“Upon careful review, we have chose to discontinue airing our current television commercials featuring Steve Rannazzisi”, the Minneapolis-based company said in a statement Thursday, The Associated Press reported.
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Psychiatrists say Steve Rannazzisi’s 9/11 lie may be a symptom of a condition called Munchhausen Syndrome in which a person pretends to suffer from a disease or a psychological trauma just to gain sympathy and attention.
Despite “Breaking Dad”‘s survival, Buffalo Wild Wings announced Thursday that it would drop the fabulist funnyman from its TV spots.
“I don’t know why I said this”, he wrote. Buffalo Wild Wings’ moral reputation remains unimpeachable, particularly when it comes to claiming one was several miles closer to danger during a nationally traumatic event than is strictly true. The incident, as he described it, inspired him to move with his wife to L.A.in order to begin his comedy career. It was exposed by the New York Times that Rannazzisi was actually working in Midtown, not at the Trade Center, and that he’d never worked for Merrill Lynch.
In both a 2009 and 2011 interview, Rannazzisi said he was working on for Merrill Lynch on the 54th floor of the south tower when the opposite building was hit.
The FX network issued a statement earlier this week about Rannazzisi’s confession and chose to continue airing episodes of “The League”. If someone comes on this show and tells a story about their life, I will take what they’re saying at face value.
“It only made me more ashamed”, he said.
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The League’s Steve Ranazissi landed in hot water recently after admitting that he fabricated stories about his experience on September 11, 2001.
