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Posted on 06/07/2004 5:38:39 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor David Hasselhoff (news), who played the bare-chested chief lifeguard on the international hit TV series "Baywatch," was arrested over the weekend on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, police officials said on Monday.
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A Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman said Hasselhoff was arrested late Saturday evening on a DUI charge in the Encino area. She did not have any details on the circumstances of the arrest.
Hasselhoff entered an alcohol rehabilitation program in the summer of 2002 and admitted in subsequent interviews that he had hit "rock bottom."
A spokeswoman for the 51-year-old actor was not immediately available to comment on his arrest.
"Baywatch" debuted on NBC in 1989 and was canceled after one season. But Hasselhoff and his partners acquired rights to the show and brought it back as a syndicated series in 1991 based on its popularity overseas. The show went off the air in 2001.
The show also made household names of actresses like Pamela Anderson (news - web sites) (news), Carmen Electra (news) and Yasmine Bleeth (news).
Hasselhoff won early fame starring in the 1980s talking car TV series "Knight Rider" and has also enjoyed success as a singer, especially in Germany. He appears in the film comedy "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" due for U.S. release later this month.
Why do you think this is worth posting????
Obviously, he was NOT driving K.I.T.T. . . . .
And Germany sets aside a day of Mourning for their fallen Hero...
Hey, he is used to the car doing the driving.
*ping*
I'm sorry, Michael. My sensors indicate that you are not in condition to operate me.
Stick around these threads get pretty funny.
I don't know, dearie -- I didn't do a full analysis before posting. So, tell us, why did you feel compelled to click and comment?
Heh, heh, heh. When I was assigned to a base in Eastern Turkey in the mid-1980's I found that there were two staple American TV shows that ALL Turks watched... and believed. That Knight Rider show with David Hasslehoff, and Dallas.
The Turks I met really believed we have cars in America that can drive themselves and talk and zap bad guys with electric charges. And, they think all Americans are rich hi-flyers tooling around in Mercedes and throwing money around like it was cheap north-sea crude oil and scheming to do in our competitors.
It was hilarious.
Meowwww ....<|:-)~~
LOL, that is definitely a contender
I hoped you kept the myth going.....LOL!
I remembered that she's the same priss who lectured and hectored me for continuing to watch the Superbowl after Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" -- despite the fact that I missed most of the half-time show because I was posting here on FR!
Because FReepers tend to be a well-balanced group that like the occasional tabloid item as well as heavier stuff.
Ananova: Hasselhoff claims he had hand in Berlin Wall falling
Hasselhoff claims he had hand in Berlin Wall falling
David Hasselhoff has complained to museum curators after finding his photo absent in a collection of memorabilia about the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The actor and producer, who says he is working on a film version of TV series Knight Rider, claims he is partly responsible for the fall of the concrete divide.
Speaking to German magazine TV Spielfilm, Hasselhoff said in 1989, the year the wall fell, he had helped reunite the country by singing his song 'Looking for Freedom' among millions of German fans at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
He said he felt he had moved people on both sides of the wall, although he admitted hardly any of the East Germans could speak English. He said: "I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Check-Point Charlie.
"After my appearance I hacked away at pieces of the wall that had the black, red and yellow colours of the German flag on it. I kept the big piece for myself and gave the smaller pieces to colleagues at Baywatch."
Hasselhoff said he doesn't mind that Americans make fun of his popularity in Germany and says he feels it is his second homeland.
He said: "Many Americans joke about my popularity in Germany. But they have no idea how beautiful Europe is and how rich it is in culture and fun and warmth and children. In Germany children have brought me thousands of flowers."
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_860540.html?menu=news.quirkies
Maybe he was and poured a few too many bottles of STP in the tank.
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