David Hasselhoff Set for SAME NAME Series

According to Deadline.com, David Hasselhoff is set to star in CBS' SAME NAME reality series, which is set for a summer premiere. As described by Deadline, the series is 'about celebrities trading places with total strangers who happen to share the same name.'

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Hasselhoff made his Broadway debut in 2000 in the title role of Jekyll & Hyde. He is best known for his lead roles as Michael Knight in the popular 1980s U.S. series Knight Rider and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the series Baywatch. Hasselhoff also produced Baywatch for a number of seasons in the 1990s up until 2001, when the series ended with Baywatch Hawaii. Hasselhoff also crossed over to a music career during the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s.

He was noted for his performance at the Berlin Wall at New Year's Eve 1989; he enjoyed a short lived success as a singer primarily in German-speaking Europe. More recently, Hasselhoff has been involved with talent shows such as NBC's America's Got Talent from 2006-2009. Hasselhoff was the first celebrity eliminated from the eleventh season of Dancing with the Stars, on September 21, 2010.

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