One Last Dose of Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson, pictured with David Charvet in 1993, could’ve been left out of Baywatch. When the show initially had auditions, Baywatch’s star and producer, David Hasselhoff, didn’t want to hire Anderson to be CJ Parker.

He thought that she would be bad publicity because she was in Playboy. Maybe even more so, Hasselhoff was worried that her appeal would upstage him. Obviously Hasselhoff’s opinion wasn’t considered by the other producers. Anderson got the role and became the main reason people watched Baywatch. He was overshadowed, but he likely didn’t mind the money that came as a result of all the views.