Victoria Pendleton Hovis 2010
Victoria Pendleton has signed a three-year deal with Hovis bread to help promote the bakery's brands - starting with recreating the famous Hovis ad of the 1970s featuring a boy pushing a delivery bike up a steep cobbled climb.
World and Olympic track sprint champion Pendleton, 29, donned period costume and climbed aboard an old-fashioned delivery bike for the shoot. She is rumoured to have signed a six-figure deal with Hovis to represent the company.
Although the original 1973 advert was made to appear that it was shot in a northern town, it was actually made by Thelma & Louise, Blade Runner and Gladiator director Ridley Scott on Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset.
As well as promoting the bread brand, Hovis and Pendleton are aiming to encourage people to take up cycling as part of the new ad campaigns.
"I hope my work for Hovis will inspire a new generation of girls and boys on bikes who enjoy cycling as much as I did when I was younger and maybe even inspire some champions of the future," said Pendleton.
Pendleton is currently training for the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, which will take place over March 24-28 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the defending individual sprint world champion.
Related links
Victoria Pendleton: Rider Profile
BBC Sports Personality of the Year photo gallery
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Guy
January 07 13:41
...she did it for the bread.
Andy West
January 07 20:29
She misheard: she thought they were giving her a Rolls but ended up with just rolls... Maybe to compensate for the Olympic events dropped they should add a cobbled hill climb!
Justin
January 07 21:47
You can’t blame her with the kind of dough Hovis must be offering
Hairy Pete
January 08 09:02
She was only the baker's daughter but she kneaded the dough (geddit?).
Guy
January 08 09:14
We all have to earn a crust...
Graham Gee
January 08 09:22
Reminds me of Piella Bakewell in Wallace & Gromit's A Matter of Loaf and Death
simonaspinall
January 08 09:24
Is this a bizarre PR launch for her intention to do Paris-Roubaix?
John Payne
January 08 13:48
Bakewell tart?
Guy
January 08 16:05
...there is not a grain of truth in that.
Ken Evans
January 08 17:00
Looks tasty !