What Happened to the Hoff? Hasselhoff Hijinks Reviewed

By Sam Brand Posted Dec 16th 2009 03:00PM

November 27: A day that will forever ring out in infamy. (And not because it's the day Tiger Woods smashed his Escalade into a tree, kick-starting the biggest sports cheating scandal since Shoeless Joe Jackson fixed the World Series in 1919.) November 27 is the day we were all reminded (again) that David Hasselhoff is a mere mortal.

"He's standing up, but he keeps falling back down," Hasselhoff's daughter Hayley, 17, told a 911 operator the day after Thanksgiving. "He got back up, and he's fine. It's kind of scaring me," she continued. It's kind of scaring us too, especially since it's just the latest in a long and admittedly fascinating history of Hasselhoff Hijinks.

July 2002 - The Hoff Checks into Betty Ford
'Baywatch' was canceled just a year earlier, so maybe that's why Hasselhoff was down in the dumps. Whatever the case, the legend reportedly showed up without luggage at a Palm Springs hotel and attacked his mini-bar. Tabloids reported he was found sprawled unconscious next to the empty fridge. Paramedics revived him, and he checked into the Betty Ford Clinic for treatment.

June 2006 - Shaving Accident
Hasselhoff reportedly hit his head on a chandelier while shaving in a gym bathroom at the Sanderson Hotel in London. He spent a night in the hospital for treatment on a severed tendon. Does this freak accident seem extremely suspicious to anyone else?

May 2007 - The Drunk Hamburger Incident
If you were David Hasselhoff, you'd probably hate the Internet. Everything was going so well for the man prior to its advent. He drove a talking car, he toppled the Berlin Wall and he made an estimated $100 million before he lost a single hair on his head. After the Internet came along, his hamburger video was posted all over the universe, and everything's been kind of downhill from here.

May 2009 - Alcohol Poisoning
According to RadarOnline.com, Hasselhoff's daughter Hayley found the 56-year-old actor passed out and "foaming at the mouth, a sign of alcohol poisoning." The Hoff was hauled off to the hospital where it was discovered his blood-alcohol content was an astounding .39, four times the legal limit.

September 2009 - Drunk or Just Dramatic?
Though The Hoff's reps deny it, various news sources reported the star was hospitalized in September for alcohol related issues following a 911 phone call made by one of ex-wife Pamela Bach's friends. Daughter Hayley again handled damage control, calling 911 herself and telling the dispatcher, "Turn around ... we're completely fine... My mom is trying to cause something ... nothing happened here at all." According to TMZ, paramedics showed up anyway and hauled the Hoff to the hospital.

October 2009 - Drunk Doc Punch
Hasselhoff had reportedly been partying like a wild man the whole weekend in celebration of Simon Cowell's birthday. He had to be escorted out of the London party, witnesses told The Sun, after he got a bit unruly. Things got even more rowdy later on as the Hoff allegedly "wet his hotel bed - ruining two mattresses" and walloped an attending physician.

November 2009 - European Drunk Awards
Hasselhoff appeared in Berlin to present the award for Best Rock Act at the European Music Awards. His brief and sloppy performance onstage prompts the media to accuse The Hoff of making "German Slurs."

November 27, 2009 - Post-Thanksgiving Drunk Hospital Visit
You would hope he'd just chill out after an enjoyable Turkey Day, maybe take a slow-motion jog along the beach or hit the weight room. But daughter Hayley had to summon paramedics to his house (check the 911 call here). "My dad just ... he's collapsed ... He's standing up but he keeps falling back down ... But then he got back up and he's fine. It's kind of scaring me," she says. The 'America's Got Talent' host was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center later that weekend, and TMZ found him in public last week. In typical Hoff fashion, he smiled and said, "I'm doing great!"

We're not so sure about that.

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Thursday 17 December

By soberlyf

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Ming, did you just equate overeating with the genetic predispostition to alcoholism? Stop watching reality TV and pick up a newspaper not printed in color

By Mary

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Sam Brand posted this story Dec. 16 for an incident that happened Nov. 27? Trying to make money from this man's misfortune? Alcoholics are hard enough on their kids. You, Sam, had to add to Hoff's daughter's pain by recounting all Hoff's mistakes in hurtful detail. That's just what could push him into another drinking bout. Then you'll gleefully write another depressing article about his lapse, hoping he'll drink more while chiding him for his past failures. A vicious win-win cycle for the media dogs, who tear down celebrities and their families for a buck.

By ycav4424

This is one more example of why pot should be legalized. In order to quit he needs something to replace it that isn't as harmfull to himself or others. If they are going to leave part of the border open and not check people who bring it in, then make it legal. It's easier to condem him to make yourselves feel superior huh?

By Give me a break

Who cares about some washed up Has-Been?

By Bobbi

Oh David!! I've so been there, done that. You need to get serious help buddy. Life is so much better sober. I know how hard it is. I listened to your daughter asking you if you were going to quit, and you could not answer her, I knew the answer for that moment it was NO. People who haven't lived it don't understand but they certainly can have the pain of watching a beautiful person destroy himself. Please try harder, ask the Lord for forgiveness, make amends and whatever you do do not let the Devil win, he will steal your soul.

By Michele

At least he can afford rehab, and then get thousands of dollars if he wants to go on that Celebrity Rehab program.

By Steve C

there but for the Grace of God go I. 25 yrs ago I made the decision to turn my life and will over to God along with the help of AA. David can to, if he wants.

By Joanna Bolin

Don't be so mean to him!! maybe he is unhappy, so many peoples words hurt other people when they are down and can't control them selfs of the things they are doing, he is only hurting him self, not you!! who are you to judge him. He could be your brother,
uncle, or cousin, any family member of his. We all
have people who get drunk in our families. THATS ALL I GOT TO SAY ABOUT THAT! Sincerely,J.B.

By Ken

He has not talent. That's probably why he drinks. But for having no talents and looks, he's made it pretty far. He should be grateful instead of drinking his woes away.

By Delores Beltz

I think most readers missed my point.

My point was instead of jail put them in a hospital

to help them quit. Its not a waste of tax payers

money, It saves money in the long run. Just think

how much money it cost to keep them in jail. Use

the money for a good cause.

Statistic proves jail doesnt help, they just get

out and start all over again.

To the morons that made fun of me and David you are

a lost cause yourself. I would hate to have you

for a friend. Good luck and May God Bless as Red

Skelton use to say.