The VERY bizarre detail you missed in the McCain’s corn advert

The child actress from the 1997 McCain Super Juicy Corn Cobbettes advert has spilled some VERY surprising behind the scenes secrets from the set. 

Speaking to The Danny Lakey Late Show last week, Rebecca Cross, now 33,  revealed that the corn she could be seen eating with her co-star in the commercial was indeed FAKE.  

Ms Cross, who was just 10 years old when she filmed the ad, confirmed that the cobbettes were made of plastic and covered in water for filming.  

‘I’m not meant to say anything,’ Ms Cross said with a laugh when asked about the wild rumours about the corn they ate in the ad.

The radio host said they had already spoken to the man who created the fake corn, with Ms Cross saying: ‘He did a good job, didn’t he?’

She then joked that she did some ‘very good acting’ with the fake corn.

In the commercial, which was a hit with viewers, Ms Cross and her onscreen brother are seen eating the corn and smiling at each other, with the juices spilling on the roof of their family’s farm house. 

Their farmer father storms in the house and says: ‘Marge! Marge! The rains are ‘ere!’  

Referring to how she first landed the part, Ms Cross said producers ‘threw corn’ at the kids during the audition.

‘There was about six of us at the table and we sat at a table, and they threw some corn at us, and they told us to eat it,’ she explained.

‘And they said the first person to finish actually gets another one. And my mother hadn’t fed me that day, so I was quite hungry!’ 

Ms Cross went on to say that despite landing the part and doing a few ‘catalogues’, she has since turned her back on showbusiness and now works in retail.

She revealed that she never got recognised in the street and experienced ‘zero’ fame after the commercial.