Carmen Electra, David Hasselhoff, Nicole Eggert and others reflect on Baywatch

[Music] action Baywatch is a fantasy Timeless iconic just going to let it all out now everyone tuned in to watch the show cuz you knew you were going to see someone sexy they had to wear next to nothing and it was hot it was a wild time and I was a wild chick I'm really proud of everything I've done almost bayat it was a show that took the 1990s by storm 1.2 billion people weekly that was the highest volume of viewers of any show ever in the history of Television every week viewers tuned in to see daring rescues carried out by Buff lifeguards take my ha and blonde Bombshells you know we took a lot of crap for those bathing suits running in slow motion but everybody [Music] watched everybody on the show had to be beautiful I mean everybody was pretty the show becoming a cultural Juggernaut there was a reference to Baywatch in almost everything that was a hit the Simpsons I heard it on Baywatch American Dad why were you keeping the exciting world of lifeguards from me friends hey they're running see this is the Brilliance of the show I'd say always keep them running Chandler on friends I think had a crush on Yas me run Yas me run like the wi and that's the kind of thing that helped BW watch become even more iconic now one of television's hottest shows is the subject of the ABC News Studios docu series after Baywatch moment in the Sun that looks beyond the beach what the cast says was really going on behind the scenes you're going up for a leaning role there are certain expectations about the way you have to look and that is it and that goes today be watch star Nicole edgert who played summer Quinn co-produced the four-part series these are not just pretty faces with great bodies and red bathing suits um these are human beings with a lot of depth and you know a lot of Personality that didn't really get its time the show track down more than 35 cast members to reflect on their bayat days like David Hasselhoff we're going to see a beautiful boat a beautiful day beautiful women semi goodlook guys and Carmen Electra I was doing things I never imagined I would do like tandem surfing I remember going up in the air and said make yourself look like a ballerina and then with perfect form I looked at the camera and waved and that is one of my proudest moments out there in the water Electra perfecting the Baywatch slow motion run I still run in slow motion for people it's become this worldwide thing car elect would actually show people how to do the slow motion run on shows like braavos Watch What Happens you run and you breathe and you kind of make it serious and I'm game I love it and I teach people how to do it there's a technique to it it's fun but it was Pamela Anderson who rode the Baywatch wave to superstardom Pamela Anderson had the light we saw the light shining from her eyes shining from the smile she moved to Los Angeles and started appear hearing on the cover of Playboy magazine before auditioning for Baywatch I was supposed to go to Baywatch auditions many many times but I thought Marina del re was really far away I'm not a very good driver and so I never went and so I was famous before I got there because I never showed up so she finally comes in and she was just wonderful she was bubbly and she was beautiful and charismatic and sexy Anderson landed the part of CJ Parker he watch was fantastic bringing my dog to work every day I couldn't believe that people paid me to go to work we caught more attention because of Pam our ratings went from 2.33 rating all the way up to a 10 rating so we tripled our ratings and we realized that we had something going here people watched her we all watched her I was never really an ambitious person and I didn't strive to be an actress or to be famous as all just seems so surreal it just seemed like one thing after another no matter where I went it just seemed like that's what I was meant to do Anderson's Fame only burned brighter when she met mly crew drummer Tommy Lee this was a time where people were obsessed with Pam and Tommy first she was Pamela Anderson then after a 4-day romance and a white bikini wedding she was Pamela Lee Pam these two were meant to be together Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee and that was just the beginning of a tumultuous and headline filled relationship filled with ups and downs my marriage was hard on everybody on Baywatch and that was kind of difficult on the set with the tester rois spinning out in the driveways and punching out cabinets and the makeup trailer and I think it was just hard on everybody we always had issues with Tommy Lee being jealous of Pam's relationship with other actors on the show the Tinder Box only became more explosive when the couple's private sex tape was stolen and released publicly it was a total invasion of our privacy and this is like sacred you know what is this is this is not meant to be on the shelves of Tower video right now you know how is this happening Pamela and Tommy were not the only source of controversy for the show Nicole edgert says the pressure to stay thin and beautiful was immense I was 19 20 years old I was much younger than the the rest of the cast when you're 19 20 years old like I didn't have to try I didn't work out you know it it just was like natural and I show up on set and they've got this red bathing suit and I've never worked out a day in my life and I I panicked I I couldn't believe that that's what I was going to be doing you know made me so insecure and just so uncomfortable I was considered curvy back then and there wasn't anything I could do about it I just had a behind on me and everybody else was these like teeny tiny skinny things there was a a CLA of couldn't gain couldn't lose 5 lbs you had to stay within your weight you know we had to stay fit we couldn't really get cellulite cuz it's going to show on camera so it's a lot of pressure it was a lot of pressure the men on the show under the same Spotlight I figured out early on in the show like wow the more fit you are the more episodes they're going to write for you the more fans you have the more money you're going to make it was like a self-fulfilling thing so I just embraced it I wanted to be super super fit I made sure I was men can be sexualized just as much as women and chokachi is a perfect example of that in the opening credits he's coming out of the water his muscles are popping out I think he puts his head back like this it was hot when we were filming on the beach we had a thing called the rolling six-pack we said rolling everybody hold it in and then we do the scene and they get cut and let it out no biceps okay next Baywatch created a situation which maybe was good or wasn't good that everybody's body was so ideal that it actually pushed the fitness craze because you wanted to be like these people or you didn't fit anymore Edgard who is currently battling breast cancer says the show was more than just those red bathing suits I wanted it to be just more in depth than that and for everybody to give their side of what their life is like instead of it being written about them but they will always have their moment in the sun cut print let's go I'm a Baywatch and I love it after bayat moment in the sun is streaming now on Hulu