Jason Alexander

Jason Alexander is best known as the short, chunky friend of Jerry Seinfeld. But Valerie Bertinelli must have gotten to him, because he’s the new spokesperson for Jenny Craig!

He announced the news today, saying, “It’s like someone’s clubbing me over the head it’s so obvious I should be doing this. “It was a deadly combination of I’m fat and they work.”

As you may recall, Jason used to be the spokesman for KFC! But it sounds like he’s ready to turn over a new leaf. “I just got to a point where when I would look at the Seinfeld reunion stuff or one of these other projects that I had done, I said, ‘I don’t like the way that guy looks. That guy is not attractive in any way, shape or form to me,’” he says. “It made me go, ‘Oh, yuck!’”

Jason’s goal is to lose between 30 and 40 pounds. “Over the course of the nine years of Seinfeld, I can actually see my hairline go away and my waistline increase. One of them I can do nothing about; the other I can,” he jokes.

And Jason does make one more promise—that he won’t pose for a magazine cover in a bathing suit anytime soon. “I will not be wearing a bikini for you,” he says.

Well, that’s something we can live with! Congrats to Jason, and if he’s as successful as Valerie, he’ll be looking svelt in no time!