Pamela Anderson is a name synonymous with Hollywood. But soon, it could be a thing of the past. In an interview with Vogue Scandinavia, she reveals she wants to change her last name to the Finnish family name of her grandfather – and you will never be able to guess what it is
Pamela Andersson will forever be associated with Baywatch and her iconic blonde hair. However, in later years, she has ditched it for a more natural look.
The 58-year-old starred as of lately in The Naked Gun alongside Liam Neeson, but the build-up to its premiere wasn’t about the film, but her relationship with her co-star.
During the press tour, rumors about Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson dating spread. However, in August, TMZ reported that the “flirty press tour” was a “PR bake-off” to promote the film. Meanwhile, a Daily Mail source refuted the story, calling the TMZ rumors “ridiciulous” and claiming that Neeson and Anderson had “genuine” love for each other.
It might seem strange that news outlets outdo each other about a celebrity relationship, and what is true or not can be hard to distinguish. Only Anderson and Neeson can answer that question. In mid-October, journalist Rob Shuter wrote in his Naughty But Nice Substack that the co-stars “haven’t spoken once since the cameras stopped rolling.”
“Everyone thought they were falling for each other,” a source told Shuter. “But it was all marketing. They sold the fantasy — then went their separate ways.”
A second insider claimed, “The studio needed buzz, and Pam and Liam gave it to them,” with Shuter adding that they are both “Shuter wrote that they are both now “embarrassed” by agreeing to a PR relationship.
Pamela Anderson considering to change her last name
Time will tell what is true and what is not. However, Pamela Anderson seems to have other things on her mind. For many, it might come as a shock.
In an interview with Vogue Scandinavia, Pamela Anderson has now revealed that she is considering changing her last name to an old family name, Hyytiäinen. Her grandfather, Herman Hyytiäinen, used the name before his and the family’s arrival in Canada, where he changed to Anderson.
Their roots stayed in Finland, and Anderson was a more North American-sounding name that felt more appropriate for their new life.
Still, Anderson has kept her Finnish legacy alive. She told Vogue that Herman, a logger and poet who believed in fairies and trees that whispered secrets to one another, taught her to speak Finnish. However, she thought it was a magical language that no one else could understand.
She said Herman “was the closest person” in her life, and she always carried a Finnish dictionary with her as a child. She learned new words to impress her grandfather, and the language served as a crucial link between them.
When he passed away, Anderson, who was around 11 at the time, says the language “kind of left” with him. However, she might rediscover her roots as she considers changing her last name to Hyytiäinen.
“They won’t let me”
“Sometimes I don’t want to be Pamela Anderson. I want to be Pamela Hyytiäinen,” she told Vogue Scandinavia.
“I would like to change my name, but they won’t let me,” Anderson continued, with Vogue noting that the actress did not specify who ‘they’ referred to. “My imagination has run wild with me over the years. I’ve been trying different people on for size. You have to peel it all back, many times, and start over and over again.”
In a 2015 interview with Esquire, she described her grandfather Herman as “a healer from Finland. All of his brothers changed their names, too, so I have a feeling that maybe something bad happened in Finland,” she said of the family’s move from the northern European nation.
“I just wanted to go,” Anderson continued in the Vogue interview, “to feel that connection. I’d love to go back to Finland, maybe with my sons. To find out more about myself, to explore that side of me. Maybe we will change my name and go back, to answer to my roots. It feels distant, but it’s a part of me. I’ve always been proud to tell people I’m Finnish, even before I knew what that really meant.”
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