More on the incredible disappearing Ali Larter from last year’s Superbowl

The Superbowl over in the US this weekend proved to be one of the most watched TV shows ever. This year it was on CBS, but last year it was on NBC and as you might recall there was a tie-in commercial to promote Heroes. If you don’t, here it is:

However, as you also may recall, despite turning up to film the commercial…

Heroes superbowl promo

…Ali Larter was edited out, even if you can still see her in it if you look hard.

So, my memory prompted by this year’s Superbowl, I asked someone who works behind the scenes if they knew why she’d been chopped out. Their response:

No… we were shocked too when we saw it air and she was out.

The mystery deepens. Solution by next Superbowl?

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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