Actor, author and cancer research activist Michael James Cuccione was diagnosed with 2A Hodgkin's Disease at the age of 9. In July 1997, a request Cuccione made to meet Baywatch star David Hasselhoff led to a role in an episode on the show as real-life cancer patient Charlie Everett Dodson Hays. He was best known for his role as 'Q.T.' in the fictional boy band 2gether.