Who is the actor playing the "sexy" Santa in the Target Christmas ads?
Target is showcasing one of their recent hires in a new ad campaign for the Christmas shopping season who looks oddly familiar and is “weirdly hot.”
Stores across the United States are gearing up for the Christmas shopping season that will officially kick off the day after Thanksgiving on November 29 with Black Friday. There will be intense competition among them to draw their share of the more than 183 million shoppers that plan to venture out to stores or go online between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday.
No better way to attract attention to their brand and special deals than an eye-catching ad campaign. Target will be hoping that theirs featuring their “newest employee” Kris K, whose last name may just “rhyme with jingle,” will do just that.
Who is the actor playing the “sexy” Santa in the Target Christmas ads?
“Meet Kris… He loves the holidays as much as the next guy. Actually, way more than the next guy. Actually, way more than anyone we know. Actually, more than anyone anyone knows. But hey, that’s not important. What is, is that shiny red Bronco and perfectly coiffed beard,” the Minneapolis-based retailer said in the caption for the introductory advert posted online called ‘Born to be Kris’.
It’s not just his beard that is well trimmed, but his bod as well, especially compared to our image of the traditional jolly old gift-giving elf. A customer in the second in the series of the ads noticed it too, telling her friend on the phone that she just ran into Santa Claus and “he’s weirdly hot!”
The beefcake playing Santa Claus is none other than actor and director Brent Bailey. “Brent has been on your TV constantly whether you realized it or not,” says his bio on IMDb. Besides being in roughly 150 commercials, he’s appeared in shows like ‘Lincoln Lawyer’, ‘N.C.I.S’, ‘Criminal Minds’, ‘Lucifer’, ‘The Morning Show’, and ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’. He also had a role in ‘The Idea of You’ which came out this year.
So far the reception, going by the comments online for the adverts, has been positive, getting a laugh out of people and making others swoon saying Kris is “hottest Santa I’ve ever seen” in a commercial. But it’s not just Bailey whose got admirers, his red Bronco with the license plate “SLEIGH” has caught the eye of some as well.
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