{"id":2286574,"date":"2026-02-17T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2286574"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:29:23","slug":"baywatch-reboot-casts-original-star-david-chokachi-in-return-as-cody-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/baywatch-reboot-casts-original-star-david-chokachi-in-return-as-cody-madison\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Baywatch\u2019 Reboot Casts Original Star David Chokachi in Return as Cody Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fox\u2019s reboot of \u201cBaywatch<\/a>\u201d is bringing back original series star David Chokachi<\/a>, Variety has learned.<\/p>\n

Chokachi will reprise the role of Cody Madison in the Fox version, where he will appear alongside recently announced series lead Stephen Amell<\/a>. Amell will play Hobie Buchanon, the son of legendary lifeguard Mitch Buchanon from the original show.<\/p>\n

Per the official character description, Cody now runs \u201cThe Shoreline, the unofficially official Baywatch<\/a> bar-and-grill, and still puts on the red trunks for the occasional shift saving lives. He\u2019s a mentor to and a friend, providing a second home for his fellow lifeguards\u2026 and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox\u2019s reboot of \u201cBaywatch\u201d is bringing back original series star David Chokachi, Variety has learned. Chokachi will reprise the role of Cody Madison in the Fox version, where he will appear alongside recently announced series lead Stephen Amell. Amell will play Hobie Buchanon, the son of legendary lifeguard Mitch Buchanon from the original show. Per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2286575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2286574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Baywatch-Reboot-Casts-Original-Star-David-Chokachi-in-Return-as.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286576,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286574\/revisions\/2286576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}