"Queen of Carpets" doesn't like porn star's sex shop ad - Ron Jeremy

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For a quarter-century and counting, ex-high school teacher Ron Jeremy -- Surreal Life star, proud recipient of a master's degree in special education and Guinness World Record holder for most adult-film appearances -- has lent his wit and wiener to scores of cinematic gems, including What's Butt Got to Do With It?, Wild Wild Chest, Men in Back, Guys Who Suck Their Own Cocks and 1992's French Open, in which Jeremy plays a sleazy sports journalist who tries to prove that all female tennis players are lesbians.
But the porn man's recent star turn in a 30-second television commercial for a St. Louis adult sex-accessory retailer may be the most controversial entry in Jeremy's oeuvre to date.

A pal of Very Intimate Playthings (VIP) proprietor Howard Richman, the 51-year-old Jeremy recently shot ad footage to be used in four spots parodying local late-night pitchmen and women, among them Becky "Queen of Carpets" Rothman, goddess-in-chief of the Becky's Carpet and Tile Superstore empire. With the Rothman spoof -- which features a fully clothed Jeremy in drag, floating above the Gateway Arch -- edited and ready for market, FOX-2 (KTVI-TV) agreed to air the spot during late-night programming in early July.

The ad begins with Richman and Jeremy seated at a conference table, where Richman fires the porn star à la Donald Trump in The Apprentice. Flash to Jeremy in a white dress hovering above downtown St. Louis as he trumpets the many vices of VIP. At the end of the clip, Jeremy, who stands five-foot-six and earned the nickname "The Hedgehog" for his resemblance to that cuddly creature, says self-deprecatingly, "I make an ugly woman, don't I?"

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