America's Got Talent - Judges
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff was born on July 17, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland. His first break into acting was on the daytime TV soap opera “The Young and the Restless” where everyone knew him as Dr. Bill “Snapper” Foster. He played this character from 1975 through 1982.
Next, David Hasselhoff was the crime fighter on Knight Rider from 1982 to 1986. Once this show was cancelled, David went on to pursue a music career. His fluency in German, took him to Europe where after releasing two albums the first one being a 1985 album “Night Rocker” while he was performing on Knight Rider, he hit it big with "Looking for Freedom" in 1989 about the time the Berlin Wall came down.
His Berlin Wall concert drew a huge crowd of over 500,000 spectators and the song "Looking for Freedom" became a type of anthem. The album went gold and triple platinum, topping the charts for three months.
In 1989, it was back to television for David where he starred in the popular television series “Baywatch”. This television series is the most popular in the world and held an audience of one billion viewers.
In 1996, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
If you are wondering which actor might have the title of "The Most Watched TV Star in the World," according to the Guinness Book of World Records, all you have to do is glance at David Hasselhoff.
Brandy
Brandy from the age of four knew her own destiny and found the attention she deserved when she performed with youth groups during her younger years in her local area.
Once Brandy got started, there was no stopping her. She was born in McComb, Mississippi on February 11, 1979 however; she grew up in Carson, California with her parents and her little brother Ray-J.
Brandy began acting in 1993 on the television series Thea. Even though the series was short lived Brandy's career was not and in 1994, she released her first album at age 15. Her first album went triple-platinum and featured the famous hit singles "I Wanna Be Down" and "Baby."
She put her music career on hold and headed back to acting where she won the title role in UPN's family drama Moesha in 1996 and in 1997, she was Cinderella in ABC's TV-movie version of the fairy tale.
While she had the time in between filming, she released “Never S-A-Y Never” with such songs as "The Boy Is Mine," a duet with Monica.
Brandy has never been one to sit around, and during 1998 and 1999 she starred in
“I Still Know What You Did Last Summer “,starred and executive produced Double Platinum, toured supporting her newest album, performed on VH1's Diva Live, and was a spokesmodel for Cover Girl. Somewhere in between all this, her escort Kobe Bryant took her to her class prom.
Brandy learned that there is a limit to what the body can endure after collapsing and being hospitalized for dehydration in November 1999. She slowed down on her showbiz life and hit Pepperdine University's academic life with the same gusto as she did the stage, only at a slower speed.
Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan was born on March 30, 1965 in Newick, East Sussex. Piers began his career with the national media as a copy editor of The Sun's show business column, Bizarre. In 1994, at the age of only 28, he was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch. This gave Piers the title of the youngest national newspaper editor in over 50 years.
Controversal reporting is what has given Piers Morgan his fame. He is one that tells it like it is and is known for his invasive style and lack of concern for celebrities' right to privacy.
After publishing photographs of Victoria, Countess Spencer, then wife of Charles Spencer, The Earl Spencer, leaving a detoxification clinic he was fired from his position. Rupert Murdoch was reported as having said publicly that "the boy went too far".
Once again Piers Morgan was criticised in 1996, while he was editor of the Daily Mirror, for publishing the headline “Achtung Surrender”, a story written by Justin Dunn, a day prior to a semi-final football championship between England and Germany.
Once again his behavior and unscrupulous morals had him fired from the Daily Mirror on May 14, 2004 when he authorized a publication of faked Iraqi prisoners abuse photo's by British Army soldiers.
In a partnership with Matthew Freud, in May of 2005 he gained ownership of the Press Gazette. Piers launced First News which is a weekly newspaper geared toward children age 9 to 12 years old, in May of 2006.
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