{"id":475073,"date":"2026-05-30T18:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475073\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T18:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:12:18","slug":"original-baywatch-stars-michael-bergin-kelly-packard-join-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475073\/","title":{"rendered":"Original ‘Baywatch’ Stars Michael Bergin,\u00a0Kelly Packard\u00a0Join Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTwo more \u201cBaywatch<\/a>\u201d OGs have been cast in the upcoming reboot at Fox.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Bergin<\/a> and Kelly Packard<\/a> will guest star in the new series, reprising their respective roles as lifeguards Jack \u201cJ.D.\u201d Darius and April Giminski.<\/p>\n

\n\tBergin had a lead role in \u201cBaywatch\u201d Seasons 8-11 and reprised his role in Fox\u2019s 2003 telefilm \u201cBaywatch: Hawaiian Wedding.\u201d Packard was a series regular in the eighth and ninth seasons.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pair joins previously announced original series stars David Chokachi, who returns in a recurring role as Cody Madison, and Erika Eleniak, who will guest star as Shauni McClain.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBaywatch\u201d 2.0 launches on Fox in January 2027. The reboot is led by Stephen Amell, who plays Hobie Buchannon. The ensemble includes Jessica Belkin as Charlie Vale, Shay Mitchell as Trina, Hassie Harrison as Nat, Thaddeus LaGrone as Brad, Brooks Nader as Selene, Noah Beck as Luke, Livvy Dunne as Grace, Nadia Gray as Lisa and Mary McDonnell as Gayle.<\/p>\n

\n\tFox held an open casting call for the series, but no casting from the event has been announced as of yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tMatt Nix is the showrunner of the new iteration, executive producing alongside director McG, Michael Berk, Greg Bonann, Doug Schwartz, Dante Di Loreto and Mike Horowitz. The reboot will continue the storyline of the original series, which debuted in 1989 launched David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson into global superstardom. Thanks to a California state tax incentive, the series is shooting on the beaches and soundstages of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\tBergin is repped by The Chasin Agency. Packard is repped by Rafael Villegas at Kim Dawson Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two more \u201cBaywatch\u201d OGs have been cast in the upcoming reboot at Fox. Michael Bergin and Kelly Packard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30080,93,61,60,204925,204926,282],"class_list":["post-475073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-baywatch","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kelly-packard","tag-michael-bergin","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}