David Hasselhoff Fires Back at Drunk Reports  7/28/06

Actor David Hasselhoff is firing back at press reports he was turned away from a British Airways flight because he was drunk, insisting he was ill.

The star's publicist, Judy Katz, has blasted a story that ran in today's (27JUL06) edition of British newspaper The Sun as "totally untrue".

She says, "Due to a new medication prescribed by his doctor in London on Tuesday (25JUL06) for an infection in his injured hand, Mr Hasselhoff became ill at Heathrow Airport yesterday (26JUL06) and requested to be put on a later flight to Los Angeles.

"They gave him some strong antibiotics and he got sick at the airport. He couldn't get on the plane. It was his choice.

"He left London on a 12 noon British Airways flight and will be appearing on (US reality TV contest) America's Got Talent later today."

The Sun reported the newly-divorced actor had been told he could not board the flight because he was drunk. Witnesses told the newspaper Hasselhoff appeared to have trouble standing up.

The hand injury Kats is referring to stems from a shaving accident Hasselhoff had last month (JUN06), when he cut himself in his hotel bathroom.