A quick chat with The Hoff

A quick chat with The Hoff
A quick chat with The Hoff

David Hasselhoff takes a roadtrip around Britain. After showing Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills around his California haunts in Living’s two-parter The Hoff: When Scott Came to Stay, TV legend David Hasselhoff packs his bags for Britain this week when Mills returns the invitation and takes the Hoff on a road trip around the UK (living, Monday, 9pm). The former Baywatch star is accompanied on his travels by his teenage daughters Taylor-Ann and Hayley, and the six-part series sees him experience some typically British events, including a cricket match, morris dancing and the Henley Regatta. We were granted an audience with the Hoff to find out more... Britain was the perfect holiday destination...

"I wanted to find out what The Hoff means to people in the UK. The British public have been insanely cool to me." I needed some time to do something different and get away from it all...

"I may be The Hoff to the outside world, but sometimes it’s great just to be David." I met some real characters...

"I went to play polo, thinking I was going to be surrounded by a bunch of toffs, but to me they were normal guys having a good time." It was good spending time with my daughters...

"Nothing can get in the way of the bond we have. It was worth the whole trip to see my children being children." I saw some nice British girls...

"I’m still looking for love, but my daughters don’t like me dating younger women." The Hoff phenomenon crept up on me...

"I don’t know what it’s about, but I just go with it. It’s hysterical. I always remember the time I was in Britain when I had a hit record and people were waiting in line for me to sign my book and they were all dressed up as my characters from Baywatch and Knight Rider." Baywatch was more than just boobs and bathing suits...

"It was a big, wild, fun show about saving lives." I get a hard time from the press...

"I have the paparazzi following me, waiting for me to fall. I’ve made mistakes, but I’ve always picked myself up."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.