David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff was an American television actor. He had success as a pop music singer in Europe. In this capacity, he performed at the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Tenth Doctor once remarked he had gone twice to the event to avoid Hasselhoff's singing. (PROSE: Autonomy)

The Doctor's comments related to the real life song, "Looking for Freedom", which was a number one hit in Germany at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Behind the scenes

• Hasselhoff briefly appears as himself in the National Television Awards Sketch 2011.
• At the height of his popularity in the cult TV series Baywatch in the early 1990s, Hasselhoff was one of several actors reported in British media as being considered for the role of the Doctor in a proposed, but never-produced, feature film.