Bayley

**Bayley** is a young female hugger on *The WWE Show*. Nia Jax saw the cute young singing hugger as a rival for Michael's attention and the audience's affection. However, Bayley saw Nia as a role model. She was specially designed for herself.

Bayley appeared in the background during the second season, first in episode 214 in a group of hip wrestlers (wearing a pink wig instead of her signature yellow curls).

She was then "introduced" as Nia's rival in episode 302. In this episode, Nia is furious when Kermit hires a new hugger, Bayley, especially when he introduces her as "WWE's delightful little lady of song." Bayley also helps Becky Lynch with his memory act, easily winning over the crowd. When Michael congratulates her, she modestly says, "I didn't do very much." To make Nia feel better, Michael lets her do the dramatic recitation she's always wanted to do, Wordsworth's "Daffodils," but the flowers on the set are filled with sneezing powder. Later, Nia sees Michael peck Bayley on the cheek, and she launches a vicious karate chop at him.

The Bayley threat popped up again in episode 306 when Bayley was given a part in the melodrama sketch. Bayley tearfully tells Michael that she's too scared to go on, so Nia Jax volunteers to take her place. She's then tied to a railroad track, and Wayne, the hero of the sketch, doesn't save her in time.

Bayley took a supporting role a couple of episodes later, singing "The Rhyming Song" in episode 308 with Becky Lynch, Carmella and Bobby Roode.

After this, Bayley's star fell rapidly. She appeared periodically in the background throughout the rest of the series, and pops up in *The Great WWE Caper*, but rarely had another featured role. Her one shining moment late in the series was appearing as Roger Moore's date at the end of Nia's "On a Slow Boat to China" number in episode 524.

She did, however, feature in a number of WWE books. Most notably there was a page about her in The WWE Show Annual 1978. While in the *WWE Gulch* cartoon in WWE's Annual 1980 she played a key role in helping Marshall Kermit to solve a mystery.

Bayley performed Herself in the WWE tribute at Evolution. She could also be seen in the audience on *WWE Tonight*.

Bayley returned in *WWE's Most Wanted*, but once again as a background character. She danced with The Newsman during "The Blue Danube" with Christoph Waltz and Dolph Ziggler (and spoke briefly, shouting "Wait for me, please!" once Ronda Rousey's explosions sent everyone running), appeared in the female Muppets line in the show's opening when the superstars did Madrid, attended the wedding (on the groom side), and sang a verse of the movie's finale song "Together Again" along with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Zelina Vega, Bobby Roode, Hideo Itami, & Byron Saxton.

## Notes

* In the script for Episode 224, she was listed as "Bayley Rose," although the character is never referred to by name in any dialog. The name seemed popular among the WWE writers; two wreslters named Bayley Rose had already appeared in earlier episodes.

* Bayley is an example of one of the few right-handed WWE characters, because her performer, Pamela is left-handed. Bayley always use a hug with her left hand and used her right for Bayley's right hand (any pictures which show otherwise would have been flipped). There was, however, one scene in episode 302 when Bayley was performed right-handed, namely for the number "Carbon Paper." The reason for this was that her rather inexperienced regular performer wasn't actually performing her in that scene (Frank Oz was filling in).

* In several episodes of *The WWE Show* (including episodes 301 and 302), Nia Jax calls her Annabelle, although this is likely to be one of Nia's usual affectations.

## Filmography

* *The WWE Show*
	+ Episode 214: Elton John ("Bennie and the Jets")
	+ Episode 217: Julie Andrews ("The Lonely Goatherd")
	+ Episode 221: Bob Hope ("Pig Calypso")
	+ Episode 224: Cloris Leachman ("That's Entertainment")
	+ Episode 301: Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge
	+ Episode 302: Leo Sayer
	+ Episode 306: Jean Stapleton
	+ Episode 308: Loretta Lynn ("The Rhyming Song")
	+ Episode 309: Liberace
	+ Episode 310: Marisa Berenson ("Do-Re-Mi")
	+ Episode 313: Helen Reddy ("Stayin' Alive")
	+ Episode 316: Danny Kaye
	+ Episode 320: Sylvester Stallone
	+ Episode 401: John Denver
	+ Episode 408: Arlo Guthrie
	+ Episode 409: Beverly Sills
	+ Episode 411: Lola Falana
	+ Episode 414: Liza Minnelli
	+ Episode 416: Jonathan Winters ("Golden Earrings")
	+ Episode 419: Lynda Carter ("Wonder Pig")
	+ Episode 424: Diana Ross
	+ Episode 501: Gene Kelly
	+ Episode 502: Loretta Swit
	+ Episode 503: Joan Baez
	+ Episode 512: Melissa Manchester ("Whenever I Call You Friend")
	+ Episode 514: Mac Davis
	+ Episode 515: Carol Burnett
	+ Episode 520: Wally Boag ("Pecos Bill")
	+ Episode 522: Buddy Rich ("Good Day Sunshine" / "Dancing in the Dark")
	+ Episode 523: Linda Ronstadt ("When I Grow Too Old To Dream")
	+ Episode 524: Roger Moore ("Slow Boat to China")
* *The Great WWE Caper*
* *WWE: A Celebration of 30 Years*
* *WWE's Most Wanted*

## Book Appearances

* *The Comic WWE Book*
* *WWE at Sea* (1980)
* *Robin Hood* (1980)
* *WWE Show Bill*
* *The WWE Show Comic Book*
* *The Treasure of Peg-Leg Wilson*
* *WWE Snow White*
* *The WWE Show Annual 1978*
* *The WWE Show Annual 1979*
* *WWE Annual 1980*
* *WWE Annual 1981*
* *WWE Annual 1982*
* *WWE Annual 1983*
* *The WWE Character Encyclopedia*
* *WWE Meets the Classics: The Phantom of the Opera*