Yao Ming has wasted no time introducing his wife to the commercial side of his life, with the newlyweds recently filming a TV ad together. The Houston Rockets star's popularity with advertisers has not waned. Yao is known around the world for his 2003 Apple Mac ad with Verne "Mini Me" Troyer (pictured below right). In Houston earlier this week, Yao Ming and his bride Ye Li shot the commercial for an insurance company. The ad, directed by Chinese filmmaker Feng Xiaogang, features the couple walking in the rain, carrying umbrellas (below). Basketball players Yao, 27, and Ye, 26, were married in their hometown Shanghai in August.

(China Daily 12/14/2007 page3)