Georgia's largest insurer to use entertainer in commercials

COLUMBUS - Georgia&#39;s largest insurance company has tapped the entertainer known as The Amazing Kreskin to be in a series of television ads. <br> <br> Columbus-based AFLAC Insurance, a supplemental health and life insurance company, says the nationally broadcast ads are to begin airing sometime next year. <br> <br> The company&#39;s best-known ads are ones in which it&#39;s represented by a duck quacking ``AFLAC!&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Kreskin, a native of Montclair, New Jersey, has performed as a magician and hypnotist. Today, he bills himself as a mentalist who is able to predict world events. <br> <br> In June, he told reporters that he was sure Las Vegas was going to be visited by UFOs. <br> <br> Kreskin started in the 1960s building a name with ``The Kreskin Challenge,&#39;&#39; a promise to pay $50,000 to anyone who could prove the existence of a hypnotic trance. <br> <br> He has appeared on several late-night talk shows.