Pamela debuts in Aladdin

Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has kicked off her stint in pantomime, playing the Genie of the Lamp in a production of Aladdin at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre.

Theatre critics were in the audience to give their verdict on how the US personality coped with her debut performance in a very British tradition.

The 42-year-old actress was also pictured tucking into a portion of chips at a nearby pub after her first night.

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Experimental theatre took a new turn last night when that well known double act, Pamela Anderson, made her debut in the specialist genre of British pantomime. Miss Anderson, the sometime Baywatch star and pneumatic beachwear model, is as Californian as they come. Panto could not be more British.

So did they mesh? Did they hit it off? Did they bounce as one?

Not quite. But it didn’t really matter. This show is a gaudy, vulgar riot.

She gabbles on stage, waves her arms around, fluffs out her custard coloured hair, shrouds herself in some skimpy wrap and keeps giving a wannabe Hollywood star smile at the crowd.

Oh, I suppose it’s pretty awful rubbish, really, and yet it works.

It works because she shows she’s a decent sport, prepared to send herself up in a Carry On film way and it works, because, at 41 years of age, she is still perky enough to represent a challenge to that old panto cry of ‘behind you!’

Because with Pamela they are most definitely ‘in front of you!’

Well done, Pam. Welcome to British vaudeville.

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