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Jeremy Jackson Recalls Beating out Leonardo DiCaprio for 'Baywatch' Role


Jeremy Jackson reflected on beating out Leonardo DiCaprio for the role of Hobie Buchannon on 'Baywatch' exclusively with Us Weekly

The red bathing suits, tan bodies and slow-motion running makes Baywatch impossible to forget — even decades after it originally aired. “I was a 10-year-old fatherless, hyperactive child, so I probably felt like a tick for David,” Jackson told Us of working with Hasselhoff, who played the iconic lifeguard Mitch Buchannon. Baywatch made David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson and more actors household names in the ‘90s, but several celebrities appeared on the popular drama before making it big in Hollywood.

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