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David Hasselhoff and Hayley Roberts celebrated seven years of marriage on Tuesday, July 31
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In honor of their seventh wedding anniversary, Roberts shared a photo from their 2018 wedding on Instagram
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The couple met in 2011 and got engaged in 2016
David Hasselhoff and Hayley Roberts are celebrating seven years of marriage.
The Baywatch star, 73, and his wife, 45, tied the knot in Italy on July 31, 2018. In honor of their seventh wedding anniversary on Thursday, July 31, Roberts posted a photo from their wedding on Instagram.
“7 years married ❤️ @davidhasselhoff,” the former model wrote in the caption of her post.
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Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff on their wedding day
For their first anniversary in July 2019, Roberts described her wedding day on Instagram as “the best wedding we have been to.” She continued: “I chose the perfect man to be my husband so kind, thoughtful with a huge heart and one of the nicest people I know. I am so lucky and still in love with this man.”
Back in 2011, the couple met in a hotel lobby while Hasselhoff was in town filming auditions for Britain’s Got Talent, on which he was a judge at the time. Roberts approached the Knight Rider actor and asked for a photograph, and Hasselhoff agreed on one condition: She had to give him her phone number.
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Soon after, the two went on their first date together. Five years later, in 2016, Hasselhoff popped the question while on a romantic beachside picnic in Malibu.
“We were both in tears,” Roberts told Hello! Magazine that year. “I genuinely had no idea he was going to do that. I’m still overwhelmed.”
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Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff
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At the time, Hasselhoff admitted that he mulled over the decision to propose due to the couple’s 28-year age gap, but ultimately decided their love was strong enough to withstand any obstacles.
“I had a saying, ‘You don’t get married because you want to live with someone, you get married because you can’t live without them,’ ” he told the outlet. “I felt that way. I knew that I was really unhappy without her. I waited to propose because I thought I was too old for her.”
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Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff
For Roberts, the age gap never mattered.
“I don’t worry about it,” she said. “I don’t want to miss out on being with someone I love because of what might happen down the line.”
Hasselhoff was previously married to Catherine Hickland and the late Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff, the latter of whom he welcomed daughters Taylor, 35, and Hayley, 32, with.
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