David Hasselhoff irons shirts in the shower

Actor David Hasselhoff says he once caused an emergency evacuation of a London hotel when he attempted to iron his shirts in the shower.

The 61-year-old usually asks his girlfriend Hayley Roberts, 34, to help him smooth the creases out of his smart shirts, so when he was staying in a London hotel while she visited her native Wales, he had to think on his feet.

But the former "Baywatch" actor admits he was shocked when his steam shower caused firefighters to turn up at his hotel room door, reports contactmusic.com.

Hasselhoff told BANG Showbiz: "Someone set the fire alarm off in my hotel and all the lifeguards and firefighters came to my room and then I realised it was me that set off the fire alarm by accident."

"It looked like an episode of 'Baywatch' and the guys were quite taken aback that I was there and I was just petrified that it was actually me. And then I got to see quite a lot of people in their dressing gowns as they had to evacuate the hotel, but it was fun," he added.