Next up for Mendes was more TV work. Firstly, she appeared in a couple of episodes of V.I.P., Pamela Anderson's comedy TV series. The erstwhile Baywatch flotation aid plays a vacuous blonde who inadvertently becomes a top bodyguard. The show ran for an inexplicable four seasons.

After that Mendes joined Ice-T in TV action movie The Disciples, which has since vanished without trace in an ignominious silence.

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