![]() ![]() Bubba the Love Sponge, and why a video showing him naked with his friend's wife harmed him emotionally. He also spoke about his trouble maintaining friendships, saying that he was told by old-timers in the wrestling business that "if you have one good friend, you're lucky." This testimony set up later discussion of his relationship with Todd Clem, a.k.a. Modesty, hardships with celebrity: Hogan said he wears his bandana because he's self-conscious about his balding appearance. "They would tell us what they wanted us to say." I don't know how to say 'no.'" Hogan also discussed VH1's Hogan Knows Best, saying he warned his family that it would be hard work, that he hoped it would save his troubled marriage and that it wasn't really real, that he was portraying a character. But "Terry Bollea is a normal person," he added. "Thank God it's still happening," he said, adding that part of the deal with assuming such a pop-culture figure is losing anonymity. His "character": Hogan described his wrestling role as "just the All-American good guy fighting for the rights of every man." He said that he's always Hulk Hogan on the street because that's how the public sees him. Here are highlights from today's testimony: Before a break in the proceeding, Gawker's attorney got a chance to walk Hogan through some media interviews given on the topic of the sex tape and seemed to score points on inconsistencies. Hogan was soft-spoken and polite, trotting out his growling "yeah, brother" routine just once, and often referring to his character in the third person. The bulk of the afternoon was spent on direct examination where Hogan recounted his career, how his public persona came about and how and why exposure of his sex act harmed him. In a push to show that Gawker failed the " Cheerios test" and that he should be awarded as much as $100 million in damages, Hogan will attempt to overcome a defense that evidence of adultery by a public figure rises to being "newsworthy" and that Hogan himself participated in the discussion of his sex life by talking to Howard Stern and denying to the media that he was sleeping with the wife of his best friend, shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge. He's attempting to demonstrate that Gawker skirted common decency and unlawfully intruded his privacy rights with a story about celebrity sex that featured video of his naked body. Hogan (real name: Terry Bollea), sporting a black bandana and a cross necklace, took the witness stand after opening statements were made in a case that examines the responsibilities of a free press. On Monday, in a Florida courtroom, the 62-year-old celebrity took the opportunity to flex his legal might over Gawker's 2012 posting of an excerpt of a Hogan sex tape. In the days leading up to his trial against Gawker, Hulk Hogan promised to deliver a blow against the news site on par with his famous body slam of Andre the Giant during Wrestlemania III nearly three decades ago. ![]()
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