A source close to Pamela Anderson is opening up about why she will never watch the new Hulu series Pam & Tommy, in which Lily James portrays her.
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Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were a 1990s tabloid dream - one was a Playboy pin-up whereas the other was the tattooed bad boy.
Their fame turned bad when a sex tape filmed on their honeymoon was stolen from their Miami home and leaked.
It was the first celebrity sex tape to go viral and the Baywatch star became a victim of what is now known as revenge porn.
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Less than 30 years later Disney+'s new series starring Downton Abbey actress Lily James and Sebastian Stan tells this story.
Here’s everything you need to know.
The eight-part series is released on Wednesday, January 31 on Disney+.
Pam & Tommy tells the story of how Anderson and husband Lee’s sex tape became the first viral video in the 1990s.
The real Anderson is not linked to the series and has made no comment on it.
The pair tied the knot after knowing each other for four days - they got married in 1995 but their marriage ended in 1998.
The thief that stole the sex tape was known to the couple as the scorned electrician Rand Gauthier, who was fired from a job at their home.
The video circulated quickly and despite Anderson and Lee’s efforts to bring the videos down by filing a $10m lawsuit, the suit was eventually dismissed.
A source close to Pamela Anderson is opening up about why she will never watch the new Hulu series Pam & Tommy, in which Lily James portrays her.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterTNT’s “Rich & Shameless” seven-part film series will launch this summer, but the first installment, “The Crime Against Pam & Tommy,” is debuting this Saturday. And the sooner the better for director Jenny Popplewell, who wants the movie to “settle the truth” for Pamela Anderson about her sex tape with ex Tommy Lee, which Popplewell called “revenge porn before we knew it was revenge porn.”“We reached out to Pamela Anderson right from the start and to Tommy and asked them if they’d like to be involved,” Popplewell said alongside “Rich & Shameless” showrunner and producer Tom Lindley during a Television Critics Association panel Monday.
infamous celebrity nude photo leak of 2014.Hacked snapshots of more than 100 naked stars surfaced on sites such as imageboards 4chan, Imgur and Reddit — including some images of Bell.The “What Happens in Vegas” star, 42, opened up about how the hack actually helped her direct episodes of the new Hulu miniseries “Pam & Tommy,” which dives into the scandalous marriage of Pamela Anderson and her ex-husband, rocker Tommy Lee, and how their own sex tape was stolen back in the 1990s.“I remember having to talk to an FBI recovering agent for a week or so about that property being stolen and it was so humiliating … and for me, it was so personal,” Bell explained to Insider about the incident, which she said was part of an “unreal tsunami” that rocked Hollywood. Bell’s talent agent asked her if she would like to direct the limited series, which stars Lily James as the “Baywatch” icon and Sebastian Stan as Mötley Crüe member Lee. (The same agent reps both Bell and James.) Bell revealed that memories of the photo leak came back to her when she was pitched to direct.
Pam & Tommy is finally here! The Hulu drama series dropped on Wednesday, February 2, which follows Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s relationship — and their infamous sex tape scandal.
Lake Bell has a personal connection to the new “Pam & Tommy” TV series starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan.
Lily James' transformation into Pamela Anderson for her role in Hulu's "Pam & Tommy" was quite the undertaking, so much so that the actress admits she didn't recognize herself. In a recent interview on James Corden's "Late Late Show," James revealed just what went on behind the scenes in order to resemble the actress and former Playboy model. She recalled slipping into the iconic red swimsuit Anderson donned for "Baywatch" for the first time.
Minor spoilers, ahead. The series, starring and as and Tommy Lee, follows the ‘90s couple's tumultuous relationship and the highly publicized leak of their private sex tape. The series immediately got the Internet's attention back in May 2021, when Hulu released the first images of James and Stan as the actor and Mötley Crüe drummer. “I mean, give the makeup artist who turned Lily James into Pamela Anderson an Emmy already,” one Twitter user at the time, gaining more than 30K likes.
It’s safe to say Pamela Anderson will never be tuning in to see how her infamous past was portrayed in Hulu’s new series Pam & Tommy.
release of a sex tape made by Pamela and then-husband Tommy Lee on their honeymoon, in the 1990s. The tape was stolen by a former employee Rand Gauthier, who then leaked it to the public. After the premier of the show in America on Hulu, a source told People: "There's a sense that the show is re-exploiting Pamela.
It was one of the most notorious scandals of the 1990s - involving one of the decade’s most famous couples.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeYour eyes aren’t deceiving you. In Episode 2 of Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy,” that indeed is Tommy Lee, played by Sebastian Stan, having a deep, honest conversation with his talking penis — voiced by Jason Mantzoukas.It’s unlike anything that has ever been seen on television. Granted, it’s something that couldn’t have ever been seen on over-the-air television, at least without a hefty FCC fine and the threat of losing a broadcast license.
There’s no shortage of exciting television shows released this February, kicking things off strong with the much-anticipated miniseries “Pam & Tommy” starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. The month will see the return of Shonda Rhimes, two series finales, an off-kilter and unexpected comedy series starring Will Arnett, and science fiction miniseries, which look to be the next big shows to dominate the discourse.
infamous 1995 sex tape, premieres Wednesday on Hulu — and it doesn’t take long before s–t gets weird.Lily James and Sebastian Stan star as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, the bikini-clad “Baywatch” star and bad-boy Mötley Crüe drummer — recently divorced from Heather Locklear — who meet-cute in an LA club and, four days later, get married on the beach in Mexico.They settle into Lee’s ginormous Malibu estate, which is undergoing major renovations. When Lee — a childish, arrogant jerk who struts around in thong underwear — fires carpenter Rand Gauthier (Seth Rogen) and refuses to pay him the thousands he owes him or return his tool box, Gauthier (an ex-porn actor) steals Lee’s safe from his garage.
Sebastian Stan is sharing the surprising acting advice he was given for Pam & Tommy.
Sebastian Stan and Lily James took filming Pam & Tommy very seriously!