{"id":923806,"date":"2026-07-09T19:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/923806\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:18:15","slug":"baywatch-adds-blair-redford-to-recurring-cast-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/923806\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Baywatch’ Adds Blair Redford To Recurring Cast (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Blair Redford<\/a> (Three Women, The Gifted) has been tapped for a heavily recurring role in Baywatch<\/a>, Fox<\/a>\u2018s upcoming reboot of the famous lifeguard action drama. <\/p>\n

\n\tRedford will play Hunter, a rugged, seen-it-all camera guy who has worked everywhere from Hollywood film sets to war zones. He\u2019s charming, easygoing, and knows how to handle himself. He\u2019s introduced to the team at\u00a0Baywatch\u00a0while filming a news special on female first responders, but when things heat up between him and one of the guards, he finds a reason to stick around long after the cameras stop rolling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tStephen Amell stars\u00a0<\/a>in the series lead role of Hobie Buchannon, wild child from the original series and now a Baywatch Captain, following in the footsteps of his legendary father, Mitch. Hobie\u2019s world is turned upside down when Charlie (Belkin), the daughter he never knew, shows up on his doorstep, eager to carry on the Buchannon family legacy and become a Baywatch lifeguard alongside her dad.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Amell and Belkin, the series stars Shay Mitchell (Trina), Hassie Harrison (Nat), Thaddeus LaGrone (Brad), Brooks Nader (Selene) and Noah Beck (Luke).\u00a0 In heavily recurring roles,\u00a0OG series star David Chokachi reprises his role of Cody Madison, Livvy Dunne guest stars as junior lifeguard Grace, Mary McDonnell as Gayle and John Beckwith as Julian. Original series stars Erika Eleniak, Michael Bergin\u00a0and Kelly Packard\u00a0will guest-star and reprise their roles as lifeguards Shauni McLain, Jack J.D.\u00a0Darius and April Giminski.<\/p>\n

\n\tBaywatch\u00a0is co-produced by Fox Entertainment and Fremantle with Matt Nix serving as showrunner and executive producer alongside executive producers McG, Michael Berk, Greg Bonann, Doug Schwartz, Dante Di Loreto and Mike Horowitz.\u00a0McG directs the series premiere episode.<\/p>\n

\n\tKnown for his role as the mutant superhero Thunderbird on Fox\u2019s Marvel series The Gifted, Redford was most recently seen in Starz\u2019s Three Women, opposite Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise and Betty Gilpin.\u00a0 He was a regular on USA Network\u2019s Satisfaction and can be can be heard on the serialized narrative podcast Unsinkable, alongside John Malkovich, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Brian Cox.\u00a0Redford is\u00a0repped by IAG and AWA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBaywatch is set to launch on Fox in January 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Blair Redford (Three Women, The Gifted) has been tapped for a heavily recurring role in Baywatch, Fox\u2018s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":923807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[132223,372833,171,623,337098,254626,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-923806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-baywatch","tag-blair-redford","tag-entertainment","tag-fox","tag-jessica-belkin","tag-stephen-amell","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}