the Chief of Police called and left her a voice message asking to discuss whether or not the incident was a publicity stunt.
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He scoffed at Mark Cuban's 2013 offer of a Dallas Mavericks tryout for the towering former Baylor center Brittney Griner as a publicity stunt that set unhelpful and irrelevant measures on women's excellence.
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Last Friday, Taylor Swift began a long, winding publicity stunt that started with scrubbing her social-media accounts, and ended with snakes and an announcement that she had a new album coming out.
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The robot strippers are more of a publicity stunt than an actual attempt to be titillating, since they have the heads of security cameras and look like bad Banksy graffiti come to life.
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Several years ago, R2 was shown shaking hands with a NASA astronaut, but this grip served as more than a publicity stunt — it showed the robot's potential for performing more earthly tasks, too.
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Let us not now engage in empty rhetoric that seems more like a publicity stunt than a real way forward to a progressive future where we all respect each other's rights and dignity.
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In 2006, when Mr. Bullimore was out of radio contact for 11 days during an attempt to set a solo circumnavigation record, news accounts speculated that the blackout was merely a publicity stunt.
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Mr. Durst's defense team has argued that the filmmakers and the investigators coordinated their timing, arresting Mr. Durst as the final episode aired as part of a publicity stunt to boost HBO viewership.
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In June 2018, IBM pitted a robot against humans in two debates on telemedicine and space exploration — a publicity stunt meant to showcase the tech giant's AI prowess in an increasingly competitive market.
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In response to accusations from Republicans that the Times story was a publicity stunt, Bolton, his agent, and his publisher issued a mealy-mouthed statement denying that they had been behind the leak.
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Furnival took the stage at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre to play the melancholy Dane as a publicity stunt during a financial crisis and found the exercise so successful that she repeated it twice.
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Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello do, in fact, seem to be happily dating despite publicity stunt rumors, and friends of Kris already shut down the idea that she profits off her daughters' heartbreak.
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In an effort to drum up some PR for the holidays, WKRP station manager Arthur Carlson comes up with the worst publicity stunt of all time: Drop live turkeys out of a helicopter.
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When Mr. Trump sued Mr. Riklis for $1.2 million, charging nonpayment of rent, Ms. Zadora, who had been performing at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, called the lawsuit a publicity stunt.
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In one district east of Gaza City, young men donned black and white shirts that resembled those worn by prisoners in concentration camps, a publicity stunt intended to liken the Israelis to Nazis.
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The protest was meant to call attention to the many people who had been deported before DACA was put in place, but many immigration activists criticized her for leading an irresponsible publicity stunt.
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Unsworth in a CNN interview would later declare Musk's involvement a publicity stunt, noting that Musk's submarine wasn't used in the rescue and was impractical for the purposes of navigating a tight cave.
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Avenatti's near constant presence at Democratic events over the last two weeks has caused some Democrats to reconsider their belief that the lawyer's run is a publicity stunt aimed at annoying the President.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A painting that Romanian prosecutors said on Sunday might be a work by Pablo Picasso stolen in 2012 is more likely a forgery created as a publicity stunt, Dutch media reported.
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Kardashian's video calls that authenticity into question, and also fuels the charge that everything Swift does is a measured publicity stunt — a charge floated by Swift's ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris just last week.
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Photo: GettyHappy International Women's Day, or (as brands have it circled on their calendars) The Day We Get To Show Off Our Feminist Bona Fides In The Form Of An Unconvincingly Earnest Publicity Stunt.
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Although the company apologized for the ad (or possible publicity stunt), the backlash didn't end as celebrities like LeBron James, The Weeknd, G-Eazy, and others chastised and/or cut ties with H&M.
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In what was seen as a dramatic publicity stunt, the Russian government flew in an orchestra to play a three-piece concert in the ancient amphitheatre just six weeks after the city was retaken.
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Some dismissed the rumpus as a publicity stunt, an impression reinforced when a sting operation by Indian journalists revealed that, in exchange for money, the Rajput group cheerfully offered to attack another film production.
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San Francisco 49ers game — which was rumored to have been a publicity stunt — left members of congress and the public alike with one big question: How much exactly did Pence's counter-protest cost taxpayers?
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But as you can see from the logo on the rocket, it is also a major publicity stunt for a group called Research Flat Earth, which funded almost half the cost of the rocket.
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He insulted a black pastor, called for Clinton's bodyguards to be disarmed and angered the media with a publicity stunt that was meant to walk back the "birther" conspiracy he had peddled for years.
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Like much of Trump's campaign, his feminist rebrand seems more like a publicity stunt than an actual attempt to better the lives of the people he purports to want to serve with his presidency.
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"Abolish ICE" is a clownish, foolhardy publicity stunt by some Democrats — and the sensible leaders and followers of that party should reject it, now, before the party and the country are damaged even more.
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Here's the thing: There's no doubt that Daniels' unveiling of the sketch, which she and her ever-present lawyer Michael Avenatti did in an appearance on "The View" Tuesday afternoon, was a publicity stunt.
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When told of Ms. Walter's desire, Ms. Verrill said that she worried that such a visit would be more of a publicity stunt and that her impulse would be to ask her to leave.
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"This may sound like a publicity stunt, but nothing could be further from the truth," said Brodie Van Wagenen, co-head of CAA Baseball, part of the sports agency CAA Sports, in the statement.
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In a publicity stunt to redeem himself and also earn cool points, Maher invited "Fuck Tha Police" rapper Ice Cube on his show to explain why white people using the n-word is wrong.
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There is a group of Twitter folks taking credit for it, and it looks like more of a publicity stunt than salty New Englanders, but maybe get a little bit more creative next time.
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We broke the story ... White slammed conspiracy theories that this was all one big publicity stunt, and based on the raw reactions seen in this video -- it seems like the craziness was 100% legit.
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I first heard of them from that publicity stunt, when I paid $20 for shipping from Vietnam and $0 for a pair of classic high-rise leggings (now $68) while a senior in college.
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Tim Tebow getting an invite to Mets' spring training is NOT a publicity stunt ... so says Ryan Braun, who tells TMZ Sports the ex-NFL QB has a real chance to make NY's roster!
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"Abelena is PR" and "Abelena is promo" comments came one after another, filling Mingus' personal photos with speculation that Gomez's relationship with the Weeknd, real name Abel Tesfaye, is nothing more than a publicity stunt.
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Despite Rob Kardashian's lackluster efforts to convince us that him and Blac Chyna's most recent break up wasn't a publicity stunt, my eyes have been permanently sided since the screenshots showed up on Chyna's Instagram.
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But if Weezer's past internet experiments are anything to go by, not to mention a charming tweet from Rivers Cuomo himself, "Weezer World" isn't quite the cynical publicity stunt that it first appears to be.
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In 2015, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to impose a cap, but dropped the plan after pushback from the companies (namely, Uber which created a publicity stunt in its mobile app as protest).
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Originally, Oberth had wanted to design a functional model rocket based on the Friede to launch in northern Germany as a publicity stunt for the film, but this dream never materialized due to budget constraints.
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Some commenters, though, are convinced the whole thing was a prank or an out-of-the-box publicity stunt for Sprite — the drink of choice for the lucky man who got to kiss the girl.
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"To people who don't know how to legislate, any effort to legislate looks like a publicity stunt, but that doesn't make it so," he said when asked about Ryan's response to the protest by TMZ.
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While it's not clear how far in advance the episode was filmed, its Monday airing seems like an untimely publicity stunt as Modi's government continues to cut off Kashmir from the rest of the world.
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The publicity stunt raised a few eyebrows, since Intel first pledged to build the plant back in 2011, and while the project was later paused, industry watchers did expect the company to finish it eventually.
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But he has also silenced critics who questioned whether his signing was little more than a publicity stunt for a listless club in need of a boldface name to sell tickets to its new stadium.
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Behringer, one of the biggest names in synthesizers and music gear, is facing backlash after a tasteless publicity stunt attacking a popular journalist inspired fans to angrily denounce the company and even smash its products.
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While that may have seemed like a publicity stunt, it was actually a network-building move; once Axon got police to use its hardware, they had to get the matching software to make it functional.
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The Spanish court case has revealed a new set of secrets in the international saga of Mr. Assange, 48, showing that his claims of being spied on were not just paranoia or a publicity stunt.
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On Monday, Lee Howard Ho Wun, an Australian impersonator of Mr. Kim, was forced to leave Hanoi, soon after he and a fake Mr. Trump were detained during a publicity stunt in the Vietnamese capital.
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Unsworth had said the miniature submarine Musk designed and sent to Thailand to help with the rescue of a boys soccer team and their coach would have been ineffective and was merely a publicity stunt.
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Just months after his father proposed to wife Melania with a $1.5 million Graff diamond that he got half-price in return for publicity, Don Jr. followed suit with a publicity-stunt proposal of his own.
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The fact that there's a press release focused just on the Ginza branch of Hooters makes this pretty clear that Spacee is pulling off a publicity stunt here, but don't be too quick to dismiss it.
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Hookers for Hillary — a Nevada brothel's endorsement of Hillary Clinton — is, in one sense, a silly publicity stunt, the sequel to the Bunny Ranch's "Pimpin' for Paul" campaign for libertarian Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012.
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Player: John Tortorella (who is not a player)Publicity stunt: He agrees to appear on an episode of Bar Rescue, as host Jon Taffer is enlisted to help fix up Tortorella's bar area in his home.
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SpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster and its inanimate passenger into space as the payload on the Falcon Heavy rocket's maiden launch in February, a feat that was largely perceived to be a publicity stunt by Musk.
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In a publicity stunt on Wednesday, House Republicans, led by Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, stormed the secure suite where members of the Intelligence, Oversight and Reform, and Foreign Affairs Committees were conducting closed-door depositions.
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And of course, through conspiracy theories about why they reportedly broke up, or if they were ever really together in the first place, since this whole thing seemed like a giant publicity stunt from the start.
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The caught-out media fulminated about an "unannounced, impromptu … publicity stunt," even though they were watching an apparently carefully prepared summit on India Prime Minister Modi's way back home from his two-days visit to Moscow.
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Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck views the project as more than just a publicity stunt, claiming in a statement that it symbolizes the need to "make big decisions in the context of humanity as a whole."
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Today's handmaids, however, had a more meaningful purpose than the SXSW film publicity stunt: These women are pro-choice activists who showed up to protest several bills that would limit abortion rights, The Huffington Post reports.
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The adult film star who claimed Donald Trump offered her a chunk of change for some alone time might've pulled off the ultimate publicity stunt -- announcing an online sex shop 1 day before accusing The Donald.
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Paul tells us this was no publicity stunt -- he really wants a piece of Pretty Boy Swag ... and as for the money, he'll have no problem putting up the $20 milli if Soulja can't swing it.
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" John Legend, who has been signed to West's label G.O.O.D. Music since 2004, slammed the meeting in an interview with French outlet "Clique" and said that West allowed Trump to use him as a "publicity stunt.
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What started out as an allegation of a vicious early morning hate crime by white Trump supporters in the blistering cold streets of Chicago is unravelling into what appears to be a publicity stunt gone wrong.
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And though doing something like this for only one day and with the press invited might be criticized as a publicity stunt, some people -— including at least one member of Congress — may find a visit useful.
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The tweet came after Unsworth said the miniature submarine Musk sent to Thailand to help with the rescue of a youth soccer team and its coach would have been ineffective and was merely a publicity stunt.
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After one of the divers who assisted with the rescue, Vernon Unsworth, appeared on TV to criticize Musk's idea and describe it as a publicity stunt, Musk retaliated by calling Unsworth a "pedo guy" on Twitter.
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" Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University, said the Chicago letter was, at least in part, a publicity stunt — "Gosh, is there any doubt?" he asked — and a way of "not coddling students, but coddling donors.
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Porsha Williams says Kordell Stewart is DEAD WRONG for insinuating she had anything to do with the release of a naked video featuring the ex-NFL star ... saying the whole thing smells like a publicity stunt.
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Olga Jonas, a senior fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute who spent 33 years at the World Bank, described pandemic bonds as a "publicity stunt" that will not help to stop outbreaks or prevent pandemics.
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Abbott, which called the complaint "nothing but a publicity stunt," said that accounting and tax issues — which caused Alere to file its annual report late — had prevented Abbott from reviewing information necessary to get regulatory approval.
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It was a cinema staff member who came up with the idea to hand out the repurposed paper lunch sacks, the Reporter said, however the move is a vintage publicity stunt going back some 50 years.
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The 16 felony accounts include each act that Smollett claimed was made against him by the two alleged attackers, now believed by police to have been paid by Smollett as part of a "publicity stunt" of sorts.
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The series is executive-produced by Hamilton star Daveed Diggs and tells the story of a rapper (Brandon Micheal Hall) who runs for mayor as a publicity stunt, only to find that he actually wins the election.
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The resulting wedding, a cheaply sponsored affair featuring Oprah and Bruno Mars impersonators and culminating in a big fight, did nothing to dispel widespread feelings that this was all a publicity stunt designed to promote Mongeau's show.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed it as a "publicity stunt," but has the American public possibly just witnessed the birth of a new form of filibuster direct from the floor of Congress, produced by Facebook and Twitter?
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The company hasn't disclosed yet how much the publicity stunt cost or the total worth of the envelopes it handed out, but its mobile payments service Alipay is one of China's largest, with about 400 million users.
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It is unclear what started the craze, although some have suggested it may be part of a horror movie publicity stunt or an elaborate hoax, and there have been similar reports sightings in Australia and New Zealand.
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Maezawa's act of arbitrary wealth redistribution sort of pales in comparison to his personal net worth, estimated at $2 billion by Forbes, and the success of his fashion line, Zozotown — ostensibly the reason for the publicity stunt.
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"The Daily Show" put together a fake movie trailer mocking Jussie's "attack" -- which Chicago PD now believes was a publicity stunt -- and how it came to be ... featuring the show's newest star, Jaboukie Young-White, as Smollett.
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"He's using our very reasonable opposition to the Department of Defense breaking environmental laws as a publicity stunt, as a way to malign and attack environmentalists who are opposed to the Republican agenda," Suckling told The Hill.
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DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar hit out on Monday at four Arab nations for cutting diplomatic ties and transport links over Doha's alleged support for terrorism, accusing them of a "publicity stunt" aimed solely at attacking its image and reputation.
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But if you heard "fist," and reacted to it (like everyone on Twitter did), Loesch apparently can see no other explanation for your mistake than you being a "malicious hack" who is deliberately lying as a publicity stunt.
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Some have praised Mr. Comey's forthrightness, but others have criticized his wall-to-wall TV appearances as a self-aggrandizing publicity stunt that has exacerbated the already strained relations between Mr. Trump and the nation's law enforcement agencies.
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The publicity stunt was supposed to be a milestone for the high-altitude balloon company World View Enterprises: the vehicle used for the KFC launch, called the Stratollite, is designed to float about 100,000 feet in the air.
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You haven't even began to think about why you even wanted to be president, other than a publicity stunt... 'President Trump' will never come out of my mouth, in terms of showing any type of respect to him.
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For Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who slammed Smollett at a news conference for reportedly orchestrating a "publicity stunt" to boost his "Empire" salary, a platform as big as the Oscars to address the controversy might be welcomed.
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It is not a publicity stunt, Green said, even though he first had to explain to the Seoul-born American promoter and Bellator CEO Scott Coker what rugby was before they could get the deal over the line.
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Her crowning moment of glory, her political decision to fight in the Falkland Islands—which was a massive publicity stunt for her regardless of loss of life—managed to save her tenancy in parliament for quite some time.
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"I think it's a big publicity stunt, but my take on a boxing match between the two [is] I think McGregor's got a good chance to make something happen in two or three rounds," Diaz told CSN Fights.
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Back before American politics became a remake of The Dead Zone, it was common to speculate that a desire to avoid real financial disclosure was a key reason why Trump would give up the publicity stunt soon enough.
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By then, thousands of people had signed an online petition started by a graduate of the school to remove its principal, while in some circles Mr. Phillips was cast as a professional activist engaged in a publicity stunt.
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National Labor Relations Board Chairman John Ring has called out a union representing board staff for pulling a "publicity stunt" and bargaining in bad faith by claiming that the agency is seeking to eliminate protections for LGBT workers.
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Transparency certainly sounds like a good thing, but if this is all Facebook means by it then it is a manipulation of language all of its own in the service of a publicity stunt we shouldn't fall for.
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The auction house, which made news last year when a painting by the British street artist Banksy sold for $19673 million and then self-destructed, sought to tamp down any conjecture that this had been a publicity stunt.
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The auction house, which made news last year when a painting by the British street artist Banksy sold for $19673 million and then self-destructed, sought to tamp down any conjecture that this had been a publicity stunt.
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Besides sending the cocksure and (admittedly) chauvinistic Riggs into a depression, the match, which some dismissed as a publicity stunt, would go on to be remembered as a symbolic achievement for women in a decade of tremendous social progress.
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In a surprisingly candid post on the company's official forums, Meizu's CEO Jack Wong has admitted that a recent crowdfunding campaign for the Meizu Zero, the "World's First Holeless Phone," was little more than a publicity stunt (via Engadget).
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A Fox News spokesperson on Monday also called the lawsuit a publicity stunt on behalf of Hughes and her attorney, Douglas Wigdor, who is representing other current and former Fox News employees in their own harassment and discrimination cases.
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The legal document filed in a Los Angeles state court concerns claims made in a lawsuit filed by an employee who left the company in 2015, and Snap has said it considers the litigation to be a publicity stunt.
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It's long seemed like Urban Outfitters is intentionally courting controversy with politically incorrect products as some sort of perverse no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity stunt — especially given that the company was founded by a rich Rick Santorum supporter.
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Several DNC members said Schultz — despite being a lifelong Democrat — had done little in the past to help the party and that a White House run looked more like a publicity stunt than a genuine effort to oust Trump.
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Here are a few that caught my eye more for reasons of learning: • 18A: While I had heard of the EDSEL, I didn't know about "E Day," the publicity stunt surrounding the introduction of the world's worst selling car.
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It's a show that generates inevitable cynicism from others — that this is all a publicity stunt or simply an effort by the Mets to build up credit with Tebow's agent, who also represents the All-Star outfielder Yoenis Cespedes.
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Perhaps because of the discrepancies, because many people view Kardashian through an extremely cynical lens, or some combination of the two, many people have mocked her on social media and suggested that the robbery might be a publicity stunt.
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Between the lines: This apparent publicity stunt comes as Omarosa, whom President Trump called a "lowlife" and a "dog" on Twitter, has released her new book, "Unhinged," which includes several outrageous claims from her time in the West Wing.
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In the context of scenes from "Licht" about cooperation and connection, it no longer seemed like a punch line or publicity stunt; it was a statement, if an ecologically reckless one, about what is possible when people work together.
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The fact that Airbnb has bent over backward to spin this as a high-concept meditation on crossing cultural barriers rather than a basic publicity stunt is a pretty good indication that organizers knew they were straddling a thin line.
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A day after reporters questioned whether the "Bawitdaba" singer's political ambitions were genuine or just a publicity stunt, he wrote on his website Thursday that he has 15 days from his announcement to file paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission.
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Police who say Empire actor Jussie Smollett staged a bias attack on himself as a publicity stunt to boost his salary on the FOX TV show allegedly have at least one tangible piece of evidence connecting him to the incident.
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Using surveillance video, in-car taxi cameras, Uber receipts, credit card records, and bank accounts, the Chicago Police Department built a case that the actor allegedly fabricated the attack as a "publicity stunt" because he was dissatisfied with his salary.
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WATCH: Jussie Smollett Allegedly Paid $3,500 to Stage Attack Because He Was Unhappy with Salary: Police Also on Thursday, police allege Smollett staged a bias attack on himself as a publicity stunt to boost his salary on the Fox show.
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In the complaint obtained by PEOPLE, Pugh claimed that Kelly used her Twitter account to "paint a target" on Pugh's back "as a publicity stunt for financial gain" in the promotion for her upcoming book, There's No F—ing Secret.
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Of course, there's a chance this is all a bizarre publicity stunt, but Van der Lands & Busscher BV does indeed have a spot at the Funeral Exhibition, and RemetzCar does appear to be a legitimate player in the car-stretching business.
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" Ryan told us that the recent reports of racially segregated food banks in England are all part of "a publicity stunt with little to suggest—beyond the culpability of media hyping it up—that it is part of a wider trend.
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We got the former 'Teen Mom' leaving Madeo in Beverly Hills Thursday night, and she cut right to the chase when we asked her about the latest Jenelle news ... that she told cops the dog-killing incident was a publicity stunt.
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According to sources (which are inarguably real and without bias and/or investment in the story) the fight (which is definitely not a publicity stunt, no matter what Nate Diaz says) is all set to go for September in Las Vegas.
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Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, who seized command over the House, pushed through a bill and adjourned for the Fourth of July recess, derided the Democrats' effort as a "publicity stunt" that risked undermining the House as an institution.
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" CNN legal analyst Paul Callan, a former New York homicide prosecutor and media law professor, called the case "a publicity stunt" and engaged Avenatti in a spirited debate about the case Monday night during an appearance on "Anderson Cooper 360.
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At Hammon's first press conference after her hiring, a reporter read her an anonymous e-mail that called it a publicity stunt, and suggested that the only thing the players had to learn from her was advice on baking cookies.
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Brandon Micheal Hall, previously seen in a breakout role on "Search Party," stars as an unsuccessful rapper who runs for mayor as a publicity stunt and ends up winning on the strength of sheer charisma and a discontented voting base.
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From the day Trump announced his candidacy until the day he took the Oval Office, the smart take on him was that he was running on a lark, as a publicity stunt, or to lay the groundwork for some business endeavor.
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"At best, if this is more than a publicity stunt, then Walmart is merely playing catch-up to other multibillion-dollar companies when it comes to providing benefits to its workers," the group's director, Randy Parraz, said in a statement.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A publicity stunt featuring a Mao Zedong lookalike at a conference on blockchain in China on Monday sparked an uproar on social media, with some users saying the "shameful" disrespect to the founding leader could hurt the industry's image.
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But then the multinational conglomerate that created Okja decides to reclaim the creature and transports her to New York, where the company's nefarious chief executive (Tilda Swinton) plans to use Okja in a publicity stunt to sell industrially produced meat.
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In what the family admits was largely a publicity stunt, they put the Wild West Town up for sale in last year's Christmas catalog of Hammacher Schlemmer, where it stood out among the massage wands, radio-controlled toys and exercise gadgets.
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Radical environmentalists have pulled the same stunt as de Blasio in several California cities — the over the top hysteria of each lawsuit suggesting something more akin to a publicity stunt and a waste of time and taxpayer dollars than anything else.
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A shrewd publicity stunt Potcoin was originally designed as a way to give cannabis dispensaries access to banking services at a time when credit card companies wouldn't process payments for dispensaries due to the murky legal issues surrounding legalized marijuana.
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The announcement, which was simultaneously cheered by supporters of higher pay and criticized as a publicity stunt by some in the restaurant industry, was included in a letter that a McDonald's vice president wrote to officials at the National Restaurant Association.
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Image: SpaceX/Public DomainYou may remember that, as a publicity stunt, SpaceX propelled a red Tesla, driven by a dummy in a spacesuit named Starman with the words "DON'T PANIC" written on the control panel, into space using its Falcon Heavy rocket.
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But Ruth tells us that Kush is no mere publicity stunt: Milk discovered that using the oil in a mascara made for a super conditioning, flake-free formula that leaves lashes healthy and comes off easily at the end of the day.
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The multi-day video game expo where hundreds of developers and publishers descend on downtown Los Angeles to market the hell out of their upcoming projects (aka "E3 2019") hasn't even officially begun, but already the battle for best publicity stunt is underway.
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" Despite speculation that the couple called off their wedding as a publicity stunt for their show Total Bellas — "I don't buy any of these reasons for the breakup," one person commented on Bella's latest Instagram — a source told PEOPLE "they truly broke up.
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At any rate, that's how the Syrian villagers in Ms Yazji's play feel about the animals, after being ceremonially presented with them by the government as a publicity-stunt sop, compensating for the loss of their sons as "martyrs" to the civil war.
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It isn't necessarily unusual for people to pull a publicity stunt on the Tour, but this one most definitely could've put the lives of bikers (not to mention the camera crews and team cars) at risk had he crashed into the pack.
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Kim is especially incensed about a passage in the book that says that the Kardashian name was left out of the Diane Sawyer because they did market research and when people hear the name Kardashian they feel like it is a publicity stunt.
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Couple that with the fact Kid Rock did actually hint that he might run for Senate back in 2017 as part of a publicity stunt, and you can kind of see why the people in the clip above might have been confused.
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I have many media outlets calling me about it and I want to tell you right now if this is a publicity stunt you need to tell me because I have other cases including things like rape that I have to deal with.
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After a bitter, weird, and sometimes nasty campaign, the governor had one of the worst pre-election weekends in recent memory—a publicity stunt gone awry and an offensive mailer sent with the approval of top aides suggested a campaign in disarray.
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What was initially labeled a publicity stunt by the businessman turned reality TV star, would in a few months erupt into a full-fledged attack on the American consciousness: misogyny, white supremacy, and toxic nationalism have become the hallmarks of Trump's rhetoric.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday a sit-in by Democratic representatives aimed at pushing for a vote on gun control legislation was a publicity stunt and he would not bring the bill up for a vote.
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But don't the White House denials and the insistence this is all a publicity stunt to sell books for Bolton make it even more important that he be called in front of the Senate to testify -- under oath -- about all of this?
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"We think it's pretty obvious that the American people are coming to the conclusion that this was not some publicity stunt, this was not some money grab, she did this for the right reasons, namely to get the truth out," Avenatti added.
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Liu's extravagant hobby is the subject of considerable fascination in China, and is interpreted variously as a financial investment, a publicity stunt, a patriotic bid for the world's attention, and an act of pure ostentation, such as one might expect from a tuhao .
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And while all of this reeks of self-serving publicity stunt on Tecate's part, what better way to mock a narcissistic billionaire's tyrannical immigration policy than by spending a shitload of money on ads and getting a ton of free publicity in the process?
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To believe otherwise, in their minds, is to be naive about the media (Reinhardt is, after all, also Sprouse's costar — maybe it's all a publicity stunt?), but also to ignore the work that they believe these stars are doing to communicate their truth to us.
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BamBrogan went so far as to file a reckless request for a restraining order — part of his publicity stunt aimed to gain leverage in this litigation —and the judge in that case summarily dismissed his request in a hearing that lasted less than one minute.
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WATCH: The Internet Goes Crazy Over Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston's Breakup Speaking of dispelling common misconceptions, Hiddleston recently opened up about his highly publicized romance with the Taylor Swift, defending against critics who speculated that the relationship was nothing but a publicity stunt.
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Basically, the whole thing would be easy enough to write off as a publicity stunt, if not for the fact that, earlier this year, Khaled was announced as a new brand ambassador for a company known for turning mere celebrities into full-fledged lifestyle gurus.
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Cramer added that Home Depot's efforts are no publicity stunt: the company spends heavily on technology, sponsors "Battle of the Brains" events to recruit coders, hires hundreds of tech employees right out of school and trains tech-savvy employees in 12-week boot camps.
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"Part of me is feeling like it was just a publicity stunt on the U.K. government side to show that they are trying to help," she said, adding that, despite spending half an hour or more with Mr. Raab, they had gotten no answers.
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"It's unfortunate that instead of working to have productive dialogue, the unions decided it was important to pull teachers out of the classroom for a two-hour political publicity stunt — for which they shot their own footage to send to media outlets," Hill said.
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Experts on Bolivian politics describe Murillo's claim as a worrying publicity stunt that illustrates how the right-wing interim government is taking increasingly extreme measures to crack down on Morales and his party, MAS, in the wake of his controversy-shrouded resignation two weeks ago.
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"It's unfortunate that instead of working to have productive dialogue, the unions decided it was important to pull teachers out of the classroom for a two-hour political publicity stunt — for which they shot their own footage to send to media outlets," Ms. Hill said.
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Alan, too, said he believes the real-life meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un was directly inspired by his and X's February publicity stunt at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , where they managed to sneak into a press area during the opening ceremony before being removed.
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In a statement, Cifog said it was "astonished that an elected member of the Republic should pull such a publicity stunt by choosing an American actress from the 1980s to condemn the production of one of the jewels of French gastronomy and culture," reports The Guardian.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Puerto Rico's government on Friday called moves by creditors of the island's bankrupt power utility to offer a $1 billion loan a "publicity stunt," the latest salvo in a public back-and-forth on how to help the utility recover after Hurricane Maria.
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It was easy to dismiss their offer, in the form of an open letter from xHamster vice president Alex Hawkins to the Wachowskis, as little more than a publicity stunt—like the time the site offered Sean Spicer a job after he left the White House.
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" The team at Good American sent the following statement: "Ms Bleu's claim that Good American and Khloe Kardashian copied or stole her designs is flagrantly false and little more than a cheap publicity stunt and an attempt by Ms Bleu to get her 15 minutes of fame.
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In July 2018, Musk called Unsworth a "pedo guy" in a tweet and said he would bet money to back his accusation after Unsworth said the miniature submarine Musk sent to Thailand to help with the rescue would have been ineffective and was merely a publicity stunt.
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In July 2018, Musk called Unsworth a "pedo guy" in a tweet and said he would bet money to back his accusation after Unsworth said the miniature submarine Musk sent to Thailand to help with the rescue would have been ineffective and was merely a publicity stunt.
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Inviting a serious avant-garde director to work at such a huge commercial venue is both an act of folly and a publicity stunt, and I wonder how much the show's success has had to do with its breathless marketing, which promises the event of the century.
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Read: The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix Canada in April Big Money Back in 2007, the Royal Canadian Mint made a 100 kilogram gold coin, about the weight of a refrigerator, with a face value of 1 million Canadian dollars, as a publicity stunt.
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In essence, McDonald's didn't just host a publicity stunt — it also essentially invited the same Rick and Morty fans who have become known for online trolling to congregate in a real-life space, and then gave them a reason and an opportunity to troll in real time.
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The idea of writing as a public, performative art is nothing new — Ray Bradbury's contemporary, Harlan Ellison, started writing short stories while sitting in the front windows of bookstores as a publicity stunt back in the 1970s, and he returned to the practice in the 1980s and 1990s.
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John Lewis, of Georgia's fifth Congressional district, led the sit-in – which Ryan reportedly called a "publicity stunt" – on the chamber floor with dozens of his fellow party members during a recess on Wednesday to demand that House Republicans allow a vote on legislation to address gun violence.
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This was the idea behind CosmicOS, a computer program that would essentially use a role-playing game to teach aliens about Earth and that one time the entirety of Craigslist was sent into the cosmos (more of a publicity stunt than anything, but maybe aliens need a new divan?).
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If it was anyone else doing this, no one would believe it, but over-the-top Black Friday stunts are sort of Cards Against Humanity's MO. Part protest, part publicity stunt, and part joke, the stunts always manage to highlight the absurdity of Black Friday while making everyone laugh.
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After Future made a number of comments to the press and through Twitter about how Ciara was using NFL player Russell Wilson and his baby Future as a publicity stunt, as well as questioning the mother's parenting skills, Ciara hit her former lover with a $15 million defamation lawsuit.
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" In response, Good American has released the following statement to PEOPLE: "Ms Bleu's claim that Good American and Khloé Kardashian copied or stole her designs is flagrantly false and little more than a cheap publicity stunt and an attempt by Ms Bleu to get her 15 minutes of fame.
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" While the video appears heartwarming, a representative from PETA condemned the video as a 'publicity stunt' for the ZWF, noting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture sanctioned the organization "for keeping animals in unsafe, isolated, and nearly barren enclosures and failing to provide them with clean drinking water.
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The hypothetical Senate run certainly smelled like a publicity stunt, especially since Ritchie never got around to filing the official FEC paperwork, but he wrote in an impassioned blog post that the whole thing was "not a hoax" before admitting to Howard Stern that, well, yeah, it was.
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In the last several weeks, with Model 2000 production hanging in the balance, he became involved in a bid to develop a mini-submarine to help save children trapped in a cave in Thailand, and lashed out at a rescuer who criticized the effort as a publicity stunt.
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I have to wonder about the need for clarification in this case — whether or not Banksy intended to entirely shred the work is a little beside the main point, which is that it is a publicity stunt which continues to accrue the notoriety that buttresses the artist's market value.
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After all, it was Mr. Avenatti who sent Ms. Clifford — better known as Stormy Daniels — into a courtroom in Manhattan last month to sit (in her pink blazer) within sight of Mr. Cohen as part of a publicity stunt that largely seemed designed to needle and unnerve him.
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" Boehm said he originally assumed that the mystery burger was a part of a publicity stunt, but a representative from In-N-Out has since debunked that theory, telling Vice, "We were surprised to hear recently that one of our Double-Doubles was found on a street in New York.
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" Boehm said he originally assumed that the mystery burger was a part of a publicity stunt, but a representative from In-N-Out has since debunked that theory, telling Vice, "We were surprised to hear recently that one of our Double-Doubles was found on a street in New York.
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Musk's tweet followed an interview in which Unsworth, who was involved in last year's rescue of a youth soccer team and its coach from a cave in Thailand, said the miniature submarine Musk sent to Thailand to help with the rescue would have been ineffective and was merely a publicity stunt.
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With "Painted in Mexico" finished and set to open at LACMA on November 19, she's gone public with the information, perhaps hoping Española's owner might drop in to see it and be moved to renew contact — or perhaps merely as a terrific publicity stunt for an exhibition long in the making.
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If naming Shelton was a publicity stunt, it worked: Twitter users were so startled by the revelation that both "Blake Shelton" and "Sexiest Man Alive" trended for most of Wednesday, and the jokes flowed loudly and freely: even a straight man can see there's no way blake shelton is the sexiest man alive.
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" In response to Bleu's lawyer's claims, the denim brand released the following statement to PEOPLE: "Ms Bleu's claim that Good American and Khloé Kardashian copied or stole her designs is flagrantly false and little more than a cheap publicity stunt and an attempt by Ms Bleu to get her 15 minutes of fame.
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And while it's easy to assume that eating at In-N-Out is merely a publicity stunt designed to make them seem #relatable on the 'gram and in the tabloids, the fact is, after an award show, stars are hungry, exhausted, possibly drunk, and unlikely up for going to a nice restaurant.
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Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders accusing the Philadelphia Eagles of pulling a publicity stunt, one that prompted the president to call off the Super Bowl Champions visit to the White House altogether after the team said that probably only a handful of players and a mascot would be attending the Rose Garden celebration.
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On the other hand, many of those who watched over the years as Mr. Duke attracted worldwide media attention and hauled in donations from his fans — a good deal of which he later pleaded guilty to spending on gambling and other personal pursuits — say the Duke campaign is just a tired publicity stunt.
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And more than a year after the ban on photography in the metro was lifted, the move has posed a lingering question that's emblematic of the country's larger concerns: Was this a publicity stunt aimed at showcasing the country's beauty and drawing in tourists, or was it a telling indication of consequential change?
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"In sum, we consider your visa request to have been a publicity stunt and not an appropriate request to visit a sovereign country; and it has, and will continue to be, treated in that spirit," Iran said in a letter sent to them via the State Department and released to Iranian news outlets.
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The two companies have teamed up to make a massive, life-sized Lego version of the Silverado pickup truck — and the results are impressive Despite being a publicity stunt for Chevrolet's work with Lego on the upcoming The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, the truck is nonetheless a considerable feat of Lego brick engineering.
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Rather than inviting the media to swarm behind him on a cross-country road trip in January that many assumed would be a publicity stunt ahead of a presidential announcement, O'Rourke snuck out of Texas and drove alone to Liberal, Kansas, and blogged about "the gloomy early morning sky" in rambling posts on Medium.
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This week, 11 environmental groups including the League of Conservation Voters and the Environmental Defense Fund launched Boot Pruitt with ad buys on Fox & Friends, a six-figure digital marketing campaign, an op-ed by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chair John Podesta in the Washington Post, and a publicity stunt at the EPA's headquarters.
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She told The Hollywood Gossip she did not make a report against David, claims she never told cops it was a publicity stunt, says she can't remember if she heard a gunshot, claims her stepdaughter testified in court the story about the dog killing was true, and says police ended their investigation months ago.
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As a publicity stunt, it's almost too on the nose: Here we were in the old home of a president who inherited a real estate empire talking to refugees who have had to build entirely new lives in an unfamiliar place—and who are the sort of people Trump wants less of in the country.
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He hatched a viral publicity stunt for the unabashedly lecherous author Tucker Max ("I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell"), which involved vandalizing billboards for a movie based on the book and emailing photos of the defaced ads to blogs in an attempt to stir up a feminist boycott of the movie on college campuses.
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" Mr. Nordland replied: "It could well be a publicity stunt to try to undercut that argument that Trump is in the Russians' pockets, and the Russians could be posturing when they claimed that they came within minutes of a confrontation with the United States — after all, we gave them advance warning to minimize that risk.
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With roughly 10,000 sets of eyes zeroed in on him, Tebow strode to the plate for the first time and sent a line drive over the left-field wall for a two-run homer that — at least for a moment — silenced critics who had complained that his foray into baseball was a publicity stunt.
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Because her disappearance happened right after the release of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, there were speculations that Christie was pulling a publicity stunt for book sales, but the more commonly accepted version (and the one I much prefer) is that the writer was getting back at her husband, Archie Christie, for taking on a mistress, Nancy Neele.
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During Fashion Week in 2016 Kim was robbed of $11 million-worth of jewelry by masked gunmen who broke into her Paris hotel suite and left her gagged — a crime that aroused suspicion that it was all a publicity stunt (it wasn't, according to follow-up reports) and a hardy chorus of schadenfreude across social media.
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Trump didn't help matters with his surprisingly civil and normal concession speech, in which he graciously congratulated Cruz, praised all the other candidates, and meekly suggested that he beat the initial expectations set when he entered the race in June 2015, when "Donald Trump for president" was treated by most media as a publicity stunt, not a serious candidacy.
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"Nobody has done more to fan the flames of gun violence than the N.R.A." While the resolution has no practical effect, Ms. Stefani said in an interview on Wednesday, "I firmly believe that words matter, and I think this is a step in fighting the negative impact of the N.R.A." The N.R.A. saw the action as a publicity stunt.
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From the historic Old Ebbitt Grill (across from the White House complex and an off-hours watering hole for Secret Service agents and White House staff) to a shoe-shine chair in Union Station, Underwood, Stamper and Souza covered a lot of territory in Monday's one-day shoot, a publicity stunt for the May 30 launch of the show's fifth season on Netflix.
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An irritated Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE on Thursday ridiculed the 6900-hour Democratic sit-in on the House floor as a publicity stunt and "fundraising scheme," accusing Democrats of trying to raise money off the tragic shooting in Orlando.
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Whether the airing of this mysterious missive is a portent of the painting emerging from obscurity to join its multiracial brethren, or merely a publicity stunt that will drive it deeper into hiding in plain sight, there is one question undoubtedly on the mind of everyone in Los Angeles today: Who has purchased the movie rights to this blockbuster art mystery?
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Julia Lippman, a research fellow at the University of Michigan who has studied media, was unsure how genuine or performative Offset and Cardi B's interaction onstage was — there has been suspicion that the breakup and the attempts at reconciliation were a publicity stunt tied to Offset's upcoming solo album — but she said noting the reaction to it is worthwhile anyway.
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"I don't know any of the details about her relationship or any of that, but she's lovely and I'm sure just like anybody else, when you date somebody in this town, everything becomes a photoshoot and there are people following you around and taking pictures," Jenner said Friday on the Kyle & Jackie O radio show when asked if she thinks Hiddleswift is a publicity stunt.
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Instead, that turned out to be a mere publicity stunt (as many initially, and wrongly, thought Trump's 2016 presidential campaign would be), and Stabenow wound up facing off against John James, a 37-year-old African-American business leader and first-time candidate who'd probably be a formidable contender for a lower office but didn't qualify as a top-tier recruit for a statewide race.
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The announcement struck critics as a grandiose publicity stunt (on Twitter, the insults flew), but it was in keeping with the company's somewhat paradoxical mission, which is both to advance research in artificial intelligence as rapidly as possible and to prepare for the potential threat posed by superintelligent machines that haven't been taught to "love humanity," as Greg Brockman, OpenAI's chief technology officer, put it to me.
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While the identity of the man hasn't been confirmed, reporters for the LA Times have speculated on Twitter that he might be a rapper by the name of Dephree, who's made a few music videos wearing the same boxer brief uniform around LA. It's not clear if the stunt was meant as an act of protest, or just a publicity stunt to drum up views online.
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NASA Has Officially Listed Musk&aposs Tesla Roadster As a Celestial ObjectYou may remember that, as a publicity stunt, SpaceX propelled a red Tesla, driven by a dummy in a…Read more ReadLike others, Krebs suspects that the recent publicity afforded to SpaceX during the launch of the Tesla Roadster into space—which the company broadcast for hours without license—may have had something to do with it.
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Indeed, it makes so much sense that one can't help but believe that this was the obvious solution all along (it is, after all, exactly what other companies do) and the entire concept of a unitary second headquarters was not much more than a publicity stunt designed to entice cities and states to put forward ultra-generous benefits packages only for Amazon to later underdeliver on jobs and investment.
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People have been aware of Amazon's controversies for decades, from its monopolistic practices to tax avoidance, poor treatment of both white- and blue-collar workers, union-busting, environmental damage, and most recently, the year-long publicity stunt of HQ2, a bad-faith ploy to extract private data from US cities that ended with Amazon plopping its supposedly economy-boosting offices into the two most established markets on the East Coast.
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Carlos CurbeloCarlos Luis CurbeloOvernight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress Democratic lawmaker pushes back on Castro's call to repeal law making illegal border crossings a crime MORE (R-Fla.), slammed the Freedom Caucus's impeachment push as a "reckless publicity stunt," while 22019 at-risk Republican, Pennsylvania Rep.
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