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The Original Baywatch Cast: Then And Now
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Jeremy Jackson (Hobie Buchannon): As a child star, Jackson was the second young actor to play Mitch’s son Hobie. His career since has been chequered, trying to make it as a musician, but best known for struggling with a drugs problem, which he says started while he was still on the show. Last year, he was kicked off 'Celebrity Big Brother’ after four days for opening housemate Chloe Goodman’s dressing gown. He was later cautioned by Hertfordshire Police.
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Yasmine Bleeth (Caroline Holden): Former pin-up Yasmine Bleeth played Caroline Holden in the show, in seasons five to seven. After 'Baywatch’, she starred in a host of TV movies, and played Caitlin Cross in 'Nash Bridges’. She dated 'Friends’ star Matthew Perry for a time, but is sadly better known for her struggles with cocaine addiction. In 2002, she was given two years probation for possession and driving while impaired, and completed a stint of community service. Now clean, she’s since written about her 'drugs hell’, and her struggles to remain sober.
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Erika Eleniak (Shauni McClain): On the show playing lifeguard Shauni McClain from 1989 to 1992, the former child star (she was the girl Elliott kissed in the classroom scene in 'E.T.’) continued to act, appearing in movies like 'Under Siege’ with Steven Seagal, and 'The Beverly Hillbillies’. Consequent movie projects were more of the 'straight to DVD’ variety, however. She’s linked to the lead in a new project about the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.
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Billy Warlock (Eddie Kramer): Warlock’s Eddie Kramer started out troubled, then came good, eventually hooking up with Erika Eleniak’s Shauni. He left the show after three seasons (but appearing in one episode of spin-off 'Baywatch Nights’), and has since become a staple on US soaps, notably 'Days of Our Lives’, 'The Young and the Restless’ and 'General Hospital’.
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Parker Stevenson (Craig Pomeroy): Original cast-member Parker Stevenson – who played Craig Pomeroy – had form before 'Baywatch’, starring in 'Stroker Ace’ with Burt Reynolds. He was also married to 'Cheers’ star Kirstie Allie. These days he’s a professional photographer.
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Shawn Weatherly (Jill Riley): A former Miss USA and Miss Universe, Weatherly played lifeguard Jill Riley in the first season of the show. After her stint in 'Baywatch’ ended, she appeared in shows like 'Murder, She Wrote’ and 'Chicago Hope’. After a long break, she’s returned to acting, appearing in comedy-horror 'Love In The Time Of Monsters’ last year, the title being a slightly odd play on 'Love In The Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Pamela Anderson (CJ Parker): As lifeguard CJ Parker, Anderson became a pin-up for teenage boys across the globe. She became a Playboy Playmate, married Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee, made one of the most notorious sex tapes of all time, starred in movies like 'Barb Wire’, but is perhaps best known today for her animal rights campaigning for PETA. Good for her.
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David Hasselhoff (Mitch Buchannon): After 'Knight Rider’ and 'Baywatch’, the man behind former Navy SEAL Mitch Buchannon became a kind of professional David Hasselhoff. He’s starred in movies ('Dodgeball’, 'The Spongebob Squarepants Movie’), performed on stage ('Chicago’), been a talent show judge (Britain’s Got Talent’), a reality star (A&E’s 'The Hasselhoffs’), pursued a music career ('Looking For Freedom’) and become a strange, almost fictionalised version of himself. Long may he prosper.
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With the news that Sports Illustrated model Kelly Rohrbach is to take on the role of CJ in the Dwanye Johnson-starring reboot of ‘Baywatch’ (the role originally played by Pamela Anderson), we thought it only right to have a little look at what the stars of the 80s lifeguard action series are getting up to these days.