Coronavirus: Baywatch star David Hasselhoff joins German vaccine appeal
- The video has been mocked by some Germans as many people are still waiting to get an appointment for a vaccine
- ‘I found freedom with vaccination. You can too!’ Hasselhoff says in the video in which he pulls up his sleeve to show a vaccine bandage
Former Baywatch television star David Hasselhoff is appearing in a video released by the German health ministry calling on people to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The video makes a play on Hasselhoff’s 1989 “Looking for Freedom” album, which was popular in Germany after its title song become a soundtrack for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
“Aermel hoch!” (“Sleeves up!”), Hasselhoff says in German in the video released on Monday that had already been viewed on Twitter almost 200,000 times by Wednesday.
“I, David Hasselhoff, am supposedly a hero because of Baywatch and Knight Rider, and the Berlin Wall. But I found freedom with vaccination. You can too!” he says in the video in which he pulls up his sleeve to show a vaccine bandage.
The video has been mocked by some Germans as many people are still waiting to get an appointment for a vaccine.