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Olivia Dunne dusts off Baywatch look as draft night fades from view

By Megan Foster Apr 25, 2026

dusted off her Baywatch swimsuit and got to work washing some cars on the final Friday of April, just as draft night was done and could not keep up. The scene had the feel of a hard pivot from football fever to something lighter, louder and built for a Friday close.

Dunne, who has made a habit of turning small moments into a show, leaned into the kind of playfulness that fits a piece better than a straight sports wrap. The Draft had already moved into Night 1, but the attention had shifted, and , and a passing reference to a "wide ass" all sat in the same loose, comic lane.

That is the point of the reset. Once the draft night was over, was left chasing a different kind of momentum, and Dunne's car-wash turn gave the day a new centerpiece. The moment also nods to a recurring sports-entertainment crossover that keeps finding an audience whenever April gives way to the weekend.

The friction is in how quickly the evening changes shape. One minute it is draft coverage and football theater; the next, it is Olivia Dunne in a Baywatch swimsuit, soap suds and an offhand Nick Saban line about a "wide ass." The switch is part satire, part spectacle, and it is exactly why the piece works as a Friday Nightcaps dispatch instead of a standard news item.

What happens next is simple: the keeps rolling past Night 1, but the conversation around it no longer belongs only to the league or the network carrying it. Dunne's image, the Busch Light mention and the Saban aside show where the audience's attention has drifted, and that is where the weekend story now lives.

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