Rene Steven
A well-known face in the commercials is the Steven brothers' sister Rene Steven, the company's director of operations and spokeswoman. Viewers of the commercials call them "corny" and deride the way Rene Steven speaks. When the company's website launched, she started receiving emails critical of her way of pronouncing "Spangles." In a January 2007 interview, she talked about her reaction to the emails.
“People would e-mail and the whole e-mail would be, any time there was an 's,' they would write the e-mail the way I talk. They would never leave who they were. Chickens. I would always e-mail back something funny. I would e-mail them back just the way they e-mailed me. …It really does bother people, I mean, people think it’s a speech impediment. ... But, you know what, if they have to have to pick something on me, that’s OK.”
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