David Hasselhoff has set a Guinness World Record as the most watched man on TV.
82 Facts About David Hasselhoff
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David Hasselhoff produced Baywatch from the 1990s until 2001 when the series ended with Baywatch Hawaii.
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David Hasselhoff has appeared in films, including Dodgeball, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Click, and Hop.
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In 1989, David Hasselhoff released the studio album Looking for Freedom, which went to triple platinum in Europe, and its lead single went to number one in Germany and Switzerland.
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David Hasselhoff has worked as a talent show judge on television shows such as America's Got Talent and Britain's Got Talent.
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David Hasselhoff was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Dolores Theresa, a homemaker, and Joseph Vincent David Hasselhoff, a business executive.
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David Hasselhoff's family is Roman Catholic with German, English, and Irish descent.
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David Hasselhoff spent his childhood in Jacksonville, Florida, and later lived in Atlanta, Georgia, where he attended Marist School.
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David Hasselhoff made his theatrical debut at the age of seven in Peter Pan, and ever since his childhood dream was to have a career on Broadway.
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David Hasselhoff graduated from Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois, in 1970.
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David Hasselhoff was a member of the speech team, senior discussion leaders, president of the choir, captain of the volleyball team and held roles in several plays.
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David Hasselhoff studied at Oakland University before graduating with a degree in theater at the California Institute of the Arts.
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David Hasselhoff portrayed Dr "Snapper Foster" on The Young and the Restless from 1975 to 1982, leaving the series as the show wrote out many of their original characters.
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David Hasselhoff launched his singing career with guest appearances on the first season of children's program Kids Incorporated, performing "Do You Love Me".
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David Hasselhoff guest-starred on two episodes of Diff'rent Strokes and the soap opera Santa Barbara as himself in 1984.
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David Hasselhoff was recruited by then NBC President Brandon Tartikoff to star in the action crime drama series Knight Rider from 1982 to 1986 as Michael Knight.
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David Hasselhoff returned to television on Baywatch which premiered in 1989.
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David Hasselhoff's contract stipulated royalties to be paid to him from the rerun profits, which gave him the financial liberty to buy back the rights to Baywatch from NBC.
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In 1991, David Hasselhoff reprised his role as Michael Knight in the television film Knight Rider 2000 as a sequel to the original series.
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In 1996, David Hasselhoff was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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David Hasselhoff had a major role in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, released November 19,2004, starring as himself and meeting SpongeBob and Patrick.
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David Hasselhoff had another short appearance in the movie DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story as the dodgeball coach to the German national dodgeball team, Team David Hasselhoff.
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In November 2006, Mel Brooks announced David Hasselhoff would portray Roger DeBris, the director of the Nazi musical Springtime for Hitler, in the Las Vegas production of The Producers.
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In 2006, David Hasselhoff became a co-judge on NBC's America's Got Talent, a show that showcases America's best amateur entertainers.
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David Hasselhoff judged in the second, third and fourth seasons alongside Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan.
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David Hasselhoff was replaced by comedian Howie Mandel for season five.
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David Hasselhoff has spoken at both the Oxford and Cambridge Student Unions.
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David Hasselhoff was awarded the Comeback Star of the Year award during the VH1 Big in '06 Awards.
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David Hasselhoff was the subject of an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a result of his support for the re-opening of Morecambe Winter Gardens.
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In 2010, David Hasselhoff guest hosted professional wrestling's WWE Raw in London, England.
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David Hasselhoff returned to The Young and the Restless, reprising his role as "Snapper" for a short arc that aired in mid-June 2010.
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David Hasselhoff appeared as a contestant on season 11 of Dancing with the Stars.
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Coincidentally, David Hasselhoff competed against Brandy Norwood, who judged alongside him in the first season of America's Got Talent.
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David Hasselhoff has reprised his role of "Hoff the Hook" for 2012 at the Manchester Opera House.
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David Hasselhoff became a judge on Britain's Got Talent in 2011 alongside Amanda Holden, Michael McIntyre and Simon Cowell.
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David Hasselhoff then starred in a new musical, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life at the Blackpool Opera House, late in 2015.
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David Hasselhoff appeared in a cameo role in the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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David Hasselhoff additionally performed the song "Guardians Inferno" heard over the closing credits of the film and lent his appearance to a retro styled music video for the track found on the film's DVD and Blu-Ray release.
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In 2006, fans of David Hasselhoff launched a tongue-in-cheek website "Get Hasselhoff to Number 1" in an attempt to get the 1989 hit "Looking for Freedom" to the top of the UK music charts through Internet downloads of the single.
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On October 3,2006, "the Hoff Alert" was sent out, and David Hasselhoff promptly gained his highest ever UK chart entry on October 8,2006.
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In 2008, David Hasselhoff launched a MySpace-like social networking site, known as "HoffSpace".
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In 2014, UK channel Dave announced that it had commissioned Hoff the Record, a sitcom series in which David Hasselhoff plays a fictionalized version of himself.
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In 2017 David Hasselhoff appeared in short film It's No Game by director Oscar Sharp, playing "The HoffBot".
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David Hasselhoff's lines were generated by a neural network artificial intelligence using a statistical model trained on his own 80's and 90s television performances.
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On February 2,1977, David Hasselhoff made his musical debut on The Merv Griffin Show performing "Nadia's Theme", the theme song from the American television soap opera The Young and the Restless, the show in which Hasselhoff was starring at the time.
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Six years after his debut live performance, David Hasselhoff released in 1983, his debut single "I Get the Message".
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In 1984, David Hasselhoff made a guest appearance on the first season of Kids Incorporated, performing "Do You Love Me", which became the lead single from his upcoming debut studio album, Night Rocker, which was released in January 1985.
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In 1987, David Hasselhoff released his second studio album, Lovin' Feelings, which reached the top-twenty in Austria and West Germany, and being certified Gold in the former country.
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That same year, due to the popularity of Knight Rider in Europe at the time, David Hasselhoff embarked on his first headlining tour across Austria, with a special guest appearance from KITT.
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In 1988, David Hasselhoff released the song "Looking for Freedom", which became a hit in Europe, especially in West Germany, where it reached number one for eight consecutive weeks.
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David Hasselhoff was noted for his performance of the song at the Berlin Wall on New Year's Eve 1989, two months after the Wall had come down, but nine months before unification took place.
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The performance has had a lasting impact on German pop-culture with David Hasselhoff commenting that the song became an "anthem" and "song of hope" for the people of East Germany.
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In 2004, David Hasselhoff lamented the lack of a photo of him in the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin.
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In July 1989, David Hasselhoff released his first compilation album, Knight Lover, who contains 17 greatest hits from his first two albums Night Rocker and Lovin' Feelings.
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In September 1991, Hasselhoff released his fifth studio album, David, which matched the success of its predecessor, with both the album and its lead single "Do The Limbo Dance" reaching number one in Austria.
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That same year, in order to promote David, Hasselhoff embarked on his third tour, the Dreams Come True Tour, which took around November and December 1991, across Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
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In September 1992, David Hasselhoff released his sixth studio album Everybody Sunshine, which became his last album being produced by Jack White, who collaborated with David Hasselhoff since 1988.
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In November 1993, David Hasselhoff released his seventh studio album You Are Everything, which met with moderate success in Europe, though it reached the top-ten in Austria and was certified Gold.
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In 1994, David Hasselhoff toured across Germany in order to promote You Are Everything.
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In 1995, Hasselhoff released four greatest hits albums, including his self-titled fifth compilation album, David Hasselhoff, released on April 11,1995, in the United States, which became his first album in eight years since Lovin' Feelings to be released in the US.
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Two years later, in 1997, David Hasselhoff signed with Polydor Records and released his ninth studio album, Hooked on a Feeling.
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That same year, David Hasselhoff released his eleventh studio album, which became his first Christmas album, The Night Before Christmas.
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In 2006, David Hasselhoff released "Jump in My Car", which debuted at number three on the UK Singles Chart, becoming David Hasselhoff's first and only top-ten single in the UK.
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In May 2006, David Hasselhoff was mentioned in an interview of Dirk Nowitzki, an NBA star playing for the Dallas Mavericks and a native of Germany.
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David Hasselhoff meant this as a joke but it was thought to be a serious answer.
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Shortly thereafter, David Hasselhoff attended the May 26,2006, Mavericks home playoff game where they faced the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Western Conference Finals.
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Seven years after his last album, David Hasselhoff released in 2011 his twelfth studio album, A Real Good Feeling, which reached number three in Austria, the top-thirty in Germany and became David Hasselhoff's first album in fourteen years since Hooked on a Feeling to chart in Switzerland.
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David Hasselhoff claimed that he had received the offer to record the song and the video by a request from Sweden Universal to "sing a tribute to the '80s".
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David Hasselhoff performed a live version of the song during the 2016 Guldbagge Awards.
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In September 2019, David Hasselhoff released his fourteenth studio album, Open Your Eyes.
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On December 10,2020, David Hasselhoff released his first heavy metal song titled "Through The Night".
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David Hasselhoff's autobiography Making Waves was released in the UK in September 2006.
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In November 2015, Hasselhoff posted a YouTube video in which he announced that he had changed his name to "David Hoff".
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David Hasselhoff was married to actress Catherine Hickland from March 24,1984, to March 1,1989.
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The couple have two daughters: Taylor Ann David Hasselhoff, born May 5,1990, who attended the University of Arizona and was cast for the 2015 season of Rich Kids of Beverly Hills, and actress Hayley David Hasselhoff, born August 26,1992.
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In January 2006, David Hasselhoff announced he was filing for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.
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In late 2011, David Hasselhoff began dating Hayley Roberts, from the town of Glynneath in Wales.
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David Hasselhoff is a fan of Welsh rugby union, and the couple regularly attend matches in Wales.
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In May 2016, David Hasselhoff said he could not afford alimony of $252k a year to Bach anymore, because he had less than $4000 in cash to his name.
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David Hasselhoff made $112k a month, but spent $66k and due to alimony, taxes and living expenses he had little left.
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On May 3,2007, a viral video surfaced online of David Hasselhoff appearing to be severely drunk inside his home.
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David Hasselhoff warns her father he could be jeopardizing his spot on the Las Vegas production of The Producers he starred in at the time.