PAMELA ANDERSON PLANS FULL TIME VEGAS MOVE AS SHE & HANS SAY TEARY GOODBYE
After six-months as a Vegas showgirl, busty blonde Pamela Anderson admits she’s completely hooked on performing live on-stage.
She admits she’s seriously thinking of leaving her Malibu home and relocating to Vegas with her children to launch her own new show. She has been playing the role of a magician’s assistant to Hans Klok in their The Beauty of Magic spectacular at the Planet Hollywood resort casino. Over the weekend the high-speed Dutch illusionist and his sexy sidekick ended the run as he prepares for a new nine-month European touring show.
“It’s not goodbye for us,” Hans told me. “Pamela and I already have made a date in February to be in Paris, and I’m hopeful she’ll surprise me and my audiences by dropping in one night to perform while I’m in Germany all of April.”
I was invited to join the dynamic duo backstage after their final performance, and in an exclusive one-on-one dressing room interview, Pamela told me: “This has been the best job in my career. It’s been a blast. I never thought I’d love being on stage so much. It’s a little sad that this is coming to an end, but a whole new chapter is about to begin. I’m really excited because Hans trained me and I’m now a professional Vegas showgirl ready for anything.”
For the first time, Pamela chatted candidly about her future plans.
“There have been big offers and we’re trying to figure it all out because it means I’ve got to move to Vegas. It really is so exciting. I’ve begun looking at schools here and everybody I’ve talked to has told me the same, that they love raising their kids here. Maybe it’s a very good thing for my children to move out of Malibu and spend a couple of years here in Vegas. It is an incredible city. I’ve had the kids with me every other weekend here in Vegas with me, and the other times it’s been very hard flying back and forth. I did that twice the past four days, so I wouldn’t miss their basketball games and school stuff. I’m thinking of moving to Vegas really seriously.
“I want to be able to do other ventures with Robert Earl who owns Planet Hollywood. We have an offer and we’re negotiating on it right now. It’s a big deal and I hoped we would know by tonight for the end of the show, but he’s said ‘give us by end of next week’ to get it done. I’m excited about my future in Vegas, though I will miss my Hans. We have a concept for a wonderful beautiful relaxed erotic show that’s also very tongue-in-cheek. We’re working with Gerry Mitchell, but I hope someday I will do something with my friend, photographer David LaChappelle. He’ll be jealous if I don’t. Honestly, we’re very excited about the show coming into Planet Hollywood. I know you’ll be shocked to hear I’m a little bit of an exhibitionist, but we’re going to play that up in the show. I know I’ve found my niche of being live on stage, particularly here in Vegas, so now I’m really going to have to have that apartment built at Panorama Towers they promised me.”
Said Hans: “What Pamela did for me was unbelievable. She became a great performer and we appeared on eight national TV shows, and I could never have gotten that without her. Six-months ago when I went to LA with my videos to ask her about the role, she surprised me. Within five minutes she said ‘I’m going to do this,’ and her lawyer and manager were so stunned they said, ‘lets think about it for a week,’ and she said ‘let’s do it now.’”
“The first show tonight was hard for me. I did think I was going to shed a tear. But the second and real final show was one big celebration because we finally succeeded in this huge theater. The room had its difficulties being so large, but it proved to be a great opportunity for me. Pamela really helped me because without her it would have been ‘who the hell is Hans Klok?’ She made the entire experience so exciting and enjoyable. Tonight I gave Pamela roses and she gave me tulips as I am from Holland. We came here with our regular European touring show and she did a great job of making it special for Vegas. It has been a privilege and an honor to perform in this city. The press on me changed from being negative to positive and now the next step is making a show especially for Vegas. We’d do it in an 800-seat theater instead of this giant space. We’ll make it even more over the top. I can’t say enough about how happy I am. Las Vegas really made us all feel so welcome. Siegfried & Roy have been wonderful ambassadors for Hans Klok, and Criss Angel has proved a very good friend. You’ve got a couple of great magicians here in Vegas already, but you really need 1 more, so we will be back.”
Hans has promised to join Pamela for Bette Midler’s opening night at Caesars Palace on February 20.
The night before their final show, both stars attended the official cast and crew wrap-party at the Blondie’s Sports bar in the Miracle Mile shops at Planet Hollywood. Then it was onto the new LAX nightclub in the Luxor where fellow magician Criss Angel was waiting for them.
The Mindfreak magician had a VIP table ready for the entire group, and he even showed a few tantalizing tricks of his own to Pamela. Criss, sipping on Montecristo rum and cola, took the club’s mic to salute Hans and Pamela and then stayed close to the blonde beauty for the remainder of the night - so close that by late last evening, scandalous internet gossip sites were abuzz about it.
However, whatever silly rubbish you hear, please don’t assume there’s anything clandestine going on! Pamela’s new husband, Rick Salomon flew in for Saturday’s closing shows and was in her dressing room when I met with her! After the final show they partied at the new Living Room ultra lounge in Planet Hollywood where they were joined by their friend, Chuck Zito along with Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jeremy Piven, basketball greats Charles Barkley, Reggie Miller, Pro Running Back and Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson, and hip-hop star Akon. Pamela and Rick will be back at LAX’s sister club PURE on New Year’s Eve to handle the midnight countdown and host the Jan 1 party until the sun comes up!