Pamela Anderson secretly sang background vocals on chart-topping Mariah Carey hit: 'Extremely talented'

Pamela Anderson is a woman of many talents, and it turns out that singing is one of them.

According to music producer Damion 'Damizza' Young, the Baywatch star secretly provided background vocals for Mariah Carey's 2001 hit Loverboy.

Recalling how the unlikely collaboration came about, Young told the TFU Podcast that it started after Carey and Anderson became friends in the early 2000s.

'So I go to the studio to finish up the recording of Loverboy, and Mariah says, "Pam's coming by to do backgrounds",' he said.

'I'm a huge Baywatch fan, so I'm like, "Pamela Anderson's coming by?! Oh, hell yeah!" So the next thing I know we're poppin champagne and she's like, "What do you want me to do?"'

Young then praised Anderson's surprisingly good vocal chops.

'Pam Anderson can sing. And she's one of the smartest people I have ever met in my life,' he gushed, before adding, 'The dumb blonde thing is an act.'

Released in 2001, Loverboy reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 while the official remix with Da Brat and Ludacris hit No. 1 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

While most people are unaware that Anderson's vocals are on the track, the former Playboy model did previously open up about the song while co-hosting the World Music Awards in 2014.

'I did background vocals on her album,' Anderson said on stage. 'I was the "Whoooo!" That was me.'

Working with Carey isn't the first time that Anderson has had to sing.

The blonde bombshell previously played Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway back in 2022.

Fans were stunned by the news of Anderson's Mariah Carey collaboration, with one commenting, 'This is the most random thing I’ve heard in months!'

Another wrote, 'If you’ve ever seen her in Chicago, she's extremely talented! And yes, she can definitely sing.'

In recent years, Anderson has made strides to grow her acting career. 

In 2024, she won widespread critical acclaim for her lead role in the drama The Last Showgirl.

She then appeared alongside Liam Neeson in the comedy The Naked Gun and will next be seen in the arthouse film Rosebush Pruning with Elle Fanning. 

Anderson is also set to star in a new project from award-winning Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó called Place to Be. 

With her career going so well, Anderson has made it clear that she has no interest in pursuing a romantic relationship any time soon.

'I just want to unleash the dragon. I don't need anybody in my way. I want to get it out. It happens at different times in everybody's life, and this is my time,' she told Another Magazine. 

'There's that great Osho quote – "The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love." That's where I'm at right now,' she continued. 

'Every once in a while I'll have a flirtation or somebody will want to have dinner or talk about the future and it's titillating. It's like, "OK, I'm good now for a whole year, thank you".' 

Anderson has been married five times - once to Tommy Lee, Kid Rock and bodyguard Dan Hayhurst, and twice to the same man, poker player Rick Salomon.

Elsewhere in the interview, Anderson reflected on her Baywatch and Playboy days as she said she was 'minimised' and 'exploited'.

'I'm not innocent here. I was complicit, because at some point, especially at the very beginning of my career and my relationships and the things that happened in my personal life, it was just exploitation and I kind of gave up.

'I thought, "Well, this is who I am." Just being in Playboy and Baywatch and even the people around me at that time, I was being minimised. "Yeah, you little girl, this is how you do it."

'I felt almost like, "Okay, I deserve this." Which I didn't, looking back, but in that moment I was like, "Oh yeah, I get why they're saying that."

'It took me years to shake that off because I was just going with the flow, thinking, "OK, I'm doing reality shows and I'm just trying to keep the lights on."

'I had a divorce. I didn't get any compensation from men, I wasn't depending on anybody.'