Viewers were informed by an announcer that The One Show was here to help with the "Happy Valley Hangover" - and they were cheered by the appearance of a very glam guest star on Monday night (February 6). Presenters Alex Jones and former footballer Jermaine Jenas crossed over to Canada via video link to chat with Baywatch icon Pamela Anderson.
Pamela appeared on a big screen to talk about her new Netflix documentary Pamela: A Love Story and her tell-all memoir Love, Pamela. Fans took to Twitter to say Pamela, 55, was looking "amazing."
@HopkinsNot tweeted: "Pamela Anderson has aged magnificently #TheOneShow." @suzysasha applauded: "Love Pamela Anderson! Icon! Used to love Baywatch." And @Georgia2PointOh said: "Pamela Anderson looks freaking amazing."
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@BListAtCapital praised: "The interview with Pamela Anderson just then on @BBCTheOneShow was lovely. What an icon she is!"
Pamela told the BBC chat show hosts she had always wanted to write a book her life and she has found telling her story in her own words "therapeutic." Alex asked the actress and model if she felt cross about old interviews asking intrusive questions about her body.
"Did you feel, at the time, that they’d crossed a line?", she was asked. She replied: "At the time, I was just trying to get through it. Every day was something new."
"I wasn’t born into this industry, I came from a very small town, my first plane ride was to America, and I didn’t know what to expect. So, I just thought, 'this is how it is', and I’ve just got to get through it and just be strong, and smile my way through a lot of the awkward times and a lot of the difficult times.
"Looking back as an adult, because I still felt like I was a kid back then, even at my childhood as an adult, has been a really interesting experience. But I’m glad things have changed."
She continued: "But I’m not complaining. I don’t feel like a victim. I fel like I had such great opportunities. I just had to be strong and I had to be wise and keep myself safe, and that’s what I encourage in my book, too."
Pamela, who played C. J. Parker on the American lifeguard drama series Baywatch from 1992 to 1997, added: "I’m just letting people know that you can get through all these things and paint the picture of your own life, and happiness is a choice, and we can be brave and fall in love, again and again, and just always be in love with love. There’s no reason to be bitter or sad, because then, sometimes, the perpetrators win."
A baffled @adammoses20 marvelled: "Switched the one show on and Jermaine jenas is having a chat with Pamela Anderson. Very strange times at the moment. #oneshow." And a puzzled @Neil_McNerlan said: "Can honestly say that I never thought I'd live to see Jermaine Jenas interview Pamela Anderson on The One Show, but here we are."
And viewers were scratching their heads as they switched from the former Baywatch beauty to a feature on seaweed, dubbed "the bacon of the sea", in Northern Ireland. An amused @chrisorton2011 tweeted: "The One Show: ‘Thankyou for talking to us, Pamela Anderson.’ ‘Next, seaweed…’" And @SAnthon72425964 said: ".I'm sure there are millions of people out there somewhere who find seaweed vitaly fascinating and interesting...not."
Suzysasha complained: "Wish they'd given Pamela Anderson longer. Interview was too quick. Now it's boring seaweed." And @twobobhack said: "Only on The One Show could you go from interviewing Pamela Anderson to a feature on seaweed in Northern Ireland…"
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