After Dinner Speakers: Pamela Anderson, Tom Cannon, Wadaiko Yamato

Anderson became a star in the cast of the TV show Baywatch, where she played lifeguard C.J. Parker. She also posed naked for Playboy magazine, adding to her notoriety. After the Internet boom of the mid-1990's, Anderson's photos and her spectacular store-bought bosom made her one of the Web's most-requested and most-downloaded stars (as well as a dependable punchline for comedians and talk show hosts). Her on-again off-again marriage to Tommy Lee, drummer for the rock group Motley Crue, was a favorite topic for tabloids. In 1998 she began starring in a new TV series, V.I.P., playing a Los Angeles security expert. Extra credit: Anderson became engaged to rapper Kid Rock in April of 2002... On 20 March 2002 Anderson announced that she had hepatitis C, saying she had picked up the disease by sharing a tattoo needle with Tommy Lee... Anderson once played the "Tool Time Girl" on the TV sitcom Home Improvement... She was briefly engaged to actor Scott Baio... Other stars who got a career boost from Baywatch include Yasmine Bleeth, Carmen Electra, Gena Lee Nolin and Brooke Burns. She also appears in our loop Critter Defenders, along with Alice Walker and K. D. Lang.