An American LEGEND retires

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She bowled us over in TV spots, but now Diana Hunter, the “Honey Bunches of Oats lady,” has retired from the company — and its commercials — after 40 years.

 

The Honey Bunches of Oats cereal company’s employee-turned-commercial-star, Diana Hunter, retired from her factory job in production after a 40-year career. Hunter first appeared in a commercial for the Post cereal brand in 2015 from the floor of the Battle Creek, Michigan plant where she worked.

 

One of Hunter’s co-workers told BuzzFeed that she retired earlier this month and that she’s a “good friend that will be missed.”

 

Hunter won over fans with her approachable charm and endearing storytelling. In an Oats commercial she’s featured in, Hunter called the cereal she was working with “sparkle flakes.”

 

“When you taste it, you think it’s a sparkle,” she said. “A sparkle in your eye.”

 

But it was in the first commercial she’s featured in where Hunter spooned her way into households across the country. She talked about how she once had to let someone know the sweet smell in the air around them was actually her.

 

“I get out of work and I got to the store and somebody smells around, ‘Mmm, I smell cookies,'” she recalled. “I said, ‘Oh no, you just smell me. I just got out of work. That’s Honey Bunches of Oats!'”

 

Hunter’s ad – complete with a hairnet and red hard hat – ran nationwide, thousands of times, for about a year.

 

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I hope that she is okay.