Making his name as an actor in the US soap Young And The Restless, David Hasselhoff found huge international fame, firstly with his talking car K.I.T.T. in crime fighting sci-fi series Knight Rider and then with Pamela Anderson and a bevy of slow-motion running glamour girls in lifeguard drama Baywatch - the most watched TV show of all time. Years before he donned the orange swimming trunks, Hasselhoff's attempt at a music career fell flat in America and the UK, but became surprisingly successful in Eastern Europe. Debut album Night Rocker (1985) shot to Number 1 in Austria, before his single Looking For Freedom (along with the album of the same name) became a huge hit in West Germany and an unofficial anthem during the downfall of the Berlin Wall. The Hoff even played at a New Year's Eve concert among the rubble in 1989 just a month after the downfall of communism, and continued to have major hits in Germany over the next decade. Back in the States he became a judge on the talent show America's Got Talent in 2006 (later switching to Britain's version) and scored a Number 3 hit in the UK when his single Jump In My Car was re-released - backed by BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills' publicity campaign to "Get Hasselhoff to Number 1". Still a huge tabloid celebrity, he also hit the headlines when he battled alcoholism and also starred in the fly-on-the-wall reality show The Hasselhoffs.
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