Pamela Anderson’s relationship history: Everything we know about the actress and model’s past and present relationships
Pamela Anderson was one in every of the largest stars of the Nineties, due to her roles in films and TV reveals, together with Baywatch.
Her private life additionally made loads of headlines; the star has been married 5 occasions, together with to rocker Tommy Lee.
Let’s check out her high-profile romances – from Scott Baio to Kelly Slater – her off-on relationships, and who she calls “the love of my life.”
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Pamela Anderson was one in every of the largest stars of the Nineties. (Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty)
Anderson was born in a small city on Vancouver Island, Canada on July 1, 1967, earlier than transferring to Vancouver in 1988, the place she labored as a health teacher.
The next 12 months, she was at a Canadian soccer recreation when a picture of her flashed on the huge display screen. She was sporting a T-shirt with a Labatt beer brand and was subsequently requested to be a spokesmodel for the firm.
She grew to become generally known as the “Blue Zone Girl” after a poster was created by her then boyfriend Dan Ilicic.
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All through her profession, Anderson has been in some high-profile relationships. (Getty)
Inside a 12 months, Playboy got here calling and she flew to LA for a photograph shoot earlier than touchdown the cowl of the October 1989 challenge.
Jon Peters
Anderson was reportedly at the Playboy mansion when she met former hairdresser turned film producer Jon Peters.
“I walked in and saw this little angel sitting at the bar. It was Pammy. She was like 19. I knew she would be a big star,” he informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2017.
“We ended up living together.”
Anderson reportedly married Jon Peters in 2020 earlier than having a change of coronary heart earlier than it may very well be legalised. (Instagram)
He proposed, however she turned him down as a result of their 22-year age hole.
The 2 reunited in 2019, and held a marriage ceremony in January 2020. However lower than two weeks later, they introduced they have been re-evaluating their relationship earlier than Anderson launched a press release saying they have been “never legally married.”
Scott Baio
Anderson met Scott Baio at one other social gathering at the Playboy mansion in 1990. She later stated she spurned off the advances of actor Sean Penn in favour of Baio, then an enormous star due to TV reveals akin to Glad Days.
She went on to look in an episode of his present Charles in Cost.
The actress dated Scott Baio, of Glad Days fame, for 3 years after they met at the Playboy mansion. (Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty)
Anderson continued to mannequin whereas launching her performing profession. Her huge break got here in 1991 when she appeared as Lisa the “Tool Time Girl” on the sitcom House Enchancment.
She was then forged as CJ Parker on the prime time TV present Baywatch.
Anderson and Baio have been collectively three years and reportedly acquired engaged in the bathe earlier than they cut up up, one thing Baio blamed on her breast augmentation surgical procedure.
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Kelly Slater
Anderson met professional surfer Kelly Slater on the set of Baywatch, the place he performed Jimmy Slade, and the two started seeing one another.
She talked about their relationship in the Netflix documentary, Pamela, A Love Story.
“I met Kelly Slater on the set of Baywatch. He was my big love actually. He was such a sweetheart to me, and so good to me,” she stated.
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Anderson dated Kelly Slater, pictured to her left whereas in Australia in 1994, up till she wed Tommy Lee. (Getty)
“Kelly and I were together between lots of boyfriends and lots of girlfriends for him too… it wasn’t just me.
“He undoubtedly was a heartbreaker. I imply he was only a free spirit, you could not get your palms round him.”
The two were still dating and she was due to meet his family after he returned from a photo shoot in Cancun, Mexico, where she married rocker Tommy Lee.
“My first cellphone name was to [Slater] to inform him I used to be married,” she revealed in the documentary.
“He was like, ‘What?’ That was horrible.”
Tommy Lee
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee soon after their marriage. (Getty)
Anderson met the Motley Crue drummer at a club on New Year’s Eve 1994.
In his autobiography, The Dirt, Lee wrote that a waitress came over with a drink, saying, “It is for you, from Pamela Anderson.”
“She was sporting all white, her hair was the most excellent shade of blond I had ever seen, her enamel virtually glowed by means of her lips when she laughed, and she stood out so radiantly from everybody round her that it appeared like a beam of black gentle was shining on her from above.”
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Lee went over to introduce himself and sat beside her. “Then I grabbed her face and simply licked the aspect of it, from chin to temple.”
Anderson told People in 2015, “It actually was love at first sight.”
Lee acquired her quantity and the two talked on the cellphone for six weeks earlier than Anderson jetted to Cancun, the place Lee turned up unannounced.
“She was sporting all white, her hair was the most excellent shade of blond I had ever seen,” Lee recalled of the first time he saw Anderson. (WireImage)
Three days later he asked her to marry him. They wed the next day, with the groom shirtless and the bride famously wearing a white bikini.
An intimate video filmed on their honeymoon was later stolen and used to make a sex tape. The couple sued, and Anderson later said the tape and lawsuit were factors in the breakdown of their marriage.
Anderson gave birth to their first child, son Brandon, in May 1996. A few months later Anderson filed for divorce before the two reunited.
A second son, Dylan, was born in December 1997.
Anderson pictured with the couple’s son Brandon, born in 1996. (WireImage)
The following February, police were called to the couple’s home and Lee was charged with felony spousal abuse and child abuse. He was later sentenced to six months’ jail.
Anderson revealed in her 2023 memoir, Love, Pamela, “Tommy ripped Brandon off me and threw me and Dylan right into a wall.”
Anderson filed for divorce two days later before they reconciled again.
Their on-off relationship continued for years, despite Anderson moving on, first with Swedish model Marcus Schenkenberg, to whom she became engaged before they split in 2001.
Kid Rock
Kid Rock and Anderson at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. (Getty)
Anderson and Kid Rock first began dating in 2001 and became engaged in 2002 before splitting the following year.
They rekindled their romance in July 2006 after running into each other in St Tropez.
They returned to St Tropez that same month and married aboard a yacht before Anderson filed for divorce just five months later.
Rick Salomon
Anderson married her long-time friend Rick Salomon in Las Vegas in October 2007 but she filed for divorce just two months later.
They reconciled but were granted an annulment in March 2008.
Pammy filed for divorce for the second time along with her husband Rick Salomon. The pair have been married for the first time in 2007 and remarried in January, 2014. Third time fortunate, guys?
Picture: AFP”/>Anderson and Rick Salomon were married twice, in 2007 an 2014.
In January 2014, news broke that Anderson and Salomon had remarried. Anderson later told E! News, “We’re very blissful. Our households are very blissful and that is all that issues.”
But by July that year, Anderson had again filed for divorce. A messy court case followed.
Tommy Lee – again
In between her marriages to Salomon, Anderson and Lee tried again.
Lee reportedly told Rolling Stone in 2008, “We have solely given it a strive 800 occasions – 801, right here we go. Pamela and the youngsters have moved in with me. It is superior. It is undoubtedly working.”
They continued to have an on-off relationship for a number of years before finally calling it quits.
Anderson and Lee had an on-off relationship for years. (Corbis via Getty Images)
Lee eventually moved on with wife Brittany Furlan Lee, whom he married in 2018.
Dan Hayhurst
Anderson married her bodyguard Dan Hayhurst on Christmas Eve 2020 at her Canadian home. She confirmed the news to The Daily Mail in January 2021, saying, “I am precisely the place I should be – in the arms of a person who actually loves me.”
Just one year later, People reported the two had separated.
‘Love of my life’
In 2015, she told People that Lee was “the love of my life.”
At present, Anderson is reportedly single. (Getty)
Nevertheless, their friendship cooled in 2018 after she introduced up the 1998 assault throughout an interview. It additionally brought on unhealthy blood between Anderson and Lee’s new spouse.
They’ve since put it behind them, showing collectively in public quite a few occasions.
She informed Howard Stern final 12 months she was glad Lee was now fortunately married.
At present, Anderson is reportedly single and lives in her grandparents’ former farmhouse on Vancouver Island.