North Dakota inks deal with Josh Duhamel to use old tourism ad materials

BISMARCK — North Dakota will proceed that includes actor Josh Duhamel in tourism promoting, however the well-known native son will not be returning house for any photoshoots on his new contract with the state.

The North Dakota Tourism Division pays the “Transformers” star $75,000 over the subsequent two years to make use of pictures, movies and voiceovers that Duhamel already shot and recorded in earlier years beneath contract.

During the last decade, the Minot native has earned simply over $1 million selling North Dakota’s tourism points of interest and open areas. His contract for 2020 and 2021 paid him $175,000.

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picture used within the state’s 2022 tourism marketing campaign

depicts Duhamel giving a fist bump to a hockey participant on the bench at Grand Forks’ Ralph Engelstad Enviornment, house of the College of North Dakota Combating Hawks.

In earlier years, Duhamel has featured extra prominently within the state’s promotional supplies, together with in movies shot in downtown Fargo and North Dakota Badlands.

A spokeswoman for the tourism division did not rule out Duhamel returning to the state to movie new commercials, however she famous it must be beneath a separate contract.

After vitality and agriculture, tourism is North Dakota’s third-largest business; nonetheless, the remoted, landlocked state is perennially one of many least visited within the nation.

State lawmakers allotted $7 million in federal COVID-19 reduction funds to tourism advertising and marketing over the present two-year funds cycle.