Sam Newman’s controversial former home featuring Baywatch star Pamela Anderson’s face on its 9m-high glass-tiled face hits the market for $2.3million
- The St Kilda home was built to order for former Footy Show host Sam Newman
- He ordered 9m-high glass-tiled facade with portrait of the ex-Playboy model
- He sold the home two years later for $700,000 without ever having lived there
- Current owners bought it in 2016 but are not Baywatch fans and now downsizing
A home famed for its giant glass-tiled portrait of 90s Baywatch star Pamela Anderson on its facade has gone up for sale at offers over $2.3million.
The three-bedroom home in Melbourne’s St Kilda was built in 2000 for former Footy Show host Sam Newman who ordered the 9m-high tribute to the ex-Playboy model.
The provocative artwork caused uproar among neighbours along Canterbury Road with complaints to the local council and Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
But Newman, now 76, was unapologetic at the time.
‘The Pamela Anderson thing has been blown out of all proportion,’ he quipped. ‘For which I blame her plastic surgeon, but never mind.’
The St Kilda home famed for its giant glass-tiled portrait of 90s Baywatch star Pamela Anderson on its facade has gone up for sale at offers over $2.3million
The three-bedroom home in Melbourne’s St Kilda was built in 2000 for former Footy Show host Sam Newman who ordered the 9m-high tribute to the ex-Playboy model
Newman sold the home just two years later for around $700,000 without ever living there before it was sold again in 2007 for more than twice the price at $1.5million.
Its current owners bought it in 2016 for $1.55million but are now said to be looking to downsize and want something more modest.
It boasts a solar-heated lap pool the length of the block – but notably without any lifeguards in red swimsuits – plus two bathrooms and two garage spaces.
Real estate agents JellisCraig say it is ‘deceptively spacious over three light-filled levels, its impressive accommodation combines multiple living areas.’
Outdoor and indoor entertaining areas flow into each other with an ultra modern design throughout, a slick black kitchen and designer wet room-style bathroom.
It boasts a solar-heated lap pool the length of the block – but notably without any lifeguards in red swimsuits – plus two bathrooms and two garage spaces
Outdoor and indoor entertaining areas flow into each other with an ultra modern design throughout, a slick black kitchen and designer wet room-style bathroom
Real estate agents JellisCraig say it is ‘deceptively spacious over three light-filled levels, its impressive accommodation combines multiple living areas’
Sam Newman sold the home just two years later for $700,000 without living there
It opens for inspections on Saturday as the owners hope to find a Pam fan with deep pockets hoping to own a unique piece of St Kilda and Baywatch history.
‘Behind the facade is a good house,’ estate agent Warwick Gardiner told The Age.
‘It’s a good town home or executive residence that’s got a great floor plan. It’s a great entertainers’ place.’
He added: ‘[The current owners] just wanted the house. They’re not huge Pamela Anderson fans; they don’t watch reruns of Baywatch or anything.
‘They were happy with it because really it’s become a part of Melbourne’s iconic architecture.’
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