Tim Allen Calls Pamela Anderson’s Flashing Allegation a ‘Gag’

TV dad and Santa Claus murderer Tim Allen got a lot of bad press back in 2023 after Pamela Anderson revealed that the Jungle 2 Jungle star once exposed himself to her during the making of Home Improvement.

Anderson famously played Lisa the “Tool Time Girl” on the hit ABC sitcom, but ultimately left the show for a starring role on Baywatch. As she recounted in her memoir Love, Pamela, Allen flashed her “on the first day of filming,” lifting up his robe while “completely naked underneath.” 

“He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked,” Anderson wrote. “Now we’re even. I laughed uncomfortably.” She also called the incident “one of many surreal and uncomfortable situations I learned to navigate.” 

Allen denied the allegations at the time, prompting Anderson to respond, “He has to deny it because look at the times we’re in. If he said, ‘Oh, yeah, I did that…’ he’d be – a lot of these stories are just the tip of the iceberg.”

Now, two years later, Allen has addressed the accusation again during an interview on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast. And he doesn’t seem to be taking it very seriously at all. “She had a gag she did on Stern, I think, where she said I exposed myself in a bathrobe,” Allen explained. “And I thought she was kidding and it got out — clickbait or whatever the hell you said — where I had (people asking), ‘Why did you do that? That’s sexual harassment.’”

“She had to be kidding because nobody wore bathrobes on sitcoms,” the amateur Biblical scholar added. “We didn’t wear bathrobes the first day!”

Okay, there are a few problems with Allen’s latest defense. For one thing, Anderson’s story wasn’t a “gag” on Howard Stern’s show, it was very clearly a serious-minded passage from her memoir. For another, the suggestion that actors wear robes in their dressing rooms doesn’t really seem that odd or unbelievable. Even worse for Allen’s case is the blooper in which he jokingly flashed co-star Patricia Richardson (although she stressed that he was wearing boxer shorts underneath his kilt).

Speaking with Mandel, Allen smugly joked that Anderson must have been “talking about Baywatch” because he looks like David Hasselhoff “in the right light.” Then, somehow making himself look even worse, Allen gleefully recounted how his “comedy buddies” urged him to respond to the allegations of indecent exposure and sexual harassment by stating: “Oh she wishes.”

To quote Richard Karn, “I don’t think so, Tim.”