Team mother

In case you wondered, that really is Donovan McNabb’s mother in the Campbell’s Soup commercials. From the The New York Times —

That was Wilma McNabb, the true mother of Donovan. But in 2001, her son’s first year as part of Chunky’s “mama’s boys” campaign, an actress portrayed her. It was at that commercial shoot that Wilma, a former nurse, had an epiphany.

“I said: ‘I can do that. I can do what she’s doing,’ ” she said by telephone yesterday. “I knew all the lines. I’d seen the script.” (And, she said, she had always served Campbell’s soup at home. “Was there any other?” she said.)