July 10, 2008
Brooke Hogan suddenly looks like the calm center of an unstoppable maelstrom. The 20-year-old daughter of former wrestler and entertainment personality Hulk Hogan gained notoriety on Hogan Knows Best, a VH-1 reality series that focused on the trials and tribulations of the entire Hogan clan (Hulk, Brooke, mother Linda and brother Nick). Since the last season of Hogan Knows Best, the family has endured an unfortunate series of devastating events. Nick is currently in jail after getting into a car wreck that put friend John Graziano into a coma. He is two months into an eight month sentence. Soon after, Linda and Hulk divorced after 24 years of marriage. Linda is now dating a 19-year-old former classmate of Brooke. Needless to say, times have been tough for Brooke, who continues to pursue a career in the music industry. With her own reality series, Brooke Knows Best, premiering this Sunday on VH-1, Brooke spoke to Access Hollywood about her family.
July 4, 2008
Linda Hogan, one of the stars on the reality series Hogan Knows Best, is reportedly requesting a judge to keep Hulk Hogan away from her, claiming that her estranged husband is having a hard time giving her the space she asked for.
The Hogan Knows Best matriarch filed a motion in Pinellas County Court on June 30 accusing Hulk Hogan, who is also known as Terrence Bollea in real life, of stalking her since she filed for divorce last November, according to documents obtained by TMZ.com.
June 27, 2008
Is it ever a good idea to have your family followed around by cameras for a reality show? Is that supposed to improve the family dynamic, increase trust, cultivate a good parent/child relationship? No, of course not. There are only two reasons that anyone ever puts themselves or their loved ones on reality TV, 1) money and 2) fame. That's it. Sometimes one of those is more important to the other. Why Hulk Hogan agreed to have his family followed around by cameras for Hogan Knows Best is probably a combination of the two – his family could use the money, and his kids probably wanted to be famous. Now, in an interview with People Magazine, Hulk Hogan has admitted that maybe having cameras invade the Hogan's home may have been a bad idea and perhaps led to the divorce between him and his ex-wife Linda Hogan. "I just think the reality show amplified the problems that were already there,” said The Hulkster. In the interview, Hulk also expresses his continued love for Linda, his relationship with Brooke and Nick's time in jail.
June 24, 2008
Apparently, Linda Hogan might be a little insane. If the whole Hogan saga wasn't crazy (and sad) enough, a tape of Linda Hogan calling 911 was released to the internets yesterday. It's nothing major, nothing disturbing, and is actually kind of funny. The Hogan Knows Best family has had their fair share of family drama over the last year or so, culminating in the divorce of Linda and Hulk, plus the incarceration of Nick Hogan for vehicular assault. Daughter Brooke is the only member of the family to emerge unscathed as yet (though her music career may end up being the biggest crime of them all). All in all, times are not great for the Hogan Knows Best clan. The 911 tape from Linda Hogan is only more clear evidence that this family is not right. In the tape, Linda claims that Hulk is breaking a restraining order of sorts by camping out in front of Linda's house. The only problem with this claim: when Linda speaks to 911 she's following Hulk in her car, as they drive away from her house. Below, you can listen to an MP3 of the 911 tape.
June 20, 2008
What can we say about the Hogan family, who stars in their own reality series, Hogan Knows Best? Judging by the seemingly uninterrupted string of unbelievable nightmares that have plagued them, dare we say, a dysfunctional little circus? The eye-raising things that have catapulted each member of the Hogan clan of late, would be enough to send anyone to a shrink or even worse, to the actual breaking point. In the eyes of outsiders like us, Brooke seems to be the only one whose head is still screwed tightly on her shoulders. She also appears to have more backbone and mental fortitude than the rest of her brood.
Younger brother Nick has only been in jail less than a month and he's already needed a lot of intervention to keep him from possibly going the deep end. After initially being refused in their appeal, attorneys for the Hogan Knows Best star finally managed to get their client moved out of seclusion at the Pinellas County Jail.
June 17, 2008
The Bollea family is in shambles. You might know them better as the Hogans from Hogan Knows Best, but for now, with all their legal troubles, it seems like their real name (Bollea) is being used more often than that iconic stage name. Hulk and Linda recently divorced after twenty-three years of marriage, and son Nick is currently serving eight months in prison for vehicular assault. Last August, Nick was street racing with friend and former U.S. Marine John Graziano in his car when he crashed into a tree, leaving Graziano brain-dead and in a coma. Graziano will need assisted living for the rest of his life. Nick Hogan plead guilty, and will serve the eight months, plus five years of probation. As one would suspect, the Graziano family is still more than a little upset.
June 16, 2008
We reported earlier that the Hogan clan of Hogan Knows Best is in a very weird place, with, Nick Hogan getting sentenced to eight months in prison, Hulk Hogan outed as having had an affair contributing to the end of a 24-year marriage, and Linda Hogan, matriarch of the Hogan brood, in a new relationship with a young man - err, boy - nearly three decades her junior.
How is Brooke Hogan dealing with the fact that her 48-year-old mother's new flame, Charlie Hill, is only 19 years old and went to school with both her and Nick?
June 12, 2008
The Hogan family is in a weird place. Nick Hogan is currently serving time for vehicular assault. Hulk Hogan, in the aftermath of his divorce from wife Linda, is dating a younger woman who looks exactly like his daughter Brooke. The newly single Linda wasn't just going to lurk in the shadows and let her ex-husband steal her thunder, however. Linda saw Hulk's Brooke look-a-like girlfriend, and raised him a teenage beau. Yes, Linda Hogan is now, apparently, dating a 19-year-old kid. Linda is almost 30 years older than her new boyfriend. But, that's not the weirdest thing. Look at that picture. Doesn't Linda's new man look eerily similar to a young Hulk Hogan?