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Northern Quest duo earn celebrity

Brooke Stocker gives Mark Robbins “The Stare” as they pose for a photo on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane. The pair have starred in Northern Quest Casino advertisements, many featuring Stocker making a look of knowing disapproval at Robbins. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)
Brooke Stocker gives Mark Robbins “The Stare” as they pose for a photo on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane. The pair have starred in Northern Quest Casino advertisements, many featuring Stocker making a look of knowing disapproval at Robbins. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)

“Aren’t you, um, that … guy?”

Mark Robbins is used to not being just another face in the crowd.

Since 2011, the Spokane actor has played his quirky husband role in over two dozen TV commercials for Northern Quest Resort & Casino.

But Robbins was stunned last month while vacationing in Mexico. He said he was “stopped three times” by tourists who knew him from those Quest ads back home in the Inland Empire.

The celebrity is well deserved.

The Northern Quest spots featuring Robbins and Brooke Stocker (as Mark’s make-believe wife) are more like a long-running sitcom than a string of TV commercials/Doug Clark, SR. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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