The hilarious 1980s celebrity adverts top Hollywood stars tried to hide from fans

Ocean’s 11 star Sammy Davis Jr. was a big name at the box office but that didn’t mean he wasn’t up for a smaller assignment on the side.

In the late ’70s and into the ’80s, Sammy could be spotted dancing to Alka-Seltzer’s ‘Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz’ tagline – what a relief it must have been to get that check through.

Joey Tribbiani knows a little something about embarrassing adverts thanks to a blue glossy cosmetic, called Ichiban, Lipstick for Men.

Pepsi have had some iconic actors representing their brand over the years but one of the high points has to be Madonna’s 1989 advert. 

The singer goes time-travelling and swaps places with her childhood self. The first time the advert aired it debuted ‘Like a Prayer’ to the public but once the official music video broadcast on MTV, complete with burning crosses, Pepsi soon pulled the advert.

Back to the Future star Michael J. Fox finds himself in a pickle as the leading man in Diet Pepsi’s 1987 advert. When a beautiful woman turns up on his doorstep requesting the diet soda, Michael gets caught short and climbs out of his window to pick up some more pop. 

Returning soggy and with another Diet Pepsi request waiting, it showed off a decidedly limited portion of the Family Ties’ acting skills.

The late Glenn Frey, of Eagles fame, showed off his impressive physique during the ’80s in an intense workout sequence, simultaneously heaping praise on the Holiday Spa Health Club.

The theatrical editing and absence of an Eagles track, reportedly due to a shortage of funds on Holiday Spa’s end, made this one Glenn was likely keen to keep in his past.

It was another all-star casting for Pepsi with Labyrinth‘s David Bowie and star singer Tina Turner. The pair teamed up for a plot that sees David, with a couple of swigs of Pepsi, try to build his own dream woman.

Setting his Pepsi can down on the machine’s scanner leads to the system sparking, and Tina Turner emerges, instantly turning Bowie into a dapper ladies’ man .