After Baywatch director Matthew Felker reveals REAL reason why Pamela Anderson refused to appear on new Hulu docuseries

The manager of the caller Hulu docuseries connected iconic 90s TV play Baywatch has revealed the existent crushed down alum Pamela Anderson's lack aft the histrion claimed she refused to look connected the amusement due to the fact that it would beryllium a measurement backwards successful her career. 

The glory years of the fashionable enactment bid person been brought backmost to beingness successful deed documentary After Baywatch: Moment successful the Sun, which explores what happened to the show's stars erstwhile the cameras stopped rolling.

David Hasselhoff appears, arsenic does the inactive glamorous Carmen Electra. 

Also connected committee is Nicole Eggert, who contempt suffering from bosom cancer, was 1 of the driving forces down the project.

There excessively is Jeremy Jackson, who played Hasselhoff's lad successful the series, and has precocious been backmost successful the quality aft his ex-wife was photographed surviving unsmooth successful Venice Beach.

But the astir recognizable sanction is missing. Pamela Anderson, the archetypal Baywatch bombshell who last week dramatically distanced herself from the project.

Ramping up the drama, successful existent Baywatch style, she told Glamour mag past month: 'They begged everybody astir me. They tried to get my kids to speech maine into it. They said they'd springiness them shaper credits.

'I mean, they were trying everything. And I said, "No, I truly don't privation to spell backwards".'

But that, says manager Matthew Felker, 44, isn't wholly true.

A genial blonde who looks similar helium could person starred successful the amusement himself, Felker says the existent hurdle was currency – portion pointing retired that the 57-year-old is managed by her children.

'I did talk to her lad – who is besides her manager – and it wasn't a no. At archetypal it was "how high?" and that's fine,' helium said successful an exclusive interrogation with DailyMail.com.

'Then erstwhile I go, what bash you mean? They're similar "a lot" [of money.] I asked however overmuch is simply a lot? What does that mean?

'I'm not conscionable going to propulsion a fig up. It's not professional. I'm conscionable not going to bash it.'

He added: 'I deliberation Pamela's got a large story, but unfortunately, she [already] told her communicative for me.

'We had talked connected and disconnected with aggregate radical that grip her, who are friends with her. We did spell each azygous route. There's a batch of information to that.

'I ne'er had a nonstop speech with Pamela. I ne'er offered her children a shaper recognition and I'm the lone idiosyncratic that could connection her children shaper credit.'

Anderson's lack from the bid and the ensuing play is the main alert successful Felker's ointment which comes aft helium spent 5 years and thousands of dollars of his ain wealth getting After Baywatch made and connected to the tiny screen.

The exemplary turned manager lives successful a $12million Malibu location with his glamorous New Zealand-born woman Elizabeth, a erstwhile soap actress.

The mates stock the modernist cream-painted house, which is conscionable a fewer miles from Zuma Beach wherever Baywatch was filmed, with 2 dogs, a tiny chihuahua and Felker's rescue canine Rosie.

After an aboriginal vocation successful modeling, which included playing Britney Spears's emotion involvement successful the 2003 smash-hit Toxic, Felker began moving into accumulation – racking up a drawstring of credits connected movies and made-for-TV movies, arsenic good arsenic appearing arsenic himself connected 2018 documentary The American Meme.

A scriptwriter since his assemblage days, Felker had besides begun to imagination of directing and producing films of his ain but ne'er rather managed to marque the switch.

That each changed during a miserable travel to Lake Tahoe with Elizabeth six years ago. 

'I told him, you can't beryllium the Toxic feline forever,' she told DailyMail.com. 'You've got to benignant yourself out.'

She added: 'He didn't similar maine precise overmuch for a portion aft I said that.'

The effect was four-part docuseries After Baywatch which takes a heavy dive into the lives of the show's stars aft the TV juggernaut yet came to an extremity successful 2001.

According to Felker, galore of the actors progressive needed immoderate persuasion to look owed to them having moved connected from the amusement and its shallow glamor.

'You each commencement determination and there's thing to beryllium ashamed of,' says Felker. 

'There's thing to beryllium ashamed astir being successful a Britney Spears video.

'It's similar it was cool, it was an iconic video. There's thing to beryllium ashamed of astir being successful Baywatch.

'It wasn't an Oscar-winning production, but it was a immense portion of popular culture, and I deliberation you should thin into those things.'

Nevertheless, the immense bulk of the show's stars bash look – among them the biggest of them all, David Hasselhoff.

He was 1 of the precise fewer to beryllium paid and has an enforcement shaper recognition but, says Felker, became disillusioned with the task for a clip due to the fact that making it took truthful long.

He said: 'He's of this procreation wherever you bash a documentary, you crook it retired successful 3 weeks, 2 shoots, similar edit, let's go.

'So he's like, what is this thing? What is this? Is it real? I'm like, well, my slope connection says it's existent arsenic it depletes.'

Felker added: 'As clip went on, I deliberation helium mislaid a batch of anticipation successful it. Then we had a competing task that past started happening due to the fact that we were doing it.

'He was like, "well, I'll conscionable bash it. I'm going to bash it now".'

Despite that, Felker says helium has nary hard feelings wherever either Hasselhoff oregon Anderson are acrophobic – noting helium took pains to archer their stories arsenic accurately arsenic possible.

His favourite stories though, were those of the smaller stars successful the Baywatch firmament, among them that of Michael Newman, the lone existent lifeguard successful the series, who talks astir the interaction that a 2006 diagnosis of Parkinson's has had connected his life.

Another favourite is Jackson, present 43, to whom helium became close. 

'Jeremy's communicative is truly important,' says Felker. 

'There's a batch of disapproval and judgement astir him, which is conscionable not based successful reality.

'He's acknowledged [his past cause addiction] and helium owns his behavior, but he's a occurrence communicative due to the fact that he's not that idiosyncratic anymore.'

Felker told DailyMail.com that Jackson has tried to assistance ex-wife Loni Willison but has had small occurrence owed to her intelligence wellness and ongoing cause addiction.

He said: 'The miss has terrible intelligence illness. It's not his responsibility that she has terrible intelligence illness. 

'She wants and chooses to beryllium homeless. He didn't thrust her to beryllium homeless.

'It's a pugnacious happening for him due to the fact that helium is ace empathetic. You wouldn't deliberation truthful due to the fact that he's this jacked, bearded similar upland antheral feline that looks similar a MMA fighter.

'He's ace delicate and helium reads each that worldly [about Willison] and it really truly hurts his feelings.

'But due to the fact that of what helium looks like, radical presume he's a monster.'

Felker is present moving connected a documentary with Dita von Teese which helium is producing, but inactive loves Baywatch and says helium thinks the archetypal bid remains a amusement to beryllium arrogant of, contempt the brickbats astatine the time.

He said: 'When you're getting made amusive of and connected Saturday Night Live and everyone's ripping you, you did thing right.

'You are not going to triumph the Emmy, but you made a hit. And you should beryllium arrogant of that. It's amended than making a amusement that wins an Emmy that cipher watches.

'It conscionable depends connected what your outlook is connected it. But I would beryllium precise arrogant if I was immoderate 1 of the actors that were a portion of it, oregon immoderate of the creators that created it, due to the fact that it was decidedly lightning successful a vessel for a decennary and a generation. I deliberation it defined my procreation for sure.'