David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
Selling fire alarms at 18 or 19.
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In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
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My father because I was 12 when he passed and I blamed him for everything in my parents’ marriage. Now I realise he did the best he could and was just figuring life out like everybody else.
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