After just two weeks, David Hasselhoff — the former “America’s Got Talent” judge who jumped to the British version of the show — is apparently out of a job.
The “Baywatch” star has mixed up Scotland with Ireland on the air and is so perplexed by British accents that the show’s creator, Simon Cowell, is making plans to replace him at end of his first season, according to reports widely circulated in London yesterday.
Hasselhoff, 58, is being blamed for a big ratings drop on “Britain’s Got Talent,” the show that discovered Susan Boyle.
The British version of “Talent” picked up Hasselhoff earlier this year when Howie Mandel replaced him on “America’s Got Talent.”
Even the show’s official Web page noted his difficulty fitting in.
“Hoft in translation!” read one headline on the site this week. “David struggles with our regional accents and Brit-isms.”
But Cowell — who used to be a judge on “BGT” but hired Hasselhoff to replace himself — is reportedly not amused.
“With falling ratings, discussions have taken place at a senior level and the view is that Hasselhoff won’t return next year,” a source told the Daily Mail yesterday.