{"id":2049822,"date":"2025-09-25T18:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2049822"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:59:23","slug":"katie-couric-spoofs-sydney-sweeneys-controversial-american-eagle-ad-in-jaw-dropping-colon-cancer-psa-national-enquirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/katie-couric-spoofs-sydney-sweeneys-controversial-american-eagle-ad-in-jaw-dropping-colon-cancer-psa-national-enquirer\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Couric Spoofs Sydney Sweeney\u2019s Controversial American Eagle Ad in Jaw-Dropping Colon Cancer PSA \u2013 National Enquirer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18399\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1290px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">YouTube\/Lead From Behind; RCF \/ MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Katie Couric <\/b>just pulled off an epic parody of <strong>Sydney Sweeney<\/strong>\u2018s viral, but divisive, ad \u2014 and Hollywood is all abuzz.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, September 25, the veteran journalist, 68, spoofed Sweeney\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/sydney-sweeney-addresses-the-publics-perception-of-her-following-controversial-american-eagle-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial <i>American Eagle<\/i> \u00a0advertisement <\/a>in a public service announcement about colon cancer screenings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat ad showed how pop culture and a pair of jeans could really shape the cultural conversation,\u201d Couric <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/katie-couric-spoofs-sydney-sweeney-colon-cancer-screening-psa-exclusive-11816506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told <i>People<\/i><\/a> of Sweeney\u2019s campaign. \u201cIt was everywhere,\u201d she added. \u201cWe thought, \u2018Why don\u2019t we ride that horse a little bit longer and have some fun with it?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Katie Couric\u2019s Ready For Her Close-Up\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gvhKiFq4Oes?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The hilarious PSA opens with Couric lounging seductively in a denim jacket as sultry music plays. As the camera pulls back, viewers see the former <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/matt-lauer-is-willing-to-call-people-out-in-potential-tell-all-following-failed-career-comeback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Today<\/i> show <\/a>anchor wearing a hospital sgown under a denim jacket while lying on a medical gurney, ready for a colonoscopy!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was funny for me because I\u2019m a little older than Sydney Sweeney, and I was trying to get the jean jacket to lay just so,\u201d Couric confessed to <i>People<\/i>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18392\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2057px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA606331_034-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2047\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA606331_034-scaled.jpg 2047w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA606331_034-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA606331_034-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA606331_034-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA606331_034-1228x1536.jpg 1228w, https:\/\/nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA606331_034-1637x2048.jpg 1637w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: MEGA TheMegaAgency.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Couric has long been a champion of colon cancer prevention. Her husband <b>Jay Monahan<\/b> died from colon cancer at just 42 in 1998, and she\u2019s been on a relentless mission ever since. \u201cI don\u2019t want that to happen to other people,\u201d she told the outlet. \u201cI think of him often, and think of other Jay Monahans that might be out there, whose lives I can potentially I save with this information. So I feel such an obligation and a responsibility to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '599767249846087');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nationalenquirer.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube\/Lead From Behind; RCF \/ MEGA Katie Couric just pulled off an epic parody of Sydney Sweeney\u2018s viral, but divisive, ad \u2014 and Hollywood is all abuzz. On Thursday, September 25, the veteran journalist, 68, spoofed Sweeney\u2019s controversial American Eagle \u00a0advertisement in a public service announcement about colon cancer screenings. \u201cThat ad showed how pop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2049823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003],"class_list":["post-2049822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Katie-Couric-Spoofs-Sydney-Sweeneys-Controversial-American-Eagle-Ad-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}