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Herald Sun
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Herald Sun
Tommy Lee splits with wife of six years, Brittany Furlan
Don't miss out on the headlines from Hook Ups & Break Ups. Followed categories will be added to My News. Tommy Lee and wife Brittany Furlan have reportedly called it quits after six years of marriage. They've been living separately for two weeks, and the Mötley Crüe drummer's drinking is at the centre of the split, sources close to the couple told TMZ. The outlet further claims the rock star is unwilling to get sober. Despite them no longer staying under the same roof together, the pair still remains in contact. Sources shared it's unclear whether either party plans to file for divorce at this time. Recently, Lee, 62, hinted at his marital troubles on social media after he unfollowed Furlan, 38, on Instagram. On Thursday, he shared a video to his Instagram Stories with a message that said: 'I'm sorry, the feelings you're trying to reach have been disconnected and are no longer available. Please take your bulls**t somewhere else.' Reps for both Furlan and Lee did not immediately respond to Page Six's requests for comment. Lee and Furlan tied the knot on Valentine's Day in 2019 — exactly one year after the musician popped the question with a huge heart-shaped ring. They started dating in 2017. They did not welcome any children together during their relationship. The marriage marked Lee's fourth time saying 'I do' following his previous trips down the aisle with Elaine Starchuk, Heather Locklear and most famously, Pamela Anderson, with whom he shares two sons: Brandon Thomas, 28, and Dylan Jagger, 27. Anderson and Lee were married from 1995 to 1998. Prior to his marriage with the social media star, Anderson accused Furlan of enabling Lee's drinking, which the Barb Wire star claimed caused a big blowout brawl with their eldest son. Around the same time, a source told Page Six that Furlan had 'driven a wedge' between Lee and his close circle of friends since the couple started dating, prompting concern among his pals. This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission Originally published as Tommy Lee splits with wife of six years, Brittany Furlan
Daily Mirror
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Baywatch cast today - from tragic deaths, cancer battles and jail time
The cast of Baywatch introduced fans to their first slow-motion run on the beach in 1989, but since the show wrapped decades ago, we've taken a look at where the hunks of the show are today It's been nearly 40 years since the iconic cast of Baywatch first dashed down the beach, and it's safe to say a lot has happened since the days of the skimpy swimwear and buff bods. From tragic deaths, cancer battles, jail time and befriending criminals, it's been a turbulent time for the hot hunks of Baywatch. One sad loss came when Baywatch legend Paul Nichols, who saved the show from being axed, passed away earlier this year. The star died on March 14 at his home in Weatherford, Texas, but his family only went public with the news this week. His death came just 12 days after he lost his beloved wife of 31 years. In 1991, Nichols, then working for The Lippen Group, played a crucial role in the revival of Baywatch by helping All American Television shift it into first-run syndication. This savvy move breathed new life into the series that NBC had dropped after its initial season. Fans loved the iconic lifeguard drama, which went on to become one of the biggest and most memorable shows as Mitch, CJ and the gang patrolled the LA beaches. The show lasted 11 seasons after it aired in 1989. While it's been a few decades since the show ended, we've taken a look at where the cast are now since hanging up their whistles... Pamela Anderson, 57, (CJ Parker) Blonde bombshell CJ burst onto screens in the second season and retired her buoyancy aid in 1997, after five seasons. The actress, Playboy favourite Pamela, went on to make a series of movies, including Barb Wire and Scary Movie 3, but it was the honeymoon sex tape with rocker ex-husband Tommy Lee that turned out to be the film role of her career. Now an animal rights activist and strict vegan, Pamela launched her own skincare brand, Sonsie. In October 2024, she was named a "Woman of the Year" by Glamour magazine too. She also released four novels and three memoirs, including her 2023 memoir, Love, Pamela, with a Netflix documentary on her life, Pamela: A Love Story released in the same month. In February, she got positive reviews when she was cast in Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl, as she called her character "the role I have been waiting for my entire career." David Hasselhoff, 72, (Mitch Buchannon) The Hoff stayed until the penultimate series and before Baywatch was in Knight Rider. Career problems led to treatment for alcoholism in 2007 but career highs include being a judge on Britain's Got Talent in 2011 and getting his own show, Hoff The Record. He can now be found shopping in Cardiff with his third wife, Welsh sales assistant Hayley Roberts, 45. Hasselhoff is still acting and doesn't take himself or his Baywatch role too seriously, as he uses it periodically for parodies and commercials. He has also become a motivational singer, a popular musician in Germany and has a Malibu-themed clothing line. But recent reports claim he's now "living on borrowed time" according to a source close to the 72-year-old actor. The television icon was spotted in a wheelchair at Cancun airport in Mexico on Monday before limping through LAX in California. Carmen Electra, 53, (Lani McKenzie) The model only appeared for one season, in 1997, but her acting left a lasting impression. Former Playmate Carmen swapped slo-mo beach running for horror comedies including Scary Movie but her notable role by far was dating X Factor chief Simon Cowell in 2013. Famed for previous relationships including a four-year marriage to Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro, she was also briefly hitched to basketball rebel Dennis Rodman. However, last year the star sparked concerns from fans following a bizarre podcast interview. The actress appeared on Dear Media's The Skinny Confidential with Lauryn Bosstick to coincide with Baywatch's 35th anniversary, where she appeared less polished than usual. Some fans called it 'hard to watch' and speculated about Carmen's condition, although a source said that her sluggish behavior was caused by a bout of Covid. David Charvet, 52, (Matt Brodie) French-born David played beach hottie Matt for three seasons until 1995, when he left and started playing a resident hottie in US soap Melrose Place. Not content with just being gorgeous, he quit acting to concentrate on his music career, got a five-album deal and recorded duets with Bryan Adams and Seal. In 2018 he split up with his Dancing with the Stars wife Brooke Burke. He is thought to still live in Malibu and so far has only produced three of the expected five albums, which gives us all something to look forward to… Yasmine Bleeth, 56, (Caroline Holden) Troubled Yasmine was one of TV's most famous faces and even launched her own line of swimwear, Yaz Wear. But after leaving the show she battled cocaine addiction and her career bombed. She met her hubby club owner Paul Cerrito in rehab in 2000 and, now the couple split their time between Los Angeles and Scottsdale, Arizona. Michael Newman, 68, (Newmie) Real-life lifeguard, muscular Michael was initially hired as a consultant to add authenticity. He based many of the rescues on real situations he'd faced and even had his own fan club. Newmie quit acting after Baywatch and went on to sell houses in the wealthy suburbs of LA and was also passionate about continuing to raise awareness about the heroism of lifeguards and firefighters. He was one of several Baywatch cast members featured in the 2024 Hulu docuseries After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun, but sadly passed away in 2024 aged 64 due to complications from Parkinson's disease after an 18-year battle. Kelly Packard, 50, (April Giminski) Kelly insists she is "very proud" to have appeared for two seasons. After leaving in 1999, she went on to star in teen sitcom California Dreams before hosting Ripley's Believe It or Not! Kelly, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since her teens, was married to Dr Darrin Privett when she joined Baywatch and they had four kids. In 2014 the family appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap, but Kelly has been pretty quiet ever since. Erika Eleniak, 55, (Shauni McClain) The ex-Playboy playmate was in the show until season three. After quitting she had roles in films including a remake of The Beverly Hillbillies. Erika, who had an eating disorder earlier in her career, went on Celebrity Fit Club in 2006 after putting on weight. She is now said to live in Calgary, Canada, with her husband, Roch Daigle and their daughter. In 2023, she shared she was struggling with aging. "[I'm] going through a lot of healing right now and the one thing that we know about life that is constant is that nothing is constant,' she said in an Instagram video at the time. "So I've been doing some deep digging, right, about aging all of this," she said as she pointed at her face. "Struggling to hold onto my youth, to let it go, where to be in that." In 2024, the actress made a rare apperance at the After Baywatch: Moment In The Sun premiere held at The Bungalow in Santa Monica, California as she showed off fully tattooed arms when she wore a short-sleeved black top with long slacks. Traci Bingham, 57, (Jordan Tate) After playing her busty character for two seasons, the lingerie model-turned actress left in 1998 and has since carved out a lucrative career in reality TV. She won £80,000 on The Surreal Life and competed in Gimme My Reality Show, Fear Factor and Celebrity Big Brother. Like Pamela, she's an animal rights activist. She appeared on the red carpet in 2024 looking almost unrecognisable as she headed to a reunion with former co-star Jeremy Jackson at the After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun. Kelly Slater, 53, (Jimmy Slade) The reluctant star has told how he was forced into doing the show by his mother... when all he wanted to do was surf. Kelly, who says it "wasn't a fun time", quit after 27 episodes and took to the water. Today, the father-of-one is regarded as the greatest pro surfer of all-time, having won 11 world championships. He was pressured into doing Baywatch by his mother, saying: "I was embarrassed to do the show and really didn't want to be an actor." He was given the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award in Madrid Monday at the 2025 Laureus World Sports Awards. It's Slater's fifth award from the prestigious event, which began in 2000 to honor individuals around the world who make a significant impact in sports. Alexandra Paul, 61, (Stephanie Holden) Alexandra starred in five seasons and, for some of that time, her character dated Mitch. Stephanie was eventually killed off in 1997 after being struck by lightning. Since leaving the show, Alexandra has gone on to have numerous bit-parts in movies and TV shows, including Mad Men. Married to a vegan triathlon coach, she is now an endurance athlete 'practicing owning Iess stuff', as well as a political activist. She has been arrested numerous times for protesting. She is passionate about tackling global over-population and chose not to have children herself. However earlier this year the actress revealed that she was stalked for 13 years, and it cost her $60,000 in legal fees. Alexandra said it all started in December 2011 when she claimed a woman knocked on her door with her little brother asking to use the restroom. She said she let them in her home to use the restroom, and for the next couple of days, the woman reportedly kept leaving notes for her - which led to Alexandra's husband to call the number she had left to tell her to 'leave us alone.' Gena Lee Nolin, 53, (Neely Capshaw) Like REM drummer Mike Berry, Gena hails from Duluth, Minnesota. She joined Baywatch in 1995, quitting in 1998 to star in her own TV show, Sheena. Another Playboy pin-up, Gena played herself in the 2017 comedy-action turkey Killing Hasselhoff. After having her third child in 2008, Gena was diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease that hits the thyroid gland. She is married to former NHL hockey star Cale Hulse. Jeremy Jackson, 44, (Hobie Buchannon) Having almost lost the role of Hobie to Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy played Mitch's son from age 10. He left years later after battling steroid addiction. After a sex tape scandal with porn star Sky Lopez, he tried a TV comeback but was axed from Celebrity Big Brother in 2015 when he opened glamour model Chloe Goodman's dressing gown. Things got worse and, in 2017, he was jailed for nine months after stabbing a woman while trying to steal a car. While Jeremy is now clean and working as a fitness coach and sober mentor for other recovering addicts, he has previously spoken openly about his struggles, which also included a turbulent end to his marriage to Loni Willison. AJ Langer, 50, (Caroline Larkin) Millions knew her as sexy Caroline but AJ is now known as the Duchess of Devon. Born in Ohio, AJ was also in Beverly Hills 90210 and The Wonder Years. In 2004, she wed Charles Courtenay, son of the 18th Earl of Devon. The couple moved to the family seat at Powderham Castle in May 2015 and have two children, but then divorced in 2023 as she "underestimated" life as an aristocrat. Nicole Eggert, 53, (Summer Quinn) Actress Nicole won an army of male fans during the first few seasons. Revealing she had a boob job after meeting co-star Pamela Anderson, Nicole's career flopped when she left the show. She went on Celebrity Fit Club to shed weight, had a boob reduction on TV's Botched and joined celebrity diving series Splash. The mum-of-two filed for bankruptcy in 2013 and she now reportedly sells ice creams from her van. Nicole has two daughters - Dilyn, 27, with ex-boyfriend Justin Herwick, and 14-year-old Keegan, whose father she has never publicly revealed. She has sadly been battling breast cancer, and during an appearance on the Amy & T.J. podcast last year, Eggert revealed she had recently undergone a single mastectomy.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pamela Anderson Reveals How She Really Feels About Beyoncé and Millie Bobby Brown Paying Tribute to Her '90s Style
Pamela Anderson might dress differently now than how she did in the '90s and 2000s, but the Baywatch star is glad to know that her fashion during those eras has made an impact. Anderson, 57, told InStyle in an interview published April 23 that seeing stars like Beyoncé and Millie Bobby Brown replicate her looks actually makes her feel great. Reflecting on the tributes, Anderson said these homages give her "a little bit of confidence.' 'When I was wearing these clothes, they weren't fashionable," she added. "And they weren't making headlines, unless they were being made fun of.' In November, Beyoncé delivered an accurate tribute to Anderson in her "Bodyguard" video by wearing a version of the actress' Baywatch swimsuit and Barb Wire corset costume. She first started teasing the looks for Halloween, sharing a "BEYWATCH" video on Instagram, as well as a "BEYLLOWEEN" carousel of all the looks. The singer also put a twist on Anderson's 1999 MTV Video Music Awards outfit that consisted of a pink fuzzy hat and white, waist-cinching corset top. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Related: Pamela Anderson Goes Peak No-Makeup and Tries Out a New Hairstyle at 2025 SAG Awards In a Feb. 27 Instagram post, Brown wore a gold button-down Versace dress that Anderson previously wore in 2005, but the Stranger Things star later revealed that Anderson sent her "a whole rack of clothes" for The Electric State press tour. During Brown's appearance on the March 12 episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, she told host Alex Cooper the jeans she wore on the program belonged to Anderson. "I'm not lying," she said. "She gave me these pants for the press tour and they fit." "The Electric State is based in the '90s," Brown continued. "So I was like, 'I want everything I wear on this press tour to be '90s archive,' So I was like, 'Who are the major blondes in the '90s?' And I was like, 'Okay, Pammy.'" is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! "She was like, 'Oh, let me just look in my closet and I'll pull some stuff for you,'" Brown, 21, recalled. "And she pulled me a whole rack of clothes that were just unbelievable. These dresses are timeless and ridiculous and these pants were a part of it." Related: Pamela Anderson Says Award Recognition for Last Showgirl Is 'Best Payback' After 'Hurtful' Pam & Tommy Series These days, Anderson styles herself and opts for clothes that make her feel comfortable in her own skin. 'I want people to be able to project onto me different characters,' she told InStyle. 'Because I'm not just the wild woman in a rubber dress. That was fun, but you know, we all evolve.' 'I think it's really important to feel desired,' Anderson added. 'But, there's a balance, and I'm just trying to find my way. I was already so stressed out — it's such a stressful, intimidating journey to be in these rooms with these people. And I thought, I feel humble, I feel grateful. I feel I just want to kind of mix in and be a fly on the wall.' Read the original article on People
Telegraph
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
‘Casablanca for perverts': Why Pamela Anderson's Barb Wire bombed
Pamela Anderson has attracted the best reviews of her career for her starring role in But in truth, Anderson may feel an even greater sense of vindication than Moore did for her comeback in The Substance. For years, Anderson was little more than a punchline for jokes revolving around breast enhancements and If you've seen films with titles like Naked Souls and Raw Justice, it is unlikely that you were watching them for their intricately constructed storylines or sparkling dialogue. It says much for But all her other regrettable pictures pale in comparison to what was intended to be her very own Citizen Kane, the 1996 superhero film Barb Wire. It saw Anderson play the tough-as-nails Barbara Kopetski, nicknamed 'Barb Wire' and given a would-be iconic catchphrase: 'Don't call me babe'. Nobody would ever mistake the basic premise of Barb Wire for anything resembling high art, which is ironic, as its storyline is remarkably similar to the classic picture Casablanca. Rather than Humphrey Bogart dispensing world-weary wisdom from Rick's Bar, however, Anderson's Barb is a nightclub owner and bounty hunter in 2017's Steel City, caught in the midst of the Second American Civil War. (It is one of the film's many unintentionally amusing failings that nobody seems very clear as to what happened in the First American Civil War.) She is reunited at her nightclub Hammerhead with her former lover, the splendidly named Axel Hood, who is a sketchily depicted 'freedom fighter' attempting to stop a deadly virus being distributed by the fascist Congressional Directorate and thereby wiping out half the country. He and Barb find themselves attempting, in classic mid-90s action-pic fashion, to stop the various villains while fighting, driving motorcycles very fast and spitting out would-be tough-guy one-liners which land with all the gravity of an overcooked pancake. Barb Wire could never be mistaken for a good film – or even an effective one on the low-grade ambitions that it sets for itself. Roger Ebert gave it one of the kinder reviews it received when he wrote, 'Movies like this stir a certain affection in my heart. The filmmakers must have known they were not making a good movie, but they didn't use that as an excuse to be boring and lazy.' Boring it isn't, exactly, but Ebert was too kind – it is phenomenally lazy filmmaking. It stands or falls not on the embarrassed-looking supporting cast, or the cheap special effects, or even on its derivative plot. Instead, the only appeal that it ever had lies entirely in the casting of Anderson, and the film's financial and critical failure ended any serious hope that she had of being regarded as a bankable movie star. Her newfound standing as a serious indie actress would take three decades to arrive. Anderson's pin-up career had begun with appearances in Playboy in the late Eighties and early Nineties, which she had parlayed into her best-known role as the lifeguard C J Parker on the television show Baywatch, which required her to look good in a red one-piece swimsuit and run around a lot. This, alternating with further Playboy appearances, had made her a star. By the time Barb Wire was announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, Anderson was one of the most famous women in the world. She had married Lee three months before, after having known him for a matter of a few days, and had turned from a subject of prurient interest into an object of tabloid obsession in the process. The maelstrom of attention that surrounded her was not favourable to the film. Its original director Adam Rifkin, who is probably best known for writing the Gore Verbinski comedy Mouse Hunt, was fired shortly after his hiring was announced and replaced by David Hogan, an untested filmmaker who was best known for having been second unit director on Alien 3 and Batman Forever. The costume designer Rosanna Norton dared to hint that this was a bad idea, saying 'Adam had a surrealistic vision and a very interesting view about where he wanted to take this picture. Now we're doing more of a music video thing, a more commercial picture and it will be very interesting to see how those two visions will match up.' It was, indeed, interesting. But the odds were against the picture from the start. The subject matter was a relatively obscure comic book, written by Chris Warner, and was unknown to anyone apart from true obsessives of the genre. (He subsequently commented, tactfully, that 'I never envisioned [Barb] as oozing this kind of bombshell quality, but when Pamela walks across the screen it definitely adds another level to the character.') The budget was set at a tiny $9 million, which was a fraction of most would-be blockbusters of the era, and, without wishing to disrespect a supporting cast that includes Once Were Warriors' Temuera Morrison and the great oddball Udo Kier, it was not a film that anyone would be likely to see for any other reason than its star. There was a vast amount riding on Anderson's first headlining vehicle, and, unsurprisingly, she felt uneasy from the outset. As she later told Premiere, 'There was the first director, then the second director, then I had some medical problems on the set and I got married just before the movie, which is probably really bad timing. I said, 'Well, I hope this chaos adds to the whole vibe of the movie' because this movie is chaos and I think that in the end it will be great.' This was optimistic, to put it mildly. The 2017 Pam + Tommy miniseries suggests that Anderson took on the role because she believed it would be an opportunity to break out in a Jane Fonda-esque part; after all, years before Fonda had been taken seriously as an actress, she had made her name in her former husband Roger Vadim's campy sci-fi space opera Barbarella. She may have been ridiculed for perceived naivety at the time, but in Anderson's defence, she had parlayed what was usually a short-lived opportunity brought about by Playboy exposure into a significant career already. Taking the next step up seemed a real possibility. She wished to define herself not just as Lee's wife, or as CJ from Baywatch, but as a figure in her own right – a laudable ambition, just pursued with the wrong vehicle. The star saw Barb Wire as a considerable opportunity. Her manager had dismissed the role as that of a cartoon character, but, as Anderson confided to Premiere, 'I was asking about it, 'Who's that character she rides a motorcycle, shoots guns and is an action hero? I want to do it.' I got the comics and said this is me. Nobody else can play this role [it] has everything that I want to do.' Even if the film was coming out at a nadir for comic book characters – Batman Forever had been a hit the previous year, but the 1995 Sylvester Stallone version of Judge Dredd and the female-led flop Tank Girl very much had not been – the belief was that Anderson would draw a certain level of interest, even if it was largely prurient. Unfortunately, its star's much-documented Playboy history– to say nothing of her leaked sex tape – meant that its putative audience would have expected nudity, and so the film had to deliver on that front. Still, at least the opening scene attempts to have some fun with its obligations. The film begins with a lengthy, apparently irrelevant scene in which Barb does a strip tease while dressed in her signature leather outfit in front of an audience of lecherous men. When one punter demands that she go further, imploring her 'Come on, babe!', she throws her stiletto heel at him, embedding it in his forehead, before hissing her catchphrase for the first time. As a piece of cynical 'have your cake and eat it' opportunism, it is hard to beat. The scene shows Anderson topless and being hosed down with water in slow motion, but also attempts to present her as an iconic action heroine and strong woman. Oddly enough, it almost works, managing to subvert its essential tackiness. Unfortunately, Anderson lacked the thespian range to be convincing as a tough and misanthropic loner; the (Canadian) actress was perceived as chirpy, all-American Pammy, the personification of perkiness. Despite her own personal troubles (the marriage with Lee soon curdled, and they would separate in 1998), she was caught between her own persona and the demands of the role. As would-be hard-bitten voiceover declares 'It was the middle of the second American Civil War, the world had gone to hell. It was 2 the worst year of my life', it is impossible to buy her as the ass-kicking, name-taking heroine the film needs, meaning that it is doomed from the outset. To Anderson's credit, she certainly committed to the part. In her 2023 memoir Love, Pamela, she wrote: 'The schedule was taxing. It was my first introduction to such long, long hours, involving exciting and dangerous stunts. Learning to ride a motorcycle. Kickboxing in a tiny, restrictive corset. Rolling around while shooting guns like Desert Eagles and assembling at hyperspeed MP5K fully automatics.' She was also obliged to fulfil the filmmaker's – and audiences' – expectations. The ridiculously figure-hugging leather outfit that she sports throughout the film reportedly gave her a 17-inch waist, to her extreme discomfort. But her commitment to the role was such that she had her character's signature tattoo – naturally, a piece of barbed wire – permanently inked on her torso. She would only have it removed in 2014, long after the film had faded from collective memory. In any case, the filming was a miserable experience for Anderson, who had suffered a miscarriage shortly before it began. The script was rewritten constantly during production – as one crew member put it, 'One day they want the ramp at the back of the truck to drop down, the next day they don't. There's something new every day'. The pervasive sense that the quality of the film was irrelevant, too, meant that by the time that it was released in May 1996, there was a desperate hope that Anderson's tabloid star power – or notoriety – would still be enough to lure in curious audiences. Alas, it did not. The reviews were predictably dismal. Empire described the film as 'mainly… an excuse to see Pam change her clothes and show her cleavage'. Anderson also 'won' Worst New Star at the Razzies the following year – a ceremony at which she was also nominated for Worst Actress and Worst Screen Couple (for her and her 'impressive enhancements'). Barb Wire became a running joke on late night chat shows, as well as a box office flop, making a mere $3.8 million. Predictably, it was a bigger hit on video, where the leery could make considerable use of the pause and rewind buttons. There have been occasional attempts to re-evaluate the film, and Anderson's performance in it, as both politically prescient satire and a precursor to the female-led superhero likes of Black Widow and Wonder Woman. However, if it has a spiritual sequel, it is the equally dire 2004 Halle Berry farrago Catwoman, another winner at the Razzies. Barb Wire is as far away from the subtle dramatics of The Last Showgirl as might be imagined, and watched today, it is a time capsule of all the ugliness and noise and casual sexism that typified mid-Nineties male-oriented cinema, a cover of a men's magazine come to unlovely life. It would be nice to be able to make a case for the film's defence – whether as a guilty pleasure, an underappreciated action romp or simply a so-bad-it's-good farce – but in fact it's none of these things. The action scenes, clearly executed on a tight budget, are unmemorable and blurrily edited, meaning that Anderson's fighting and kicking skills are impossible to discern. The dialogue is rote – 'Don't call me babe' is the only halfway memorable line, and that's because it's bad – and the rip-offs of Casablanca are enough to make you want to watch that rather than this. A more adept filmmaker might have played into the camp and ridiculous aspects of the storyline, which Anderson seems prepared to do. But, somewhat bizarrely, it's all taken too seriously to be the riot it should be. If Pammie had been given outrageous dialogue and fight scenes, this might have been a cult midnight movie, but as it is, it's just a deserved flop. As Den of Geek aptly remarked, it's 'a post-apocalyptic rip-off of Casablanca starring Pamela Anderson made for an imagined mob of unambitious perverts'. Still, with The Last Showgirl finally ensuring that Anderson receives her due as a serious actress rather than a bulbously enhanced prop, she can now look back on this career low with wry amusement. Just for heaven's sake – don't call her babe. The Last Showgirl is in cinemas now
