Completed: Meet your idol

Mr Hasslehoff is about to meet Sean Pankhurst

Task number: 29.

Meet your idol.

Date: 16^th September 2006.

Location: Bluewater shopping centre, Kent, UK.

Attendees: Yvonne Weatherlake, DAVID HASSLEHOFF.

I’m guessing some people will agree that this is a pretty cool feat, whilst others will laugh. However, the fact is that growing up this guy was the coolest person on the planet. I was the biggest Knight rider fan & just wanted to be Michael Knight. They say that you should never meet your idols, but I had vowed to some day cross paths with Mr Hasslehoff & shake his hand.

Now, a shopping centre is not the sort of place you imagine meeting your idol, I know. As a child, I had imagined it would be somewhere on set. Speeding through the desert, as we headed off with KITT on another adventure. As an adult, I at least expected it to be vaguely showbiz. Unfortunately it was at a book signing. Hasslehoff would give you 2 minutes if you spent 18 quid on his new book, “Making waves” available in all good book stores, by the way. The meeting was brief, but still, my dream was fulfilled. I shook his hand. He asked me how I was doing, etc. & it was done. The meeting of ways between David & Sean. I even had a signed book as a memento.

You may wonder why the photos are a little blurry. The simple answer to this is that David is still into the ladies. Apart from the fact that the camera had decided that it wasn’t going to work at the exact moment that we wanted to take the photo, the entire time my girlfriend was trying to take the photo, David Hasslehoff was winking at her. I’m not sure I should be perturbed or proud!

My momento