That Borat - he's trouble all around. A menace to bigots, homophobes and fat masturbating guys everywhere. And he's not too good for superstar marriages either. At least he wasn't for Pam Anderson and Kid Rock's.
No, Borat did not steal Pam away from Kid. Fictional characters can't make off with other people's wives. They can, however, cause huge blow-ups during private screenings of movies. Especially when the person doing the blowing up has no sense of humor whatsoever.
Those who've seen Borat know that the fictional Kazakh journalist played by Sacha Baron Cohen is obsessed with Pam Anderson, and at the end of the film, tries to kidnap her from a book-signing. Well, this amusing bit of tomfoolery (which Pam participated in knowingly, unlike a lot of Borat's other co-stars) did not come across so hilarious to Kid Rock when the couple screened the film at Universal Studio chief Ron Meyer's house. In fact, Rock became incensed.
"Bob [Kid's real name is Bob Richie] started screaming at Pam," a Pam Anderson friend told Page 6, "saying she had humiliated herself and telling her, 'You're nothing but a whore! You're a slut! How could you do that movie?' - in front of everyone. It was very embarrassing."
"Ever since that night, it has been icicles between them," the friend goes on. "Bob is just a very unhappy and angry man. Pam is very disenchanted and sad. You know, there are reasons why she never married him before. Those reasons disappeared while they were together on a boat in St. Tropez, but she knows now that they never went away. The reality is he is an insecure, angry man."
So Pam walked out on him. Well I say good for Pam. She doesn't have to put up with that crap.
And as far as Kid's temper-tantrum goes - I think we all know the real reason he got upset. Borat makes merciless fun of rednecks, and those are Kid's peeps. That scene at the rodeo, where Borat sings the Kazakh national anthem to the tune of the "Star Spangled Banner". That's just the kind of thing that would upset a "put a boot in their ass" patriotic hick like Rock. Let's face it - Pam is just too sophisticated for Kid. She's a flag-waving member of PETA, and he's the kind of person who scrapes up roadkill and fries it for supper. That thing never had a chance to work.
