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Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE The TRUTH behind Pamela Anderson's viral 90s look revealed after sending fans into meltdown
Despite driving fans wild with an apparent return to her signature 90s style, can confirm that the recent glam shot of Pamela Anderson that went viral was a case of fake news. After makeup artist, David Velasquez, posted the image over the weekend, many of the Baywatch star's followers mistakenly believed she was making a comeback to her rock 'n' roll days days. A source, however, revealed the photograph was actually taken back in 2022. The insider also noted that 'Pamela was unware of the posting' and Velasquez has since deleted the post, which, inadvertently, caused widespread confusion. In the image, the actress, 57, can be seen rocking a red Versace robe, charcoal black liner, overlined beige lipstick and a dramatic pair of fake eyelashes. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. The post garnered numerous reactions from fans as they quickly reacted to seeing her in heavy makeup for the first time in years. 'I love her no makeup look but this feels like home,' one fan commented. Another gushed: 'Wow! She looks even better than she did in the 90s! Sheesh!!' 'pammy out here reminding us she can eat us all up with or without makeup,' a third wrote underneath the post. Velasquez, who is followed by stars like Jennifer Lopez and Paris Hilton on Instagram, previously worked with Anderson on a 2022 Paper Magazine shoot. He has more than 89,300 followers and is based in Los Angeles. On her way to becoming one of Hollywood's most recognizable sex symbols, Anderson had a signature style that was idolized by millions. In the nineties, she was known for wearing copious amounts of eyeliner, dark smoky eyeshadow and her voluminous, slightly tousled blonde hair. Previously, the mother-of-two revealed that her perspective on beauty changed after her makeup artist, Alexis Vogel, died from breast cancer in 2019. '[Alexis] was the best. And since then, I just felt, without Alexis, it's just better for me not to wear makeup,' Anderson told Elle. She also said that going without makeup has been 'freeing, and fun, and a little rebellious too.' 'Because I did notice that there were all these people doing big makeup looks, and it's just like me to go against the grain and do the opposite what everyone's doing.' Pamela also remarked on aging and how it's been a 'journey' for her. 'I think we all start looking a little funny when we get older. And I'm kind of laughing at myself when I look at the mirror. I go, "Wow, this is happening to me?" It's a journey. 'I feel rooted for. I feel good. I'm in a good place.' Her decision to ditch cosmetics also stemmed from feelings that she often 'just went along with what people were telling me what to do' in the early days of her career. Anderson is best known for starring on Baywatch for five seasons, from 1992 to 1997, as the iconic role of C.J. Parker, a stunning lifeguard. Last year, she received critical acclaim for her 2024 drama The Last Showgirl and earned a Best Actress nomination at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. Earlier this year, a source told that Pamela is delighted that she is 'being applauded for her toned-down looks and recognized for her true talent.' They said: 'Pamela has gotten so much positive feedback from women all over the world for her natural glow up. 'She has become an icon who is now known for baring her all-natural self. 'While Pam recognizes that a little more make up would have gone fabulous with her gown, she also realizes that this is not true to who she is anymore. 'To do herself up – whether at the awards or anywhere else for that matter – would make her not true to herself.' The insider added that 'part of her motivation' to cut back on her glam was because she wanted to 'strip away her Barbwire image and Baywatch personification' - and be viewed 'as a serious actor.' 'When she went into this, part of her motivation was to strip away her Barbwire image and Baywatch personification. Shew wanted to be taken as a serious actor,' they continued. 'Pamela realized her true talent when she played Roxy Hart on Broadway. This was life changing for her. 'Never in a million years did she think that she would have been nominated for an award like this.' Another source close to the star confirmed that she 'still wears light makeup from time to time' and that she has not sworn off make-up forever, instead just changing her relationship with it.
Daily Mirror
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Pamela Anderson 'unrecognisable' as she 'reverts' to iconic signature look
Baywatch icon Pamela Anderson has done a full 180 as she reverts back to her signature full faced make-up look after years of embracing the natural look Baywatch legend Pamela Anderson has shown off a whole new look. The 57-year-old went viral after going make-up free during Paris Fashion week 2023 and continued to attend red carpet events fresh faced ever since. In a picture posted over the weekend it seemed the Hollywood icon had reverted to wearing full glam - making a triumphant return to her signature 90s look. The post, shared by Los Angeles-based makeup artist David Velasquez showed the actress looking completely different to her recent looks, as she posed with a full face of make-up. Staring off into the distance, the star could be seen wearing dramatic fake eyelashes, beige lipstick and dark eyeshadow. Bringing back the 90s look, Pamela also rocked the signature skinny brows. Fans were overjoyed in the comments, although it's not certain when the picture was taken. Velasquez previously did the stars make-up during a 2022 Paper Magazine shoot. 'She's back!!!!' exclaimed one excited fan, while another wrote: "She looks even better than she did in the 90s!" Speaking about her no make-up look to Elle in 2023, Pamela said the look had been 'freeing, and fun, and a little rebellious too. Because I did notice that there were all these people doing big makeup looks, and it's just like me to go against the grain and do the opposite what everyone's doing.' After Pamela's makeup artist Alexis Vogel tragically died from breast cancer in 2019, the star said it was "better for me not to wear makeup.' 'She was the best. And since then, I just felt, without Alexis, it's just better for me not to wear makeup," the star told the publication. Earlier this month, the star attended New York's prestigious Met Gal a, and once again absolutely slayed the natural look. Wearing a breath-taking blue, crystal gown, Pamela's outfit wasn't the only thing that turned heads. The star was sporting micro-bangs and a chic bob haircut that's become a favourite style of celebrities in the last year. Speaking about the stunning look, Pamela said: 'I believe the world needs more of a feminine warrior presence, and this was my small contribution." Futher explaining her look in a Who What Wear interview, the mother of two continued: 'For the Met, I wanted something strong, brave, and committed—aligned with the night's theme of tailoring from head to toe."
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tate McRae's duet with Morgan Wallen is finally here. How the controversial country-pop track is sitting with their respective fan bases.
Morgan Wallen has released his new album, I'm the Problem, which features his controversial duet 'What I Want' with up-and-coming pop girl Tate McRae. The song, released on Friday, has garnered criticism from McRae's fans who have questioned her decision to work with the country singer, given his contentious reputation. 'Tate McRae, if you're going to put your neck out and do a collab, maybe we could at least make it interesting,' Zachary, a content creator known as the 'Swiftologist,' said on TikTok. 'It's a rude interruption into what is otherwise a fantastic victory summer for Miss McRae.' With a career rife with controversy, Wallen has developed a reputation as country music's bad boy. The 32-year-old singer pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment in 2024, was suspended by his record label after footage of him using a racial slur surfaced in 2021, and was accused of violating COVID-19 protocols in 2020. The singer was also previously charged with driving under the influence in Nashville in 2016, though his case was ultimately dismissed. Wallen most recently drew backlash in March, when he was seen abruptly walking off the Saturday Night Live stage. At the end of the episode, which boasted Anora star Mikey Madison as its host, Wallen is seen hugging Madison and leaving the stage, while the rest of the cast remains as the credits roll. When asked about the moment, Wallen denied any ill will between him and the late-night sketch show. 'I was just ready to go home. I'd been there all week,' the country singer told Sundae Conversation host Caleb Pressley in May. While McRae's decision to team up with Wallen may seem surprising, the 21-year-old singer appears to be a fan of Wallen's music, having performed a rendition of his Post Malone duet, 'I Had Some Help,' ahead of one of her shows in July 2024. 'Pop girlies no longer get to play the 'I didn't know' card in 2025,' a TikTok creator named Kimberly said. 'In 2025, collaborating with someone like Morgan Wallen is not just a creative decision. It is literally a calculated brand alignment.' McRae has already reached several career highs this year: She released her latest album, So Close to What, in February, nabbed her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, is currently on her Miss Possessive world tour and unveiled her Paper Magazine cover story on Wednesday. On X, a user with the handle @ChnRstrntKng wrote, 'I'm a Tate McRae fan and a Morgan Wallen hater so I'm going to have to think long and hard about whether or not I ever want to listen to this song.' Another X user wrote, 'The worst girl you know is so excited about the Morgan wallen Tate McRae collab.' A TikTok creator known as Gray revealed that the news of McRae's duet with Wallen was enough reason to stop supporting her. 'I just cannot get past that,' said Gray. 'If she's collabing with Morgan Wallen? Not a main pop girl.' Wallen fans, meanwhile, are welcoming the collaboration with open arms. Even some McRae fans, while seemingly in the minority, are impressed by the track. 'Unpopular Opinion: I'm OBSESSED with this collab!!!' wrote a TikToker named Ava. Taylor Faith, another content creator, declared, 'Not to be dramatic but this Morgan Wallen x Tate McRae collab just rewired my brain chemistry.' Despite his controversies, the country singer still appears to be beloved within his genre and among his fans. He's also quick to sing his collaborator's praises. Wallen spoke highly of McRae in the days leading up to his album's release, calling his decision to work with the 'Sports Car' singer a 'no-brainer.' 'She was an absolute pleasure to work with on the feature. She did everything very timely,' he told Holler. 'We didn't get to work on it in the studio together, but the song wasn't originally written for her in mind. It was written in a [male] key, technically, and she just absolutely crushed every single part of the song. I'm fired up for people to hear it!'
New European
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New European
Björk, Pascal and the end of the world
This kind of fatalistic attitude has been showing up across my social media feeds a lot lately, with varying degrees of sarcasm. Whether they are jokes about living through 'the end times' or comparisons of Trump's second reign to the fall of the Roman Empire, all of these posts express the same core sentiment: the worst is yet to come, and there is nothing we can do about it. For the past few weeks, an ominous quote has been gaining traction in my corner of the internet: 'Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it' (the original post was from Twitter user @PerthshireMags). While this may be read as a critique of our inadequate response to the urgency of the climate crisis, it ultimately reinforces the idea that we are doomed. Some might feel that pessimism is the only sane attitude in a world in which every seemingly insurmountable problem is met with a wave of equally overwhelming catastrophes. After all, what can one person stuck behind a phone screen really do? If we are indeed doomed – whether from climate change, rogue AI, the global rise of the far right, or the third world war – then we might as well laugh about it with our internet friends. But thankfully, not everyone feels this way. In a recent interview, one of our greatest living philosophers, the Icelandic singer Björk, declared that she has no patience for our modern flavour of defeatism: 'the nihilism, the self-pity, it's like it's cool to give up. [Laughs] I don't think it's cool to give up' (Paper Magazine, January 2025). As someone who has often felt tempted by the seductive pull of doomerism, I welcome Björk's wisdom. She has helped me articulate something I think we all know deep down: there is a twisted comfort, a self-indulgence, in cynicism – and that should be enough to make us question it as an impulse. Another important thinker, the 17th-century polymath and philosopher Blaise Pascal, described our various forms of entertainment, or diversions, as strategies we use to keep painful reflections on the 'natural poverty of our feeble and mortal condition' at bay. What passes as entertainment has changed a lot since Pascal's times. Today, many of us dwell in online spaces where algorithms amplify the voices of anxiety and gloom echoing around our self-contained bubbles. For Pascal, we turn to diversions to avoid thinking about death, but in a 21st-century doomer mindset, it is the fixation on our inevitable demise, whether imagined or real, that becomes the diversion itself. We take refuge in the belief that all is lost to avoid the difficult task of imagining alternative futures, and the roles we might play in them. As Pascal wrote, diversion 'hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves' and 'makes us insensibly ruin ourselves.' The apathy born from cynicism could ruin us collectively, as it serves the interests of those invested in maintaining the status quo (which, at the moment, means chaos). Oil companies stand to profit as much from climate deniers as they do from doom-scrollers who believe their actions don't matter. One of Pascal's other famous ideas might offer us a way out of this impasse. In his posthumously published Pensées, he framed religious faith as a wager: we cannot know for certain whether God exists, but we should choose to live under the assumption that He does. If God exists, we gain eternity in Heaven; and if not, we have lost little by believing. What if we applied this logic to assumptions about our future? We don't know if we will make it as a society, a civilisation, or even as a species. And yet, it seems wiser to act under the assumption that a better future is within our grasp. If we are right, then we have everything to gain by fighting for it. And if we are wrong, we will not have lost much by choosing to be guided by hope. Of course, this is infinitely easier said than done, and hope cannot become an end in itself. In fact, hope without action risks becoming just another diversion – one that leads us to sit back and wait for Greta to save us. But the point is that we will never see the world we want if we don't even allow ourselves to imagine it. If we fixate on the end of the world, then chances are, that is exactly what we will get. Despite what cynics may say, Björk is right to tell us that nihilism is profoundly uncool. And according to her, even our ideas about what the end of the world might look like aren't all that interesting: 'There have always been apocalypses. We had Noah and the flood, we've had plagues. There's always been this narrative, and now I think it's about being active and being part of the solution. And also to have the courage to imagine a future and be in it, to be it. To inspire your work locally in your community or however you think you can make a difference.' There is no ready-made formula for navigating these depressingly unprecedented times. But stepping outside and betting on anything other than doom seems to be an essential first step.
New York Times
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The ‘Stuff' of a New York Legend, From Skateboards to $12,000 Sweaters
In 1984, the artist and editor (and John Baldessari protégée) Kim Hastreiter co-founded Paper Magazine with her friend David Hershkovits, to document the cultural explosion in downtown New York City at the time. What began as a D.I.Y. operation in her TriBeCa loft would run for 33 years as one of the most respected independent fashion and arts publications ever. Hastreiter, now 73, has worn many hats over the years — artist, journalist, curator — but her passion for collecting has remained a constant. Now she has immortalized all her favorite objects, friends and stories in STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos (Damiani, $75). 'More than a memoir,' she writes, this book collects everything from a $12,000 sweater to a Jeff Koons dinner plate, stickers, jewelry and just about every category of art you can think of, resulting in a 'big chaotic archive' of a half-century's worth of New York culture.
