David Hasselhoff (in-universe)
David Hasselhoff was an American television actor (AUDIO: Memories of a Tyrant [+]Loading...["Memories of a Tyrant (audio story)"]) and pop music singer. (PROSE: Autonomy [+]Loading...["Autonomy (novel)"]) He starred in television series such as Knight Rider. (AUDIO: Memories of a Tyrant [+]Loading...["Memories of a Tyrant (audio story)"])
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Hasselhoff's singing career was successful in Europe. In this capacity, he performed at the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. The Tenth Doctor once remarked that he had gone to the event twice to avoid Hasselhoff's singing. (PROSE: Autonomy [+]Loading...["Autonomy (novel)"])
Peri Brown once encountered David Hasselhoff at a mall, but could not place why she recognised his face. Presuming that he was an acquaintance of hers, Peri emphatically waved at him, and was embarrassed when she quickly realised she knew him from Knight Rider on television. (AUDIO: Memories of a Tyrant [+]Loading...["Memories of a Tyrant (audio story)"])
At some point after 2011, he was sitting to the left of UK Prime Minister Amanda Holden when the Eleventh Doctor materialised the TARDIS in front of them. (TV: Dermot and the Doctor)
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- 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.
- 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.
