Las Vegas Weekly

July 10, 2008 · 11:45 AM

Pam-demonium Down Under update: Chaos as sex symbol starts animal rights protest

By Robin Leach

Pam Anderson, doing the right thing by the chickens, being interviewed on Austalia's Network 10.

Photo: Network 10

Bolstered by massive TV ratings, sex symbol pinup Pamela Anderson carried through with her threat to protest the KFC restaurant chain, despite being paid a reported $500,000 for her three-day stint in the Big Brother House TV show sponsored by the fast-food empire!

The former Baywatch busty blonde bombshell delivered a letter of complaint and videotape documenting alleged abuses to a KFC outlet in the Southport area of Brisbane on Australia’s Gold Coast tourist strip. She was mobbed by hundreds of fans when she railed against the company’s treatment of chickens, and called for less-cruel methods of their slaughter. Bodyguards and extra security were called in to help her high-heel it through the crowds. She wore an extremely skimpy and tight pair of orange shorts and an unbuttoned low-cut white shirt to display maximum cleavage for her demonstration of dissent.

"I've been in Australia filming Big Brother House, in which my housemates and I are confined and sealed off from the outside world, much like the chickens who are crammed inside barns for KFC," she said in the letter, which was released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)."Fortunately, I won't be stomped to death, have my legs broken or be scalded to death in a tank of hot water, yet as PETA's undercover videos have revealed, the chickens raised for KFC's restaurants in Australia often suffer these abuses."

KFC, ironically a major sponsor of her Big Brother program, released a statement denying the claims: "KFC does not own or operate any chicken farms but works with reputable suppliers, industry and government authorities regarding humane farming practices in accordance with Australian regulations.”

Pamela has also vowed to deliver another letter of complaint about animal cruelty in Australia to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd before she leaves for her return to Los Angeles this weekend.

Network 10 Australia claimed her first night’s appearance on the Big Brother show was the biggest and best-ever in TV history Down Under, with more than 1.4 million viewers tuned in.

Pamela stayed in the deluxe presidential suite at the lavish Palazzo Versace resort hotel –- my former abode when I filmed

I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! for ABC! She refused to camp out in the one large bed shared by all the reality show’s contestants. Pamela’s segments on Big Brother, which she’s also filmed for her own upcoming summer reality TV series here, were titled, “Tricks of the Trade” -– demonstrating the “secrets of a Vegas Supernova.” A Vegas sign was displayed prominently throughout the filming of her mock-pinup calendar shoot.

Friday, Luxe Life will have even more titillating tales as the randy romp titled “The Adventures of Anderson” continue Down Under.

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