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A former Baywatch actor has admitted to smelling his co-star’s dirty bathing suits while working on the show.
In a recent documentary about the iconic 1990s TV show, former Baywatch actor Jeremy Jackson revealed that he used to sneak into his co-star’s trailers so he could then sniff the bathing suits that they had been wearing on set.
Jackson joined the series in the year 1990 at the age of 10 years old to play Hobie Buchannon, the son of David Hasselhoff’s character.
“I would usually sneak into [the women’s] trailers after they were done and grab their dirty bathing suits. Let’s just say I smelled every [bleep] on Baywatch,” Jackson says in the ABC News documentary After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun.
Jackson even singled out former Baywatch actress Nicole Eggert by saying they had a “very intimate moment that she never knew about.”
“And Nicole [Eggert] was the big one, for sure. We had a very intimate moment, her and I, that she never knew about,” Jackson said.
Eggert was cool with Jackson’s revelation as she sympathized with going through puberty in that environment.
“I knew Jeremy very well, this surprises me not at all,” Eggert says, laughing, in the doc. “I’m not even mad at 14-year-old Jeremy. I mean, puberty on a show like that? I love grown-up Jeremy for being honest about 14-year-old Jeremy.”
Baywatch, which famously featured actors such as David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, and Carmen Electra over the course of its run, ran on NBC from 1989 to 2001. Jackson appeared on Baywatch as the character C.J. Parker from 1991 to 1999, meaning he overlapped with both Anderson and Electra.
Other notable actresses to feature in the series were Yasmine Bleeth, Gena Lee Nolin, Traci Bingham, Donna D’errico, and Alexandra Paul.
The docuseries After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun, which consists of four episodes, is now streaming on Hulu.