Based on all evidence of Tommy Lee, and the words of the real Rand Gauthier, this seems pretty accurate. After all, Lee approved the show. He did fire the renovation team – although accounts differ as to why. The couple really were building a “huge adult playground” – in Lee’s words, complete with a huge sex swing hanging above a grand piano. 

They did refuse to pay for work that had already been carried out by electrician Gauthier, who told Rolling Stone that he was ready to write off the $20,000 already owed. But, he says, when Lee pointed a shotgun at him and told him to “get the f*** off my property”, the spark of revenge was lit. The thong underwear? Better that we never know for sure. 

The whirlwind wedding

After Tommy and Pam meet by chance in a club, Tommy phones her obsessively and threatens to crash her work shoot in Cancún. Despite Pam’s refusal, he turns up with his crew and interrupts her work meeting. Even after some wild drug-fuelled partying, heavy petting and shared nude bath scenes, Tommy insists to his “bro” that he hasn’t done the deed with Pam yet; that he wants to “wait until their wedding night”. 

After only four days, Tommy screams his proposal up at Pam from the dance floor, and the pair marry on a beach, with Pam paying homage to her Baywatch character in a white two-piece – “the wedding bikini”. This is followed by a truly impressive sex montage – in the bath, on the balcony, on the table, it seems that there’s nowhere the newlyweds didn’t do it. 

Shocking – or horrifying – as it might seem, this is almost totally true. Lee really did call incessantly, track her down like a stalker and turn up (uninvited) to Anderson’s Cancún shoot. His friend later said that when Lee met Anderson he really had licked her “from chin to temple”. 

He did propose after just a few ecstasy-driven days. And Anderson did wear a white bikini, while Lee turned out in a pair of shorts. Not included: the tattoos the couples got of each other’s names on their ring fingers, and the fact that Anderson’s mother learnt of her daughter’s marriage in People magazine. As to the consummation montage, we’ll simply never know… But it was rumoured that, at a performance of Cats on the London West End, the couple managed a quickie in the interval. A former features writer tasked with photographing the couple for The Sun later that year recalls: “It was a smouldering sex show; they were at it morning, noon and night.”