The Frosties Kid Is Dead
Status: Urban Legend
A recent ad for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes shows a blond-haired kid dancing around singing "They're going to taste great!" I think this is a British ad. At least, I've never seen it here in America. And all the references to it I've found occur in the British press. For instance, David Whitehouse writes in the Guardian: Pity the poor Kellogg's marketing department... all they wanted to do was make an advert in which a chirpy young scamp would skip his way through the streets of a suburban town attracting other children like a Pied Piper with a silly ditty about his breakfast. So, they set out to hire an angelic young choirboy with a voice so beautiful it could shatter the beaks of songbirds. Then disaster struck. It appears that, on the way to the shoot, this choirboy's balls dropped with quite monstrous results. They wanted Aled Jones, but they got Mick Jones. And what we're left with is a jingle being sung by a boy at the exact moment his voice breaks, in a tone so monotonous it appears to be operating at a frequency which toys with people's bowels. It is, quite simply, the worst soundtrack to an advertisement ever. His voice is so oppressively dull that prolonged listening is like having every orifice systematically packed full of wet bread by a politician with no facial features.
Evidently this is the kind of ad that people love to hate. And this dislike has inspired a rumor that the kid in the ad is dead. (Google 'Frosties Kid' and you pull up page after page of rumors of his death.) There are two versions of the rumor:1) That the kid committed suicide on account of the bullying he received since the ad aired.
2) That the kid was a cancer patient whose dying wish was to star in a Frosties ad.
I don't know who the Frosties Kid is in real life. So I can't prove that he's alive. But there's absolutely no evidence to support the claim that he's dead. Plus, the 'Frosties Kid Is Dead' rumor seems to be a new variation of the 'Death of Little Mikey' rumor (which alleged that Mikey, of the Life Cereal commercials, died after eating Pop Rocks). So I think it's safe to assume that the Frosties Kid is still alive. (Thanks to Dave Tolomy for telling me about the rumor.)
Update: As Dead-Eric noted in the comments, Scott Mills of BBC Radio 1 recently discussed the 'Frosties Kid Is Dead' rumor on his show. Mills received the following official statement from Kelloggs about the rumor:
"The current advertisement has been well received by the vast majority of our customers. We would also like to take this opportunity to confirm that the lead boy within the advertisement is well and continues to live in his native South Africa."
You can listen to an mp3 clip of this portion of the Scott Mills show here.
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Categories: Advertising, Death, Urban Legends Posted by Alex on Thu Jul 06, 2006 |
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WHY WOULD SOMEONE MAKE UP A RUMOUR LIKE THAT FOR ,ITS HORRIBLE , WHAT IF HIS FAMILY READ IT , COULD U IMAGINE HOW YOU WOULD FEEL !
Posted by K on Mon Jul 24, 2006 at 03:17 PM
I think the frosties advert is the best advert made.
And i wanna meet the boy 😊
Posted by Charley on Tue Jul 25, 2006 at 04:44 PM
And i wanna meet the boy 😊
The very first time I saw that advert, I was with my little brother; we turned to one another once our laughter had died down, and said, 'That kids going to kill himself, isn't he?'
I wonder if they show the advert in 'his native South Africa'? He'd kill himself then, surely. Kelloggs could never be so cruel. Frosties adverts have always annoyed me anyway, because of Tony the Tiger. He bugs me in the same way Captain Birdseye does; a fully grown male, running around private islands and various towns with packs of young children, and nobody says anything about how obviuosly inappropriate it is. Behind closed doors and all that.
(Maybe) RIP The Frosties Kid
Posted by Fluffy on Thu Jul 27, 2006 at 04:10 PM
I wonder if they show the advert in 'his native South Africa'? He'd kill himself then, surely. Kelloggs could never be so cruel. Frosties adverts have always annoyed me anyway, because of Tony the Tiger. He bugs me in the same way Captain Birdseye does; a fully grown male, running around private islands and various towns with packs of young children, and nobody says anything about how obviuosly inappropriate it is. Behind closed doors and all that.
(Maybe) RIP The Frosties Kid
considering the advert drives me fucking bonkers! who cares is the boy fucking dead or not thats all i want to know??
Posted by Chloe on Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 04:05 PM
i absoulutly loved this advert i thought it was catchy and i'm alwasy happy when it comes up on the telly and i don't think his voice is that bad at all but the best part about it is the piss takes!!! :p
Posted by Hannah on Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 04:23 PM
i really don't think the ad is that bad, so what its annoying, but so are insurance ads that drone on and on about nothing whilst drinking a glass of water..
if this was to be true, it would be over the news, not in your email inbox. although, i think it is a bit weird that he lives/ from south africa, you can't hear it in his singing voice..
Posted by sophie on Sat Aug 05, 2006 at 04:10 PM
if this was to be true, it would be over the news, not in your email inbox. although, i think it is a bit weird that he lives/ from south africa, you can't hear it in his singing voice..
Ive gotta admit that the advert is annoying but there is no need of being bullied 4 it. if i woz him i would of just said 'ye so wot, as least i woz on t.v' if the rumour is true, i think people who bullied him should be ashamed of them selves. Some people said that he moved 2 south africa 😖 there was no need to kill himself, i think he just should of ignored them people are just moved somewere else. The Guardian also sucks for saying that his voice is dull, i would like to hear them sing better 😝 haaa.
Posted by Kayleigh on Sun Aug 06, 2006 at 11:26 AM
😡 i find it discusting ...wot if his perants saw this?? is it really his fault that they made him do that ??? well guess wot i bet hes got a better life then some of you'se that are slagging him of.. atleast he has been on television no wot i mean ... im sorry for posting two coments but it has annoyd me...
Posted by sophie on Sat Aug 19, 2006 at 09:35 AM
well i actually love toni and the frsoty due he is ma idol like
Posted by frostie lover on Sat Aug 19, 2006 at 10:37 AM
"WHY WOULD SOMEONE MAKE UP A RUMOUR LIKE THAT FOR ,ITS HORRIBLE , WHAT IF HIS FAMILY READ IT , COULD U IMAGINE HOW YOU WOULD FEEL!"
-- Posted by K.
I would imagine that for the four and a quarter seconds between shouting up to the kid in his room "son, have you OD'd?" and recieving an answer in the negative, fear would grip both themselves and their evidently non-spam filtered email account.
Posted by Jack on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 09:59 AM
-- Posted by K.
I would imagine that for the four and a quarter seconds between shouting up to the kid in his room "son, have you OD'd?" and recieving an answer in the negative, fear would grip both themselves and their evidently non-spam filtered email account.
Rarely have I see a british TV ad that's as bad as this. Just plain YUK! I just had to look online to see whether anyone else had commented on this ad - seems I'm not alone! Hahaha. Seriously, what on Earth were they thinking when they made this horrific ad!? How irritating is that boy? That said, the ads here in the US(especially those on local NYC channels) are almost ALL bad! btw, the Frosties ad isn't shown here; I get Corrie & Eastenders sent over every few weeks 😊
Posted by Neil Matthews on Mon Sep 04, 2006 at 04:54 AM
Some ppl are so sad to wish this guy dead and to even make rumours about his death. This is an ad for kids, it's not for anyone else to judge.
I don't like this ad but I know quite a few teens and kids who accept this song and even like it because of it's uniqueness and it's imperfection even though they wouldn't say it in those exact words.
I don't think many Frosties ads are targetted towards mature people who would take note on the lyrical value and melodic quality of the actor's voice.
IT'S A FROSTIES CEREAL AD!
Posted by Charles on Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 09:30 AM
I don't like this ad but I know quite a few teens and kids who accept this song and even like it because of it's uniqueness and it's imperfection even though they wouldn't say it in those exact words.
I don't think many Frosties ads are targetted towards mature people who would take note on the lyrical value and melodic quality of the actor's voice.
IT'S A FROSTIES CEREAL AD!
I actually like ths advert :D
Posted by stephanie wilkinson on Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 12:54 PM
that advert is the most annoying advert ever why was it air i dont think that kid who did it can walk the street safe no more and his acting career is over before it started shame i aint posting any death threats but i dislike that kid he probably should get slapped to his senses
Posted by meso on Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 01:14 PM
i hate the advert it is terrible
Posted by meso on Sun Sep 10, 2006 at 01:19 PM
The ad was not so bad.....that people can make such a fuss about a T.v advert is bejond me. Are their lives so empty and meaningless that they have nothing better to do?? 😖
The kid is alive and well in Sunny South Africa.....
Posted by mia on Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 01:35 AM
The kid is alive and well in Sunny South Africa.....
lmfao
Posted by LOL HIS BALLED DROPPED on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 08:24 AM
i love the frosties kid! LONG LIVE THE FROSTIES KID 😊 im gonna marry him, n i love the advert 😊:):):):)
Posted by hanna-louise on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 03:24 AM
haha the frosties kid is a idiot!
THE REAL RUMOUR HERE AND ON 29 OUTTA-32 SURVEYED WEBSITES WERE
1. ( THE MOST BELIEVED) HE PUT 2 PENCILS UP HIS NOSE N SLAMMED HIS HEAD OFF A DESK..
2. (2ND MOST BELIEVED) HE FAKED HIS OWN DEATH BECAUSE OF BULLYING AND HATE MAIL.. ALSO THESE APPLY TO THE ONES ABOVE!
Posted by Lauz on Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 09:16 AM
THE REAL RUMOUR HERE AND ON 29 OUTTA-32 SURVEYED WEBSITES WERE
1. ( THE MOST BELIEVED) HE PUT 2 PENCILS UP HIS NOSE N SLAMMED HIS HEAD OFF A DESK..
2. (2ND MOST BELIEVED) HE FAKED HIS OWN DEATH BECAUSE OF BULLYING AND HATE MAIL.. ALSO THESE APPLY TO THE ONES ABOVE!
hey people! i just really wana no if he is really is dead! but i hope not i love that advert.. lol its reaali kool!! well i hope he is alive and well!!!
Posted by Rebecca on Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 02:38 PM
I know this guy, he goes to my school here in South Africa. (The school is called Beaulieu College-look for the website http://www.beaulieucollege.co.za) If you think the add is bad, you should meet the real kid. He's even more irritating. Although his voice sounds nothing like the add...
Posted by Mushukei on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 07:41 AM
i dont get that comment before bout the college he goes 2.. im on the site but it has nothing to do with him on there, how does that prove that you know the guy ? x x
Posted by soph on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 09:54 AM
Listen ok, hu cares about of a kid of the t.v. advert is dead or not. Imagin if he reads this and sees people saying he cant sing and he is irittating...How must he feel with all these rumours. Iv heard that hes jumped off a building, hes hung himself, hes moved to south africa, he had canceer and his last wish was to perform on a frostes advert, he was being bullied so took some action and got stabbed. And to be honest i dont think any of it is true. If everybody wants to know they should find his parents to find out what really did happen, if anything. Well, yes i think everybody knows including himself that it is a kind of iritating advert but... no need to be so harsh. Thik of the money he made out of it!
Posted by Jennifer on Sat Sep 23, 2006 at 02:14 AM
i heard he killed him self by putting 2 sharpened pencils up his nose n smakin his head of a desk, rite , but is he dead!!!?
Posted by James on Mon Sep 25, 2006 at 12:04 PM
Jenifer u sik SOB i dont want to sound lik a hippy but hes human
Posted by James on Mon Sep 25, 2006 at 12:06 PM
its an advet its ment to be stupid + if any1 slaged him he could just turned around and told them "to go bak to thier shed while i go bak to my manor" also to shizer off
Posted by jay bear on Mon Sep 25, 2006 at 12:10 PM
I heard that he died by getting his head dunked in his milk in his cereal.
Posted by Chennay on Wed Sep 27, 2006 at 06:36 AM
Completely sad that people make fun of a poor little kid just because of his voice or because of the advert in general. So what, what is there wrong with his voice? It's deep, but it's not the only funny/silly commericial in the world you know. What is there wrong with the commercial? It's cheerful like all the other cereal adverts..I see no different with this one. And what is wrong with the Frosty Kid?
Easy enough to say, yea, he would get bullied by people at school, because that's what children do and there's nothing anyone can do about it. I heard that he jammed pencils up his nose after being bullied at school and moving to South Africa..Rumors. Who cares?
There's so many of them that you'd think he's a cat with nine lives.
Posted by Debbie on Wed Sep 27, 2006 at 10:15 AM
Easy enough to say, yea, he would get bullied by people at school, because that's what children do and there's nothing anyone can do about it. I heard that he jammed pencils up his nose after being bullied at school and moving to South Africa..Rumors. Who cares?
There's so many of them that you'd think he's a cat with nine lives.
🐛 he should never have died
Posted by charlie russal on Wed Sep 27, 2006 at 03:03 PM
I didn't really like the advert but I can't understand y people r making such a big deal about it. Many people hate the charcter who sings 'there going to tatse great' but thats the charcter. All the people who bulled him and teased him are even more stupid then the charcter on the advert. I like to act and I wouldn't mind going onto a frosties advert and bet the boy who stars on the advert loved acting as much as me. So all u bullies get a life!
Posted by Hannah on Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 12:40 AM
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