Tim Allen is firing back at Pamela Anderson after she accused him of flashing her decades ago on the set of their sitcom “Home Improvement.”
Pamela Anderson Claims Tim Allen Flashed His Penis at Her on 'Home Improvement' Set, Which He Denies pic.twitter.com/w78BuosOKp [1]
— People (@people) January 23, 2023 [2]
Allen Sounds Off After Anderson Accuses Him
“She was a great co-worker, I’ll tell you that,” Allen, 69, told Daily Mail [3]. “She’s a fun girl. Everybody loved her, but everybody at ABC is a little disappointed in her… memory, put it that way. All of us at Disney/ABC, really.”
“She’s a good girl,” he added.
When asked if he has a good memory, Allen nodded and simply said, “yeah.”
This comes after Anderson, 55, accused Allen of flashing her back in 1991 on her first day of shooting “Home Improvement,” which she appeared in 23 episodes of. She made this allegation in her new memoir “Love, Pamela,” [4] a book that hits stores tomorrow.
“On the first day of filming, I walked out of my dressing room, and Tim was in the hallway in his robe,” she wrote.
“He opened his robe and flashed me quickly — completely naked underneath,” Anderson added. “He said it was only fair because he had seen me naked. Now we’re even. I laughed uncomfortably.”
This was seemingly a reference to Anderson posing nude in Playboy Magazine two years before. Allen immediately denied her allegation, saying that it “never happened” and that he “would never do such a thing.”
Pamela Anderson’s First Playboy Cover, 1989 pic.twitter.com/HFkpGasDEJ [5]
— Ledgerdary (@ledgerdary_) November 14, 2022 [6]
Anderson Defends Allen
Days after her claims against Allen were made public, Anderson surprisingly spoke out to defend him.
“Tim is a comedian, it’s his job to cross the line. I’m sure he had no bad intentions,” Anderson said in a text message to the press, according to Page Six [7].
“Times have changed, though,” she continued. “I doubt anyone would try that post #MeToo. It’s a new world.”
Anderson also said that she has “no ill will” toward Allen.
“This true story is just one of many surreal and uncomfortable situations I learned to navigate,” she told Vanity Fair [8]. “My book goes into how it made me feel over the course of my life and, in this case, my career. I have no ill will toward Tim. But like the rest, it should never have happened.”
Tim Allen is refuting Pamela Anderson's claim that he flashed her on the set of #HomeImprovement [9]. pic.twitter.com/pXxWrtRnNI [10]
— E! News (@enews) January 23, 2023 [11]
Related: Pamela Anderson Speaks Out To Defend Tim Allen After Accusing Him Of Flashing Her [12]
Allen Clip Resurfaces
Things got even worse for Allen when a blooper clip surfaced in which he seemingly flashed Patricia Richardson, who played his wife on “Home Improvement” during the show’s run from 1991-1999.
A clip of Tim Allen “flashing” his 'Home Improvement' costar Patricia Richardson is resurfacing. The clip is from a blooper reel from the hit TV sitcom. pic.twitter.com/32nxJGvy0p [13]
— Inside Edition (@InsideEdition) January 26, 2023 [14]
Richardson immediately came to Allen’s defense, however, saying that he was wearing boxer shorts under the kilt when he lifted it up, meaning that she never saw his penis.
“People ask me what was under the kilt when he flashed me, he was well dressed under there,” Richardson explained to TMZ [15]. “I was just shocked that he lifted the kilt, not by a man in boxer shorts.”
Full Story: Patricia Richardson Defends Tim Allen After He’s Accused Of Flashing Pamela Anderson On ‘Home Improvement’ Set [16]
TV Guide Cover, April 24-30, 1993: Patricia Richardson and Tim Allen of ‘Home Improvement’ pic.twitter.com/jCFcSYFNHp [17]
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) April 25, 2021 [18]
Allen has long been a target of cancel culture because he is one of the few stars in Hollywood who isn’t afraid to express his conservative views. It’s unfortunate that he has now found himself in a situation where it is his word against Anderson’s, with him having no way to prove his innocence.
It remains to be seen how Allen’s career in the liberal world of Hollywood will be impacted by this scandal.