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Former "Baywatch" and "Knight Rider" star David Hasselhoff says he was hassled by the first part of his surname. This led him to seek city hall's approval to officially change his family name to just Hoff, making him now David Hoff.
"I've been wanting to drop the 'hassel' from my life for years," the actor says in a video he posted on Thursday on YouTube, reports USA Today. In the video, he is shown with a framed certificate confirming the name change.
The 63-year-old actor says he feels great with the name change. US Weekly notes that the TV star has been known in the industry for years by his nickname "The Hoff."
However, it also reports that the video was actually an excerpt for an ad campaign launching in Australia this weekend. "David is just having some fun and more will be revealed in this next 24 hours," the entertainment website quotes the actor's representative.
His surname is German in origin since his great-great-grandmother, Mela, was an immigrant to Baltimore in 1865 from Volkerson, Germany.
On Wednesday, Brits saw the actor perform in "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" in which he portrayed an Ibiza DJ with a hedonistic lifestyle that was drastically changed when his daughter, a "wild child," stays with him.
The stage play features pop classics from the 1980s and 1990s with music from the Spice Girls, Madonna, Vengaboys and Rick Astley. He shares, "I thought we'd do a nice little musical, sell it all over the world, end up in Vegas and make a lot of money. I never thought the reaction would be this good, everyone loves it."
