LOS ANGELES -- Canadian icon Pam Anderson is many things -- such as beautiful, hardworking, a great mother, an active philanthropist and kind.

But broke apparently is not one of those things.

Tabloid magazines are widely reporting she owes about $1.1 million to contractors who did renovation work on her Malibu Colony home, alleging she didn't pay because she is "broke."

Her American manager and public relations representative, Peter Asher, isn't publicly commenting about the matter, even to sympathetic Canadian media, so we haven't heard Pam's side.

So the story about Anderson being out of dough keeps being repeated like that old game of telephone.

So allow me to tell her side of the story, at least according to a couple of friends and one neighbour.

The dispute with the contractors happened because Anderson wasn't satisfied with the work, the sources say. Apparently, work was never completed and the house is sitting there, an unfinished construction site.

"Pam is really upset about it. She wants to sell it, but can't because it's half finished," said one source.

The dispute is expected to go to court.

But sources insist Anderson is not out of money, by any stretch of the imagination.

"Baywatch is still in syndication all over the world and she still gets residuals."

Indeed, the syndication payments for Baywatch, which ran from 1989 until 1999 and in which Anderson was the main star, are some of the highest still being paid because, according to Guinness Book of World Records, it remains the most watched TV show in history with more than 1.1 billion viewers.

Let's not forget, she gets big child support payments from ex Tommy Lee, who's a multi-millionaire from his still successful band, Motley Crue.

The reason the Ladysmith, B.C., native is always looking for work -- like opening spas in Eastern Europe and modeling -- is "because she's a workaholic and wants to remain relevant.

"Gosh, who doesn't want to keep working?"

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Hottest tickets in L.A. The Cirque du Soliel show in L.A. has been so popular, staff tells us they're extending the run another three weeks, until Dec. 20.

Meanwhile, tickets are being snapped up at L.A.'s Civic Arts Plaza for the Nov. 10 performance of the Theatre Sans Fil's production of The Hobbit. The award-winning Theatre Sans Fil (Theatre without Strings) was founded in Quebec in 1971.

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Avril, who's that? Sum 41 musician Deryck Whibley is partying all over town. While he was laying low after he and wife Avril Lavigne announced their breakup a couple of months back, now there seems there's no stopping the partying in the Scarborough, Ont.-born lad.

Whibley was with his boys eating and drinking wine at Madeo Restaurant on Oct. 23; dancing up a storm at the Voyeur Club Halloween party on Oct. 29; and with a bunch of friends watching the annual Halloween parade in West Hollywood on Halloween night.

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