Pamela Anderson visiting Australia, challenges PM Scott Morrison on Assange

Former Baywatch star is coming to the Gold Coast for a special project – and she’s determined to shirtfront a high profile individual while she’s here.

Pamela Anderson wants a piece of Prime Minister Scott Morrison when she’s on the Gold Coast next month and is still fuming at “smutty” remarks over her Julian Assange support.

The ex-Baywatch star and Playboy cover favourite, a longtime supporter of Wikileaks founder Assange, is coming to Australia to star in the next TV ad of roadside assist giant Ultra Tune.

Former Baywatch star, model and actress Pamela Anderson is on her way to the Gold Coast next month and is calling out Prime Minister Scott Morrison: “Mr Morrison made a series of personally, disparaging remarks about me and I’d like to challenge him to debate this matter in front of the Australian people.” AFP PHOTO DDP/TORSTEN SILZ GERMANY OUT

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Anderson told the Bulletin from her Vancouver Island home: “What is also important to me about this visit is the opportunity to speak to the Australian people and petition Prime Minister Morrison to intervene on behalf of Australian citizen, Julian Assange, who is being made a scapegoat of and suffered inhumanely for disseminating factual information we all should know about.

“Mr Morrison made a series of personally, disparaging remarks about me and I’d like to challenge him to debate this matter in front of the Australian people.”

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison declined to comment. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett)

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Late last year, after Anderson called on Mr Morrison to “get Julian his passport back and take him back to Australia and be proud of him”, the Prime Minister told a radio station he had “plenty of mates who’ve asked me if they can be my special envoy to sort the issue out with Pamela Anderson”.

Pamela Anderson has taken a swipe at Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison ahead of her trip to the Gold Coast next month, challenging him to do more for incarcerated WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

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She accused him of “smutty, unnecessary comments about a woman voicing her political opinion”.

Then Federal Minister for Women Kelly O’Dwyer was forced to apologise, saying Mr Morrison “probably regrets the comments he made and I certainly know from a discussion that he didn’t mean to cause any offence”.

Asked if he would accept Anderson’s challenge to a debate about Assange, Mr Morrison declined to comment.

Assange, imprisoned in London for a historic bail breach, is languishing behind bars until an extradition hearing next year and his health is said to be deteriorating.

In this file photo taken on May 01, 2019 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures from the window of a prison van as he is driven out of Southwark Crown Court in London, after having been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions in 2012. Picture: AFP

Anderson, being paid a rumoured six figures by Ultra Tune, will join the controversial TV ad series’ honour roll of Jean Claude Van Damme, Mike Tyson and Charlie Sheen.

The ads typically involve a male star saving buxom female drivers in strife – and attract an avalanche of Ad Standards complaints.

This time gender roles will be reversed with Anderson rescuing former AFL star turned larrikin Warwick Capper on a Gold Coast beach.

Pamela Anderson will star in the next TV ad of car repair and roadside assist giant Ultra Tune being shot on a Gold Coast beach next month.

Anderson said of the Ultra Tune ‘Unexpected Situations’ commercials: “I see them for what they are; tongue in cheek hyper-reality and comedic. Having seen the concept for this next edition of Unexpected Situations, I think this will take the comedy to a whole new level.”

Gold Coast-based Ultra Tune executive director Sean Buckley said Anderson was a perfect fit for his brand.

Ultra Tune Executive Director Sean Buckley with Charlie Sheen in Melbourne last year ahead of filming for an Ultra Tune ad which was later banned from TV.

“She’s sassy, smart, funny, beautiful and a true crusader for women’s rights. Some of our commercials have been called sexist and out of touch supposedly portraying women in an outdated manner as victims with men always saving them.

“This time Pamela will be the hero. Let’s see if the politically correct brigade still get their knickers in a knot when a woman saves the day.”

Pamela Anderson on Baywatch - she has also graced the cover of Playboy more than anyone in its history.