With Love, Meghan’s first season was originally scheduled to drop in January, but the premiere was pushed back until March of this year. This delay gave Meghan’s dumbest haters an opening to claim that Meghan was “copying” Pamela Anderson’s cooking show, Pamela’s Cooking With Love, which premiered in just a few weeks before WLM. Again, it’s more than likely that Meghan and Pamela were filming their respective shows around the same time in 2024 and it’s not like either woman “invented” cooking or entertaining shows. It would have been easy to shrug off the talking point/comparison, but Pamela’s producer ended up making a bitchy comment about WLM soon after that show aired. There was an awareness at some level, and Pam’s producers should have just left it on social media. Well, now that Pamela is part of a big promotional tour for The Naked Gun, she appeared on Watch What Happens Live. Of course Andy Cohen and his fluffy blowout brought up With Love, Meghan.
Pamela Anderson is clearing the air on comparisons between her cooking show and Meghan Markle’s. During an Aug. 3 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the Baywatch alum, 58, was asked if she felt Meghan’s Netflix series With Love, Meghan was a “rip-off” of her own show, Pamela’s Cooking With Love, which premiered just a week earlier.
“On a scale from one to ten, how much of a rip off did you feel like With Love, Meghan was of your show, ‘Pamela’s Cooking With Love?’ There were articles saying these two shows were very similar,” Cohen asked Anderson during a round of the segment, “Plead the Fifth.”
Anderson, who joined WWHL alongside her Naked Gun costar and new beau Liam Neeson, appeared surprised by the question.
“One. I didn’t,” she replied.
“One? On a scale from one to 10, you did not see any similarities?” Cohen asked again.
Shaking her head, Anderson said, “No, I didn’t really look, but I didn’t invent cooking shows,” and added with a laugh, “She’s just doing her thing.”
I guess this means that Pam’s producer was either speaking out of turn or speaking for himself. I want to believe that Pam really doesn’t care, and that she understands that this format has been well-trod for decades. Besides which, her show is a knockoff too – most recently, it’s a knockoff of Selena + Chef. Anyway, it’s a good thing Pamela doesn’t want any Sussex Squad smoke.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, screengrabs from WWHL and Netflix.
