Anderson 'has never seen a pantomime'

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Pamela Anderson has admitted that she had never seen a pantomime before accepting a role in Aladdin this Christmas.

The former Baywatch star will play the Genie in the New Wimbledon Theatre production this December, with ticket sales up 800%, BBC Newsbeat reports.

Anderson said: "The fun of it is kind of walking into it a little blind and seeing what happens. I think pantomime is another wild crazy choice I get to make in my career.

"The fact that I was even asked to do it was flattering. I was thinking I might be walking an invisible dog, and I still said I would do it!"

Of rumours that she had taken the role because she was bankrupt, Anderson said: "If the worse thing I am to people is broke then that's okay - because it's not the worst thing I am!

"I'm very fortunate to have the homes that I have and the life that I have. I don't think anybody is crying in the soup over here in my family."