Homeless man with golden voice signed by Kraft for new ad<br><br>CLEVELANDThings just keep getting better for a homeless man with a "milliondollar voice." After being offered a job by the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, Ted Williams is now the new voice of Kraft Macaroni Cheese.<br><br>"Like many others, Kraft Macaroni Cheese and our ad agency was moved by Ted オロビアンコ 人気 Williams' story," Kraft spokeswoman Lynne Galia said in an email to Advertising Age. "His amazing voice is perfectly suited to our mcm 通販 campaign. We were in the middle of making our TV spots and in a unique position to help Ted use his great voice to gain employment."<br><br>Left homeless after his life and career were ruined by drugs and alcohol, Williams has been offered a job by the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and is being pursued by NFL Films for possible work after he and his compelling tale became an online curiosity.<br><br>"This has アナスイ バッグ been totally, totally amazing," Williams said in a phone interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, his voice choking with emotion. "I'm just so thankful. God has blessed me so deeply. I'm getting a second chance. Amazing."<br><br>Williams was contacted Wednesday by the ニューバランス 人気 Cavaliers, who have offered him a position that could include announcing work at Quicken Loans Arena, the team's downtown arena. Williams said the team has offered him a twoyear contract and said they would pay his mortgage.<br><br>"I can't believe what's going on," said Williams, a father of nine, adding he feels like Susan Boyle, the English singing sensation who became an overnight star. "God gave me a milliondollar voice and カルティエ 時計 パシャ I just hope I can do right オロビアンコ 財布 by him."<br><br>Williams said he is flying to New York to see his 90yearold mother, who lives in Brooklyn and has stood by him during his battles with addiction.<br><br>"She has always been my best friend," he said, crying. "When I was a kid, she would take me down to Radio City Music Hall and on the subway. I'm just glad that she is still around. I prayed that she would live long enough that I could make her proud and see could her son do something other than stand along the エミリオプッチ ポーチ side of the road with a sign asking for money."<br><br>Williams' life began ANNA SUI 財布 spiralling downward in 1996 when he began drinking alcohol "pretty bad." He used marijuana and cocaine and lost interest in his radio career. Williams said his last job was with a station in Columbus. He eventually wound up on the streets, despite the best efforts of his children, seven daughters and two sons who all live in the Columbus area.<br><br>"They have mixed http://pearnow.com/new-balance.html emotions about what is going on," Williams oakley メガネ said. "During my detox stages, I had ヴィクトリアズシークレット 水着 a tendency to eat up everybody's food. I'm a grandfather, too, and I was eating what should have gone to their kids."<br><br>Williams said he celebrated two years of sobriety "around Thanksgiving. I just hope everyone will pray for me."<br><br>Williams was initially spotted by The Columbus Dispatch standing near an exit ramp off Interstate 71. In a video interview that quickly became wildly popular, Williams holding a cardboard sign that asked motorists for help and says, "I'm an exradio announcer who has fallen on hard times" explained in his smooth, bottomless voice that he was drawn to radio at the age of 14.<br><br>When he first heard Williams' beautiful, bottomless voice, Kevin McLoughlin of NFL Films, which has chronicled pro football for nearly 50 years, knew he had to contact ヴィクトリアズシークレット 通販 the unknown man.<br><br>"It's that voice," said McLoughlin, director of postproduction films for the NFL told the Associated Press. "When he was telling his story, I said, 'That's what we do. This guy can tell a story.' Somehow, some way, I need to get ニューバランス 1300 a demo with him. He could be that diamond in the rough."<br><br>McLoughlin has not been able to contact Williams, but he intends ヴィクトリアズシークレット 店舗 to mcm 店舗 track him down.<br><br>"The man ハミルトン ジャズマスター deserves a second chance," he said.<br><br>Apparently, he has received ニューバランス a few of them.<br><br>Williams' story should be an inspiration for other homeless people, said Bob エアジョーダン 2013 Ater, executive director pearnow.com/victoriassecret.html of the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless.<br><br>"One of the problems with a lot of homeless people is that they have some rich talent, but don't have the confidence to exploit that talent," Ater said, adding he was unfamiliar with Williams before the video hit. "He's fabulous. The Cavaliers could use a boost of some ハミルトン 時計 kind."
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