Olive Garden Doesn't Want Playboy Endorsement

This past July, we enthusiastically reported on Playboy model Kendra Wilkinson's tireless campaign to document Olive Garden employees in the nude. But according to the Wall Street Journal, some OG bigwigs aren't so pleased about their bottomless bowl of breadsticks being associated with the "girl next door."

"I don't feel comfortable talking about this ... because it is a complicated issue for the brand," says Michele Kay, executive vice president of the advertising firm that handles the Olive Garden account.

The Wall Street Journal has labeled the 23-year-old bunny a "rogue brand ambassador," who endorses a product for the sheer love of it. Other rogue endorsements that have been met with mixed feelings include trainwrecky Britney Spears' habit of downing Starbucks in front of paparazzi and O.J. Simpson's endorsement of Hillary Clinton during her senatorial campaign.

Here at Asylum, we have always considered ourselves a bit rogue, so we'd like to side with Kendra by publicly, obnoxiously and at the request of no one, endorsing Coke Zero. We can't get enough of the stuff, as evidenced by our guerrilla ad featuring Asylum editor Anthony Layser celebrating the beverage between two sleepyheaded gentlemen of the street (pictured above).

Check out some of Playboy's girls of Olive Garden after the jump.