{"id":492778,"date":"2026-02-22T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492778\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:36:08","slug":"michael-jackson-pepsi-commercial-disaster-not-caused-by-hair-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492778\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Pepsi Commercial Disaster Not Caused by Hair Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Michael Jackson<br \/>\n                          Pepsi Commercial Disaster Not Caused by Hair Product<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              February 22, 2026<br \/>\n                            9:00 AM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1bfb0abed8484822a61e4b2b7c2990ee_md.png\" alt=\"021926 michael jackson web promo hair fire kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZ.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/michael-jackson\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson<\/a>&#8216;s disastrous 1984 Pepsi commercial was the beginning of the end of his life, even though it took decades to play out.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ connects the dots in our new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/series\/tmz-presents-michael-jackson-30-fatal-seconds-9c6cd4cc-0d7f-4d16-8cc0-48b4c7b86be1\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hulu documentary &#8220;Michael Jackson: 30 Fatal Seconds&#8221;<\/a> &#8230; showing how the burns from the pyrotechnics led to lifelong drug and plastic surgery addictions.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/47df80d235b54d859fd9d92e5ed4d414_md.png\" alt=\"021626 michael jackson tmz investigates promo hulu\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZ.com<\/p>\n<p>As for why it happened &#8230; we dig deep. There are lots of stories Michael had product in his hair that set him ablaze &#8212; not true.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There are also stories Michael made the decision to hesitate on that first step before walking down, thus coming in contact with the flames &#8212; also not true.<\/p>\n<p>Watch &#8220;TMZ Presents: Michael Jackson: 30 Fatal Seconds&#8221; &#8230; now streaming on Hulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Pepsi Commercial Disaster Not Caused by Hair Product Published February 22, 2026 9:00 AM PST Play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-492778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}