Pamela Anderson was forced to make a mad dash for the door after a gas leak at her five-star hotel in Paris last week, but celebrity insiders say the buxom 41-year-old was more concerned about being without her makeup bag.

“She was mortified. Her curlers were still in and she was wearing a baggy bathrobe. She’d looked more like Nora Batty than a Baywatch pin-up,” a spy tells Britain’s Daily Mirror.

“She begged the firemen to smuggle her through the kitchen. But they insisted on bundling her out the front entrance, where about 200 screaming fans were waiting.”