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Will CSI Have a Cow Over Fox Spot?

Prime-time sleuth Jorja Fox is keeping a pretty meaty secret from her bosses at CSI: She recently posed for a pro-vegetarian ad for animal rights group PETA. No big deal, except the ad-which will be unveiled May 11 in LA-relies heavily on her CSI connection. Perhaps too heavily. “I didn’t really ask for permission, which I probably should have,” confesses Fox, a longtime vegetarian. “I didn’t see that there was anything controversial, or even confrontational, about it. As far as PETA’s concerned, its one of their gentler ads. We’ll see. If I get in trouble, I get in trouble.” One person who probably won’t have a beef with the campaign is Fox’s costar William Petersen. “Billy has just become a vegetarian in the last couple of months,” reveals the actress, who insists Petersen did not reject meat under pressure from her. “He came to it very slowly on his own. He’s testing it, but he’s really enjoying it.

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