The new lineup for Dancing With The Stars was announced, and apart from Kate Gosselin (who surely leaked the news ahead of the official list in order to get some more publicity mileage) it’s not half bad. And in “not half bad” I mean that I recognize most of the competitors’ names and am even interested in seeing some of them dance. First up is greasy has-been Pamela Anderson, who will incite the censors with her fabric-challenged outfits while trying to dance her way out of the trailer park. There’s also Bachelor Jake, who made his final choice last night, Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls, gold winning figure skater Evan Lysacek, and ESPN anchor and peeping tom victim, Erin Andrews. Here’s more:

It’s official: Kate Gosselin is headed back to television.

The 34-year-old mother-of-eight will compete on the ninth season of the ABC reality hit, it was announced Monday.

Her competition: Bachelor Jake Pavelka, Pamela Anderson; Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, soap star Aiden Turner, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, Shannen Doherty, Buzz Aldrin, Niecy Nash, Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger and Olympic skater Evan Lysacek.

[From US Weekly]

Many of you were rolling your eyes at the statements in Kate Gosselin’s Radar Online announcement yesterday. One that was particularly laughable: “the mom of 8 likely will do most of her practicing near her Pennsylvania home because she insists on putting her children first.” You know that the next step for Kate will be posing in a bikini on a magazine cover with “how I lost 15 pounds.” She’s just one step behind Nadya “I’m doing it all for my kids” Suleman.

As I said yesterday, I doubt Kate will be able to bring it anyway. I’m really rooting for Niecy Nash! I love her on Clean House and find her so much fun. I’m also interested in seeing Shannen Doherty after all this time. There are rumors that she’s been gunning for her own reality show to help revive her career, but DWTS will probably do much more for her if she’s able to pull it off with grace and a good attitude.

Looking through photos of the other contestants, I have to say that Chad Ochocinco is one gorgeous man! (The bald African American guy, below.) Aiden Turner isn’t bad, but he looks like one of the “Jersey Shore” cast with that spiky hair.

Photo credit: WENN.com except for photos of Erin Andrews and Kate Gosselin, credit: PRPhotos

When Pamela Anderson made an appearance in New Zealand on Friday morning (there), she decided it would be classy to show everyone her ass crack. Because we’ve never seen it before, I guess. Maybe that was her rationale, that we need to see her ass every few years, just to remind us what “sketchy” looks like. I’m not sure if what happened could be considered a “wardrobe malfunction” because it seems like Pamela preplanned it. She was wearing one of her own designs (“You too can show your plumber’s butt”) for her fashion line A Muse. Oh! She was also wearing some kind of dingy, saggy thong that didn’t really hide anything. So. Gross.

Anyway, I hope Pam’s fashion line sells well, because she’s up to her sketchy thong in debt, according to Star Magazine. According to their sources – who sound pretty legit – Pam has a “mind-boggling total of liens filed against her” by multiple construction companies, and the state of California. Her total debt is $1.2 million, and it comes from doing multiple extensive renovations of her five-bedroom, three-bath Cape-Cod style Malibu home.

“It’s a bad situation,” Bruder Construction’s boss Jay Bruder tells Star. “A lot of people are owed a lot of money.” His lien again Pamela, filed in June, totals $674,043 for the cost “labor, materials and subcontractors to remodel main house, construct swimming pool and foundations for guest house” all in 2008-09.

Pamela’s problems are compounded by a lien filed in March by California’s Franchise Tax Board that claims she owes $252,360 in unpaid income tax from 2007.

If these claims are valid, Pamela may have to sell her house – valued at $6 million – to cover her debts.

“Her creditors do have some recourse to get their money back,” says Steve Cron, a random attorney. “That cold include going to court and having the property foreclosed on, forcing her to sell her house to pay them off. It’s a long, cumbersome process, but it can be done.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 5 2009]

The article goes on to say that Pamela barely has any money coming in. In the past two years, she’s had her brief E! reality show, a few appearances in low-budget movies, the Australian Big Brother, and the now-cancelled Kath & Kim. But! Pam does have a perfume coming out this November – so, mark your calendars if you want to smell like cocoa butter and tragedy. And she’s got this fashion line. Ugh. Maybe it’s time Pam got her real estate license.

Ordinarily, I don’t really give a crap who or what Pamela Anderson is doing. I’m not invested in her or her leathery implants. But I am enjoying the pictures of Pam and her boyfriend of someodd nine months. His name is Jamie Padgett, and he’s a surfer/electrician. I’ve been sitting here trying to think of some joke about electricians and Pamela, but the best I could come up with is “Did they meet when he came over to fix her vibrator?” See, that sucks. Especially considering how they actually met – in a trailer park! There were some rumors that Pamela and Jamie were going to get married back in April (because I think Pamela is the kind of old-fashioned girl who has to marry every guy she bangs – seriously), but nothing came of it. I thought this guy was new, just because their romance has been somewhat low-key. And because it seems “new” to People:

They say water and electricity don’t mix, but for eternal beach bunny Pamela Anderson, there’s nothing like taking a dip in the ocean with new surfer boyfriend Jamie Padgett.

A bikini-clad Anderson, 42, was spotted out at the beach in Malibu with her buff boyfriend, who’s an electrician. The pair reportedly met a few months ago at a trailer park where the former wife of Kid Rock was staying while work was being done on her house.

Since then, the pair have been spotted out with her kids, having lunch everywhere from Malibu to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and – of course – at the beach.

Reportedly their first date: a ride to the beach on Padgett’s golf cart.

[From People]

Am I alone in finding this guy a little hot? I mean, I totally would never, ever take Pamela’s sloppy seconds, but this guy is nice to look at. Of course, I’m not really looking at his face. His face looks a little… I don’t know, like, he used to be pretty, now he’s just kind of rough. His body is bangin’ though. He’s stacked.

In one other piece of Pamela news, Page Six is reporting that Pam’s new PETA ad has been denied by CNN’s Airport Network. According to Page Six, “A new anti-fur, anti-leather commercial starring Pamela Anderson as a scantily clad airport security guard who strips passengers of animal products is too racy for CNN Airport Network.” Apparently, CNN was thinking of the children. The children would have been warped. That’s reasonable. In related news, I had a nightmare about Kate Gosselin last night. Hand to God, she was giving me the most violent waxing of my life.

Pamela Anderson and Jamie Padgett are shown on 9/7/09. Credit: INFPhoto.com

Lindsay Lohan’s maybe off-again ex, Samantha Ronson, tweeted from a DJ gig on Saturday night that she was less than happy with the fact that she was working at a strip club. Promoters who hired her gave the impression that it was just a nightclub, not a topless gentlemen’s club. Shannen Doherty also expressed her surprise that the place was a strip club while Pamela Anderson probably knew about it ahead of time since she looked like she was trying to compete with the talent.

Next time, these stars will be reading the fine print!

Samantha Ronson, Pamela Anderson and Shannen Doherty were not too pleased when they found out they were headed to a strip club Tuesday night.

They all signed on to attend the grand opening of Sapphire Gentleman’s Club in NYC without realizing there would be topless dancers and bodypainted performers.

Ronson — who recently broke up with girlfriend Lindsay Lohan — was visibly angry for having to DJ at the event.

“Sam feels she got tricked into performing,” a source told Usmagazine.com the day of the party. “She didn’t know it was a strip club. She doesn’t want to go on tonight!”

In fact, she wrote on her Twitter page that she was not aware that the party was at a strip club when she signed on.

“Note to self: read the whole email … before saying yes to DJ gigs,” she wrote. “Sapphire??? Oops!”

Ronson, who refused to pose for photos or do interviews, worked the DJ booth as Sapphire dancers performed provocatively right in front of her. Still, Ronson focused on her music and did not look at the performers once.

“The silver lining to my night — it has never been more appropriate for me to play ‘Make it Rain,’” Ronson wrote on her Twitter page later in the evening.

Shannen Doherty was equally as surprised by the venue.

“I had no idea it was a strip club!” Doherty, who left after 45 minutes, told Us. “They told me it was a restaurant or club, so I was kind of in shock.”

Also in attendance that night was Pamela Anderson, who kept to herself in a roped-off booth. Her security guard told Us that she wanted to be “left alone.”

[From US Weekly]

The NY Post also covered this story, but claimed that all the dancers stayed clothed until Ronson finished her set. They added the obnoxious detail that a stripper claimed “We were told she’s so girl-crazy, she can’t concentrate if we strip.” Ronson responded to this article on Twitter, saying “that’s retarded- they booked me telling me it was a regular club, not a strip club- i prefer people who i dj for to wear tops.” You can’t blame her for being annoyed if it wasn’t what she thought she signed up for.

The celebrities must not follow the news as much as we do as I remember reading a couple weeks ago that the place was a dual steak house/strip club. Ten to one Anderson knew ahead of time, though. The PETA advocate was getting mocked in the press for her hypocrisy at planning to attend the opening of a steakhouse. The fact that boobs were also on the menu was probably incidental.

Photos are of Anderson, Ronson and Doherty at the stripsteakhouse opening on 4/27/09 (credit: SCP/ Fame Pictures), and Ronson in a skull shirt out on 4/28/09 (credit: FPZ/Fame Pictures)

Pamela Anderson has been looking pretty damn beat lately. And not “beat” as in tired, “beat” as in… looking like sh*t. Sure, I could put it more kindly, but frankly to phrase it any other way would be dishonest. Look at these pictures and tell me she doesn’t look like sh*t. Alright, so there we go.

Well Pammie finally got a bit of a makeover. Now keep in mind this is all relative, so don’t be expecting anything drastic. There’s only so much you can do without taking an industrial sander to her face.

AU NATUREL is not a word I’d usually associate with PAMELA ANDERSON.

But in reality it’s one that the outrageous Playboy bunny should take note of.

The actress and model looked as fresh as a daisy in barely-there make-up, bouncy hair and plain white tee as she joined forces with designer pal RICHIE RICH to announce their new clothing range Muse at a lunctime press conference in Miami.

It’s just a shame that a few hours later the star felt the need to pile the war paint back on.

The ex Baywatch star looked more drag queen than beach babe as she shone from the front row of Richie’s fashion show in heavy make-up, a tie-dye revealing dress and unsavoury black heels.

The event – which later saw Pammi grace the catwalk – was part of Miami Rock’s Fashion week held at the beach resort’s famous Fontainebleu Hotel.

[From the Sun]

So I guess it was more of a make-under than over. The Sun is right, she really does look better in the photos for the press conference than she does at the fashion show. Though I’m not sure I’d go so far to call her black heels “unsavory” but they weren’t doing her any favors. And she still looks a hell of a lot better in her worst photo here than she did in her best a few months ago.

Pam needs to chill on the eyeliner and lay off the tweezers. And the lip liner. Really, she needs to stay away from makeup on the whole. It couldn’t possibly make her look any worse, so she’s got nothing to lose. She appears so much prettier here with light makeup. If she weren’t posing in such a slutty manner, she’d even look cute at her press conference. And she needs to stop wearing so much white. That’s all I’ve seen her photographed in for months, and now I’m starting to associate it with crusty orange women instead of its original sweetness. And pants would be nice.

Images thanks to WENN .

Pamela Anderson was a gold bedazzled mess on the runway for fashion designer Richie Rich in New York yesterday. The former Baywatch babe, now 41, strutted her stuff in a tight butt-baring v-neck gold bathing suit adorned with jeweled stars. Is it sad or just business that Anderson continues to get attention for showing us the extent of her personal waxing?

Anderson has reportedly moved into a mobile home with her new boyfriend, a surfer and electrician she met while she had to live in a trailer park temporarily while waiting for renovations to her home. She is said to be in love with the guy and to have introduced him to her sons:

The former Baywatch star is reportedly living in a mobile home with new lover Jamie Padgett, who is a surfer and electrician, in Malibu.

A source said: “Pam is staying with him in the Paradise Cove trailer park while her house is renovated.”

Three-times divorced Pamela, 41, met Jamie at the end of January and soon introduced him to her sons, Brandon, 12 and Dylan, 11.

The source added: “Pam and the kids joined Jamie and his sons – who are around Brandon and Dylan’s age – on his boat in Paradise Cove at the weekend. They spent most of the time on the beach with their kids. They are really happy together.”

Pamela is said to have fallen “head over heels” with Jamie because of his clean living ways – in stark contrast to Pamela’s ex-husbands: Motley Crue rocker rocker Tommy Lee, who is also the father of her children, rapper Kid Rock and professional poker player and pornographer Rick Salomon.

A friend said: “She is more in love than I have ever seen her before. He’s a totally moral, nice, normal guy.

[From Stuff.co.nz]

It is worth noting that Anderson isn’t living in a typical trailer park – she’s in “Paradise Cove,” which was one of the high end trailer parks on the Pacific Ocean profiled in a 2005 piece in the NY Times. Mobile homes in that area used to go for a million and up during the real estate boom. Minnie Driver also lives in Paradise Cove. It’s kind of fitting to think of Anderson living in a mobile home community, but it’s not quite what you might assume despite the way she carries herself.

Considering that no-pants-wearing Pamela Anderson married Rick Salomon, and Kid Rock, this sounds possible. The 41 year-old mother of two is said to have met her latest boyfriend in a trailer park where she was temporarily living while her home was undergoing renovations:

Actress Pamela Anderson has found love in an unlikely place – she’s dating scuba diver Jamie Padgett after meeting him in a California trailer park. The former Baywatch beauty was forced to temporarily move into a mobile home in Malibu last November (08) while her luxury Los Angeles mansion was being refurbished.

And that’s where she met her latest love.

A close pal tells Us Weekly magazine, “She is more in love than I have ever seen her before.”

The insider claims Anderson was most attracted to Padgett’s personality – because he is so different from her rocker ex-husbands Tommy Lee and Kid Rock.

The source adds, “He’s a totally moral, nice, normal guy. She is completely head over heels.”

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At first you might wonder why Pammy didn’t stay in a hotel, but I recently moved house, and while my furniture was in transit I stayed in a trailer park (euphemistically called a ‘holiday park’) because it was more kid friendly. It was a more upmarket version than what first springs to mind, and it had a pool, playground, and a three bedroom cabin. It was also just around the corner from my kids school. I can see why a mother of two young kids might want to stay somewhere with those kind of facilities.

Some of the trailer parks in Malibu are very upscale, with trailers that retail for up to a million. Actress Minnie Driver lives in a “trailer park” which has a private beachfront for residents and ocean views.

As for Anderson’s latest romance, it will probably last just about as long as she lives in the same neighborhood as the guy.

Pamela Anderson is shown partying at Primal Nightclub in Atlanta, Georgia on 1/24/09. As far as I know that is not Padgett with her. Credit: WENN

Pamela Anderson attended an art opening for her friend photographer David LaChappelle at Art Basel in Miami. The usual attire for such events is dressy casual, like a cocktail dress or a blazer over jeans. Anderson could have worn a tight low-cut short number and would have still looked borderline appropriate. Instead she wore a knit cap, a messy off the shoulder t-shirt with a devil’s face on it, and bright orange and black panties. She was said to have drawn stares and there are even photos of people looking at her wondering what the hell she’s wearing. Fox News’ Pop Tarts reports that she loved the attention:

The former “Baywatch” babe raised plenty of eyebrows on Saturday afternoon when she showed up to an Uber-posh art gallery event as part of Art Basel Miami Beach looking like she just rolled out-of-bed. Pamela donned only a pair of black and orange underpants with an off-the-shoulder shirt, topped off with a woolly beanie over her unbrushed blonde locks.

According to an insider, Anderson (who was accompanied by “Limp Bizkit” frontman Fred Durst, whom she dated back in 2003) seemed to enjoy the jaw-dropping stares and the fact she was getting much more attention than other guests including another Durst ex Paris Hilton as well as David LaChapelle and British designer Vivienne Westwood.

Sure Pammie has a bangin’ body, but we can’t help but wonder what her sons (aged 10 and 11) must think when they read stories about their mother partying in her panties, jumping out of a birthday cake naked for Hugh Hefner and calling fellow Hollywood hottie Jessica Simpson a “whore” on-air — all things she’s done this year alone. Last New Years Eve, Anderson even told Tarts that she’d left her boys to watch TV in her Sin City hotel room while she boosted the bank balance by hosting a wild night at hotspot PURE.

[From Fox News' Pop Tarts]

Anderson could have worn one of those tiny one piece white jumpsuit things she’s been seen out in, but people would have only looked her over once. She needed to really look messy to get some attention this time, and she did it. What the hell kind of purse is that? It might fit with a more put together look, but Anderson is really scraping the bottom of the barrel – especially if she brought Fred Durst with her. Those marks on her arm are some kind of birthmark and aren’t bruises as she’s had them for years. She’s not above showing them off and looking like crap in order to get some buzz going though. It’s a better strategy than getting married and divorced in a matter of weeks.

Photo credit: WENN

Pamela Anderson, 41, was good and soused on champagne at a club in Toronto a couple of weeks ago when she decided it would be a good idea to start making out with Mickey Rourke, 52. [Wiki lists his age as 56, IMDB, 52.] Rourke is a minor male celebrity with a face that’s very obviously surgically altered. If you’re really drunk and the lighting is dim, he might look absolutely normal, though. And his proximity to you on the couch could somehow lead you to believe that fate has brought you together and you may as well take advantage of the moment. Of course the same could be said of Anderson.

Pamela Anderson got hot and heavy with a surprising new man while at the Century Room nightclub in Toronto on September 9: actor Mickey Rourke. “Pam was drinking a lot of champagne and then she started getting close to Mickey,” an onlooker tells In Touch. The actor – in Toronto to promote his new movie The Wrestler – didn’t seem to mind the attention. “All of a sudden they started kissing!” the onlooker adds. “The looked into each other’s eyes.”

Although a rep for Mickey, 52, denies the hookup, an insider believes it was only a one-time thing.

“The hookup was nothing serious,” the insider tells In Touch.

[From In Touch, print edition, September 29, 2008]

It seems like every few weeks you hear of two celebrities making out that you might assume don’t know each other, but who make sense when you think of it. Anderson and Rourke are two people you could definitely picture together, rubbing their fake faces all over each other, the reshaped parts bumping and grinding as they try and get some respite from reality in the sunset of their careers.

Pamela Anderson knows that her face just isn’t holding up, in part because of the results of aging, but mainly due to her maudlin efforts to preserve it, so she’s doing what she knows best – distracting us with her still-great body. At 41, the vegetarian and former Baywatch babe is still hot from the neck down and she knows it. The rest of her could be consistently lovely with the help of a competent makeup artist, but she refuses to vary her overly-penciled look. It’s hardly noticeable with the rest of her body on display.

Anderson stripped down to a bikini and jumped around for a short while before a commercial break on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show in a segment to air today. Anderson is promoting her E! reality show Pam: Girl On The Loose, which still has about three episodes left out of 8 this season. It has received mostly negative reviews.

As for the rumors that she’s dating Michael Jackson, Anderson said he’s just interested in featuring her in a video. I guess we know that Jackson is aiming for a comeback of sorts, then:

“He just wants me to be in a video,” she said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (airing Wednesday) when asked about their recent meeting. “My life is so interesting. My life is a blur.”

“So seriously, have you been hanging out with him?” DeGeneres asked.

“It happens … skin cancer and Vicodin,” she replied cryptically. “I don’t know … I have a lot of interesting friends.”

She added that she is living with ex Tommy Lee again, but when DeGeneres asked if she was “getting any,” she sighed, “no.”

While on the show, Anderson took time out to congratulate DeGeneres on her recent wedding to Portia de Rossi.

“I hope it works,” she told her. “We lost another soldier. I’m impressed, and you guys are a gorgeous couple.”

When DeGeneres told her they’d be married exactly 27 days, Anderson (who famously split from Rick Salomon after two months) replied, “27 days is about halfway over for me.”

[From US Magazine]

Anderson knows who she is and what she does best. The public, however, is not as interested as it used to be.

Thanks to E! Online for this video clip.

Pamela Anderson is shown promoting her show in Australia on 8/28/08. Credit: Fame Pictures