Name: Pamela Denise Anderson, nee Lee, aka CJ Parker.
Show: Baywatch
Set-up: From 1992-1997, Pammie was CJ Parker, Los Angeles County life guard and sex bomb alongside mainman Mitch Buchannon, played by the legendary David Hassellhof. When not patrolling the sands, thwarting shark attacks and saving people from drowning, Pammie spent her time running in slow motion along the beach in a red swimming costume. Probably for that reason alone, Baywatch holds the world record as the most watched telly series of all time, with 1.1billion viewers.
Standout moments: Every time she ran in slow motion down the beach in that red swimming costume.
Memorable catchphrase: Not so much a catchphrase as a freeze-frame of her running in slow motion along a beach in that red swimming costume.
Lowest ebb: Marrying Paris Hilton's ex and sex tape flogger Rick Salomon. Finally hanging up that red swimming costume.
Big screen potential: Sadly, Baywatch the movie is never going to happen, but Pammie herself has tonnes of big screen potential. She’s in the new spoof Superhero Movie along with Leslie Nielsen and has just been in Blonde and Blonde, not to forget her tour de force in Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan. But do forget Barb Wire if you can
Why is she a hero? That red swimming costume.
Factoid: Pammy was discovered in 1989 at a Canadian football game in Vancouver, when a camera picked her out in the crowd and she was beamed up on the stadium screen wearing a Labatt’s t-shirt. She was immediately offered a modeling contract with the beer brand – and the rest is history.