Amy Winehouse's cab driver father, Mitch, is to get his own online celebrity chatshow, with the former Baywatch and Knight Rider star David Hasselhoff lined up for the first instalment this week. 
 
 Virgin Media Television has signed up Mitch Winehouse to front a weekly show that will run on Living TV's new online spin-off Liv. 
 
 The show, called Mitch Winehouse's Showbiz Rant, will air for 13 weeks from this Thursday. Each of the three-and-a-half minute shows takes place in Mitch's London black cab. 
 
 In his first interview, with Hasselhoff, topics covered will include "the perils of the music industry and the pressures of being a showbiz father", as well as the Loch Ness monster and Shoreditch vampires. 
 
 A festive special has been lined up, to air on Christmas Eve, which will see Mitch give an alternative Christmas message. 
 
 Amy Barham, the Liv channel editor, said that it was a "coup" to have fronting a show because he is known for his "forthright, no-holds-barred approach". 
 
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 Mitch Winehouse may have daughter Amy to worry about, but at least he's now got a way of venting his frustrations. 
 
 David Hasselhoff has launched Mitch's new series, Mitch Winehouse's Showbiz Rant, which is on Living's new online channel Liv today. 
 
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 And the pair shared their experiences of fatherhood. 
 
 Mitch told him his fears of skinny, "vampires" who prey at night on their daughters. 
 
 But David consoled him: "They're still little girls, no matter who old Amy is, she's still your little girl." Awww... 
 
 
 
 
 
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– And just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be any more ridiculous Amy Winehouse-related news: Her dad, Mitch, just got his own online show—and David Hasselhoff, of all people, is the first guest. Thirteen three-and-a-half-minute episodes of “Mitch Winehouse’s Showbiz Rant,” all taking part in Mitch’s London taxi, will air on Britain’s Living TV website, the Guardian reports. With Hasselhoff, Winehouse discusses everything from “the perils of the music industry” to the Loch Ness monster, sharing his fears of “vampires” preying on his daughter, the Mirror adds. “They're still little girls,” the Hoff says. “No matter how old Amy is, she's still your little girl.” An editor says Mitch—who will even present an alternative Christmas message come the holidays—is known for his “forthright, no-holds-barred approach.”