Actress shaking her head at bobblehead lookalike

A former spokesmodel for Bayer laxatives filed a suit against the pharmaceutical company, claiming it is trying to avoid renegotiating by creating a bobblehead doll in her likeness, The New York Daily News reported Tuesday.

Phoebe Jonas, of Brooklyn, New York, was the “Phillips Lady,” promoting Bayer’s digestive health products by starring in “numerous national commercials that promoted several Bayer products, including, but not limited to, Phillips', Colon Health Probiotics, Milk of Magnesia, laxative caplets, stool softener liquid gel tablets and fiber gummies,” her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit states. “Plaintiff became known as the ‘Phillips Lady’ due to her frequent appearances in Bayer commercials.”

Ms. Jonas’ contract with Bayer expired this spring. Bayer then “unilaterally continued to use the commercials on its website without plaintiff's consent or permission through April 20, 2018.” Bayer also started to use, as early as January, a bobblehead that’s “identical” to her, she said. She is seeking $500,000.

The suit alleges that “Bayer created the bobblehead replica to avoid renegotiating the right to continue to use plaintiff’s likeness with plaintiff and continued to use her likeness (without consent),” as reported in the Daily News.

A Bayer spokesman told the Daily News that “this preposterous complaint is without merit” and that “we intend to fight these baseless claims.”