Are they making a “Baywatch” movie? What does David Hasselhoff think about Justin Timberlake playing the role he originated? Will “Knight Rider” make a comeback?
David sets the record straight.
Then, all month long you’ve been voting for what you want to see on the show. The results are in and you elected for Wendy and David to act out a steamy soap opera scene!
Today, David Hasselhoff was on Access Hollywood Live to talk about proposing to Hayley Roberts, his new movie Christmas Consultant (airs Nov. 10 at 8pm on Lifetime) and why he was always impressed while working with Carmen Electra on Baywatch.
David Hasselhoff and 'Baywatch' girls at the Avastar nightclub, where he will perform tomorrow when it hosts the Ultimate Baywatch Beach Party Picture: DANIEL BORN
For a 60-year-old, David Hasselhoff has quite a bit going for him – and he can still make women swoon, as was witnessed outside the Avastar nightclub in Rivonia, northern Johannesburg, where he will perform tomorrow night at the Ultimate Baywatch Beach Party.
The Hoff couldn’t help but shout “siyabonga” and “sawubona” at everybody in sight. He also believes Michael Knight, the 1980s TV star of Knight Rider, which made him famous, is bigger than James Bond will ever be.
Heck, one of his most memorable moments in South Africa was when he found Knight Rider bed sheets on sale while visiting this country with his father, Joe, 87.
Hasselhoff is still a major drawcard.
Just 20 minutes after The Times joined the club owners on a limousine ride to transport the Hoff from his Sandton hotel to the nightclub yesterday, his personal assistant, Nick Corjan, said he had just been booked to perform at the Sydney Opera House in January.
“Whenever I start feeling sorry for myself, thinking that perhaps I would have loved to be James Bond, I think: ‘Who cares?’, more people know about Michael Knight than about Bond,” said Hasselhoff
He said Baywatch’s Mitch Buchannon was “basically Knight Rider in a bathing suit”.
“Instead of a talking car, we had babes,” he said.
Hasselhoff was affable with the hotel staff and the four scantily dressed women who greeted him.
The media were asked not to quiz him about his past relationship with local star Patricia Lewis, or about his ex-wife, Pamela Bach, or alcohol.
The Hoff will be at the children in the cancer wards at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital today.
The Hoff is happy to do silly poses or run in slow motion with a bevy of babes on his arm .
“When I was in the UK recently I took pictures with girls in bathing suits and would run in slow motion, and all the papers – even though my shows are a big success there – had headlines saying: ‘Will you stop living in the past?’, and I would say: ‘Baby, you just fell right into it; you printed the picture’.”
David Hasselhof at Venice Beach, California: 'Ninety nine per cent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect' Photo: JEFF JARVER/COLEMAN-RAYNER
David Hasselhoff, whose one-man show runs for a week at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, talks to Celia Walden of the Telegraph.
David Hasselhoff’s pet pig has made him late again. “I’m sorry,” exhales the TV star, sinking into a deckchair on the beachfront of a Santa Monica hotel. “He was stuck in the house scratching at the door asking to be let out. Then the water dragons needed feeding.”
Welcome to Hoff-world: an alternative universe where pot-bellied pigs govern schedules, conversations veer off on wild tangents and waitresses swoon like schoolgirls. It’s no surprise that the actor and singer turned talent show judge – who maintains his position in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most famous TV star on the planet – can’t stop smiling. “It’s fun,” he says when I ask whether it ever occurs to him that his life is ridiculous. “Isn’t it fun?” He turns the full, electrifying force of that smile onto his girlfriend, Hayley Roberts – a delicate-featured 31 year-old from Glynneath in Wales. It is, she concedes, fun.
Hayley must be doing something right. The 60 year-old, tanned and lean in blue jeans, an emerald green T-shirt and white jacket, is a different man from the one I first met four years ago, on the set of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. The manic, restless quality is still there behind the eyes, but a vicious optimism has replaced the torment. His talent-judging days may be over, but with a one-man show opening at the Leicester Square Theatre this month followed by a week-long run at the Edinburgh Festival, the Hoff is undergoing yet another resurgence.
“That’s what the show is about – my crazy journey. My whole life I’ve been like, woah!” he whoops. “Then, ‘Oh what happened?’ Woah! ‘Oh what happened?’”
David was on “This Morning” in the UK today to talk about his upcoming concert, “David Hasselhoff Live.”
Listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as ‘the most watched TV star in the world’ thanks to starring roles in both Knight Rider and Baywatch, David Hasselhoff is now inviting us to spend an intimate evening with him as he brings his show to the UK. Promising to deliver a night of song, dance, and laughter, David will be offering the audience a hilarious behind-the-scenes look at his life.
He joined “This Morning” to tell them more about a show that regards audience participation as compulsory.
David was surprised when Donny Osmond invaded the set and demanded his autograph during the live TV interview.
The Baywatch legend made an appearance on British chat show This Morning and was discussing plans for a movie version of his hit 1990s TV drama when fellow guest Osmond ran into shot.
Osmond leaped onto the sofa where Hasselhoff was sitting, put his head in the actor’s lap and said, “Will you sign my hand?”
Hasselhoff was happy to join in the prank, pretending to autograph Osmond’s digits before performing a mock heart-resuscitation on him.
The bizarre stunt left Hasselhoff looking bewildered, as Osmond walked off the set, telling him, “I love you, man.”
If you’re in the UK, you can check out the video here.
David had his birthday celebration at Greystone Manor in California on Saturday where he was presented with his very own KITT replica, done by Jennifer Catano. Check out these photos and videos of the event if you weren’t able to make it.
From Digital Spy
Biggest surprise of the night – at least to me – was that David Hasselhoff will not be reprising his role as Mitch Buchannon in the new Baywatch movie. Editorial comment: a little disappointing, in my own opinion, as I loved Mitch and would’ve loved it if he reprised his role. We’ll have to see how ‘David Hasselhoff’ fits into this movie. It might just be a cameo, who knows.
David Hasselhoff is set to play himself in the new ‘Baywatch’ film, not his former character Mitch Buchannon.
David Hasselhoff is set to play himself in the new ‘Baywatch’ film.
The 59-year-old actor says he won’t be reprising his role as lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the big-screen version of the hit TV show and will instead appear as himself.
He said: ”I’ve just met the guy writing the film. I’m going to play myself.”
The former ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge is the only cast member certain to star in movie but it is rumored Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber could also appear.
David – who was one of the star performers at the White Nights of St. Petersburg festival last weekend – added to BANG Showbiz: ”There will be certain people in the movie for the original parts and we’re trying to make it a very cool, updated version.”
Pamela Anderson – who played long-running character CJ Lewis in the 90s series – is yet to be confirmed, although bosses are hoping the blonde babe will sign up.
David said: ”I don’t know. All I know is that they’ve had the script for four years now.”
David Hasselhoff is known for his roles in the 1980’s hit series Knight Rider as well as the 1990’s hit Baywatch but “The Hoff” is more than a lifeguard in red swim shorts. Since he has contributed to America’s Got Talent, Britain’s Got Talent is currently working with Play Station to create his own video game. He has also teamed up with Lean Pockets as well as released his newest album,This Time Around; not to mention a series of online work which fans can contribute to! The hilarious Hoff took a moment to talk to TheCelebrityCafe.com about his current work and future work, but it wouldn’t be an interview with The Hoff if there weren’t a twist of sarcasm and humor mixed in.
TheCelebrityCafe: Tell me about your work with Lean Pockets.
David Hasselhoff: Mr. Lean came to me through, well, I don’t know how he came to me. [Probably] through my manager because I’ve been doing a lot of work online – I have a big online presence with my website and my Twitter. I’m getting a lot of things actually. I’ve things with Play Station where I’ve done a “Dance Hoff.” I have a game coming out on iTunes for the iPhone from Play Station.
I have a commercial in Norway which is an interactive commercial where you can actually co-star in the commercial. We’ve green screened everybody and you put your Facebook in there and it says that “David Hasselhoff is looking for Sarah in the mall,” and there’s a picture of you, and at the end we find you in your house. If your house is on satellite we actually shoot coming to your house – it’s pretty wild.
I’ve been doing things in Germany that actually involve my video tape. Basically my online presence is generating a lot of resources for me. We have a keen sense of recognizing the obvious and the obvious is that Baywatch is still the number one syndicated show in the world and since people know me so well they respond to whatever I do.
Then from there, America’s Got Talent to Britain’s Got Talent and episodes ofKnight Rider and Baywatch are still running and so, this came to me. [Lean Pockets] know I have a crazy sense of humor, and they know that I like to make fun of myself. They brought me in and said they have this German metrosexual crazy character, and they told me what it was like and it kind of (In his best German accent) “Talks like this! And it’s up to you!…”
David sure is making the rounds today! Trying to keep up with all his appearances.
Actor David Hasselhoff, known for running down the beach and saving lives on TV’s famous show ‘Baywatch,’ joined Fox and Friends today to discuss the buzz over news that Hollywood may be making the popular show into a new movie. Justin Timberlake is being talked about to play Hasselhoff’s former role, Mitch Buchannon.
Haselhoff said that he’s not involved at all in the film, but could see producers asking him and Pamela Anderson to make cameos. He joked, “[They’ll] have us really running in slow motion, because that’s about all we can do right now.”
He said that he would make an appearance in the movie if the role were appropriate and handled with respect and fun.
You know David Hasselhoff from the hit 80′s TV shows “Baywatch” and “Knight Rider.” In fact, today he is one of the most recognizable faces around the world.
‘The Hoff’ talked to WGN Monday morning from Los Angeles to discuss his continuing popularity and his growing work in Germany and the UK.
In the last few years, the La Grange native has done several online campaigns. His most recent work comes as the new spokesperson for ‘Lean Pockets.’ In the commercial, Hasselhoff plays “Mr. Lean,” a German-accented man who tries to persuade a young woman to make ‘Lean Pockets’ her meal of choice.
The Nestle brand is hoping to revive their name and believe Hasselhoff can do just that.