Pamela and Male Model Have Animal Attraction

How quickly love's flame can burn out. It seems just yesterday that Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were talking remarriage, but now, rumors have Pammy all aflutter over an animal-lovin' male model.

The Lees, who married in 1995, divorced in 1998, and reconciled in 1999, had been planning to remarry soon. "There is no other one or any other place I want to be," Anderson told Access Hollywood last year. "We have to make this work."

No other one, eh? The New York Daily News claims Anderson has fallen for a Swedish model named Marcus Schenkenberg.

Apparently, the two met a few weeks ago in Monaco, where they were joint guests of Dan Mathew, director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA was in town to protest the Monte Carlo Circus Festival's treatment of exotic creatures.

The sparks started flying when Schenkenberg discovered a tiny blackbird trapped in Mathew's toilet in the Hotel de Paris. Yep, a bird in the toilet. Maybe the hotel fountain was busted?

Alas, the kind fashion plate picked up the little bird, brought it to the balcony, and set it free. The gentle act reportedly made the former Baywatch babe swoon, and the two have been inseparable ever since. Schenkenberg reportedly spent last weekend with Anderson at her Los Angeles home.

"It was heartwarming to see their compassion for animals spark passion for each other," Mathews told the Daily News.

While Pammy is playing petting-zoo with Schenkenberg, ex-hubby Tommy Lee has been in the slammer. The rocker recently spent five days in jail for hitting the booze — a parole violation. Lee is on probation until 2003 for his 1998 assault of then-wife Anderson.

Anderson's reps have confirmed that she has indeed dropped the "Lee" from her last name, perhaps a final indication that she wants nothing more to do with the former spouse she's called "a loser."