IT’S NOT EASY being a legend. Just ask David Hasselhoff. “From the moment I wake up it’s like I’m The Hoff,” says the man who holds a Guinness World Record as the most watched man on TV. “I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve gotta go to work’. I have to be on all the time.”
We’re meeting at the 2022 Monte-Carlo Television Festival a day later than planned, with David apologising: “I wasn’t really on yesterday. I was tired the night before and I couldn’t sleep. It’s funny because when I’m working I have to be David Hasselhoff, to be charming and funny. But sometimes I just want to stay home and watch television with my wife.”
As we chat in the restaurant at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel, his and as well as for topping the pop charts in Germany and sending himself up in adverts and cameos.
