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Pamela Anderson was dating surfer Kelly Slater when she married Tommy Lee

February 1, 2023

Pamela Anderson’s new documentary has just arrived on Netflix, in which she discusses her relationship with surfer Kelly Slater.

Pamela, a Love Story is a one hour and 52 minute special in which the Canadian-American actress reflects on her relationship with Tommy Lee.

It comes exactly a year after the biographical TV show Pam & Tommy, which saw Lily James and Sebastien Stan play the iconic duo.

In one of the documentary’s most shocking revelations, the Baywatch star revealed she was dating Kelly when she married the Mötley Crüe star.

Read on to learn more about Pamela Anderson and Kelly Slater’s relationship…

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Who is Kelly Slater?

The 50-year-old is an American professional surfer who played Jimmy Slade on the TV show Baywatch.

However, he never really wanted to be an actor and only did the show because his manager told him it would boost his career.

Kelly is widely regarded as the greatest professional surfer of all time and was crowned World Surf League champion 11 times.

Additionally, the Florida native holds 56 Championship Tour wins and is the oldest surfer still active in the World Surf League.

He won his 8th Billabong Pipeline Masters in 2022 at the age of 50 and is both the youngest (at 20) and oldest (at 39) to win the men’s World Surf League title.

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Inside Pamela Anderson and Kelly Slater’s romance

Pamela and Kelly met while filming Baywatch in the late 1990s and hit it off immediately.

“I met Kelly Slater on the set of Baywatch. He was actually my big love. He was so sweet to me and so good to me,” the 55-year-old said in the Netflix documentary.

The pair dated for a few years before calling it quits in the early 2000s. A decade later, the surfer said he learned a lot from that relationship.

“I have no resentment towards her. I wish him good luck. Hey, we had an amazing time together,” he told Metro in 2011.

On the Netflix show, Pamela revealed the relationship was casual and they were “together a lot of boyfriends and a lot of girlfriends for him too”.

“I used to date Kelly all the time,” she said, also calling the sportsman a “free spirit” that no one could tame.

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Pamela was dating Kelly when she married Tommy

In a startling revelation, the Barb Wire actress revealed she was dating the surfer when she married Mötley Crüe rocker Tommy Lee.

The couple met on New Year’s Eve 1994 in Hollywood but did not see each other for six weeks. Then they went on vacation to Cancun and got married.

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“It was absolutely love at first sight,” she told PEOPLE in 2015. “I only knew him four days before I married him.” However, she then had to tell Kelly that she was married.

“My first phone call was to tell him I was married. He’s like, ‘What?’” the star recalled to Netflix, describing the whole thing as “awful”.

The couple separated and the World Surf League champion had a daughter with a woman called Tamara Michelle before briefly dating Gisele Bundchen.

Now he has been with his girlfriend Kalani Miller for 15 years. The couple, who met in San Diego and had their first date in France, are unmarried and have no children.

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