Baywatch vet Carmen Electra, 53, debuts romance with a regular guy… after dating stars like Prince and Dave Navarro

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Carmen Electra debuted her new romance with a regular person who is not a celebrity.

On Wednesday night, the Playboy cover model was spotted kissing Franco Vescovi, a tattoo artist at Hollywood Vatican Studios in Los Angeles.

In the past, the Baywatch actress has normally dated high-profile stars.

The Ohio native was rumored to have had a relationship with Prince, who was also her mentor. She later married both basketball star Dennis Rodman and musician Dave Navarro.

Tara Leigh Patrick, the stunning 53-year-old model, showed off her incredible figure in a tight, black-and-gold sequined dress. She paired the outfit with black patent leather boots and a fluffy black jacket, proving she still looks amazing after thirty years in the spotlight.

The celebrity was spotted holding hands with her new boyfriend, looking lovingly into his eyes, before sharing a kiss by their car.

Fifty-year-old Vescovi was dressed casually, wearing a black T-shirt advertising his tattoo studio, Hollywood Vatican. He also had on gray camouflage cargo pants and black sneakers, accessorized with multiple silver necklaces and bracelets.

Vescovo runs Hollywood Vatican, a tattoo shop in Los Angeles, and also owns Bishop Rotary Tattoo Supply in Orange County, California.

He’s collaborated with many famous faces, including Travis Barker (Kourtney Kardashian’s husband), Britney Spears, and the couple Pink and Cary Hart.

The artist is know for his black-and-gray work and has over 20 years of experience with tattoos. 

Black-and-gray tattoos are created by mixing black ink with distilled water. This creates different shades, from dark to light, giving the tattoo a washed-out effect.

He used to enjoy drawing on people with markers. Before that, he hadn’t considered tattoos, but after seeing them for the first time in the San Gabriel area, he became captivated by the art form. He describes developing a strong fascination with tattooing, feeling drawn to it as a career path. He explains on his website that it felt like a calling he had to pursue.

This comes after the star talked about her Baywatch days.

Last year Carmen said she was once advised to lose weight while starring as Lani McKenzie.

She shared with Extra that she was sometimes told she needed to lose weight, but looking back, she doesn’t believe she was overweight at all. She also mentioned she never actually had an official weigh-in.

‘[Producers would] come up to you and just say, “You need to lose some pounds.”‘

She revealed that she was repeatedly pressured to perform her own stunts during her time on the lifeguard show, which also featured Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff.

The actress began her career in 1996 as a glamour model, even appearing in Playboy, before getting her big break playing Lani on a popular lifeguard series.

In an interview with People magazine celebrating the show’s 35th anniversary, she recalled that when she joined for the eighth season, the producers and directors encouraged her and the other actors to perform as many of their own stunts as possible.

They kept bringing that up because people had complained about it before.

When the new actors joined the show, we were part of a training group that had to learn everything from scratch.

I remember the training was relentless – just constant running! We spent so much time practicing everything a lifeguard needs to do: jumping into the water, diving, swimming… it was a real test to see if we had what it took.

I played a lifeguard in the show, and I recall doing scenes where I’d be running alongside other actors. Often, they were bigger, more athletic guys who would quickly pull ahead of me.

Carmen explained that when filming action scenes, the director would sometimes adjust things to make it look like she was keeping pace with the other actors. They would pause the scene, reposition her, and then continue, or ask everyone to slow down their movements.

I was running as fast as I could, and it was incredibly hot. The sun beat down, almost burning your feet, but you just had to push through it.

Oh my gosh, Electra was everywhere! I mean, I loved her in American Vampire, and then she was hilarious in Good Burger and Scary Movie! She totally nailed those parody films too – Date Movie and Epic Movie were just brilliant. And can we talk about Starsky & Hutch? The remake was amazing, and she was a total standout! I seriously tracked everything she was in back then.

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2025-11-14 01:04