Once I consider Baywatch, I routinely consider Pamela Anderson’s iconic position within the TV present. Nonetheless, I simply discovered how a lot the actress acquired paid early on to be within the present, and it’s undoubtedly lots much less money than what I might have anticipated. Whereas selling her main position in what’s apparently one of many funniest 2025 film releases, The Bare Gun, the actress spilled on what she initially made and the way that in comparison with David Hasselhoff’s quantity.
How A lot Was Pamela Anderson Paid For Baywatch?
When Pamela Anderson was on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM present with The Bare Gun forged selling the comedy, the host requested what she was making when she joined the collection in 1992. Right here’s what she stated:
At the start. Yeah, like $1,500 I feel an episode, which is low for TV.
That’s not lots, particularly contemplating that Baywatch was as soon as probably the most watched reveals on the planet, with an estimated weekly viewers of greater than 1.1 billion in 142 nations in 1996, per Guinness World Data. Cohen adopted up his query by asking when her first renegotiation passed off. In her phrases:
It occurred pretty shortly. By the tip, they’d so as to add a number of zeros to that, however I imply, on the very finish.
Within the docuseries After Baywatch: Second In The Solar, it was revealed (through The New York Put up) that the majority actors on the present weren’t pleased with their paycheck, with Nicole Eggert sharing they supplied everybody “like $3,500 a present”. Because the actress identified, it was an enormous distinction to Pals the place they have been making “$1 million an episode”. The forged additionally claimed that “everybody was disposable” on Baywatch, and if you happen to didn’t “match into their model” and the “worth they have been paying you, you have been gone.”
How Did It Evaluate To David Hasselhoff?
After seeing this interview, I additionally realized that Pamela Anderson truly spent most of her life in debt. In her viral Netflix documentary, Pamela, A Love Story, it was revealed that she spent most of her life coping with monetary woes, regardless that at one time, she was probably the most well-known girls on the planet. Throughout the identical Cohen interview, the host requested her if she thought she made the identical as co-star David Hasselhoff. Right here’s her response:
Are you kidding? No, after all not. No. I imply, I do not get residuals even from Baywatch. I imply, I feel, you recognize, I imply, you signal these contracts. To begin with, you do not know there’s gonna be streaming… And I did not actually have a variety of illustration again then, so, yeah. I imply, it is okay. Right here I’m doing what I am doing now, however yeah. That is a rabbit gap you do not need to speak to my youngsters about.
I would wish to suppose that if Baywatch premiered as we speak issues could be completely different, however it’s what it’s for Pamela Anderson. The 58-year-old icon shared that her youngsters are “very protecting” over the truth that she didn’t get what she deserved on Baywatch and isn’t getting streaming residuals as a result of the medium didn’t exist when she signed her contract. It appears like they’re able to battle for her, and maybe change these circumstances.
Nonetheless, Anderson she stated she likes what she’s “doing” proper now. Contemplating CinemaBlend’s The Bare Gun assessment, we like what she’s doing proper now, too!